NACA check pilot Donovan Heinle created the aircraft's past flight when he ferried it from Moffett Field to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on 10 August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for 7 decades in advance of Smithsonian personnel trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, https://writeablog.net/coatchalk08/new-step-by-step-map-for-american-fighter-jets-in-order