On Board the HMCS Bonaventure, DND photo.

Aboard the HMCS Bonnacenture. DND photo.

F2H3 Banshee of VX10 aboard the HMCS Bonnaventure, DND photo.

DND photo.

Photo on board the Bonaventure. DND photo

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.

Preserved on board of USS Lexington is this rare F2H-2 Banshee, wiht wings in upright position.

'Naval review.' Data for bottom centre aircraft, a fighter-bomber F2H Banshee of Naval Air Reserve, NAS Norfolk. Right row from bottom: F9F Cougar; F3D Skynight 124624; S2F Tracker; and two AD Skyraiders. Second row: the F2H-2B; F9F Panther coded E-109 of NAR, NAS Minneapolis; F7U Cutlass I-003 of NAR, NAS Gross Ile; AF Guardian 130370 / R-189 of NAR, NAS New York(?); and AJ Savage. Third row: FH Phantom(?); AD; FJ-1 Fury K-104 of NAR, NAS Olathe; AD-2 122270; V-173 Flying Pancake; and FR Fireball. A3D Skywarrior tail on the right. Still more types on the far left and behind! NAS Norfolk's P5M Marlin ramp in the background. Photo by: Frank Scherschell / Life

Single-seat all-weather fighter version. Redesignated F-2D Oct 1962.

Single-seat all-weather fighter version. Redesignated F-2D Oct 1962. assigned to VMF(N)-533.

Seen at a Columbus, Ohio air show in May, 1955. Assigned to VF-82 "Ironmen". Re-designated F-2D Oct 1962.

Naval Aviation Museum aircraft. A total of 895 Banshees were built between 1947 and 1953. The F2H-2 was the most widely-used variant and saw service in the Korean War.

Naval Aviation Museum aircraft. A total of 895 Banshees were built between 1947 and 1953. The all-weather fighter F2H-4 was the final variant produced.

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.