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Introducing, my first airliner with livery. Based on my previous 747. Featuring a distinctive livery from Northwest Airlines. Interestingly, all the windows are made of labels! Thus saving the number of parts.

Histrory

While the 747 had development delays and its introduction with Pan Am was bedeviled with engine and equipment issues, by the time Northwest took its initial deliveries most of these problems had been understood and corrected. NWA’s first revenue flight took off June 22, 1970, from Minneapolis / St. Paul to New York JFK.

All ten frames of the first order were delivered in 1970-71, and Northwest topped up its order with five more 747-100B longer-range variants to be delivered in 1971.

By 1980, Northwest has started to swap in the newer, more-capable 747-200 (as well as a handful of all-cargo models), and would later go on to be the launch customer for the extended 747-400 – which we’ll cover in a separate entry. The -400s would pass on to Delta when the companies merged, but the remaining -200s were quickly disposed of, as well as the all-cargo subfleet. Source: Northwest Airlines History Center

Real craft:

Source: Airline Reporter via Google

Controls are normal as always..

Have a nice flight!