NACA check pilot Donovan Heinle made the aircraft's final flight when he ferried it from Moffett Discipline to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was saved there for seven years in advance of Smithsonian staff trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://rubbercrown36.bravejournal.net/rumored-buzz-on-american-new-fighter-jet