Delivered to North Central Airlines as N763NC in 1976 who merged into Republic Airlines in 1979 who merged into Northwest Airlines in 1986. Damaged beyond repair in a ground collision at Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN in 2005.

The registration is a clue that this DC-9 was delivered first to North Central Airlines (September 16, 1976). With a name change to Republic Airlines in 1979 and merger with Northwest Airlines in 1986, the aircraft was in service until an accident put it out of action. On May 19, 2005, it suffered a failure of one (of two) hydraulic systems. Landing safely at Minneapolis, the crew inadvertently shut down the engine with the good hydraulic pump. Cascading failures of the nose wheel steering, brakes and thrust reversers for lack of hydraulic pressure caused the aircraft to collide with an A319.

Delivered new to North Central 16th Sep 1976 and merged into Republic July 1979 and Northwest Oct 1986. On the 11th May 2005 while taxiing to gate, the aircraft hit the wing of an A319 (N368NB) due to hydraulic failure and was damaged beyond repair at KMSP