The Worlds Last Remaining Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-100 | N603US Laurinburg-Maxton Airport |
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- The worlds last remaining Northwest Airlines 747 still parked where she made her final flight in 2002.
Although I have posted several videos already, I want to give each aircraft here at Maxton their own video to share the information and history behind each of the aircraft!
This Northwest 747 is truly a marvel of aviation and will forever remain the Queen of the Skies!
Note: for anyone wanting to “correct me” on saying this is a 747-200 instead of a 100, do a quick google search of the registration and tell me what aircraft you see. Thanks 😁
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Video credit for takeoff video: @RunwayAction
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My dad was so proud of being part of the 747 program at Boeing. I was a kid. Now he passed years ago and I am an old man. Time passes so quickly
Time sure does pass so fast. Your dad was a part of something great!
Amen. Where did the years go.
My dad was B-707 and DC-10 captain. I flew with him so many times,he left 3 years ago and I am an old man too...
you ain’t kidding. life is flying by, gets faster as you get older 😞
cannabis is the answer- slows the biological clock to a manageable pace.
people like you make me love aviation
Thanks, you learn something every day. I wish you the best wherever you are in the world. I will see you on an airplane someday.
@@sean5307 see you there :)
I have to poop ☹️
@@jessihawkins9116 Noooo 😢
@@jessihawkins9116 what💀
A Northwest 747 was my freedom bird when I left Saudi Arabia at the end of Desert Storm. The perfect aircraft to finally go home in. Great memories! Oh, I still have a pack of Northwest playing cards from that flight!
I was hired as a 747SO in the mid 80s and I'm sure I flew on this bird more than once.The 747 was such a fantastic jet and also quite a money maker for the airline before fuel prices shot up. Thank you for putting this video together. It brought back good memories.
Bet this gave goosebumps for you
i think these aircraft should be restored and put in display in a museum
Yeah
It would be nice, there is one northwest plane on display now but it actually has Delta on it instead at the museum in Atlanta Ga it’s the very first 747 ever
@@frito1224The first 747-400z The first 747 is on display at Seattle
@@bibblyboing right that’s not the prototype 747 though, the prototype is on display in Atlanta
@@frito1224 The 747-100 prototype is in Seattle. The 747-400 prototype is in Atlanta
I worked on 747s for 30 years.....always heart breaking seeing this
A couple of thoughts... returning from a tour of duty in Vietnam (August 71) I flew on a Northwest 747 from Seattle (SEA-TAC) to Chicago. It was a treat to fly on that new and elegant 747. Remember that flight very well.
This plane was built in 1970 and retired in 2002. That's 32 years of service, a long time and a lot of flying hours I imagine. But today, somewhere in the world, there are Douglas DC-3s which were built in the early 1940s (~ 80 years or so) and still in operation and doing business. When I was in the USAF we use to say that when they flew the last jet to the boneyard the crew would fly back home on a C-47 (DC-3).
I sure miss Northwest Airlines, when flying was fun and you could fit into your seat comfortably.
I flew on Northwest in 2001, a few days after 9/11 and in 2003, each time going between Amsterdam and Detroit on a 747, as that was our hub coming from the UK via KLM. Positive experience each time, and always treated well.
Awesome, I'm so glad to see she survived. I flew her when I was based in HNL for NWA. The 100/ 200s were beautiful. I enjoyed the 3-man crew. She may not be flyable, but at least she's still around.
Thank you for videos.
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BEAUTIFUL JETS! Sadly rotting away! 😢Makes me melt inside! 😔
She looked so happy souring into the air..... Very sad to see these Queens of the sky rotting away... ☹️
😂@@AncientRe
@@AncientReI think souring in this situation is correct
Oh she loved flying, had a wicked sense of humour too.
Soaring yes it is 😞
@@AncientReand women 😂
My father was a mechanic for NWA for over 30 years, and most of his career was in the 747 hangars. 6603 was the third 47 in NWA’s fleet. It would be wonderful if it was renovated to its glory. Thanks for the video, it brought back a lot of memories.
why on earth would anybody or any company do that??
