NACA exam pilot Donovan Heinle made the aircraft's last flight when he ferried it from Moffett Area to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for seven many years just before Smithsonian personnel trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/bye?https://kowear.com/american-fighter/