After further trials, including carrier qualifications, were concluded, the aircraft was adopted into naval service as the F2H, with ‘H’ being the Navy’s designation for McDonnell.

The updated replacement would be known as the F2H Banshee. Derived directly from ... for establishing precedent—demonstrating the viability of a carrier-based jet fighter. Harrison Kass is ...

an all-weather night squadron that furnished night fighter teams to carriers in the Pacific fleet. At the time, VC-3 was deploying teams in either Vought F4U-5N Corsairs or McDonnell F2H-3 Banshees.

Flying a F2H Banshee, Lovell searched for the USS Shangri ... so Lovell had to locate the carrier by the trails of phosphorescent algae churned up in the carrier’s wake. A master of ...