NACA test pilot Donovan Heinle built the aircraft's very last flight when he ferried it from Moffett Area to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for 7 yrs just before Smithsonian staff trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://bakeryvise94.bravejournal.net/5-easy-facts-about-american-best-fighter-jets-described