Delta 747-400 at PDX
 

We seldom see a 747 in Portland, except for an occasional China Air cargo or Korean Air cargo. So it was quite a surprise to see a Delta 747-451 tucked away on the east side of the airport, well away from passenger gates. Of course, it was a Northwest aircraft newly repainted, since the tail number was N676NW.
Anyone know what it was doing there?

That plane has been doing military charters along the west coast lately.

Interesting. Thanks.

I have a picture of it at PDX, but it won't let me upload it here. Any reason why? Maybe because I'm new?

Yes. Unfortunately, you need 20 quality posts to embed images in a thread, so as to weed out our spammers that frequent this thread with their wonderful "AFFORDABLE ONLINE BACHEL0R'S, MASTER'S & DOCT0RATE DEGREES" messages and don't post random images.

If you'd like, you can send me a link to the picture and I'd be more than happy to put it up with a credit in your name (can't directly upload pictures to FT).

Welcome to Flyertalk, though!

Oh good, I thought that was a 747 I saw yesterday. I knew if I came here someone would have some information on it. I was driving home from Seattle over the I-205 bridge and saw it parked on the north side of the airport over by the Flightcraft hangers. The strangest thing was to see it painted out as a Delta plane...I am still not used to seeing that.

Ok, here she is. Aircraft 6316 at PDX.

http://www.vumes.com/Photos/delta747pdx.jpg

Well it let me use the image button, but when I went to submit it, it said that a moderator had to approve it... So mods, can you take a look and approve it? Thanks.

Done.

Thanks!!