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HUGHES FLYING BOAT (HERCULES)

  • Also Known As: The Spruce Goose
  • Address: 500 NE Cumulus Avenue
  • Vicinity: Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Structure

Spruce Goose - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Howard Hughes Aerospace Engineer
1947/00/00
1947/11/02 Howard Hughes Pilot Pilot Howard Hughes and copilot Dave Grant guide the H?4 aloft at 70 ft (21 m) over water for about one mile (1.6 km).

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Particulars for HUGHES FLYING BOAT (HERCULES):
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Aviation, Air-related
Area of Significance Engineering
Area of Significance Industry
Level of Significance National
Criteria Person
Sight Category Structure
Area of Significance Transportation



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 13th October 1992

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: HUGHES FLYING BOAT (HERCULES)
Registry Address: Berth 121, Pier E, Port of Long Beach
Registry Number: 80004493
Resource Type: Structure
Owner: Private
Architect: Hughes,Howard Robard
Contributing Structures: 1
Other Certification: Listed in the National Register
Certification: Removed from National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Industry, Engineering, Transportation
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering, Person
Criteria Consideration: Significance of less than fifty years
Significant Year: 1947
Associated People: Hughes,Howard Robard
Historic Function: Transportation
Historic Sub-Function: Air-related
Current Function: Vacant, not in use
Current Sub-Function:

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The Aviator (film) Film Setting

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