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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F2D/F2H/F-2 Banshee
    Latest Model:F2H-4 Banshee
    Last Military Serial:127663 USN
    Construction Number:297
    Compressed ID:McDonnell F2H-4 sn 127663 USN cn 29...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a F2H-4.

    24 July 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 127663.

    July 1953

    Transferred to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

    1953

    Transferred to Fleet All Weather Training Unit, Atlantic, NAS Key West, FL.

    December 1953

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 11 (VF-11), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Spent deployment time with USS Coral Sea, CVA43.

    By December 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 127663.

    Circa December 1955

    Transferred to Marine Fighter Squadron (VMF) 533, MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

    1956

    Underwent overhaul and repair.

    1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 127663.

    1956

    Transferred to VF-22, NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    Circa June 1958

    Transferred to All-Weather Fighter Squadron (VF (AW)) 4, NAS Quonset Point, RI.

    June 1959

    Transferred to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

    May 1962

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    Aircraft had 1,461 flight hours on the airframe.

    May 1962

    Transferred to Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) Jacksonville, Florida,.
    Used as ground instructional frame.

    1970

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    13 November 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    Markings Applied: 201, VF-92, NG6419, 126419
    Aircraft is marked as an F2H-3 due to a contract painter error.

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Matt Maranto
    Robert Nichols
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