A chunk of Howard Hughes’ Los Angeles is on the block: the cavernous hangar where the aviation mogul built his infamous Spruce Goose aircraft that flew only once — for about one minute — in 1947. Real estate experts value it at more than $60 million.

The hangar that was built to help win a war is now used mainly for movie and television shoots. Its owner hopes to sell the building to a studio operator who will enlarge its role in the entertainment industry.

“We don’t pretend to know that business,” said John Miller of Tishman Speyer Properties, a New York real estate company that acquired the hangar last year when it bought 64 acres south of Marina del Rey to develop a $1.2-billion office complex.

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