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The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit, aviation museum in McMinnville, Oregon.Its exhibits include the Hughes H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose) and more than fifty military and civilian aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), and spacecraft.
Main hall of the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. In 1991, Smith opened the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville to showcase his vintage aircraft collection. [4] [5] In 1992, Smith agreed to buy the Spruce Goose from the Aero Club of Southern California. It took almost a decade to disassemble and move the plane from southern ...
Solway Aviation Museum, Carlisle Lake District Airport, Cumbria; ... Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville; Oregon Air and Space Museum, Eugene;
Evergreen Helicopters was sold to Erickson Air-Crane in March 2013 for $250 million. The sale provided Evergreen International Aviation with the liquidity needed to continue operations. Smith said: "The sale of EHI provides us with needed capital to repay existing debt and gives us the liquidity to support our airline and remaining businesses."
The airline was established by Delford Smith (founder and owner) and began operations in 1960 as Evergreen Helicopters.It acquired the operating certificate of Johnson Flying Service and merged it with Intermountain Airlines (a known CIA front) from Pacific Corporation (also a CIA front) in 1975 to form Evergreen International Airlines, a United States supplemental air carrier (i.e. charter ...
VC-9C (AF serial number 73-1683) is on display at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon; C-9B (Navy 163511), last operated by VR-46 in Marietta, GA, is on display at Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida; C-9B (Navy 159120) is on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona
He flew 5,000 miles (8,000 km) through Russia, and on 28 June 2019 he landed at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in Oregon, United States, completing the first physical circumnavigation flight of the world in an autogyro.
In May 2016, the San Diego Air & Space Museum established a new exhibit for John J. Montgomery in their main rotunda, including The Evergreen glider from 1911 and Montgomery's original Soaring Flight manuscript from 1896. [122] In 2017, Montgomery was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the Museum. [123]