Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, OR

The Spruce Goose

A Russian Mig 29

SR71 Blackbird

The Evergreen Aviation Museum is the home of the Hughes H-4 Flying Boat, better known as the “Spruce Goose”. This is the World’s Largest Wooden Aircraft built by Howard Hughes from 1942 to 1947. It took $18,000,000 federal dollars and $7,000,000 of Hugh’s own money to build this plane that flew only one time on November 2, 1947.

In addition to the “Spruce Goose”, this small privately owned museum also had a very impressive collection of air and space vehicles and memorabilia. In addition to the US aircraft that many air museums have, the Evergreen Aviation Museum had several Russian aircraft and several artifacts from the Russian space program. This is by far the most impressive collection we have seen outside the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.