SAAB 340B Mesaba Airlines operated for Northwest Airlink
Registration: N402XJ Type: Saab 340B Plus Engines: 2 × GE CT7-9B Serial Number: 340B-402 First flight: Sep 4, 1996
Mesaba Aviation, Inc. (operating as Mesaba Airlines) was a regional airline in the United States. Mesaba was founded in 1944 in the Mesabi Range city of Coleraine, Minnesota and started operations in the same year under the name of Mesaba Aviation. In 1986, Mesaba began operations as a Northwest Airlink carrier. In 1995, Mesaba and Northwest reached an agreement to provide service with Saab 340 turboprop aircraft. In 2000, the company took delivery of its eleven more new Saab 340 turboprop aircraft. This made Mesaba the operator of the second-largest operator of the Saab 340 in the world.
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