NACA check pilot Donovan Heinle designed the aircraft's final flight when he ferried it from Moffett Field to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for 7 several years just before Smithsonian staff trucked it to the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/bye?https://kowear.com/american-fighter/