NACA check pilot Donovan Heinle designed the aircraft's previous flight when he ferried it from Moffett Subject to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for seven several years ahead of Smithsonian personnel trucked it for the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://www.metooo.io/u/66ea89d6129f1459ee6c56d4