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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                              ---------------------

                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT

                     Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

                         Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of earliest event
  reported May 29, 1996

                         NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                                    Delaware
                            (State of Incorporation)

                                   95-4205287
                      (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

                                     0-23642
                            (Commission File Number)

                  2700 Lone Oak Parkway, Eagan, Minnesota 55121
                    (Address of principal executive offices)

                                 (612) 726-2111
                         (Registrant's telephone number)
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                  Item 7 Exhibits. The documents listed below are filed as
Exhibits with reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration
No. 333-2516) and the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No.
33-74772) (collectively, the "Registration Statements") of Northwest Airlines
Corporation and Northwest Airlines, Inc. The Registration Statements and the
Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, dated May 29, 1996, to the Prospectus, dated
May 3, 1996, relate to the offering of Northwest Airlines, Inc.'s Pass Through
Certificates, Series 1996-1.

4(f)(1)           Form of Trust Agreement [NW 1996 B] between the Owner
                  Participant and First Security Bank of Utah, National
                  Association, Owner Trustee

4(f)(2)           Form of Amended and Restated Trust Indenture and
                  Security Agreement [NW 1996 B] between First Security
                  Bank of Utah, National Association, Owner Trustee, and
                  State Street Bank and Trust Company, Indenture Trustee

4(f)(3)           Form of Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B] between First
                  Security Bank of Utah, National Association, Lessor,
                  and Northwest Airlines, Inc., Lessee

4(f)(4)           Form of First Amendment to Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B]
                  between First Security Bank of Utah, National
                  Association, Lessor, and Northwest Airlines, Inc.,
                  Lessee

4(f)(5)           Form of Guarantee [NW 1996 B] from Northwest Airlines
                  Corporation

4(f)(6)           Form of Participation Agreement [NW 1996 B] among Northwest
                  Airlines, Inc., Lessee, the Owner Participant, the Loan
                  Participants Named Therein, Loan Participants, First Security
                  Bank of Utah, National Association, Owner Trustee, and State
                  Street Bank and Trust Company, Indenture Trustee

4(f)(7)           Form of First Amendment to Participation Agreement [NW
                  1996 B] among Northwest Airlines, Inc., Lessee, First
                  Security Bank of Utah, National Association, Owner
                  Trustee, State Street Bank and Trust Company, Pass
                  Through Trustee under each of the Pass Through Trust
                  Agreements, the Owner Participant, State Street Bank
                  and Trust Company of Connecticut, National Association,
                  Subordination Agent, and State Street Bank and Trust
                  Company, Indenture Trustee

4(f)(8)           Form of Refunding Agreement [NW 1996 B] among Northwest
                  Airlines, Inc., Lessee, Northwest Airlines Corporation,
                  Guarantor, First Security Bank of Utah, National
                  Association, Owner Trustee, State Street Bank and Trust
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                  Company, Pass Through Trustee under each of the Pass Through
                  Trust Agreements, the Owner Participant, State Street Bank and
                  Trust Company of Connecticut, National Association,
                  Subordination Agent, and State Street Bank and Trust Company,
                  Indenture Trustee

4(m)(1)           Form of Trust Supplement No. 1996-1A among Northwest
                  Airlines Corporation, Guarantor, Northwest Airlines,
                  Inc., and State Street Bank and Trust Company, Trustee

4(m)(2)           Form of Trust Supplement No. 1996-1B among Northwest
                  Airlines Corporation, Guarantor, Northwest Airlines,
                  Inc., and State Street Bank and Trust Company, Trustee

4(m)(3)           Form of Trust Supplement No. 1996-1C among Northwest
                  Airlines Corporation, Guarantor, Northwest Airlines,
                  Inc., and State Street Bank and Trust Company, Trustee

4(m)(4)           Form of Trust Supplement No. 1996-1D among Northwest
                  Airlines Corporation, Guarantor, Northwest Airlines,
                  Inc., and State Street Bank and Trust Company, Trustee

4(n)(1)           Form of Irrevocable Revolving Credit Agreement between
                  State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut,
                  National Association, Borrower, and Westdeutsche
                  Landesbank Girozentrale, New York Branch, Liquidity
                  Provider

4(n)(2)           Form of Intercreditor Agreement among State Street Bank
                  and Trust Company, Trustee, Westdeutsche Landesbank
                  Girozentrale, New York Branch, Liquidity Provider, and
                  State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut,
                  National Association, Subordination Agent and Trustee

23(a)(1)          Consent of Aircraft Information Services, Inc.

23(a)(2)          Consent of BK Associates, Inc.

23(a)(3)          Consent of Simat, Helliesen & Eichner, Inc.

23(a)(4)          Consent of Bingham, Dana & Gould, LLP
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                                    SIGNATURE

                  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

                                                 NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION 
                                                                               
Dated: June 5, 1996                              By:  /s/ THOMAS SCHREIER, JR.  
                                                 ------------------------------ 
                                                          Thomas Schreier, Jr.  
                                                          Vice President,
                                                          Finance and
                                                          Assistant Treasurer   
                                                                               
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Exhibit                            Exhibit Index
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4(f)(1)           Form of Trust Agreement [NW 1996 B] between the Owner
                  Participant and First Security Bank of Utah, National
                  Association, Owner Trustee

4(f)(2)           Form of Amended and Restated Trust Indenture and
                  Security Agreement [NW 1996 B] between First Security
                  Bank of Utah, National Association, Owner Trustee, and
                  State Street Bank and Trust Company, Indenture Trustee

4(f)(3)           Form of Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B] between First
                  Security Bank of Utah, National Association, Lessor,
                  and Northwest Airlines, Inc., Lessee

4(f)(4)           Form of First Amendment to Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B]
                  between First Security Bank of Utah, National
                  Association, Lessor, and Northwest Airlines, Inc.,
                  Lessee

4(f)(5)           Form of Guarantee [NW 1996 B] from Northwest Airlines
                  Corporation

4(f)(6)           Form of Participation Agreement [NW 1996 B] among Northwest
                  Airlines, Inc., Lessee, the Owner Participant, the Loan
                  Participants Named Therein, Loan Participants, First Security
                  Bank of Utah, National Association, Owner Trustee, and State
                  Street Bank and Trust Company, Indenture Trustee

4(f)(7)           Form of First Amendment to Participation Agreement [NW
                  1996 B] among Northwest Airlines, Inc., Lessee, First
                  Security Bank of Utah, National Association, Owner
                  Trustee, State Street Bank and Trust Company, Pass
                  Through Trustee under each of the Pass Through Trust
                  Agreements, the Owner Participant, State Street Bank
                  and Trust Company of Connecticut, National Association,
                  Subordination Agent, and State Street Bank and Trust
                  Company, Indenture Trustee

4(f)(8)           Form of Refunding Agreement [NW 1996 B] among Northwest
                  Airlines, Inc., Lessee, Northwest Airlines Corporation,
                  Guarantor, First Security Bank of Utah, National
                  Association, Owner Trustee, State Street Bank and Trust
                  Company, Pass Through Trustee under each of the Pass
                  Through Trust Agreements, the Owner Participant, State Street
                  Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National Association,
                  Subordination Agent, and State Street Bank and Trust Company,
                  Indenture Trustee
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4(m)(1)           Form of Trust Supplement No. 1996-1A among Northwest
                  Airlines Corporation, Guarantor, Northwest Airlines,
                  Inc., and State Street Bank and Trust Company, Trustee

4(m)(2)           Form of Trust Supplement No. 1996-1B among Northwest
                  Airlines Corporation, Guarantor, Northwest Airlines,
                  Inc., and State Street Bank and Trust Company, Trustee

4(m)(3)           Form of Trust Supplement No. 1996-1C among Northwest
                  Airlines Corporation, Guarantor, Northwest Airlines,
                  Inc., and State Street Bank and Trust Company, Trustee

4(m)(4)           Form of Trust Supplement No. 1996-1D among Northwest
                  Airlines Corporation, Guarantor, Northwest Airlines,
                  Inc., and State Street Bank and Trust Company, Trustee

4(n)(1)           Form of Irrevocable Revolving Credit Agreement between
                  State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut,
                  National Association, Borrower, and Westdeutsche
                  Landesbank Girozentrale, New York Branch, Liquidity
                  Provider

4(n)(2)           Form of Intercreditor Agreement among State Street Bank
                  and Trust Company, Trustee, Westdeutsche Landesbank
                  Girozentrale, New York Branch, Liquidity Provider, and
                  State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut,
                  National Association, Subordination Agent and Trustee.
                  Letter of Consent of Aircraft Information Services,
                  Inc., to Northwest Airlines, Inc.

23(a)(1)          Consent of Aircraft Information Services, Inc.

23(a)(2)          Consent of BK Associates, Inc.

23(a)(3)          Consent of Simat, Helliesen & Eichner, Inc.

23(a)(4)          Consent of Bingham, Dane & Gould LLP

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                                                                 Exhibit 4(f)(1)

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                                TRUST AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]


                           DATED AS OF APRIL 24, 1996


                                    BETWEEN


                           [                       ],

                                             OWNER PARTICIPANT


                                      AND


               FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

                                             OWNER TRUSTEE


                               ONE BOEING 757-251

                                    AIRCRAFT

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                                TRUST AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

     This TRUST AGREEMENT [NW 1996 B] dated as of April 24, 1996 between 
[                 ] , a [              ] corporation (the "ORIGINAL OWNER
PARTICIPANT"), and FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a
national banking association (in its individual capacity, "FSBU") and otherwise
not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee hereunder (herein in such
capacity with its permitted successors and assigns called the "OWNER TRUSTEE");

                              W I T N E S S E T H:


                                   ARTICLE I


                             DEFINITIONS AND TERMS

     SECTION 1.01. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS.  Unless the context shall otherwise
require and except as contained in this Section 1.01, the capitalized terms
used herein shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Lease
(as hereinafter defined) for all purposes hereof.  All definitions contained in
this Section 1.01 shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural
forms of the terms defined.  For all purposes of this Trust Agreement the
following terms shall have the following meanings:

     "Excluded Payments" has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Trust
Indenture.

