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.

It adopted the name “Northwest Orient” for advertising purposes. The airline’s Asian connections proved useful in 1950 when the U.S. government chose the airline for the Korean Air Lift mission.

April 19, 2008 at 4:00 AM Share Share this article By Heather J. Carlson Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN ...

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 ...

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 ...

This undated artist’s sketch shows D.B. Cooper, based on the recollections of the passengers and crew of a Northwest Orient Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland, Ore., and Seattle in 1971 ...