Records suggest this Banshee did not in fact fly with VMJ-1 which served in Korea as painted, instead remaining in the US with training unit VMJ-2 and later two USN squadrons. After being retired in 1958 it was put on show as a children's plaything in a park at Vero Beach, FL, the cockpit being filled with concrete. From 1989 it underwent an extraordinary restoration at Pensacola for the NAM and is now presented with every instrument correctly in place

Displayed in the colours of VMJ-1, MCAS Atsugi, Japan, which operated this aircraft between February and June 1958. After briefly being placed in storage after withdrawal at Litchfield Park, AZ in October 1958, it was placed on show at various locations, at some stage the aircraft's original photoreconnaissance nose being replaced with the gun-equipped nose of a standard Banshee fighter. In 2012 it was loaned to Pima by the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

In 1998, the museum at Elmira was called the National Warplane Museum. The rights to that name was taken over by the current museum at Geneseo, NY in 2010. The collection is now known as the Wings of Eagles Discovery Center.

This F2H-2P is wearing its correct Bureau Number but is painted as an F2H-2P of VMJ-1, which it was never assigned to. 126673 actually was assigned to VMJ-2 at Cherry Point, N.C. and later to VC-62 at NAS Jacksonville, FL. While with VC-62 it made a cruise aboard USS Coral Sea from March 1955 - August 1955. It was retired from USN service in July 1958. It was then transferred to Vero Beach, FL. where it was displayed in a park. It was acquired by the museum in 1989 and restored to its present condition. Under the nose are two aerial cameras on display.

Delivered new to USN on 29 August 1952. Shipped to Japan and was assigned to FASRON 11 (Fleet Aircraft Service Squadron) at Atsugi, Japan. Assigned to VC-61 Detachment E aboard USS Oriskany from October 1953 - February 1954. Transferred to VMJ-1, where it operated out of Pohang, S. Korea and Atsugi, Japan until February 1956. Returned to the U.S., and after a lengthly overhaul ended up at the Naval Air Test Center at NAS Patuxent River, MD. Sent to NAS New Orleans, retired in 1959, and transferred to Baton Rouge. It is still there, but has been somewhat restored.

Korean War photo reconnaissance unit VMJ-1 was commissioned on 25 February 1952 at K-3 (Pohang). It initially had five F2H-2P Banshees, one F9F-2P Panther, four F7F-2P Tigercats, and one F4U-5P Corsair.