All Hands On Deck
The Official 2025 All Hands On Deck Limited Edition Challenge Coin is now available!
Your donation to the 2025 All Hands On Deck Campaign will directly support Park operations, including ship maintenance, educational outreach, conservation of historic artifacts, and general operating expenses during the year.
With your gift of $100 or more, we’ll send you a limited edition, individually numbered Challenge Coin. Coins will be shipped to you via the United States Postal Service and each coin comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
A special 9-coin display is available for only $9.99 more!
Collect the entire All Hands On Deck Challenge Coin set while supplies last. Receive the 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Challenge Coins for $399 PLUS the 9-coin display FREE with your order.
The 2025 Challenge Coin features the P-39 Airacobra at the Buffalo Naval Park. Over 9,500 P-39 Airacobras were built by the Bell Aircraft Company in Western New York during World War II. Known as a “cannon with wings,” the P-39s were used by the U.S. Army Air Forces and Allied Forces. The Buffalo Naval Park’s P-39 Airacobra, nicknamed Snooks 2nd, was piloted by Lt. William A. Shomo, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the war. The plane was abandoned in New Guinea in late 1944, recovered in 1974, and brought to the Buffalo Naval Park for display in 1980.
For more than 40 years, the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park has fulfilled its purpose to Honor, Educate, Inspire, and Preserve. To honor veterans, military, and military families; to educate about the value of service and sacrifice in defense of freedom; to inspire a sense of patriotism and a desire to serve one’s country in protecting the right to liberty and justice for all; and to preserve the military artifacts entrusted to our care.
The Park fulfills its important purpose with support from volunteers, corporate sponsors, foundations and individual donors that all share our beliefs. Each year, the Park welcomes more than 150,000 visitors from all 50 states in our great country and 110 countries around the world.