     "Indenture Event of Default" has the meaning which the term "Event of
Default" has in the Trust Indenture.

     "Lease" means that certain Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B], to be dated as of
the date hereof, and to be entered into by the Owner Trustee and Lessee
concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, as said
Lease Agreement may from time to time be supplemented or amended, or the terms
thereof waived or modified, to the extent permitted by, and in accordance with,
the terms of this Trust Agreement.  The term "Lease" shall also include each
Lease Supplement from time to time entered into pursuant to the terms of the
Lease.

     "Lease Event of Default" has the meaning which the term "Event of Default"
has in the Lease.

     "Lessee" means Northwest Airlines, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, and its
permitted successors and assigns.





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     "Owner Participant" means the Original Owner Participant and each
Subsequent Owner Participant to the extent that the same shall, at the relevant
time, have an Ownership Interest.

     "Ownership Interest" means, in the case of each Owner Participant, the
percentage of its undivided beneficial interest in the Trust Estate created by
this Trust Agreement, which percentage shall be 100%.

     "Participation Agreement" has the meaning ascribed to such term in the
Lease.

     "Replacement Airframe" has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Trust
Indenture.

     "Replacement Engine" has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Trust
Indenture.

     "Subsequent Owner Participant" means any Person to which the Original
Owner Participant or any transferee from the Original Owner Participant or any
Subsequent Owner Participant shall have transferred at any time after the
Delivery Date all of the undivided right, title and interest originally held by
the Original Owner Participant in this Trust Agreement, the Trust Estate and
the Participation Agreement in accordance with, so long as the Lease is in
effect or any Secured Certificates remain outstanding, Section 8 of the
Participation Agreement.

     "Trust Estate" means all estate, right, title and interest of the Owner
Trustee in and to the Aircraft, the Lease, any Lease Supplement, the Purchase
Agreement, the Purchase Agreement Assignment, the Bill of Sale and the FAA Bill
of Sale, including, without limitation, all amounts of Basic Rent and
Supplemental Rent including without limitation insurance proceeds (other than
insurance proceeds payable to or for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, for its
own account or in its individual capacity, the Owner Participant, the Loan
Participants or the Indenture Trustee) and requisition, indemnity or other
payments of any kind for or with respect to the Aircraft (except amounts owing
to the Owner Participant, to the Indenture Trustee, to the Owner Trustee, in
its individual capacity, or to the Loan Participants or any other holder of a
Secured Certificate, or to any of their respective directors, officers,
employees, servants and agents, pursuant to Section 7 of the Participation
Agreement).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, "Trust Estate" shall not include
any Excluded Payments.

     "Trust Indenture Estate" has the meaning ascribed to such term in the
Trust Indenture.

     "Trust Office" shall mean the principal corporate trust office of the
Owner Trustee at 79 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, Attention:
Corporate Trust Department, or the principal corporate trust office of any
successor Owner Trustee.

     "Trust Supplement" means a supplement to the Trust Indenture and to this
Trust Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit A to the Trust Indenture
which shall

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particularly describe the Aircraft, and any Replacement Airframe and
Replacement Engine included in the property of the Owner Trustee covered by
this Trust Agreement.

                                   ARTICLE II


               AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE CERTAIN OPERATIVE DOCUMENTS;

                              DECLARATION OF TRUST

     SECTION 2.01. AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE DOCUMENTS.  Subject to the satisfaction
of the conditions set forth in Section 4 of the Participation Agreement, the
Owner Participant hereby authorizes and directs the Owner Trustee to execute
and deliver the Operative Documents and any other agreements, instruments or
documents to which the Owner Trustee is a party in the respective forms thereof
in which delivered from time to time by the Owner Participant to the Owner
Trustee for execution and delivery and, subject to the terms hereof, to perform
its duties and, upon instructions from the Owner Participant, exercise its
rights under said Operative Documents in accordance with the terms thereof and
to execute and deliver all such other instruments, documents or certificates
and take all such other actions in accordance with the directions of the Owner
Participant, as the Owner Participant may deem necessary or advisable in
connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, the taking of any such
action by the Owner Trustee in the presence of the Owner Participant or its
counsel to evidence, conclusively, the direction of the Owner Participant.

     SECTION 2.02. DECLARATION OF TRUST.  FSBU hereby declares that it will
hold the Trust Estate upon the trusts hereinafter set forth for the use and
benefit of the Owner Participant, subject, however, to the provisions of and
the Lien created by the Trust Indenture.

                                  ARTICLE III


                      ACCEPTANCE AND DELIVERY OF AIRCRAFT;
                        ISSUANCE OF SECURED CERTIFICATES

     SECTION 3.01. ACCEPTANCE OF AIRCRAFT.  The Original Owner Participant
hereby authorizes and directs the Owner Trustee to, and the Owner Trustee
agrees for the benefit of the Owner Participant that it will, on the Delivery
Date, subject to due compliance with the terms of Section 3.02 hereof:

           (a) purchase the Aircraft pursuant to the Participation Agreement
      and the Bill of Sale;

           (b) accept from Lessee the delivery of the Bill of Sale and the FAA
      Bill of Sale;

           (c) cause the Aircraft to be leased to Lessee under the Lease, and
      in furtherance thereof execute and deliver a Lease Supplement covering
      the Aircraft;


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           (d) execute and deliver the Trust Supplement covering the Aircraft;

           (e) issue to the Loan Participants Secured Certificates in the
      amounts and otherwise as provided in Section 1(a) of the Participation
      Agreement;

           (f) execute and deliver the financing statements referred to in
      Section 4(a)(vi) of the Participation Agreement, together with all other
      agreements, documents and instruments referred to in Section 4 of the
      Participation Agreement to which the Owner Trustee is a party; and

           (g) effect the registration of the Aircraft in the name of the Owner
      Trustee by filing or causing to be filed with the FAA:  (i) the FAA Bill
      of Sale; (ii) an application for registration of the Aircraft in the name
      of the Owner Trustee (including without limitation an affidavit from the
      Owner Trustee in compliance with the provisions of 14 C.F.R. Section
      47.7(c)(2)(ii) (1979)); and (iii) the Trust Agreement.

     SECTION 3.02. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.  The right and obligation of the Owner
Trustee to take the action required by Section 3.01 hereof with respect to the
Aircraft shall be subject to the following conditions precedent:

           (a) the Original Owner Participant shall have made the full amount
      of its Commitment set forth in Schedule II of the Participation Agreement
      available to the Owner Trustee, in immediately available funds, in
      accordance with Section 1 of the Participation Agreement; and

           (b) the terms and conditions of Section 4 of the Participation
      Agreement, insofar as they relate to the Aircraft, shall have been
      complied with in a manner satisfactory to the Original Owner Participant
      and the Owner Trustee.

                                   ARTICLE IV


                     RECEIPT, DISTRIBUTION AND APPLICATION

                        OF INCOME FROM THE TRUST ESTATE

     SECTION 4.01. DISTRIBUTION OF PAYMENTS.  (a)  Payments to Indenture
Trustee. Until the Trust Indenture shall have been discharged pursuant to
Section 10.01 thereof, all Basic Rent, Supplemental Rent, insurance proceeds
and requisition or other payments of any kind included in the Trust Estate
(other than Excluded Payments) payable to the Owner Trustee shall be payable
directly to the Indenture Trustee (and if any of the same are received by the
Owner Trustee  shall upon receipt be paid over to the Indenture Trustee without
deduction, set-off or adjustment of any kind) for distribution in accordance
with the provisions of Article III of the Trust Indenture.

     (b) Payments to Owner Trustee; Other Parties. After the Trust Indenture
shall have been discharged pursuant to Section 10.01 thereof, any payment of
the type referred

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to in Section 4.01(a) hereof (other than Excluded Payments) received by the
Owner Trustee, any payments received from the Indenture Trustee other than as
specified in Section 4.01(d) hereof and any other amount received as part of
the Trust Estate and for the application or distribution of which no provision
is made herein, shall be distributed forthwith upon receipt by the Owner
Trustee in the following order of priority:  first, so much of such payment as
shall be required to reimburse the Owner Trustee for any expenses not otherwise
reimbursed as to which the Owner Trustee is entitled to be so reimbursed
pursuant to the provisions hereof shall be retained by the Owner Trustee;
second, so much of the remainder for which provision as to the application
thereof is contained in the Lease or any of the other Operative Documents shall
be applied and distributed in accordance with the terms of the Lease or such
other Operative Document; and third, the balance, if any, shall be paid to the
Owner Participant.

     (c) Certain Distributions to Owner Participant. All amounts from time to
time distributable by the Indenture Trustee to the Owner Participant pursuant
to the Trust Indenture shall, if paid to the Owner Trustee, be distributed by
the Owner Trustee to the Owner Participant in accordance with the provisions of
Article III of the Trust Indenture.

     (d) Excluded Payments.  Any Excluded Payments received by the Owner
Trustee shall be paid by the Owner Trustee to the Person to whom such Excluded
Payments are payable under the provisions of the Participation Agreement, the
Tax Indemnity Agreement or the Lease.

