NACA test pilot Donovan Heinle manufactured the aircraft's very last 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 several years ahead of Smithsonian personnel trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in https://thenolugroup.co.za/members/throatmuscle58/activity/349657/