NACA test pilot Donovan Heinle manufactured the aircraft's previous flight when he ferried it from Moffett Industry to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for 7 decades right before Smithsonian personnel trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, Maryland. https://www.demilked.com/author/fibretarget71/