     SECTION 4.02. METHOD OF PAYMENTS.  The Owner Trustee shall make
distributions or cause distributions to be made to (i) the Owner Participant
pursuant to this Article IV by transferring by wire transfer the amount to be
distributed to such account or accounts of the Owner Participant as the Owner
Participant may designate from time to time in writing to the Owner Trustee
(and the Owner Trustee shall use best efforts to cause such funds to be
transferred by wire transfer on the same day as received, but in any case not
later than the next succeeding Business Day), and (ii) the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Article IV by paying the amount to be distributed to the
Indenture Trustee in the manner specified in the Indenture; provided that the
Owner Trustee shall invest overnight, for the benefit of the Owner Participant,
in investments that would be permitted by Section 22 of the Lease (but only to
the extent funds are received on or prior to 1:00 P.M. (Eastern Time) and such
investments are available and, if such investments are not available to the
Owner Trustee in investments which, after consultation with the Owner
Participant, the Owner Participant shall direct) all funds not transferred by
wire transfer on the same day as they were received.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing but subject always to the provisions of, and the Lien created by the
Indenture, the Owner Trustee will, if so requested by the Owner Participant by
written notice, pay in immediately available funds any and all amounts payable
by the Owner Trustee hereunder to the Owner Participant as directed by the
Owner Participant.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee will, if
so requested by the Owner Participant in writing, pay any or all amounts
payable to the Owner Participant pursuant to this Article IV either (i) by
crediting such amount or amounts to an account or accounts maintained by the
Owner Participant with the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity in
immediately available funds, (ii) by payment at the Trust Office of the Owner
Trustee, in immediately available funds, or

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(iii) by mailing an official bank check or checks in such amount or amounts
payable to the Owner Participant at such address as the Owner Participant shall
have designated in writing to the Owner Trustee.

                                   ARTICLE V


                          DUTIES OF THE OWNER TRUSTEE

     SECTION 5.01. NOTICE OF EVENT OF DEFAULT.  If the Owner Trustee shall have
knowledge of a Lease Event of Default or Indenture Event of Default (or an
event which with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would
constitute a Lease Event of Default or an Indenture Event of Default) the Owner
Trustee shall give to the Owner Participant prompt telephonic or telecopy
notice thereof followed by prompt confirmation thereof by certified mail,
postage prepaid, provided that (i) in the case of an event which with the
passage of time would constitute an Indenture Event of Default referred to in
paragraph (c) of Section 4.02 of the Trust Indenture, such notice shall in no
event be furnished later than ten (10) days after the Owner Trustee shall first
have knowledge of such event and (ii) in the case of a misrepresentation by the
Owner Trustee which with the passage of time would constitute an Indenture
Event of Default referred to in paragraph (d) of Section 4.02 of the Trust
Indenture, such notice shall in no event be furnished later than ten (10) days
after the Owner Trustee shall first have knowledge of such event.  Subject to
the terms of Section 5.03 hereof, the Owner Trustee shall take such action or
shall refrain from taking such action, not inconsistent with the provisions of
the Trust Indenture, with respect to such Lease Event of Default, Indenture
Event of Default or other event as the Owner Trustee shall be directed in
writing by the Owner Participant, provided that the Owner Trustee shall have no
duty to take any (and shall take no) action whatsoever in the absence of
written instructions from the Owner Participant.  For all purposes of this
Trust Agreement, the Lease and the other Operative Documents, in the absence of
actual knowledge by an officer of FSBU in the Corporate Trust Department, the
Owner Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of a Lease Event of
Default, Indenture Event of Default or other event referred to in this Section
5.01 unless notified in writing by the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant
or Lessee.

     SECTION 5.02. ACTION UPON INSTRUCTIONS.  Subject to the terms of Section
5.03 hereof, upon the written instructions at any time and from time to time of
the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee will take or refrain from taking such
action, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Trust Indenture, as may be
specified in such instructions:

     SECTION 5.03. INDEMNIFICATION.  The Owner Trustee shall not be required to
take any action under Section 5.01 (other than the giving of the notices
referred to therein) or 5.02 hereof unless the Owner Trustee shall have been
indemnified by the Owner Participant, in manner and form satisfactory to the
Owner Trustee, against any liability, cost or expense (including reasonable
counsel fees and disbursements) which may be incurred in connection therewith;
and, if the Owner Participant shall have directed the Owner Trustee to

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take any such action or refrain from taking any action, the Owner Participant
agrees to furnish such indemnity as shall be required and, in addition, to the
extent not otherwise paid or payable pursuant to the provisions of the Lease or
of the Participation Agreement, to pay the reasonable compensation of the Owner
Trustee for the services performed or to be performed by it pursuant to such
direction and any fees and disbursements of counsel or agents employed by the
Owner Trustee in connection therewith.  The Owner Trustee shall not be required
to take any action under Section 5.01 or 5.02 hereof if the Owner Trustee shall
reasonably determine, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action
is contrary to the terms of any of the Operative Documents to which the Owner
Trustee is a party, or is otherwise contrary to law.

     SECTION 5.04. NO DUTIES EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED IN TRUST AGREEMENT OR
INSTRUCTIONS.  The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to
manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with the Aircraft or
any other part of the Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from taking
any action under, or in connection with any of the Operative Documents to which
the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly required by the terms of any
of the Operative Documents to which the Owner Trustee is a party, or (to the
extent not inconsistent with the provisions of the Trust Indenture) as
expressly provided by the terms hereof or in written instructions from the
Owner Participant received pursuant to the terms of Section 5.01 or 5.02, and
no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Trust Agreement
against the Owner Trustee.  FSBU agrees that it will, in its individual
capacity and at its own cost or expense (but without any right of indemnity in
respect of any such cost or expense under Section 7.01 hereof) promptly take
such action as may be necessary to duly discharge and satisfy in full all
Lessor Liens which it is required to discharge pursuant to Section 8(h) of the
Participation Agreement and otherwise comply with the terms of said Section
binding on it.  FSBU agrees to indemnify, protect, save and keep harmless the
Owner Participant from and against any loss, cost or expense (including the
legal fees and expenses) incurred by the Owner Participant, as a result of the
imposition or enforcement of any such Lessor's Lien against the Aircraft, any
interest therein or on the Trust Estate or the Trust Indenture Estate resulting
from Lessor's Liens attributable to FSBU.

     Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee shall
not be authorized and shall have no power to "vary the investment" of the Owner
Participant within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Sections
301.7701-4(c)(1), it being understood that the Owner Trustee shall have the
power and authority to fulfill its obligations under Section 4.02 hereof and
Section 22 of the Lease.

     SECTION 5.05. SATISFACTION OF CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.  Anything herein to
the contrary notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall comply with the
provisions of Section 3.01 hereof upon the satisfaction, to the satisfaction of
special counsel for the Owner Trustee, of all the applicable conditions
precedent specified in Section 3.02 hereof and in Section 4 of the
Participation Agreement.

     SECTION 5.06. NO ACTION EXCEPT UNDER SPECIFIED DOCUMENTS OR INSTRUCTIONS.
The Owner Trustee shall not have any power, right or authority to, and the

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Owner Trustee agrees that it will not, manage, control, use, sell, dispose of
or otherwise deal with the Aircraft or any other part of the Trust Estate
except (i) as expressly required by the terms of any of the Operative Documents
to which the Owner Trustee is a party, (ii) as expressly provided by the terms
hereof, or (iii) as expressly provided in written instructions from the Owner
Participant pursuant to Section 5.01 or 5.02 hereof.

                                   ARTICLE VI


                               THE OWNER TRUSTEE

     SECTION 6.01. ACCEPTANCE OF TRUSTS AND DUTIES.  FSBU accepts the trusts
hereby created and agrees to perform the same but only upon the terms hereof
applicable to it.  The Owner Trustee also agrees to receive and disburse all
monies received by it constituting part of the Trust Estate upon the terms
hereof.  FSBU shall not be answerable or accountable under any circumstances,
except (a) for its own willful misconduct or gross negligence (in its
individual capacity or as trustee), (b) for performance of the terms of the
last sentence of Section 5.04 hereof, (c) for its or the Owner Trustee's
failure to use ordinary care to receive, handle or disburse funds and (d) for
liabilities that may result from the inaccuracy of any representation or
warranty of it (or from the failure by it to perform any covenant) in Section
6.03 hereof, in Section 6.03 of the Trust Indenture, in Section 4 of the Lease
or in Section 8(c), 8(d) and 8(v) of the Participation Agreement.

     SECTION 6.02. ABSENCE OF CERTAIN DUTIES.  Except in accordance with
written instructions furnished pursuant to Section 5.02 hereof and except as
provided in, and without limiting the generality of, Section 5.04 hereof and
the last sentence of Section 9.01(b) hereof, neither the Owner Trustee nor FSBU
shall have any duty (i) to see to any recording or filing of any Operative
Document or of any supplement to any thereof or to see to the maintenance of
any such recording or filing or any other filing of reports with the Federal
Aviation Administration or other governmental agencies, except that FSBU, in
its individual capacity, shall comply with the reporting requirements set forth
in 14 C.F.R. Section  47.45 or any successor provision and the Owner Trustee
shall, to the extent that information for that purpose is supplied by Lessee
pursuant to any of the Operative Documents, complete and timely submit (and
furnish the Owner Participant with a copy of) any and all reports relating to
the Aircraft which may from time to time be required by the Federal Aviation
Administration or any government or governmental authority having jurisdiction,
(ii) to see to any insurance on the Aircraft or to effect or maintain any such
insurance, whether or not Lessee shall be in default with respect thereto,
other than to forward to the Owner Participant copies of all reports and other
written information which the Owner Trustee receives from Lessee pursuant to
Section 11(c) of the Lease, (iii) to see to the payment or discharge of any
tax, assessment or other governmental charge or any lien or encumbrance of any
kind owing with respect to, assessed or levied against any part of the Trust
Indenture Estate or the Trust Estate, except as provided in Section 8 of the
Participation Agreement, or (iv) to inspect Lessee's books and records with
respect to the Aircraft at any time permitted pursuant to the Lease.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee will furnish to the Indenture
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the Owner Participant, promptly upon receipt thereof, duplicates or copies of
all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial statements and
other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Lease or any other
Operative Document.

