Republic Airlines, Inc. - Specimen Stock Certificate

Specimen Stock printed by Securities-Columbian United States BankNote Corporation. Northwest Airlines, Inc. is an American airline that was established in 1926 under the name Northwest Airways, Inc. and was incorporated on April 16, 1934, as Northwest Airlines, Inc. Initially, the airline operated a mail route connecting Chicago and Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota. Over the following decades, the company expanded its operations to develop a domestic and international network originating from Chicago, Minneapolis–St. Paul, and Seattle, Washington, extending to various destinations across the United States, Canada, the Far East, and Europe. The parent holding company of Northwest, NWA Incorporated, was formed during a corporate restructuring in 1984. The airline's headquarters are located at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport.

Between 1928 and 1933, Northwest Airlines extended its services westward, city by city, through the Dakotas, Montana, and Washington state. In 1945, after providing service to the U.S. government in several northern and Pacific war theatres, the airline obtained an extension of its routes eastward from Minneapolis–St. Paul to New York City, passing through Milwaukee and Detroit, thus becoming the fourth transcontinental airline in the nation—although it did not initially serve the California market, unlike TWA, United, and American. The following year, Northwest received certification to operate flights to the Far East and commenced service in 1947; for a period, the airline operated under the trade name Northwest Orient. In 1958, it acquired the profitable Florida route from the Midwest. Northwest began its service to the Benelux countries and London in 1979 and 1980, respectively. In 1982, it initiated routes to South America and China, the latter of which had not been directly connected to the United States by air for over 30 years. In 1986, Northwest Airlines acquired Republic Airlines, Inc., thus gaining access to routes in Mexico and the Caribbean.

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