PORTLAND — 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, who represents the Aero Club of Southern California, said Tuesday his group reached an agreement with the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. The McMinnville-based nonprofit will take full ownership of the plane in the coming weeks.
The museum has been home to the Spruce Goose for over two decades, but it still owed a payment on the plane. Details of the agreement were not disclosed.
Built in 1947, the Spruce Goose has a 320-foot wing span — larger than a football field — and floats that allow it to land on water. Hughes flew it only once.
