NACA test pilot Donovan Heinle built the aircraft's last flight when he ferried it from Moffett Subject to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for seven several years just before Smithsonian staff trucked it into the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://blogfreely.net/rubberbadge84/american-fighter-jets-in-order-secrets