NACA take a look at pilot Donovan Heinle manufactured the aircraft's past flight when he ferried it from Moffett Discipline to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was saved there for 7 decades ahead of Smithsonian personnel trucked it to the museum's Garber storage facility https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/show_user.php?userid=4372543