NACA exam pilot Donovan Heinle designed the aircraft's final flight when he ferried it from Moffett Discipline to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for 7 yrs in advance of Smithsonian personnel trucked it into the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://www.webwiki.fr/kowear.com/american-fighter/