With that, Delta welcomed the 747 back into its fold. With Northwest, Delta acquired 16 passenger 747-400s, two passenger 747-200s (used for charter), and 12 747-200 freighters. MORE: Midair vows ...

Delta Ship 6301 when it was a Boeing 747-400 prototype. Boeing Pratt & Whitney then used the aircraft as a test bed for its PW4000 series engines, which would power all of Delta's 747-400s.

Delta dubbed this 747-400 Ship 6301. After 27 years of service — first with Northwest Airlines — then with Delta after the two airlines merged in 2008, it was time to retire Ship 6301 last year.

A retired Delta Boeing 747 gets new life as a Delta SkyMiles Reserve American Express Card, ... is composed of 25% metal from Delta Ship #6307, a retired Boeing 747-400.

The exhibit is inside a retired 747-400 that Delta parked at the museum on its headquarters campus just north of Hartsfield-Jackson’s runways.

ROMULUS, Mich. -- The Queen of the Skies isn’t quite ready to relinquish her throne at Delta Air Lines. The carrier’s last regularly scheduled U.S. departure of its Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet ...

Delta had previously flown its last commercial passenger flight aboard a 747-400 on December 19, from Seoul to Detroit. United and Delta were the last two U.S. carriers to utilize 747 jets. United ...

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, the only remaining U.S. passenger airline to fly the 747, is retiring the plane from its fleet. In 1966, Boeing announced plans to build the 747.

Delta Air Lines is refurbishing the interior of its sixteen 747-400s, which primarily fly from its Tokyo-Narita hub.

Delta’s last scheduled flight of the 747, the end of an era of an iconic plane in aircraft history, ... Ship 6309, is the last Boeing 747-400 to be retired by a U.S. air carrier.

DeltaJudging from the sheer number of comments to our paltry post on Delta dipping the first of Northwest's red-tailed 747-400s in Delta blue, we figured we'd follow up a little and offer a new ...

DeltaDelta sends us a heads up on the latest turn of the screw in its marriage with Northwest: the first of Northwest's 16 red-tailed 747-400s has been dipped in Delta blue. Here's a shot of the ...