Delta Ship 6301 made its first flight with Eagan-based Northwest Airlines in December 1989 Delta Airlines The jet dodged disaster in 2002 when it experienced a first-of-its-kind tail control ...

EAGAN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northwest Airlines (NYSE:NWA) today is retiring its last 747-200 from scheduled revenue service. The 430-seat aircraft, which most recently operated NWA’s Tokyo ...

Northwest was then known as Northwest Orient Airlines -- the 747 was a valuable addition.” As for American, it didn’t want to be left behind United and TWA in the competition to operate the ...

It rebrands itself as Northwest Orient Airlines. 1960 Moves into new headquarters at Wold-Chamberlain Field (now Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport). 1970 Introduces the Boeing 747 jumbo ...

A problem with an engine on a Northwest Orient Airlines` Boeing 747 caused a few tense moments Sunday for a 177 passengers on a flight from Chicago to Tokyo. However, the plane returned safely to ...

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.

Charlotte-based reporter Ted Reed covers airlines and ... But when a 747 goes by, everybody knows – that’s a 747.” Hanlon was one of a half dozen former Northwest 747 pilots aboard the ...

(The first Boeing 747 to land in Cuba was a flight from ... On Nov. 24, 1971, a man boarded a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from Portland, Ore., to Seattle. He paid cash for his ticket, bought ...

Read the original article on Purewow. In 1987, Northwest Airlines 747 pilot Robert Plath sold his two wheeled Rollaboard design to fellow airline professionals so that today, all us civilian four ...

A few months before aviator Charles Lindbergh made his record-breaking transatlantic flight, Northwest Airways, Inc. began carrying airmail between the Twin Cities and Chicago. Minnesota ...