Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version. My apologies for any reflections on these photo's, I wasn't able to get any closer to the windows.
<p>This is in a Republic Airlines hybrid livery, Republic having been merged into Northwest on 01-Oct-86.
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A very early DC-9-14 (line no: 31), N8903E was delivered new to Eastern Airlines in May-66. It was traded in to Douglas for DC-9-30's in May-70 and after a period in storage it was sold to Southern Airways in Oct-70.  Southern was merged into Republic Airlines in Jul-79 and Republic was merged into Northwest Airlines in Oct-86.  The aircraft continued in service with Northwest until it was retired in Apr-98 after 32 years service.  It was donated to Thief River Falls Technical School, MN, USA.
Ken Fielding
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