Best flight of my life on an NW 747 like this from Chicago to Tokyo. Only the 3rd plane that country boy had ever been on. Headed to my first duty station as a young 18 year old marine. Lady at the gate stopped me and said I had to be moved to business class and if that would be okay. I replied yes ma’am that’ll be okay. I was so young and naive I had no idea she had upgraded me big time. To my surprise I was seated up top with only three other passengers. To that nice lady thank you for the upgrade! I had no idea!
thats where they put the troublemakers....
😂
@@Drifter20, some "stews" still take care of military personnel.
The big "Red Tail", If your were on the tarmac in Viet Nam with everything you owned hanging on your shoulder in a canvas bag, tired, depressed but happy just glad to be alive, this "Freedom Bird" was your skyway to Heaven!
I salute you proud Lady, you served your country well🙏
I remember that!
And some hippy would spit on you when you got home.
This bird flew for Northwest Airlines for 32 years just as I did. I have many hours in the cockpit of this one. Wonderful times with an awesome bunch of people keeping those big RED TAILS moving. RIP
Myron! you are one of the GOOD guys!!!!!
WOW She served 32 years. Out of College worked for Boeing as a structures engineer in the mid 80's at Boeing. They were making the B747-300. I worked on the B767 and B747-400 programs and B777. I later through flying outside of work, earning all my ratings, Inst, Com, CFI-II-ME and ATP turbojet, went into training department and taught pilots from all over the world in the simulator including yhe B747-400. The B747-400 is an amazing aircraft. I left Boeing to fly for airlines, flew most contemporary Boeing Jets B737, 757 and B767 but never got to fly the B747 on the line. I worked with many of the original B747-100 Engineers. These were the who's-who of aviation engineers in mid late 20th century. Boeing sucked in talent from all over in the late 60's and 70's. These engineers worked on some amazing military and civilian planes and space/defense inside and outside Boeing. Learned a lot.
Flew every position for NWA in the 747. Hard to believe I actually checked out as a captain at 49. What a privilege it was to fly this jet
Good for you! Me too, a very exclusive club, and hard earned!
1:59 😖😭😭what a view, what a time
I took a NWA 747 from Minneapolis to Honolulu in 2005. I miss Northwest. Minnesota’s airline. ❤️🩶🤍
Same for Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan. If you grew up in Detroit and regularly flew to Florida as I did, you flew NWA. They were by far the best. Sure do miss them. Delta not the same.
@@MillerTimeWORLD Couldn’t agree more. I think they originated in Michigan.
Wow, I am happy I clicked on this video. I love planes & the Queen. They are beautiful & their iconic profile should always be around. Thank you for this video.
1970's Northwest 747 Seattle - Honolulu flights with free champagne the entire flight. One big party!!!
I would have had an amazing hangover after we landed!
was it champagne or andre sparkling wine?
Back in the day, when airlines actually cared about customers!
@@dtvjho The plane would land in Honolulu and people didn't want to get off. Now people are trying to get off mid flight LOL
I had the pleasure of sitting in the cockpit on a charter flight from San Juan, PR to LAX to SFO returning cruise ship pax home. What a great memory. Loved flying on the 747!
In 2006, I flew NWA from San Francisco to Narita and then on to Manila to see my future wife. That 747 will always be a special memory for me! Little did I know NWA and the 747 would end when I arrived in Minneapolis on my return home...
Super cool, love these old birds and the 747 really changed the world for aircraft travel, she’ll always be the Queen!!
Every time I see one of these Northwest Airlines 747s, I am reminded of the first international flights I took as a young man in 2003. I rode NWA 747s from MSP to NRT and NRT to BKK. At BKK, we deplaned onto the tarmac, giving me a sense of how enormous these birds were as we walked away and boarded busses to the airport concourse. I will never forget those flights and get to return to BKK this summer with my older daughter and a group from her school. While the 747s are gone, my love of air travel remains strong and I’m excited to share it with my firstborn.
