McMINNVILLE — The Hughes Flying Boat, aka the Spruce Goose, is arguably the most famous aircraft in the world despite flying just once. The flight logbook, in a display case inside the belly of the ...

The Howard Hughes-piloted Spruce Goose has two extremely famous, often-retold facts about it, and neither is the interesting tidbit that Leonardo DiCaprio flew a fictional version of it, on film at ...

On Nov. 2, 1947, the largest aircraft ever built flew for about a minute for a mile over Long Beach Harbor in California. The Hughes H-4 Hercules, also called the Spruce Goose, was a wooden flying ...

More than 66 years after it first flew, Howard Hughes' gigantic, wooden H-4 Hercules -- nicknamed the Spruce Goose -- still has one of the widest wingspans of any airplane: 320 feet. It's housed at ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. — It was only airborne for one minute, skimming just 70 feet above the water on a fall day in 1947 before billionaire Howard Hughes landed the world’s largest plane forever. The ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. — Dwarfed beneath the wing of Howard Hughes’ fabled flying boat the Spruce Goose, museum guide Dick Paridee exuberantly lists its leviathan specs as a clutch of rapt visitors listen ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. — Most tourists traveling through this town in the heart of Oregon’s wine country opted for the cellar instead of the hangar, bypassing the Spruce Goose, the world’s largest aircraft ...

1947: The Spruce Goose, with Hollywood producer-aviator-tycoon Howard Hughes at the controls, makes its first – and only – flight, skimming the waters of Long Beach Harbor in California for roughly ...

LOVELAND, Colo.—It may be only a fraction of the real thing, but building a model of Howard Hughes’ monstrous “Spruce Goose” aircraft was a mammoth task—a challenge Loveland’s Jeff Allen-Young was ...

The Los Angeles home of Howard Hughes’ 200-ton Hercules H-4 plane, better known as the Spruce Goose, was recently sold to Japanese investors. Ratkovich Co and Penwood Real Estate Investment Management ...

The legendary wooden seaplane arrived in pieces in Oregon in 1993. The aircraft was restored and reassembled as the centerpiece of a new museum in McMinnville. Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum held ...