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 ...
… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Minnesota entrepreneur Colonel Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin incorporated Northwest ...
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 ...