     SECTION 6.03. NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO CERTAIN MATTERS.
NEITHER THE OWNER TRUSTEE NOR FSBU MAKES OR SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE MADE (A)
ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE TITLE, VALUE,
CONDITION, DESIGN, OPERATION, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR USE OF THE
AIRCRAFT OR ANY PART THEREOF, OR ANY OTHER REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY WITH
RESPECT TO THE AIRCRAFT WHATSOEVER, except that FSBU in its individual capacity
warrants that on the Delivery Date the Owner Trustee shall have received
whatever title was conveyed to it by Lessee and that the Aircraft shall during
the Term be free of Lessor Liens attributable to it and that the Owner Trustee
shall comply with the last sentence of Section 5.04, or (b) any representation
or warranty as to the validity, legality or enforceability of this Trust
Agreement or any Operative Document to which the Owner Trustee is a party, or
any other document or instrument, or as to the correctness of any statement
contained in any thereof except to the extent that any such statement is
expressly made herein or therein as a representation by FSBU in its individual
capacity or by the Owner Trustee and except that FSBU in its individual
capacity hereby represents and warrants that this Trust Agreement has been, and
(assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Original Owner
Participant of this Trust Agreement) the Operative Documents to which it or the
Owner Trustee is a party have been (or at the time of execution and delivery of
any such instrument by it or the Owner Trustee hereunder or pursuant to the
terms of the Participation Agreement that such an instrument will be) duly
executed and delivered by one of its officers who is or will be, as the case
may be, duly authorized to execute and deliver such instruments on behalf of
itself or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be.

     SECTION 6.04. NO SEGREGATION OF MONIES REQUIRED; NO INTEREST.  Except as
provided in Section 22 of the Lease, monies received by the Owner Trustee
hereunder need not be segregated in any manner except to the extent required by
law, and may be deposited under such general conditions as may be prescribed by
law, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any interest thereon.

     SECTION 6.05. RELIANCE UPON CERTIFICATES, COUNSEL AND AGENTS.  In the
absence of bad faith on its part the Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to
anyone in acting in reliance upon any signature, instrument, notice,
resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or
other document or paper reasonably believed by it to be genuine and reasonably
believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties.  Unless other
evidence in respect thereof is specifically prescribed herein, any request,
direction, order or demand of the Owner Participant, Lessee or the Indenture
Trustee mentioned herein or in any of the Operative Documents to which the
Owner Trustee is a party shall be sufficiently evidenced by written instruments
signed by a person purporting to be the chairman of the board, the president,
any executive vice president, any senior vice president or any vice president
or a managing director and in the name of the Owner Participant or Lessee, as
the case may be.

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The Owner Trustee may accept a copy of a resolution of the Board of Directors
or Executive Committee of Lessee, certified by the secretary or any assistant
secretary of such party as duly adopted and in full force and effect, as
conclusive evidence that such resolution has been duly adopted by said Board or
Committee and that the same is in full force and effect.  As to any fact or
matter the manner of ascertainment of which is not specifically described
herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof rely on a certificate
signed by a person purporting to be the chairman of the board, the president,
any executive vice president, any senior vice president or any vice president
or a managing director of such party, as to such fact or matter, and such
certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner Trustee for any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon.
Whenever in the administration of this Agreement the Owner Trustee shall deem
it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering
or omitting any action hereunder or under any of the other Operative
Agreements, the Owner Trustee (unless other evidence be herein or therein
specifically prescribed), absent actual knowledge of an officer of the Owner
Trustee to the contrary, may rely in good faith upon a certificate in writing,
delivered to the Owner Trustee and signed by any of the Chairman of the Board,
the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or the
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of Lessee, the Owner Participant, or the
Indenture Trustee and notice of such need for such proof or establishment shall
be delivered to the Owner Participant, who may advise the Owner Trustee in
respect of such matter and the Owner Trustee shall act in conformity with such
advice.  In the administration of trusts hereunder, the Owner Trustee may
execute any of the trusts or powers hereof and perform its powers and duties
hereunder directly or through agents or attorneys and may, at the expense of
the Trust Estate, consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled persons
to be selected and employed by it.  The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for
anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the
advice or opinion of any such counsel, accountants or other skilled persons and
the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the negligence of any such agent,
attorney, counsel, accountant or other skilled person appointed by it with due
care hereunder.

     SECTION 6.06. NOT ACTING IN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY.  In acting hereunder, the
Owner Trustee acts solely as trustee and not in its individual capacity except
as otherwise expressly provided herein; and, subject to the terms of the
Participation Agreement and the Trust Indenture, all persons, other than the
Owner Participant, as provided herein, having any claim against the Owner
Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated hereby shall look only to
the Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof except to the extent
provided in the last sentence of Section 6.01.

     SECTION 6.07. FEES; COMPENSATION.  Except as provided in Section 5.03 or
7.01 hereof, the Owner Trustee agrees that it shall have no right against the
Owner Participant or (subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture) the
Trust Estate for any fee as compensation for its services hereunder.

     SECTION 6.08. TAX RETURNS.  The Owner Trustee shall be responsible for the
keeping of all appropriate books and records relating to the receipt and
disbursement of all monies under this Trust Agreement or any agreement
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Participant shall be responsible for causing to be prepared and filed all
income tax returns required to be filed by the Owner Participant.  The Owner
Trustee, upon request, will furnish the Owner Participant with all such
information as may be reasonably required or necessary from the Owner Trustee
in connection with the preparation of such tax returns and in connection with
any other filing or audit and related litigation obligations.  The Owner
Trustee shall be responsible for causing to be prepared, at the request and
expense of the Owner Participant, all income tax returns required to be filed
with respect to the trust created hereby and shall execute and file such
returns; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee shall send a completed copy
of each such return to the Owner Participant not more than 60 nor less than 30
days prior to the due date of such return; provided that the Owner Trustee
shall have timely received all necessary information to complete and deliver to
the Owner Participant such return.  The Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee,
as the case may be, upon request, will furnish the Owner Trustee or the Owner
Participant, as the case may be, with all such information as may be reasonably
required from the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be,
in connection with the preparation of such income tax returns.

                                  ARTICLE VII


             INDEMNIFICATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE BY OWNER PARTICIPANT

     SECTION 7.01. OWNER PARTICIPANT TO INDEMNIFY OWNER TRUSTEE.  The Owner
Participant hereby agrees, whether or not any of the transactions contemplated
hereby shall be consummated, to assume liability for, and hereby indemnify,
protect, save and keep harmless FSBU in its individual capacity and its
successors, assigns, legal representatives, agents and servants, from and
against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, taxes
(excluding any taxes payable by FSBU in its individual capacity on or measured
by any compensation received by FSBU in its individual capacity for its
services hereunder or in connection with the transactions contemplated by the
Operative Documents), claims, actions, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements
(including, without limitation, reasonable ongoing fees of the Owner Trustee,
reasonable legal fees and expenses, and including without limitation any
liability of an owner, any strict liability and any liability without fault) of
any kind and nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted
against FSBU in its individual capacity in any way relating to or arising out
of this Trust Agreement or any of the Operative Documents or the enforcement of
any of the terms of any thereof, or in any way relating to or arising out of
the manufacture, purchase, acceptance, nonacceptance, rejection, ownership,
delivery, lease, possession, use, operation, condition, sale, return or other
disposition of the Aircraft (including, without limitation, latent and other
defects, whether or not discoverable, and any claim for patent, trademark or
copyright infringement), or in any way relating to or arising out of the
administration of the Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner
Trustee or FSBU in its individual capacity hereunder, except (a) in the case of
willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Owner Trustee or FSBU
in its individual capacity in the performance or non-performance of its duties
hereunder or (b) those resulting from the inaccuracy of any representation or
warranty of FSBU in its individual capacity (or from the failure of FSBU in its
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perform any covenant) hereunder, in Sections 4.01 and 6.03 of the Trust
Indenture or, with respect to representations or warranties of FSBU in its
individual capacity only, in Section 4 of the Lease, in Section 8(c), Section
8(d) or Section 8(v) of the Participation Agreement or in any of the other
Operative Documents or (c) as may result from a breach by FSBU in its
individual capacity of its covenants in the second sentence of Section 5.04
hereof or (d) in the case of the failure to use ordinary care on the part of
the Owner Trustee or FSBU in its individual capacity in the receiving,
handling, investing and disbursing of funds or (e) Taxes, fees, or other
charges on, based on, or measured by, any fees, commissions or compensation
received by FSBU in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Lease,
the Indenture and this Agreement or (f) Taxes excluded from indemnification
pursuant to Section 7(b)(ii) of the Participation Agreement (disregarding for
the purposes of this Section 7.01, subsection 8 of Section 7(b)(ii) of the
Participation Agreement) or (g) Expenses excluded from indemnification pursuant
to the proviso in Section 7(c) of the Participation Agreement (disregarding for
the purposes of this Section 7.01, subsections I and J with respect to Section
7(c) of the Participation Agreement) or (h) any liability on the part of the
Owner Trustee arising out of its negligence or willful or negligent misconduct
in connection with its obligations under Sections 5.01, 5.02 and 9.02 hereof or
Section 4.01(c) of the Indenture; provided that, before asserting any right to
payment or indemnification hereunder, FSBU shall first demand (but need not
exhaust or pursue any further its remedies with respect to) its corresponding
right to payment or indemnification from the Lessee pursuant to the
Participation Agreement.  The indemnities contained in this Section 7.01 extend
to FSBU only in its individual capacity and shall not be construed as
indemnities of the Trust Indenture Estate or the Trust Estate (except to the
extent, if any, that FSBU in its individual capacity has been reimbursed by the
Trust Indenture Estate or the Trust Estate for amounts covered by the
indemnities contained in this Section 7.01).  The indemnities contained in this
Section 7.01 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement.  In
addition, if necessary, FSBU in its individual capacity shall have a lien on
the Trust Estate, subject to the Lien of the Trust Indenture, to secure the
payment of any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty, tax, claim,
action, suit, cost, fee, expense or disbursement indemnified against pursuant
to this Section 7.01, which shall be prior to any interest therein of the Owner
Participant.  Except with respect to Transaction Costs referred to in Section
16 of the Participation Agreement, each of FSBU and the Owner Trustee (in its
individual capacity or as trustee, as the case may be) agrees that it shall
have no right against (except as provided in this Section 7.01) the Owner
Participant or (subject to the provisions of the Indenture) the Trust Indenture
Estate for any fee as compensation for its services hereunder.   The payor of
any indemnity under this Article VII shall be subrogated to any right of the
person indemnified in respect of the matter as to which such indemnity was
paid.

