NACA test pilot Donovan Heinle made the aircraft's last flight when he ferried it from Moffett Subject to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for seven decades in advance of Smithsonian personnel trucked it for the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://loft-storm-2.federatedjournals.com/the-best-side-of-american-fighter-shirt