It’s the end of the line for Northwest Airlines’s last Everett-built 747-200. The Minnesota-based carrier retired its final 747-200 from service today, following a flight from Tokyo to Seattle ...

Northwest began operating the 747-200 in 1975, when the airline took its first delivery of the new model jumbo jet. Northwest's 747-200 passenger fleet peaked in size at 22 aircraft in 1997.

Northwest Airlines told the Air Line Pilots Association the airline will close Honolulu and Minneapolis Boeing 747-200 bases in November after Northwest stops flying -200s from those cities.

In 1971, a man going by the name of D.B. Cooper jumped from a Northwest Airlines 747 over Washington state, carrying $200,000 in ransom money from the airlines, and two parachutes. Jo Weber tells ...

With that, Delta welcomed the 747 back into its fold. With Northwest, Delta acquired 16 passenger 747-400s, two passenger 747-200s (used for charter), and 12 747-200 freighters.

Planespotters.net lists Laurinburg-Maxton Airport as being home to the former Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-100. The Jumbo is registered N603US, has MSN 19780, and line number 45. It was one of ...

A Chicago-bound Northwest Airlines 747 out of Tokyo and another jumbo jet came within a scant 400 feet of one another as they averted a collision that could have claimed nearly 700 lives, the ...

When Delta Air Lines bought Northwest Airlines for $2.6 billion last year, it inherited a hodgepodge of 436 planes that included everything from Airbus A330s to Boeing 747s and even some ancient ...