McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee

These photos were taken by Don Weixl and Geoff McDonell.

The Banshee entered US Navy service in 1948 as their second carrier jet fighter. They served with distinction with the USN in Korea. The Banshee replaced the Royal Canadian Navy's Hawker Sea Fury as the RCN's first and only jet fighter. The RCN acquired 39 Banshees from 1955 to 1958. Banshees operated from shore bases and from the aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure after 1957. The Banshee was the RCN's last fighter and was not replaced when retired in 1962. A total of 805 were made.

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These are a combination of the Banshee held at the National Aeronautical Collection in Rockcliffe, Ontario and the Banshee held at the HMCS Tecumseh naval Museum in Calgary, Alberta. 

The 14 photos directly below were taken by Geoff McDonell.

intake	intake	main gea	main gear

nose area portside	nose area stbd	nose gear	port wing folded

rear cockpit area	tail area stbd	tailhook area.

windscreen	wing fold area	wing fold inner panels

Photos taken at Canada Aviation Museum, Ottawa, Canada

The 11 photos directly below were taken by Don Weixl.

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5	6	7	8

 

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9	10	11

If you feel there is a need for descriptions for this walk around, then feel free to type them up and quote the photo numbers above and forward the descriptions to Steve Bamford, so they can be put up into this walkaround.  We could really use our viewers help with this.  An expert on this aircraft could write much better descriptions than we could.