                                  ARTICLE VIII


                  TRANSFER OF THE OWNER PARTICIPANT'S INTEREST

     SECTION 8.01. TRANSFER OF INTERESTS.  All provisions of Section 8(n) of
the Participation Agreement shall (with the same force and effect as if set
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mutandis, in this Section 8.01) be applicable to any assignment, conveyance or
other transfer by any Owner Participant of its right, title or interest in and
to the Participation Agreement, the Trust Estate or this Trust Agreement.

                                   ARTICLE IX


                     SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES:  CO-TRUSTEES

     SECTION 9.01. RESIGNATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.  (a)
Resignation or Removal.  The Owner Trustee or any successor Owner Trustee (i)
shall resign if required to do so pursuant to Section 8(c) of the Participation
Agreement and (ii) may resign at any time without cause by giving at least
sixty (60) days' prior written notice to the Owner Participant, the Indenture
Trustee (so long as the Lien of the Trust Indenture has not been fully
discharged) and Lessee (so long as the Lease is in effect), such resignation to
be effective upon the acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner Trustee
under Section 9.01(b) hereof.  In addition, the Owner Participant may at any
time remove the Owner Trustee without cause by a notice in writing delivered to
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee (so long as the Lien of the Trust
Indenture has not been fully discharged) and Lessee (so long as the Lease is in
effect), such removal to be effective upon the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Owner Trustee under Section 9.01(b) hereof.  In the case of the
resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant may appoint
a successor Owner Trustee by an instrument signed by the Owner Participant.  If
a successor Owner Trustee shall not have been appointed within thirty (30) days
after such notice of resignation or removal, the Owner Trustee, the Owner
Participant, Lessee or the Indenture Trustee may apply to any court of
competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Owner Trustee to act until such
time, if any, as a successor shall have been appointed as above provided.  Any
successor Owner Trustee so appointed by such court shall immediately and
without further act be superseded by any successor Owner Trustee appointed as
above provided.

     (b) Execution and Delivery of Documents, etc.  Any successor Owner
Trustee, however appointed, shall execute and deliver to the predecessor Owner
Trustee and the Owner Participant an instrument accepting such appointment in
form and substance acceptable to the Owner Participant, and thereupon such
successor Owner Trustee, without further act, shall become vested with all the
estates, properties, rights, powers, duties and trusts of the predecessor Owner
Trustee in the trusts hereunder with like effect as if originally named the
Owner Trustee herein; but nevertheless, upon the written request of such
successor Owner Trustee, such predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and
deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Owner Trustee, upon the
trusts herein expressed, all the estates, properties, rights, powers and trusts
of such predecessor Owner Trustee, and such predecessor Owner Trustee shall
duly assign, transfer, deliver and pay over to such successor Owner Trustee all
monies or other property then held by such predecessor Owner Trustee upon the
trusts herein expressed.  Upon the appointment of any successor Owner Trustee
hereunder, the predecessor Owner Trustee will execute such documents as are
provided to it by such successor Owner Trustee and will take such further
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successor Owner Trustee as are reasonably required to cause registration of the
Aircraft included in the Trust Estate to be transferred upon the records of the
Federal Aviation Administration, or other governmental authority having
jurisdiction, into the name of the successor Owner Trustee.

     (c) Qualification.  Any successor Owner Trustee, however appointed, shall
be a Citizen of the United States without making use of a voting trust, voting
powers agreement or similar arrangement and shall also be a bank or trust
company organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000, if there be
such an institution willing, able and legally qualified to perform the duties
of the Owner Trustee hereunder upon reasonable or customary terms.

     (d) Merger, etc.  Any corporation into which the Owner Trustee may be
merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Owner
Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation to which substantially all the
corporate trust business of the Owner Trustee may be transferred, shall,
subject to the terms of Section 9.01(c) hereof, be the Owner Trustee hereunder
without further act.

     SECTION 9.02. CO-TRUSTEES AND SEPARATE TRUSTEES.  If at any time it shall
be necessary or prudent in order to conform to any law of any jurisdiction in
which all or any part of the Trust Estate is located, or the Owner Trustee
being advised by counsel shall determine that it is so necessary or prudent in
the interest of the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee, or the Owner
Trustee shall have been directed to do so by the Owner Participant, the Owner
Trustee and the Owner Participant shall execute and deliver an agreement
supplemental hereto and all other instruments and agreements necessary or
proper to constitute another bank or trust company or one or more persons (any
and all of which shall be a Citizen of the United States without making use of
a voting trust, voting powers agreement or similar arrangement) approved by the
Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant, either to act as co-trustee, jointly
with the Owner Trustee, or to act as separate trustee hereunder (any such
co-trustee or separate trustee being herein sometimes referred to as an
"ADDITIONAL TRUSTEE").

     Every additional trustee hereunder shall, to the extent permitted by law,
be appointed and act, and the Owner Trustee and its successors shall act,
subject to the following provisions and conditions:

           (A) all powers, duties, obligations and rights conferred upon the
      Owner Trustee in respect of the custody, control and management of
      monies, the Aircraft or documents authorized to be delivered hereunder or
      under the Participation Agreement shall be exercised solely by the Owner
      Trustee;

           (B) all other rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
      imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and
      exercised or performed by the Owner Trustee and such additional trustee
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      extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act
      or acts are to be performed (including the holding of title to the Trust
      Estate) the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform
      such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
      obligations shall be exercised and performed by such additional trustee;

           (C) no power given to, or which it is provided hereby may be
      exercised by, any such additional trustee shall be exercised hereunder by
      such additional trustee, except jointly with, or with the consent in
      writing of, the Owner Trustee;

           (D) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any
      act or omission of any other trustee hereunder;

           (E) the Owner Participant, at any time, by an instrument in writing
      may remove any such additional trustee; and

           (F) no appointment of, or action by, any additional trustee will
      relieve the Owner Trustee of any of its obligations under, or otherwise
      affect any of the terms of, the Trust Indenture or affect the interests
      of the Indenture Trustee or the holders of the Secured Certificates in
      the Trust Indenture Estate.

                                   ARTICLE X


                           SUPPLEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS

                     TO TRUST AGREEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

     SECTION 10.01. SUPPLEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS.  (a)  Supplements and
Amendments.  This Trust Agreement may not be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified except by an instrument in writing signed by the Owner Trustee and the
Owner Participant.  Subject to Section 10.02 hereof and the first sentence of
Section 10 of the Participation Agreement, the Owner Trustee will execute any
amendment, supplement or other modification of this Trust Agreement or of any
other Operative Document to which the Owner Trustee is a party which it is
requested to execute by the Owner Participant, except that the Owner Trustee
shall not execute any such amendment, supplement or other modification which,
by the express provisions of any of the above documents, requires the consent
of any other party unless such consent shall have been obtained.

     (b) Delivery of Amendments and Supplements to Certain Parties.  A signed
copy of each amendment or supplement referred to in Section 10.01(a) hereof
shall be delivered by the Owner Trustee to the Owner Participant, Indenture
Trustee and each holder of a Secured Certificate.

     SECTION 10.02. DISCRETION AS TO EXECUTION OF DOCUMENTS.  Prior to
executing any document required to be executed by it pursuant to the terms of
Section 10.01 hereof, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive an opinion
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that the execution of such document is authorized hereunder.  If in the opinion
of the Owner Trustee any such document adversely affects any right, duty,
immunity or indemnity in favor of the Owner Trustee hereunder or under any
other Operative Document to which the Owner Trustee is a party, the Owner
Trustee may in its discretion decline to execute such document.

     SECTION 10.03. ABSENCE OF REQUIREMENTS AS TO FORM.  It shall not be
necessary for any written request furnished pursuant to Section 10.01 hereof to
specify the particular form of the proposed documents to be executed pursuant
to such Section, but it shall be sufficient if such request shall indicate the
substance thereof.

     SECTION 10.04. DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTS.  Promptly after the execution by
the Owner Trustee of any document entered into pursuant to Section 10.01
hereof, the Owner Trustee shall mail, by certified mail, postage prepaid, a
conformed copy thereof to the Owner Participant, but the failure of the Owner
Trustee to mail such conformed copy shall not impair or affect the validity of
such document.

     SECTION 10.05. NO REQUEST NEEDED AS TO LEASE SUPPLEMENT AND TRUST
SUPPLEMENT.  No written request pursuant to Section 10.01 hereof shall be
required to enable the Owner Trustee to enter into the Lease Supplement
covering the Aircraft with Lessee pursuant to the terms of the Lease and
Section 3.01 hereof and the Trust Supplement pursuant to the terms of the Trust
Indenture and Section 3.01 hereof.

                                   ARTICLE XI


                                 MISCELLANEOUS

     SECTION 11.01. TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT.  This Trust Agreement and
the trusts created hereby shall be of no further force or effect upon the
earlier of (a) both the final discharge of the Trust Indenture pursuant to
Section 10.01 thereof and the sale or other final disposition by the Owner
Trustee of all property constituting part of the Trust Estate and the final
distribution by the Owner Trustee of all monies or other property or proceeds
constituting part of the Trust Estate in accordance with Article IV hereof,
provided that at such time Lessee shall have fully complied with all of the
terms of the Lease and the Participation Agreement or (b) twenty-one years less
one day after the death of the last survivor of all of the descendants of the
grandparents of David Rockefeller living on the date of the earliest execution
of this Trust Agreement by any party hereto; otherwise this Trust Agreement and
the trusts created hereby shall continue in full force and effect in accordance
with the terms hereof.

