NACA examination pilot Donovan Heinle produced the aircraft's last flight when he ferried it from Moffett Area to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was saved there for 7 a long time right before Smithsonian staff trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in https://www.metooo.it/u/66ea9aeef2059b59ef3b1662