I’m sure I flew them domestically also, pretty sure both MSP to MEM on the second leg of my first flying journey in 1999. Then again from MSP to DET on our honeymoon in 2004. Those two domestic flights I’m only 90% certain were 747s.
I did ride that one
@@Jetstar_Jetwing that’s awesome! I wish I knew the registration numbers of those planes I flew.
Where did you fly on this one?
The giant bowling shoe,,, I flew on that bad boy back when I was cabin crew.. You've got me feeling all nostalgic.
Always nice to see the letters KLM, no matter where or in what state. Nice!
Nice to see the video of her performing in her glory days! Thank you for posting.
There always an element of sadness associated with watching a video like this. Such a magnificent machine, and all the souls who flew on her, now just a forgotten abandoned waste. Yes it would be great to see her spruced up and used for something, maybe a restaurant or pub. But they need to replace the missing parts, some old engine cowlings and the missing rudder and flaps, to make her look complete. Great video, thank you.
I miss northwest ... I rode on this when I first came to America in 1993 .bittersweet
We saw many a Northwest 747 fly over our house in Minneapolis as we were in the landing flight path. Always worth looking up at and admiring.
I never flew on a NW 747, but flew many times on KLM's 747s between Amsterdam and JFK. They were magnificent airplanes. When I stepped inside of one, I felt proud of American know-how and craftsmanship. The Concorde was a beautiful plane, but the 747 was available to so many more people. They were big, comfortable and you felt secure flying in a 747.
My first trip to Asia was on a Northwest 747. I got upgraded from business class to first class. Best flight ever all the way to Singapore.
Great content. I miss those days as a kid I was allowed up to the cockpit to look around (at FL 40 ) may have been less I was lucky enough that my dad was an A&P so went about 6 times .i wasn’t a rich kid just very lucky.
I remember like yesterday what the cumulus clouds looked like at 38,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. It was amazing and the cloud build just went on forever and ever they were much lower than we were, but it was still an amazing site. I wish I had been a little bit older. I would’ve brought a camera and taking some pictures back to end everything was analog.
This was before the 400s came in. I even got to fly in the DC 10. It might have been an L1011 it was on Freddy Lakers Airline and I was too young to remember exactly what type of equipment it was. Night flight and all I Dont remember that flight as much as the 747,S . Those were unforgettable.
As sad as it can and may be…Time marches on for all of us
Thanks for the reminder....😥😥😓😓
Yes sadly 😭 true but shame to see it sit n rott
Everything that's old and derelict was shiny and new at some point.
And as we get older we realize we have more time behind us,Than we do ahead of us.
The NW logo is the one the most clever and most meaningful logos ever.
I remember being involved with the ARMAR program at nwa .This was 1 of 3 747s that we completed in hangar 7 msp. Thankyou for your videos and the respect you are giving to these magnificent machines.
I was an Engineer for NWA on.the section 41 mods.
Dave Graham was the main manager. John Ernest was the avionics manager. I was a R&E on the program
Beautiful aircraft. Thanks for posting!
As Dutch American I still miss NWA, loved flying with them and their partnership with KLM; switching between the two always was smooth and a pleasant experience. It sad KLM didnt managed to take NWA over so the company could have been preserved, and sadly was "forced" to enter the current disastrous deal with Air France. I hope she ends up in museum, it would be such a waste for her to scrapped.
This 747, was built, 67 years after the First Flight at Kitty Hawk. Wright Brothers 1903. Amazing.
Here's a statistic: the Wright brother's first flight was lower than the 747's fuselage height and shorter than the 747's wingspan. In other words, the first flight could not have cleared a 747! Amazing how aircraft technology advanced so rapidly.
Thanks for making and sharing this. Northwest has an interesting place in my memory and heart after they acquired Republic, which a family friend worked for as a mechanic out of MPLS. The 747 was just an iconic plane, so seeing both the "bowling shoe" livery again on such a magnificent aircraft kinda tugs at my nostalgia.
