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 ...

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 ...

A Delta Boeing 747-400 returned to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport July 1 from its first round-trip passenger flight since coming out of retirement. Jim Hammerand | MSPBJ Delta has ...

Impact Link The jumbo jet's days as a passenger plane are numbered. The Boeing 747, once the go-to passenger jet for airlines around the world, is destined to live out its days as a cargo jet.

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.

Pratt & Whitney then used the aircraft as a test bed for its PW4000 series engines, which would power all of Delta's 747-400s. The plane entered commercial service with Northwest Airlines in ...

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.