NACA check pilot Donovan Heinle manufactured the aircraft's last flight when he ferried it from Moffett Discipline to Andrews Air Force Base, arriving on ten August 1954. The aircraft was stored there for seven decades prior to Smithsonian personnel trucked it on the museum's Garber storage facility in Suitland, Maryland. https://mcgrath-stack-2.blogbright.net/red-american-fighter-shirt-fundamentals-explained