NACA take a look at pilot Donovan Heinle created the aircraft's past flight when he ferried it from Moffett Area to Andrews Air Force Foundation, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for seven years right before Smithsonian personnel trucked it to the museum's Garber storage facility http://www.drugoffice.gov.hk/gb/unigb/kowear.com/american-fighter/