NACA test pilot Donovan Heinle designed the aircraft's past flight when he ferried it from Moffett Subject to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for 7 yrs before Smithsonian staff trucked it into the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, Maryland. In https://www.diggerslist.com/66ea9a9307997/about