     SECTION 11.02. TERMINATION AT OPTION OF THE OWNER PARTICIPANT.
Notwithstanding Section 11.01 hereof, this Agreement and trust created hereby
shall terminate and the Trust Estate shall be distributed to the Owner
Participant, and this Agreement shall be of no further force and effect, upon
the election of the Owner Participant by notice to the Owner Trustee, if such
notice shall be accompanied by the written agreement (in form and substance
satisfactory to the Owner Trustee) of the Owner Participant assuming all
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of the Owner Trustee under or contemplated by the Operative Documents or
incurred by it as trustee hereunder and releasing the Owner Trustee therefrom;
provided, however, that such notice may be given only after the time the Lien
of the Trust Indenture is discharged under Section 10.01 of the Trust Indenture
and after the Lease shall no longer be in effect.

     SECTION 11.03 DISTRIBUTION OF TRUST ESTATE UPON TERMINATION.  Upon any
termination of this trust pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.01 hereof,
the Owner Trustee shall convey the Trust Estate (subject to all obligations, if
any, of the Owner Trustee then existing under the Operative Documents to which
the Owner Trustee is a party) to such purchaser or purchasers or the Owner
Participant, as the case may be, and for such amount and on such terms as shall
be specified in written instructions from the Owner Participant delivered to
the Owner Trustee prior to the date of termination; provided that in the event
such written instructions are not delivered to the Owner Trustee on or before
the date of termination, the Owner Trustee shall transfer title to the Trust
Estate to the Owner Participant.  Upon making such transfer or sale accounting
for all funds which have come into its hands, the Owner Trustee shall be
entitled to receipt of any sums due and owing to the Owner Trustee for expenses
incurred pursuant hereto as set forth in Section 4.01(b) hereof.

     SECTION 11.04. OWNER PARTICIPANT HAS NO LEGAL TITLE IN TRUST ESTATE.  The
Owner Participant shall not have legal title to any part of the Trust Estate.
No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title and interest
of the Owner Participant in and to the Trust Estate hereunder shall operate to
terminate this Trust Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any
successors or transferees of the Owner Participant to an accounting or to the
transfer of legal title to any part of the Trust Estate.

     SECTION 11.05. ASSIGNMENT, SALE, ETC. OF AIRCRAFT.  Any assignment, sale,
transfer or other conveyance of its interest in the Aircraft by the Owner
Trustee made pursuant to the terms hereof or of the Lease or the Participation
Agreement shall bind the Owner Participant and shall be effective to transfer
or convey all right, title and interest of the Owner Trustee and the Owner
Participant in and to the Aircraft. No purchaser or other grantee shall be
required to inquire as to the authorization, necessity, expediency or
regularity of such assignment, sale, transfer or conveyance or as to the
application of any sale or other proceeds with respect thereto by the Owner
Trustee.

     SECTION 11.06. TRUST AGREEMENT FOR BENEFIT OF CERTAIN PARTIES ONLY.
Except for the terms of Section 8(n) of the Participation Agreement
incorporated in Article VIII hereof and except as otherwise provided in
Articles IX and X hereof, nothing herein, whether expressed or implied, shall
be construed to give any Person other than the Owner Trustee and the Owner
Participant any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect
of this Trust Agreement; but this Trust Agreement shall be held to be for the
sole and exclusive benefit of the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant.

     SECTION 11.07. NOTICES; CONSENT TO JURISDICTION.  (a)  All notices,
demands, instructions and other communications required or permitted to be
given to or made upon any party hereto shall be in writing and shall be
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registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or by telecopier, or by prepaid
courier service, and shall be deemed to be given for purposes of this Agreement
on the day that such writing is delivered or sent to the intended recipient
thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.05(a).  Unless
otherwise specified in a notice sent or delivered in accordance with the
foregoing provisions of this Section 11.05(a), notices, demands, instructions
and other communications in writing shall be given to or made upon the
respective parties hereto at their respective addresses (or to their respective
telecopier numbers) as follows:  (A) if to Lessee, the Owner Trustee, the Loan
Participants, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant, to the respective
addresses set forth below the signatures of such parties on the signature page
of the Participation Agreement, or (B) if to a Subsequent Owner Participant,
addressed to such Subsequent Owner Participant at such address as such
Subsequent Owner Participant shall have furnished by notice to the parties
hereto or (C) if to any subsequent Certificate Holder, addressed to such
Certificate Holder at its address set forth in the secured certificate register
maintained pursuant to Section 2.07 of the Trust Indenture.

     (b) Each of the parties hereto (A) hereby irrevocably submits itself to
the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York and to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the
Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, for the purposes of
any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of this Trust Agreement, the
Participation Agreement, the Lease, the Tax Indemnity Agreement or any other
Operative Document, the subject matter of any thereof or any of the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby brought by any party or parties
thereto, or their successors or assigns, and (B) hereby waives, and agrees not
to assert, by way of motion, as a defense, or otherwise, in any such suit,
action or proceeding, to the extent permitted by applicable law, that the suit,
action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, that the venue of the
suit, action or proceeding is improper, or that the Participation Agreement,
the Lease, the Tax Indemnity Agreement or any other Operative Document or the
subject matter of any thereof or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby may not be enforced in or by such courts.

     SECTION 11.08. SEVERABILITY.  Any provision hereof which is prohibited or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be
ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

     SECTION 11.09. WAIVERS, ETC.  No term or provision hereof may be changed,
waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an instrument in writing
entered into in compliance with the terms of Article X hereof; and any waiver
of the terms hereof shall be effective only in the specific instance and for
the specific purpose given.

     SECTION 11.10. COUNTERPARTS.  This Trust Agreement may be executed by the
parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.


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     SECTION 11.11. BINDING EFFECT, ETC.  All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the Owner
Trustee and its successors and assigns, and the Owner Participant, its
successors and, to the extent permitted by Article VIII hereof, its assigns.
Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action
by the Owner Participant shall bind its successors and assigns.  Any Owner
Participant which shall cease to have any Ownership Interest shall thereupon
cease to be a party hereto or an Owner Participant for any reason and shall
have no further obligations hereunder.

     SECTION 11.12. HEADINGS; REFERENCES.  The headings of the various Articles
and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define
or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

     SECTION 11.13. GOVERNING LAW.  THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS
BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
UTAH, INCLUDING ALL MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE.



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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement to
be duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of
the day and year first above written.



                                    [OWNER PARTICIPANT]




                                    By ______________________________________
                                       Title:                                




                                    FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH,
                                    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION




                                    By ______________________________________
                                       Title:                                








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                                                                 Exhibit 4(f)(2)


                                                                   DRAFT 5/31/96

================================================================================


                      AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST INDENTURE

                             AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

                       Dated as of [__________] __, 1996

                                    Between

               FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                        not in its individual capacity,
                       except as expressly stated herein,
                          but solely as Owner Trustee,

                                 Owner Trustee

                                      and


                      STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
                        not in its individual capacity,
                       except as expressly stated herein,
                        but solely as Indenture Trustee,

                               Indenture Trustee

================================================================================

                         SECURED CERTIFICATES COVERING
                          ONE BOEING 757-251 AIRCRAFT
                     BEARING U.S. REGISTRATION MARK N538US
                       LEASED BY NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.

================================================================================


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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS

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GRANTING CLAUSE3

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ARTICLE I       DEFINITIONS.....................................................    6

SECTION 1.01.   Definitions.....................................................    6
SECTION 1.02.   Reference to Other Documents....................................   11 

ARTICLE II      THE SECURED CERTIFICATES........................................   11

SECTION 2.01.   Form of Secured Certificates....................................   11
SECTION 2.02.   Issuance and Terms of Secured Certificates......................   16
SECTION 2.03.   Payments from Trust Indenture Estate Only.......................   16
SECTION 2.04.   Method of Payment...............................................   18
SECTION 2.05.   Application of Payments.........................................   19
SECTION 2.06.   Termination of Interest in Trust Indenture Estate...............   20
SECTION 2.07.   Registration, Transfer and Exchange of Secured Certificates.....   20
SECTION 2.08.   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Secured Certificates.......   21
SECTION 2.09.   Payment of Expenses on Transfer; Cancellation...................   21
SECTION 2.10.   Mandatory Redemptions of Secured Certificates...................   21
SECTION 2.11.   Voluntary Redemptions of Secured Certificates...................   22
SECTION 2.12.   Redemptions; Notice of Redemption...............................   22
SECTION 2.13.   Assumption of Secured Certificates by Lessee....................   22
SECTION 2.14.   Option to Purchase Secured Certificates.........................   23
SECTION 2.15.   Subordination...................................................   24

ARTICLE III     RECEIPT, DISTRIBUTION AND APPLICATION OF INCOME FROM THE 
                TRUST INDENTURE ESTATE..........................................   24
                                                                        
SECTION 3.01.   Basic Rent Distribution.........................................   24
SECTION 3.02.   Event of Loss; Replacement; Voluntary Termination; Refinancing..   25
SECTION 3.03.   Payments After Event of Default.................................   26
SECTION 3.04.   Certain Payments................................................   27
SECTION 3.05.   Other Payments..................................................   28
SECTION 3.06.   Payments to Owner Trustee.......................................   28
SECTION 3.07.   Application of Payments Under Guarantee.........................   28

ARTICLE IV      COVENANTS OF OWNER TRUSTEE, EVENTS OF DEFAULT, REMEDIES OF 
                INDENTURE TRUSTEE...............................................   29

SECTION 4.01.   Covenants of Owner Trustee......................................   29
SECTION 4.02.   Event of Default................................................   29
SECTION 4.03.   Certain Rights..................................................   31
SECTION 4.04.   Remedies........................................................   32
SECTION 4.05.   Return of Aircraft, Etc.........................................   33
SECTION 4.06.   Remedies Cumulative.............................................   34
SECTION 4.07.   Discontinuance of Proceedings...................................   34
SECTION 4.08.   Waiver of Past Defaults.........................................   35
SECTION 4.09.   Appointment of Receiver.........................................   35

