NACA exam pilot Donovan Heinle manufactured the aircraft's previous flight when he ferried it from Moffett Field to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for 7 several years prior to Smithsonian staff trucked it to your museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/show_user.php?userid=4372406