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Airframe Family:	McDonnell F2D/F2H/F-2 Banshee
Latest Model:	F2H-4 Banshee
Last Military Serial:	127614 USN
Latest Owner or Location:	F2H Crash Site, Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California

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Dates		Event
		Constructed as a F2H-4.
		Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 127614.
By March 1956		Transferred to MCAS Kaneohe, Kailua, Oahu, HA.
		Transferred to Air Wing VAW-11, NAS North Island, San Diego, CA.
22 February 1959		Crashed. Went down in the hills near Saratoga, CA while on a flight from NAS North Island, San Diego, to NAS Oakland (some sources also claim it was NAS Alameda) via NAS Moffett, San Jose. The pilot was Lt. James F. Wyley, and Lt. Wyley perished in the crash. It is presumed the aircraft impacted terrain while on approach to Moffett.
Circa 22 February 1959		Abandoned. View the Location Dossier
22 February 2015		Photographer: Mike Henniger Notes: Photographed in the hills near Saratoga, CA.
22 February 2015		Photographer: Mike Henniger Notes: Photographed in the hills near Saratoga, CA.
22 February 2015		Photographer: Mike Henniger Notes: Photographed in the hills near Saratoga, CA.
22 February 2015		Photographer: Mike Henniger Notes: Photographed in the hills near Saratoga, CA.
22 February 2015		Photographer: Mike Henniger Notes: Photographed in the hills near Saratoga, CA.
22 February 2015		Photographer: Mike Henniger Notes: Photographed in the hills near Saratoga, CA.
22 February 2015		Photographer: Mike Henniger Notes: Photographed in the hills near Saratoga, CA.

		This airframe dossier is based on unreviewed imported data. If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.

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