The legendary wooden seaplane arrived in pieces in Oregon ... The lone entry is signed by one of the flight engineers, not pilot Howard Hughes. Unworthy of a radar blip by today’s standards ...

Why? I got to visit the flight deck of the H4 and even sit in the pilots seat where Howard Hughes sat when he flew the plane almost 75 years ago. It was later in the tour, after I’d had a moment ...

The cockpit where Howard Hughes was seated during its only flight ... people come from all over the world to see the legendary seaplane. “Even during the snow, we had people here from France ...