NACA test pilot Donovan Heinle made the aircraft's very last flight when he ferried it from Moffett Field to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for 7 several years right before Smithsonian staff trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in https://vikingwebtest.berry.edu/ICS/Berry_Community/Group_Management/Berry_Investment_Group_BIG/Discussion.jnz?portlet=Forums&screen=PostView&screenType=change&id=7f8027c8-ffa8-42f9-bf6d-37e4e17bf9f9