Hughes Aircraft was founded by Howard Hughes in 1934, at Glendale Airport, then moved to this site along the estuary of Ballona Creek in Culver City in 1940. After the war, the company expanded into missiles and electronics, and for a time was the largest aerospace company in California. Hughes moved out of this location in the early 1990s, and the site has been redeveloped into Playa Vista, one of the largest and densest master-planned housing projects in Los Angeles, and a high-tech office park, which includes Google’s YouTube production center (occupying the old Spruce Goose aircraft hangar) and the global headquarters for ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Hughes’ aerospace companies have been absorbed mostly by Boeing and Raytheon.