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SECTION 4.10.   Indenture Trustee Authorized to Execute Bills of Sale, Etc.......  35
SECTION 4.11.   Rights of Certificate Holders to Receive Payment.................  35

ARTICLE V       DUTIES OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE..................................  36

SECTION 5.01.   Notice of Event of Default.......................................  36
SECTION 5.02.   Action upon Instructions; Certain Rights and Limitations.........  36
SECTION 5.03.   Indemnification..................................................  38
SECTION 5.04.   No Duties Except as Specified in Trust Indenture or Instructions.  38
SECTION 5.05.   No Action Except Under Lease, Trust Indenture or Instructions....  39
SECTION 5.06.   Replacement Airframes and Replacement Engines....................  39
SECTION 5.07.   Indenture Supplements for Replacements...........................  42
SECTION 5.08.   Effect of Replacement............................................  42
SECTION 5.09.   Investment of Amounts Held by Indenture Trustee..................  43

ARTICLE VI      THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE......................  43

SECTION 6.01.   Acceptance of Trusts and Duties..................................  43
SECTION 6.02.   Absence of Duties................................................  43
SECTION 6.03.   No Representations or Warranties as to Aircraft or Documents.....  44
SECTION 6.04.   No Segregation of Monies; No Interest............................  44
SECTION 6.05.   Reliance; Agreements; Advice of Counsel..........................  44
SECTION 6.06.   Capacity in Which Acting.........................................  45
SECTION 6.07.   Compensation.....................................................  45
SECTION 6.08.   Instructions from Certificate Holders............................  45

ARTICLE VII     INDEMNIFICATION OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE BY OWNER TRUSTEE............  45

SECTION 7.01.   Scope of Indemnification.........................................  45

ARTICLE VIII    SUCCESSOR AND SEPARATE TRUSTEES..................................  46

SECTION 8.01.   Notice of Successor Owner Trustee................................  46
SECTION 8.02.   Resignation of Indenture Trustee; Appointment of Successor.......  46
SECTION 8.03.   Appointment of Additional and Separate Trustees..................  47

ARTICLE IX      SUPPLEMENT AND AMENDMENTS TO THIS TRUST INDENTURE................  48

SECTION 9.01.   Instructions of Majority; Limitations............................  48
SECTION 9.02.   Trustees Protected...............................................  50
SECTION 9.03.   Documents Mailed to Certificate Holders..........................  50
SECTION 9.04.   No Request Necessary for Lease Supplement or Trust Indenture
                Supplement.......................................................  50

ARTICLE X       MISCELLANEOUS....................................................  50

SECTION 10.01.  Termination of Trust Indenture...................................  50
SECTION 10.02.  No Legal Title to Trust Indenture Estate in Certificate Holders..  50
SECTION 10.03.  Sale of Aircraft by Indenture Trustee Is Binding.................  51
SECTION 10.04.  Trust Indenture for Benefit of Owner Trustee, Indenture Trustee,  
                Owner Participant and Certificate Holders........................  51
SECTION 10.05.  Notices..........................................................  51
SECTION 10.06.  Severability.....................................................  51
SECTION 10.07.  No Oral Modification or Continuing Waivers.......................  51
SECTION 10.08.  Successors and Assigns...........................................  51


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SECTION 10.09.  Headings.....................................................      52
SECTION 10.10.  Normal Commercial Relations..................................      52
SECTION 10.11.  Governing Law; Counterpart Form..............................      52
SECTION 10.12.  Voting By Certificate Holders................................      52
SECTION 10.13.  Bankruptcy...................................................      52
SECTION 10.14.  No Action Contrary to Lessee's Rights Under the Lease........      52


EXHIBIT A       Form of Trust Agreement and Indenture Supplement
SCHEDULE I      Secured Certificates Amortization
SCHEDULE II     Pass Through Trust Agreements
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                      AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST INDENTURE
                             AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
                                  [NW 1996 B]


     AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST INDENTURE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT [NW 1996 B],
dated as of [___________] __, 1996 ("TRUST INDENTURE") between FIRST SECURITY
BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, not in its
individual capacity, except as expressly stated herein, but solely as Owner
Trustee under the Trust Agreement referred to below (together with its
successors under the Trust Agreement, the "OWNER TRUSTEE"), and STATE STREET
BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, a Massachusetts trust company, not in its individual
capacity, except as expressly stated herein, but solely as Indenture Trustee
hereunder (together with its successors hereunder, the "INDENTURE TRUSTEE").

                              W I T N E S S E T H

     WHEREAS, all capitalized terms used herein shall have the respective
meanings set forth or referred to in Article I hereof;

     WHEREAS, the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee have entered into the
Trust Agreement whereby, among other things, (i) the Owner Trustee has
established a certain trust for the use and benefit of the Owner Participant
subject, however, to the Trust Indenture Estate created pursuant hereto for the
use and benefit of, and with the priority of payment to, the holders of Secured
Certificates issued hereunder, and (ii) the Owner Trustee has been authorized
and directed to execute and deliver this Trust Indenture;

     WHEREAS, (i) the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee entered into the
Trust Indenture and Security Agreement [NW 1996 B] dated as of April 24, 1996
(the "ORIGINAL INDENTURE"), (ii) the Owner Trustee entered into the Trust
Agreement and Indenture Supplement [NW 1996 B] (the "SUPPLEMENT") dated April
30, 1996 to the Original Indenture, (iii) the Original Indenture and the
Supplement were recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration on [_____] __,
1996 and were assigned Conveyance No. _______ and (iv) the Lease Agreement [NW
1996 B] dated as of even date with the Original Indenture between the Owner
Trustee and Lessee and the Lease Supplement No. 1 [NW 1996 B] were recorded by
the Federal Aviation Administration on [_____] __, 1996 and were assigned
Conveyance No. _______ and (v) pursuant to the Original Indenture, the Owner
Trustee issued and sold to the Loan Participants Secured Certificates (as
defined in the Original Indenture);

     WHEREAS, the parties have agreed that subject to certain conditions,
Lessee shall have the right to cause the implementation of the Refinancing
Transaction pursuant to which, among other things, the Secured Certificates
issued to the Loan Participant pursuant to the Original Indenture shall be
redeemed and new Secured Certificates (the "REFINANCING SECURED CERTIFICATES")
shall be issued to the Pass Through Trustees (or their designee);

     WHEREAS, in light of the foregoing and in anticipation of the Refinancing
Transaction, the parties desire by this Trust Indenture, among other things,
(i) to amend and restate in its entirety the Original Indenture, (ii) to
provide for the issuance by the Owner Trustee of the Refinancing Secured
Certificates and (iii) to provide for the assignment, mortgage and pledge by the
Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee, as part of the Trust Indenture Estate
hereunder, among other things, of all of the Owner Trustee's right, title and
interest in and to the Aircraft and, except as hereinafter expressly provided,
all of the Owner Trustee's right, title and interest in, to and under the Lease
and all payments and other amounts received hereunder or thereunder in
accordance with the terms hereof or thereof, as security for, among other
things, the Owner Trustee's obligations to the Indenture Trustee, for the
ratable benefit and security of the Certificate Holders, subject to Section 2.15
and Article III hereof;



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     WHEREAS, all things have been done to make the Secured Certificates, when
executed by the Owner Trustee and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture
Trustee hereunder, the valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Owner
Trustee; and

     WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Trust Indenture the valid,
binding and legal obligation of the Owner Trustee for the uses and purposes
herein set forth, in accordance with its terms, have been done and performed
and have happened:



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                                GRANTING CLAUSE

     NOW, THEREFORE, THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST INDENTURE AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT WITNESSETH, that, to secure the prompt payment of the Principal
Amount of, interest on, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and all other amounts due
with respect to, all Secured Certificates from time to time outstanding
hereunder and the performance and observance by the Owner Trustee of all the
agreements, covenants and provisions herein and in the Participation Agreement
and the Secured Certificates contained, for the benefit of the Certificate
Holders and the prompt payment of all amounts from time to time owing under the
Participation Agreement to the Certificate Holders by the Owner Trustee and for
the uses and purposes and subject to the terms and provisions hereof, and in
consideration of the premises and of the covenants herein contained, and of the
acceptance of the Secured Certificates by the holders thereof, and for other
good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy whereof are hereby
acknowledged, the Owner Trustee has granted, bargained, sold, assigned,
transferred, conveyed, mortgaged, pledged and confirmed, and does hereby grant,
bargain, sell, assign, transfer, convey, mortgage, pledge and confirm, unto the
Indenture Trustee, its successors in trust and assigns, for the security and
benefit of the Certificate Holders, a first priority security interest in and
mortgage lien on all right, title and interest of the Owner Trustee in, to and
under the following described property, rights and privileges, other than
Excluded Payments (which collectively, excluding Excluded Payments but
including all property hereafter specifically subjected to the Lien of this
Trust Indenture by the Trust Agreement and Indenture Supplement or any mortgage
supplemental hereto, are included within the Trust Indenture Estate), to wit:

     (1) the Aircraft (including the Airframe and the Engines and all
replacements thereof and substitutions therefor to which the Owner Trustee
shall from time to time acquire title as provided herein and in the Lease), all
as more particularly described in the Trust Agreement and Indenture Supplement
executed and delivered with respect to the Aircraft or any such replacements or
substitutions therefor, as provided in this Indenture;

     (2) the Lease and any Lease Supplement and all Rent thereunder (including,
without limitation, all amounts of Interim Rent, Basic Rent, Supplemental Rent
and payments of any kind thereunder (excluding any Excluded Payments)), and the
Guarantee;

     (3) the Purchase Agreement (to the extent specified in the Purchase
Agreement Assignment), the Purchase Agreement Assignment, the Consent and
Agreement and the Bill of Sale;

     (4) all rents, issues, profits, revenues and other income of the property
subjected or required to be subjected to the Lien of this Indenture;

     (5) all insurance and requisition proceeds with respect to the Aircraft,
including but not limited to the insurance required under Section 11 of the
Lease, but excluding insurance proceeds described in clauses (ii) and (iii) of
the definition of Excluded Payments;


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     (6) all rights of the Owner Trustee to amounts paid or payable by Lessee
to the Owner Trustee under the Participation Agreement and all rights of the
Owner Trustee to enforce payments of any such amounts thereunder, but excluding
amounts described in clauses (i) and (v) of the definition of Excluded
Payments;

     (7) all monies and securities from time to time deposited or required to
be deposited with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to any terms of this Indenture
or the Lease or required hereby or by the Lease to be held by the Indenture
Trustee hereunder (other than Excluded Payments); and

     (8) all proceeds of the foregoing.

