McMinnville, Oregon - Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum - The Spruce Goose

McMinnville, Oregon - Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum - The Spruce Goose

Howard Hughes's "Spruce Goose" is so big, a special hanger had to be built to shelter it. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

McMinnville, Oregon - Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum

The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is best known as the home of the world’s largest wooden flying boat, the Spruce Goose, SR-71 Blackbird, the Titan II SLV Missile and the Grumman F6F-3 "Hellcat." In addition, there are more than 150 historic aircraft, spacecraft and exhibits on display, along with artwork, traveling displays, the Spruce Goose Café, the Cosmo Café, the Rotors, Wings & Things store, the Right Stuff Store and Oregon’s largest IMAX® 3D theater.

In the spring of 2009, we added to our facility with the opening of the Captain Michael King Smith Firearms Collection. [Kasey Richter, 03/11/2009]

McMinnville, Oregon -
The Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, Oregon, home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, has added props from the "The Aviator" to its collection. Four miniatures from Martin Scorcese's film, one with a wing span of 25 feet, will be unveiled on Memorial Day weekend.... [05/20/2005] Complete News Story

McMinnville, Oregon - Museum scores bargain for slightly charred Russkie space capsule
The Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, OR, won a bid for a two and one-half ton Russian Photon space capsule that orbited the Earth in 1990. The museum grabbed the spacecraft for $30,000 at an auction in Tacoma, after the phone connection to a New York-based counter bidder "dropped." The seller, noted, somewhat unhappily, that similar capsules have sold for ten times that price. ... [03/29/2003] Complete News Story

McMinnville, Oregon - Howard Hughes Spruce Goose - New Home

Evergreen Aviation has built a special 121,000 sq ft museum to house and display the Spruce Goose (Hughes Aviation HK-1 Flying Boat, technically).

The building and plane are amazing enough, but the rest of the collection, literally under the massive wings of the HK-1, is terrific too: P-51D Mustang, P-40 Warhawk, P-38 Lightning, Korean era MIG 15, 1903 Wright Flyer, B-17G Flying Fortress, FG-1D Corsair, Messerschmitt BF109, Submarine Spitfire.

Many of the volunteer docents are vets who flew the various warbirds. Only about 30 miles from Portland. We were there for HOURS! [Drew Dekreon, 03/24/2002]