The first time I ever flew on an airplane was a Northwest Orient 747 in 1973. This could be the same plane!
I remember NWA using the airport at Salina KS. in 1970, '71, '72 and '73 to practice with their shiny new 747's......
,,,,oh well,,,,,,
@@alwenke212 they were already test-flown and certified at paine field in everett washington. what you saw was prolly pilot orientations/in-service instruction.
Thanks . Brings back memories of going to JFK from Narita in the late 80s.
The first time I flew on a 747 was with NWA. It was during the strike in the late 1970's. As I recall they made one flight a week between Chicago and Seattle stopping in Minneapolis and Billings on the way. I can still remember the wings flexing as we flew through a thunderstorm landing in Minneapolis. Pretty exciting stuff for someone who wasn't accustomed to flying. People around me were screaming and I was thinking "this is cool" .
I always wanted to be a pilot. These 747's are my favorite airplane. As a little kid, I would watch them take off and land from O Hare airport when I visited my grandparents house. They lived in River Grove, so it was very busy skies there. Such an elegant aircraft, I really miss seeing them fly.
And yet it's mostly intact even after 22 years!
When my dad was getting his pilot's license we would wander over to Laurinburg-Maxton because it was very close to the airport he was training at. I was just a kid and couldn't get enough of walking up to the airliners sitting around the airport!
Good line Jeff... Thats when boeing was the jewel of aviation industry
I flew many times from Boston to Manila with North West on their 747’s. Boston to Detroit, then 747 non stop to Japan, then to Manila. Always top notch service from the staff.
Very sad to see these airlines abandoned like this
What a beautiful ole bird. Behind the mold and faded paint the history of her still shines. Although I’m just a little GA plane owner I am still amazed at the size of the 747 and how awesome and quiet the -8’s are.
Sad to see her in that condition. Thanks for the video. I hope she be restored.
My family and I flew on a Northwest 747 jumbo jet when we immigrated from Asia to the USA in 1984.
I wonder if this might be the jet we flew in. If so, thank you for our safe voyage to starting a new life in this country so bless by God.
Nice video. My mom was a FA for NWA for 36 years. She probably flew on this plane a couple times
My father, my grandfather, flew on the first prototype. Both are gone today, but I have fun memories of the 747 having flown on many of them in my life. My father was 1 million miler on a couple of different airlines, and flew many in his life for business.I hope to see this plane restored, this is American ingenuity at its best. Think about being over 50 years old and having so much technology to make it all work. Amazing.
no one is going to restore this plane- its not worth it
That beautiful bird has enabled countless souls to meet around the world, touched so many lives for different reasons. The effect of those meetings, whether private or business, is probably huge. A world changing machine that should be treated with respect. Nowadays people tend to think an airplane is just a simple bus that can fly..
And i actually use that for my pfp. It really cool and it nice to see its still remembered 😊
Thank you very much for the video!
Love the video. It’s so cool to see theses airplanes sitting around airports around the country.
I am very familiar with the Laurinburg-Maxton airport. Most locals refer to it as simply the Maxton airport. I have driven by it and around it many times. It is way out in the middle of a rural area with a great old runway that can easily handle planes of this size. They respectfully "disassemble" many retired aircrafts there. It's a very interesting place.
is the public able to walk on and see the planes? or you do have to fly in?
@@pigup2 I have never tried walk on to the property but everything can be easily seen through the chain-link fence that surrounds the property along Airport road. I have seen some of the planes are being disassembled as close as 100 yards from the road and some parked even closer. You can see them easily from your car.
That’s awesome that you live so close to Maxton! For the past few months I’ve been somewhat anxious to know the current status of the Northwest DC10 and the MyTravel 757. I filmed these videos on January 5 and the airport has certainly had many changes since then. I’m hoping that the DC10 is still somewhat in tact, but there’s a possibility it’s completely gone by now. And I saw that a little over a month ago the MyTravel 757 was moved to an area in front of the Korean A300 and I was worried that the airport may be scrapping it. Is there any way you could drive around Maxton and check on the status of the aircraft?
