HK-1 Spruce Goose Scale Model (Free Shipping)

Item#: KHSGT

MSRP Price: $231.95

Factory Direct Price: $165.96

Wing Span: 19.25
Length: 13.25

Manufacturer: Hughes Aircraft

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This Ready to Ship HK-1 Spruce Goose Wooden Aircraft was handcrafted with absolute precision using the finest Philippine Mahogany and was sealed to last for generations. Working from our library of blueprints, reference materials and their exact photographs, Factory Direct Models master artisans recreated this HK-1 Spruce Goose into an amazingly detailed display scale model aircraft that you can display at your home, office, museum, tradeshow or any place you desire.

This HK-1 Spruce Goose scale model aircraft is a perfect gift for Aviation Enthusiasts, Pilot, Aviator or people who took part in developing this airs.

Please note that the stand shown in this photograph may vary or change with the model you receive.

Your model will be made exactly as shown in the photographs. If you would like to change this model in any other way, please visit Our Custom Model Gallery section of our website to commission a personalized model to be built.

HK-1 Spruce Goose History:

The Hughes Flying Boat represents one of man’s greatest attempts to conquer the skies as the largest airplane ever constructed. It flew only one time on November 2, 1947. Conceived as a personnel and materiel carrier, the single hull prototype was designed to fly Trans-Atlantic to avoid World War II German submarines that were sinking Allied ships in large numbers. Completed in 1947 after the end of the War, the wooden winged giant is nearly six times bigger than any aircraft of its time. The press insisted on calling the Hughes Flying Boat the “Spruce Goose,” a name that its billionaire builder Howard Hughes despised. Most of the huge plane is actually made of birch, with only small amounts of maple, poplar, balsa, and, yes, spruce. Birch was chosen because testing proved it light, strong, and resistant to splitting, dry rot and deterioration.