NACA examination pilot Donovan Heinle made the aircraft's very last flight when he ferried it from Moffett Subject to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was saved there for 7 years prior to Smithsonian personnel trucked it to the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://www.pdc.edu/?URL=https://kowear.com/american-fighter/