NACA check pilot Donovan Heinle created the aircraft's past flight when he ferried it from Moffett Industry to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was saved there for 7 many years just before Smithsonian staff trucked it towards the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, http://nutris.net/members/sinkorchid47/activity/1847560/