NACA test pilot Donovan Heinle designed the aircraft's very last flight when he ferried it from Moffett Area to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for seven decades prior to Smithsonian personnel trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://telegra.ph/Everything-about-american-fighter-sweater-09-18