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The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is an aviation museum which displays a number of military and civilian aircraft and spacecraft, most notably, the Hughes H-4 Hercules “Spruce Goose”. The museum is located in McMinnville, Oregon, across the street from the headquarters of Evergreen International Aviation at the McMinnville Municipal Airport. This huge aircraft is quite a sight. It’s 319 foot wingspan is longer than the Boeing 747-8, and Airbus A380-800…and it’s made out of wood! Look down in this panoramic to click to another view of this aircraft. This second panoramic gives a better view of the size of this wooden beast.

The museum has another large, matching building, which is dedicated to space flight. The current center of this space flight exhibit is occupied by the SR-71 ‘Blackbird’, which originally rested under one wing of the Spruce Goose. The museum claims to be in the front running to obtain one of the Space Shuttles when they are retired in 2010 (they even show it on their museum maps as a future exhibit). It’s hard to imagine the Spruce Goose, a SR-71 Blackbird, a Titan II missile, and the Space Shuttle, all in a small town in rural Oregon…..

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