![Generations of U.S. fighters at the renamed North American Aerospace Museum in McMinnville, Oregon [Credit: North American Aerospace Museum/Robert Zeh]](https://tbh.express/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/‘Spruce-Goose-Home-Rebrands-as-North-American-Aerospace-Museum-scaled.jpeg "‘Spruce Goose’ Home Rebrands as North American Aerospace Museum")
The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, has a new name—the North American Aerospace Museum.
The museum, which opened in 2001 approximately 50 miles southwest of Portland, is famously known for being the home of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as the “Spruce Goose,”—a name that designer Howard Hughes detested in part because the aircraft is primarily made from birch.
