Delta Flight Museum – Business Insider

The hangars, which total 68,000 square feet of space, date back respectively to the 1941 and 1947. They are among the last remains of the original municipal airport of Atlanta.

The Delta Flight Museum was created in 1995 and operates as a non -profit organization funded by ticket sales and donations.

The new museum experience begins with an immersive video presentation on the history of Delta.

The first thing you see after the video is a model of the Huff Daland Crop Duster of 1925.

Before starting passenger operations, the company’s initial mission was to fight against the infestation of Boll Welevil which threatened cotton harvest in the South American.

Delta had its registered office in Monroe from 1928 until its move to Atlanta in 1941.

Delta Air Service started passenger flights in 1929 using its fleet of four travel tunes. Behind the plane is an interactive exhibition with an AI video generated from vintage photos highlighting the building’s past as a Delta main maintenance hangar.

In 1993, a group of Delta retirees found the flying cargo by plane in Puerto Rico and brought it back to Atlanta for catering. The restoration of the DC-3 helped to stimulate the creation of the Delta Flight Museum in 1995.

The hangar also houses a Stinson dependent on the 1940s used as a pilot coach by Northeast Airlines.

The tunnel has become a popular photo place for museums and employees.

The Spirit of Delta is a Boeing 767-200 which was bought by employees and given to the airline in 1982 as an assessment of appreciation for having given the employees an increase of 8.5% despite the publication of the first loss of the history of the company.

Delta’s mind spent more than 23 years to pilot passengers from the Delta across the country before retiring to the museum in 2006.

Delta employees recovered the 65-feet long section in 1989. It was used as a movie platform and gift shop before becoming a conference room.

There are a lot of vintage uniforms and interesting articles from Delta’s past, including writing machines that passengers could borrow on flights and the only Coca-Cola Co-Marked Delta.

More than 200 airline articles like Pan Am, Northwest and Western have been arranged in the colors of the rainbow.

The simulator is fully operational so that museums try to fly for additional costs.

The DC-7B made its debut in 1957 and was the last type of propeller-focused aircraft that the airline bought for the passenger service. Delta’s first draft, Douglas DC-8, arrived two years later in 1959.

Delta was the DC-9 launch client in 1965 and was a major operator of the plane and the multitude of variants that he has caused over the years. It is currently operating the final version of the DC-9, the Boeing 717-200.

The 757 carries the Delta classic widget livery, the standard carrier look from 1968 to 1997.

The plane, Delta Ship 6301, was the first Boeing 747-400 never built and entered service with Northwest Airlines in 1989. It stole for Delta until September 2015 after having recorded more than 61 million miles.

Parts of the plane ceiling and walls have been removed, and the floor has been replaced by glass panels so that people can see its internal operation.