The Spruce Goose took flight for the first and only time 75 years ago. Now, the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is celebrating with special events in commemoration of the largest wooden aircraft ...

Museum lore has it that Del Smith paid $1 for the Spruce Goose, but years later, when his aviation company suffered financial problems, it was reported he had made payments over 20 years totaling ...

The Hughes H-4 Hercules, or Spruce Goose, took its one and only flight 70 years ago on November 2, 1947, with Howard Hughes as the pilot. It's on public display at the Evergreen Aviation & Space ...

Oregon aviation enthusiasts have a new historic aircraft to adore. The Tillamook Air Museum announced Wednesday that it will receive a historic, combat-tested fighter jet, an AV-8B Harrier II, which ...

Spruce Goose highlight of museum opening John Gress / Associated Press Museum goers flock under the wings of the HK-1 Spruce Goose, the largest aircraft ever produced, after opening ceremonies ...

Then in 1992, Evergreen Aviation bought the Spruce Goose to showcase front and center at their new museum. Related Articles What's now Longview was once just swampy farm land.

Despite its exceptionally brief flight career, Spruce Goose helped pioneer aviation design technologies, some of which appeared in later aircraft that were longer and/or heavier, such as the 747 ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore.--I'm sitting in the pilot's seat of the "Spruce Goose," Howard Hughes' famous World War II-era wood behemoth of an airplane, and it's much to the chagrin of the tourists one ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, a gigantic historic wooden airplane whose fate was mired in a financial dispute, will permanently stay in Oregon. California attorney Robert E. Lyon ...

A piece of music by the composer Philip Glass will soon be performed under the tail of Oregon’s iconic Spruce Goose airplane. The piece, “1,000 Airplanes on the Roof,” has rarely been ...

The references to Howard Hughes’s and the site’s place in aviation history is also celebrated throughout with placards and stories about the building, the Spruce Goose, Google, and L.A.

The Spruce Goose — the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the Hughes Flying Boat — is the most famous military aircraft never used. Conceived during World War II by entrepreneur Howard Hughes, it was the ...