It adopted the name “Northwest Orient” for advertising purposes. ... Wings Holdings (later Northwest Airlines Corporation) acquired NWA Inc. at a cost of approximately $3.5 billion.

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 mysterious hijacker 'DB Cooper' held the Northwest Orient Airlines flight 53 years ago for $200,000 ransom, and parachuted out of the aircraft, never to be seen again. Now, the parachute used by ...

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 prop-liner that flew daily transcontinental routes connecting the east coast of New York City to the far west coast of Seattle, Washington when it ...

On the night before Thanksgiving in 1971, Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 - a Boeing 727 owned and operated by Northwest Orient Airlines - while it was flying from Portland ...

The hijacker, dubbed "D.B. Cooper," has remained a mystery in the 40 years since he jumped from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 flight with $200,000 in ransom.

When Helen Jacobson Richardson thinks back on her career as one of Northwest Airlines’ first stewardesses, many of her memories are tied to Rochester and Mayo Clinic. After all, Rochester had ...