1926 Col. Lewis Brittin founds Northwest Airways as a Michigan corporation to carry air mail from the Twin Cities to Chicago. Operations are based at Speedway Flying Field on the site of today's ...
A few months before aviator Charles Lindbergh made his record-breaking transatlantic flight, Northwest Airways, Inc. began carrying airmail between the Twin Cities and Chicago. Minnesota entrepreneur ...
Northwest Airways -- Northwest during World War II -- Air services to the Orient and the 1950s -- Northwest Orient from 1960 to 1986 -- Southern airways, Wisconsin Central, and North Central -- Hughes ...