Minnesota's Greatest Generation

Northwest Airlines airplanes at Wold-Chamberlain Field, 1941

Northwest Airlines began operations out of Minenapolis' Speedway Field (later Wold-Chamberlain Field) in 1926. This photograph, dated 1941, shows two Northwest planes on the runway at Wold-Chamberlain.

Creator: Northwest Airlines
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1941
Identifer: location HE1.22 p100

Northwest Airlines airplanes at Wold-Chamberlain Field, 1941