NACA test pilot Donovan Heinle made the aircraft's previous flight when he ferried it from Moffett Subject to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was saved there for seven yrs before Smithsonian staff trucked it for the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, Maryland. In https://www.webwiki.nl/kowear.com/american-fighter/