@@jwaviation16 I don't actually live all that close so I'm only there occasionally for work these days. But, anytime I'm in the area I make it a point to drive around the perimeter to see what's new, and what's going on out there.
@@pigup2 if you want to see old aircraft- try tucson or mojave. you can get real close to them in tucson
6603 was one of three -100’s Northwest Airlines performed an ARMAR Project on in 1990. Every service bulletin was accomplished in one huge overhaul visit in Minneapolis. She had the best fuel burn of all -100’s in the fleet after that project. 6601 and 6608 were the other two aircraft. You can visit the nose section of 6601 at the Smithsonian in Washington DC. Northwest Airlines had 10 -100’s 6601-6610 if I recall correctly 6611 and on were -200’s. 6611 was the first -200 built I believe although I could be wrong. All Northwest 747’s used the JT9D for power. The -400 fleet used the PW4000 series motor.
Wow that awesome!! Thanks for the info 😃!
Those three -100’s were the Beach Birds with high density seating for the Japanese market. They flew to Honolulu, Guam, and Saipan from Narita.
@@ChuckMalefyt there's a joke in there somewhere
I was one of the mechanics that did the 3 ARMAR aircraft. John Earnst was the AVIONICS manager. Dave ??? was the main manager.
I was a flight attendant for NWA and we use to fly this beast from Detroit to Tokyo! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I remember when Northwest had their business class in the upper deck of the 747. I preferred that to 1st class in the front of the lower deck. I always loved flying Northwest across the Pacific.
Met my future wife when she was a flight attendant for NWA on a business trip from MSP to PHL. I only flew NWA after that. Great Airline! She is missed.
That could be the first plane I was ever on when I was 19 years old. Northwest 747 - San Francisco to Boston… at one point the pilot said over the PA “folks, if you take a look out of the right side you’ll see the Mississippi River …so most of us tried to peer over…and seconds later the plane jerked up and left so hard, all of us on the right side were shoved back into our seats. This being my first light, I didn’t think much of it. I do remember the looks on peoples faces. I’ve also never felt that again in the 40 years since. Captain did a good job of keeping us from a near hit probably. : ) Hopefully he remembered to not get up and look at the Mississippi himself the next time.
Thoroughly beautiful video. Thank you. 🙏🏽
I was had the great honor to fly this airplane ship number 603 in all three seats. SO, FO, and Captain. A wonderful airplane my only regret was to not be able to make it last longer,
Beautiful video, sad I'll never take my kids 1rst class on a 747, it was magical the one time I got to.
I flew the Northwest Airlines 747 From L.A. Cali to Osaka Japan 4 times while I was stationed at Okinawa. HUGE aircraft..
My good friend retired from 45 years as a flight attendant with Northwest. I am sure over his millions of miles flown on duty he must have worked on this wonderful flying machine at least once !
he did the paint & body- do you like it??
I flew on Northwest 747’s many times. On a flight from San Francisco to Baltimore-Washington International the pilot came on and informing us that we were flying 600, then 650 and then finally 750 miles per hour due to a 200 mph tailwind! Wow!!!
Great stock video
Really a beautiful aircraft
My sister was a Flight Attendant with Northwest for many years. I remember back when it was
Northwest Orient.
When I was young They first came out. Pan Am had one of the first copies they parked it out so every one could see it driving by SFO airport . My friends dad was a Pan Am pilot Trainer. He was active training pilots to fly that beast, 747 was amazing technology then without current technology.
My boyfriend and I few to HNL in May 1979. Perhaps this was the aircraft we were on. At the time UAL was on strike and we had the honor of flying back to LAX on Braniff's "old orange bird' N601BN. At that time N601BN was the highest time 747 in the world.
