The “Spruce Goose,” constructed almost entirely of birch, is located at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.
Six times larger than any aircraft of its time, the Spruce Goose, or Flying Boat, made only one flight on November 2, 1947. (Too late to help the war effort!) Piloted by Hughes, it flew over one mile at an altitude of 70 feet for one minute.
After Hughes death in 1976, the plane was moved to a hangar in Long Beach, California, until the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum won the bid to provide this aviation icon with a proper home.