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As of January 2025, there were 429 Boeing 747 aircraft in active airline service, comprising 1 747-100, 2 747SPs, 16 747-200s, 1 747-300, 258 747-400s, and 151 747-8s. [1] These aircraft are listed by airline operators and variant in the following table.
The 747-100 with a range of 4,620 nautical miles (8,556 km), was the original variant launched in 1966. ... 23719/696 – 747-451 registration N661US at the Delta ...
Boeing 747-100: 5 1970 1977 [59] Lockheed L-1011 TriStar: Early retirement accelerated due to the 1970s energy crisis. Boeing 747-400: 16 2008 2018 Airbus A350-900: Former Northwest Airlines fleet. Last major passenger 747 operator in North America. [60] N661US ship 6301, the first 747-400 is displayed at the Delta Flight Museum. Boeing 767-200 ...
The Boeing 757 was the only type of jet common to the pre-merger fleets of both Delta and Northwest. The airline ceased operations and merged into Delta on January 31, 2010. Most of Northwest's Boeing 747 fleet was sent to Delta which had retired all of its own 747s in the 1970s.
The aircraft was delivered to Northwest Airlines on December 8, 1989. [7] When Northwest merged with Delta in 2009, N661US became Delta Ship 6301 and continued passenger operations for Delta until it was retired on September 9, 2015, making its final flight from Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu to Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, [8] having logged more than ...
November 10, 1946: Delta Air Lines Flight 10, a Douglas DC-3 which departed Jackson, Mississippi attempting to land at then Meridian Key Field (MEI) in a thunderstorm and winds, had a runway excursion after landing, going beyond the end of the runway and up the western slope of a ditch adjoining the highway adjacent to the airport, bouncing over a highway, and coming to rest with the nose ...
747-451 1988 April 29, 1988 September, 2015 Boeing 1988-1989 as N401PW; Northwest Airlines 1989-2008; Delta Air Lines 2008-2015; Delta Flight Museum, Georgia, United States: On static display See also: Northwest Airlines Flight 85 [31] N681UP 747-121(SF) July 24, 1970 August 4th, 1970 2007 Pan American World Airways 1970-1975 as N771PA
The second Supertanker (N479EV, tanker/tail number 979) was based on a 747-100 originally manufactured by Boeing in 1971 for Delta Air Lines. [2] It entered service for the first time in 2009, fighting a fire in Cuenca, Spain , and made its first American operation on August 31, 2009 at the Oak Glen Fire in California.