Wow Braniff. They had some wildly colored planes!
This is a surprisingly touching video.
Right! For me too.....and I was wondering why.....I have no connection to NWA, never flown on a 747 (always wanted to though).....I think its the music and reflecting on what I was doing back in 1997 when she was hard at work over the Pacific.....and perhaps the notion that we, like 6063, have to work our asses off until we retire and die.
The 100 just looks so much better purportionally than a lot of the other 74s. My favorite is still the -8 freighter, but the 100’s hump is just about the right size.
I agree. The 747-8F looks so much better with the short hump and the 100 was the classic look.
Excellent 747 always shinning ⭐star
I was so fortunate that I got to work as a flight attendant starting in 1986 an I flew on the 747-100 and 200 300 and 400 and brifley on the 747-800 they were all great planes ✈️ I got to see the whole world on their dime I recently retired after 37 years
I had the pleasure to fly on on 747 4 times(London-New York). A masterpiece of engineering, the queen of the sky.
Respect for this B747 from 🇮🇳
When I see videos like this, I wonder what happened to all of those big jumbo jets that I used to fly in decades ago.
Used to love seeing the Northwest 747’s at Schipol in the 90’s used to fly in from Norwich, a Air Uk Fokker-50 for a connection to Muscat, Oman, always loved seeing Northwest as it was in partnership with KLM at the time, the livery was one of my favourites, Aviation in the 90’s
Was something else 🫶🏻
I 100% miss northwest airlines northwest merged with delta airlines her retirement was in 2009 the dc10 the was retired in 2007 also the northwest 727 was retired in 2003 and the concorde was retired in 2003 rest in peace to those plane classic plane from the 1990s who got retired and goodbye northwest airlines😢💔
I grew up outside Detroit and lived in Tokyo for 3 years. I flew NWA across the Pacific a dozen times in the 90’s, seeing these 747s brings back sooo many memories!
She still beautiful.
She will never fly again.
Thank You for sharing!
In the 1980's-90's my boyfriend and I would park by the runways at SFO and watch planes take off. Back then you could climb over the fence if you wanted.. After 9/11 (or maybe before, I forget) they closed the road that ran behind the airport that had small parking bays where you could make out and watch the airplanes. Man that was great. I had the cops walk up to our car's steamed up windows and tell us to sit up straight in our seats, or else move on.
I feel like if Maxton Airport gives them a second life it is impossible because retired planes are old and never gonna fly again also when every time you show the planes in service it just looks like the planes are so happy to be in service😢 I wish I could see a 747-100 for the last time operating but it is impossible to time travel😢😢😢 NOTHING EVER LAST FOREVER
Used to take these Northwest 747’s between HKG - LAX (connection in NRT), Northwest used to have huge presence in Asia Pacific flights.
Beautiful aircraft.
My father once described flying on the enormous Boeing 747 as "a place going somewhere".
No matter what. But to me. The 747-100 was the most beautiful aircraft ever built to fly the skies.
Concorde !
Working in the aviation field gave me new respect for what all it takes to even accomplish any kind of restoration. I can’t even imagine what it’ll take to make this huge bird airworthy again.
why would anybody even attempt that?
@@tommurphy4307 no idea .
Everything goes... nothing lasts. This is the lesson of life. So, enjoy each day as if it were your last.
Excellent video.
Awesome video! Brings back the memories; I flew Northwest Airlines a lot (lived in Minneapolis). It was a huge company and had a high profile presence. I recall it was high union wages that got it shut down, but not sure, that’s just my recollection (and it was many years ago).
Great little video. Music is perfect.
It is amazing how technology marches on and iconic things just get left to the wayside.
That is a legend cs. The way they did the N and the pointer to point northwest. Classic. And I alsi love the silver one thet did.
747 the most beautiful plane ever! Sad that it ends like this! 😞
Nicknamed Queen of the Sky for good reason.
I always liked the 727 - that thing was a hot rod for a passenger aircraft.