Repaint of Northwest Airlines' first 747-100, N601US, in its mid-70s to early-80s condition for the payware CLS 747 HD. Textures were tested in FSX, but they should work in Prepar3D (including v4-5 ports of this add-on).
Northwest Orient received the first of 12 Boeing 747-100s, registered N601US, on April 30, 1970 and commenced service with the type from Minnesota to New York. The airline's early batch of 747s (10x 747-100s, 5x 747-200Bs) delivered between April 1970 to November 1971 were built with 3 windows on each side of the upper deck to accommodate the lounge that was common on 747s at the time, but the Oil Crisis in 1973 forced Northwest to convert the upper decks of their early aircraft for extra passenger seating with 7 additional windows. Although every aircraft delivered to the airline from 1971 onwards was built as the improved -200 series with more range and capacity, National Airlines' pair of 747-100s were acquired by Northwest and underwent the same upper deck modifications. The introduction of more powerful engines for 747-200s with increased range in the 1980s rendered the older -100 series aircraft obsolete on transpacific routes and relegated them to European and transcontinental services.
N601US became the last 747-100 to exit Northwest's fleet in 2000, and after 6 years of storage in North Carolina its nose section was transported to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and reassembled for preservation. It's not the only preserved cockpit of a Northwest 747, as the nose of N642NW (a secondhand 747-212B that also saw use with NW) survives at the Museum of Aeronautical Sciences in Tokyo.
NOTE: The "dark rectangle" on the windows was intentionally added to represent the new window panels installed on the real aircraft after its upper deck conversion in the mid-1970s.
