NACA examination pilot Donovan Heinle made the aircraft's past flight when he ferried it from Moffett Discipline to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was saved there for 7 yrs right before Smithsonian personnel trucked it into the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, Maryland. https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_user.php?userid=1942703