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An undated photo from the 1970s showing a Delta Air Lines Boeing 747.
Delta Air Lines
An undated photo of a Northwest Orient Boeing 747-200 in flight over Asia.
Delta Flight Museum
Delta Mechanic and Boeing 747 tire in a photo from 1972.
Delta Air Lines
A Delta Boeing 747 is seen in Atlanta in a photo that Delta dates to 1970.
Delta Air Lines
Delta and Northwest aircraft tails. The 2008 merger brought 747s back into Delta's fleet for the first time since the 1970s.
Delta Air Lines
Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-400, Ship 6301. The aircraft was the first "400" variant of the 747 to be delivered to an airline. It began flying for Northwest in 1989 and made its last flight in 2015, operating as Delta flight from Honolulu to Atlanta.
Boeing via Delta Air Lines
An undated photo of a Northwest Orient Boeing 747.
Delta Flight Museum
A Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-200 freighter pictured in 1991.
Delta Flight Museum
Georgia Gov. Lester G. Maddox speaks at a dedication ceremony of Delta's first Boeing 747 in 1970.
Delta Air Lines
A Delta Boeing 747 (right) is seen in Atlanta in this photo from 1972.
Delta Air Lines
Delta's first Boeing 747 -
dubbed 'Georgia Belle' - went into service in 1970 with one daily round-trip on an Atlanta-Dallas-Los Angeles routing.
Delta Air Lines
A Delta Boeing 747 ad from 1970.
Delta Air Lines
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 flight crew is seen in the cockpit in a photo from 1973.
Delta Air Lines
The 'Penthouse cabin' of Delta's Boeing 747 is seen in an undated promotional photo from the 1970s. Delta offered the “world’s first flying penthouse apartment” located above the First Class cabin and adjacent to the First Class lounge. Seats for six passengers sold as a unit and were staffed by a flight attendant.
Delta Air Lines
This undated Delta Boeing 747 photos is from the 1970s. The 747 was the first Delta plane with a personal audio system, offering seven “Deltasonic” channels playing the Beatles, Bert Bacharach and Beethoven.
Delta Air Lines
An undated photo from the 1970s showing the interior of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 747. The 747 was the first Delta plane with overhead bins for carry-on bags instead of open racks.
Delta Air Lines
Delivery of Delta's first Boeing 747 in 1970.
Delta Air Lines
Delta touts its Boeing 747s in this undated advertisement from the 1970s.
Delta Air Lines
'Ship 6305' was the first Northwest 747-400 to be repainted in the Delta livery.
Delta Air Lines
Northwest rolled out this 'First to Fly' postcard 1989 as it became the first airline to fly the '-400' variant of the Boeing 747.
Delta Air Lines
This undated photo shows a Northwest Boeing 747-400 cargo jets.
Delta Air Lines
This undated photo shows a Northwest Boeing 747-400 cargo jets, likely from 1989 or the early 1990s.
Delta Air Lines
The first Boeing 747-400 ever built - Ship 6301 - retired from service on Sept. 9, 2015, after logging more than 61 million miles. This March 2017 showed its debut at the Delta Flight Museum, where it's now part of the '747 Experience.'
Delta Air Lines
Ship 6301, the first Boeing 747-400 built, taxis into position at the Delta Flight Museum in March 2017.
Delta Air Lines
Former and current Delta CEOs, Ed Bastian (curent, right) and Richard Anderson hold up copies of the Atlanta newspaper the day after the Delta-Northwest merger was announced in 2005. The merger, completed in 2008, brought 747s back into Delta's fleet.
Delta Air Lines
Delta promotional material highlighting an employee-focused Boeing 747 farewell tour in late 2017.
Delta Air Lines
This 2012 photo of 'Delta One' business-class seats were among the last interior updates to Delta's Boeing 747s.
Delta Air Lines
This 2012 photo of 'Delta One' business-class seats were among the last interior updates to Delta's Boeing 747s.
Delta Air Lines
Northwest was the launch customer of the '-400' variant of the Boeing 747. That first model of the jet, delivered in 1989, is seen here in an undated photo.
Delta Air Lines
This file photo from Jan. 21, 2010, shows fliers walking past a Delta Airlines 747 aircraft at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.
Paul Sancya, AP
A frontend-loader operator drives between piles of snow as a Northwest Airlines 747 taxis amid a snowstorm at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Jan. 4, 1999.
Richard Sheinwald, Associated Press
A Delta Air Lines 747-400 airplane sits at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Oct. 8, 2012.
Ted S. Warren, AP
Northwest Airlines launches this 'WorldPlane' Boeing 747-400 paint scheme artwork created by children from the U.S. and Asia. The picture is from Minneapolis/St. Paul from 1997.
Jim Mone, Associated Press
Northwest Airlines launches this 'WorldPlane' Boeing 747-400 paint scheme artwork created by children from the U.S. and Asia. The picture is from Minneapolis/St. Paul from 1997.
Jim Mone, Associated Press
Sarah Maesch, 11, of Clarkston, Mich., signs a reproduction of her artwork on the fuselage of a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on May 13, 1997. Maesch was one of 18 children from around the world whose artwork appears on the plane.
Tom Pidgeon, Associated Press
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 lands within view of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in June 2016.
Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, special to USA TODAY
Northwest's first Boeing 747-400 revenue passenger cuts a ribbon at the gate in Minneapolis/St. Paul on Feb. 9, 1989, with station manager Arlie Johnson.
Northwest Airlines via Delta
Drink service on a Northwest Orient Boeing 747 circa 1970.
Delta Flight Museum
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 747-400 is seen in flight in June 2016.
Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, special to USA TODAY
Locals snap photos as Delta Air Lines moves the first Boeing 747-400, now retired, to its new home at the company's museum in Atlanta on April 30, 2016.
Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, special to USA TODAY
Delta employees fashioned Hawaii-style lei for one of Delta's last-ever domestic 747 revenue flight, which flew from Honolulu to Los Angeles to Detroit in September 2018.
Delta Air Lines
One of Delta's last-ever regularly scheduled domestic flights on the 747 arrives in Los Angeles in September 2017 as part of a run from Honolulu to Los Angeles to Detroit.
Delta Air Lines
A Northwest Orient Boeing 747 circa 1970.
Delta Flight Museum
One of Delta's last-ever regularly scheduled domestic flights on the 747 arrives in Los Angeles in September 2017 as part of a run from Honolulu to Los Angeles to Detroit.
Delta Air Lines
A historical shot of a Northwest Orient Boeing 747.
Delta Flight Museum
A historical shot of a Northwest Orient Boeing 747.
Delta Flight Museum
A Northwest Orient postcard from 1985 featuring a Boeing 747.
Delta Flight Museum
Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-400, N661US, Ship 6301 is seen at Minneapolis/St. Paul on May 1, 1990.
Delta Flight Museum (Mike Cleary of Eagan, Minn.)
A specially painted Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 is seen in route to Asia in 1997.
Delta Flight Museum
A Northwest Orient Boeing 747 ad from 1970.
Delta Flight Museum
The first-class lounge on a Northwest Orient Boeing 747 circa 1970.
Delta Flight Museum
The bar on a Northwest Orient Boeing 747 circa 1970.
Delta Flight Museum
Two engines of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 are seen circa 1971.
Delta Air Lines
A Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 freighter in 2009.
Delta Flight Museum
Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-222B (N646NW) at Amarillo, Texas, in 2001.
Delta Flight Museum
An undated photo showing a night view of a Northwest Orient Boeing 747-200 with ground support equipment.
Delta Flight Museum
Loading cargo through nose of Boeing 747-200 (undated photo)
Delta Flight Museum
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