     BUT EXCLUDING from the foregoing and from the Trust Indenture Estate all
Excluded Payments, and the right to enforce and collect the same, and SUBJECT
TO all of the terms and conditions of this Trust Indenture and the rights of
the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant hereunder.

     Concurrently with the delivery of the Original Indenture, the Owner
Trustee delivered to the Indenture Trustee the original executed counterpart of
the Lease and the Lease Supplement No. 1 (to each of which a chattel paper
receipt is attached), and executed copies of the Participation Agreement, and
the Purchase Agreement Assignment with the Consent and Agreement attached
thereto.

     TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular the aforesaid property unto the
Indenture Trustee, and its successors and assigns, in trust for the benefit and
security of the Certificate Holders, except as provided in Section 2.15 and
Article III hereof without any preference, distinction or priority of any one
Secured Certificate over any other by reason of priority of time of issue,
sale, negotiation, date of maturity thereof or otherwise for any reason
whatsoever, and for the uses and purposes and in all cases and as to all
property specified in paragraphs (1) through (8) inclusive above, subject to
the terms and provisions set forth in this Trust Indenture.

     It is expressly agreed that anything herein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall remain liable under each of the
Indenture Agreements to which it is a party to perform all of the obligations
assumed by it thereunder, except to the extent prohibited or excluded from
doing so pursuant to the terms and provisions thereof, and the Indenture
Trustee and the Certificate Holders shall have no obligation or liability under
the Indenture Agreements, by reason of or arising out of the assignment
hereunder, nor shall the Indenture Trustee or the Certificate Holders be
required or obligated in any manner to perform or fulfill any obligations of
the Owner Trustee under or pursuant to any of the Indenture Agreements to which
it is a party, or, except as herein expressly provided, to make any payment, or
to make any inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by
it, or present or file any claim, or take any action to collect or enforce the
payment of any amounts which may have been assigned to it or to which it may be
entitled at any time or times.

     The Owner Trustee does hereby constitute the Indenture Trustee the true
and lawful attorney of the Owner Trustee, irrevocably, granted for good and
valuable consideration and coupled with an interest and with full power of
substitution, and with full power (in the name of the Owner Trustee or
otherwise) to ask for, require, demand, receive, compound and give acquittance
for any and all monies and claims for monies (in each case including insurance
and requisition proceeds but in all cases excluding Excluded Payments) due
and to become due under or arising out of the Indenture Agreements, and all
other property which now or hereafter constitutes part of the Trust Indenture
Estate, to endorse any checks or other instruments or orders in connection
therewith and to file any claims or to take any action or to institute any
proceedings which the Indenture Trustee may deem to be necessary or advisable in
the premises.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, but subject to
the rights of the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant hereunder, during the
continuance of any Event of Default under this Trust Indenture, the Indenture
Trustee shall have the right under such power of attorney to accept any offer in
connection with the exercise of remedies as set forth herein of any purchaser to
purchase the Airframe and Engines




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and upon such purchase to execute and deliver in the name of and on
behalf of the Owner Trustee an appropriate bill of sale and other instruments
of transfer relating to the Airframe and Engines, when purchased by such
purchaser, and to perform all other necessary or appropriate acts with respect
to any such purchase, and in its discretion to file any claim or take any other
action or proceedings, either in its own name or in the name of the Owner
Trustee or otherwise, which the Indenture Trustee may deem necessary or
appropriate to protect and preserve the right, title and interest of the
Indenture Trustee in and to such Rents and other sums and the security intended
to be afforded hereby; provided, however, that no action of the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to this paragraph shall increase the obligations or
liabilities of the Owner Trustee to any Person beyond those obligations and
liabilities specifically set forth in this Trust Indenture and in the other
Operative Documents.  Under the Lease, Lessee is directed, so long as this
Trust Indenture shall not have been fully discharged, to make all payments of
Rent (other than Excluded Payments) and all other amounts which are required to
be paid to or deposited with the Owner Trustee pursuant to the Lease (other
than Excluded Payments) directly to, or as directed by, the Indenture Trustee
at such address or addresses as the Indenture Trustee shall specify, for
application as provided in this Trust Indenture.  The Owner Trustee agrees that
promptly upon receipt thereof, it will transfer to the Indenture Trustee any
and all monies from time to time received by it constituting part of the Trust
Indenture Estate, for distribution by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Trust Indenture, except that the Owner Trustee shall accept for distribution
pursuant to the Trust Agreement any amounts distributed to it by the Indenture
Trustee under this Trust Indenture.

     The Owner Trustee agrees that at any time and from time to time, upon the
written request of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee will promptly and
duly execute and deliver or cause to be duly executed and delivered any and all
such further instruments and documents as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably
deem necessary or desirable to perfect, preserve or protect the mortgage,
security interests and assignments created or intended to be created hereby or
to obtain for the Indenture Trustee the full benefits of the assignment
hereunder and of the rights and powers herein granted.  The parties hereto
acknowledge that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Owner Participant shall have
any obligation as to any recording, filing, refiling or re-recording of any
documents or instruments in regard to maintaining the perfection of the
security interests created hereunder, in the Trust Indenture Estate or any
security interest that may be claimed to have been created by the Lease or the
ownership interest of the Owner Trustee in the Aircraft.

     The Owner Trustee does hereby warrant and represent that it has not
assigned or pledged, and hereby covenants and agrees that it will not assign or
pledge, so long as the assignment hereunder shall remain in effect, and the
Lien hereof shall not have been released pursuant to Section 10.01 hereof, any
of its right, title or interest hereby assigned, to anyone other than the
Indenture Trustee and its predecessor(s) in this transaction, and that it will
not, except as otherwise provided in this Trust Indenture and except with
respect to Excluded Payments to which it is entitled, (i) accept any payment
from Lessee under any Indenture Agreement, (ii) enter into any agreement
amending or supplementing any Indenture Agreement, (iii) execute any waiver or
modification of, or consent under, the terms of, or exercise any rights, powers
or privileges under, any Indenture Agreement, (iv) settle or compromise any
claim (other than those relating to an Excluded Payment) arising under any
Indenture Agreement or (v) submit or consent to the submission of any dispute,
difference or other matter arising under or in respect of any Indenture
Agreement to arbitration thereunder.

     The Owner Trustee does hereby further agree that it will not without the
written consent of the Indenture Trustee:

            (a)  collect or agree to the receipt or collection of
                 any payment of Rent (other than Excluded Payments), including
                 Interim Rent, Basic Rent, Stipulated Loss Value, Termination
                 Value or any other payment to be made pursuant to Section 9 or
                 10 of the Lease prior to the date for the payment thereof
                 provided for by the Lease or assign, transfer or hypothecate
                 (other than to the Indenture Trustee hereunder) any payment of
                 Rent, including Interim Rent, Basic Rent, Stipulated Loss
                 Value, Termination Value or any other payment to be made
                 pursuant to Section 9 or 10 of the Lease, then due or to
                 accrue in the future under the Lease in respect of the
                 Airframe and Engines; or


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            (b)  except as contemplated by the Trust Agreement in
                 connection with the appointment of a successor owner trustee,
                 sell, mortgage, transfer, assign or hypothecate (other than to
                 the Indenture Trustee hereunder) its interest in the Airframe
                 and Engines or any part thereof or in any amount to be
                 received by it from the use or disposition of the Airframe and
                 Engines, other than amounts distributed to it pursuant to
                 Article III hereof.

     It is hereby further agreed that any and all property described or
referred to in the granting clauses hereof which is hereafter acquired by the
Owner Trustee shall ipso facto, and without any further conveyance, assignment
or act on the part of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, become and be
subject to the Lien herein granted as fully and completely as though
specifically described herein, but nothing contained in this paragraph shall be
deemed to modify or change the obligations of the Owner Trustee contained in
the foregoing paragraphs.

     The Owner Trustee does hereby ratify and confirm the Lease and does hereby
agree that it will not violate any covenant or agreement made by it therein,
herein or in any of the other Owner Trustee Documents.

     Notwithstanding the Granting Clause or any of the foregoing paragraphs,
there is hereby excluded from the foregoing sale, transfer, assignment, grant,
pledge and security interest all Excluded Payments.

     IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED AND AGREED by and between the parties hereto as
follows:

                                   ARTICLE I


                                  DEFINITIONS

     SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS.  For all purposes of this Indenture the
following terms shall have the following meanings (such definitions to be
equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined):

     "Actual Knowledge" shall mean, (i) as it applies to the Owner Trustee or
Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, actual knowledge of a Responsible
Officer in the Trust Office of the Owner Trustee or in the Corporate Trust
Office of the Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, and (ii) as it applies to
the Owner Participant, actual knowledge of a vice president or other higher
officer of the Owner Participant having responsibility for the transactions
contemplated by the Operative Documents.

     "Amortization Amount" shall mean, with respect to any Principal Amount
Repayment Date, the amount set forth opposite such Date on the Amortization
Schedule.

     "Amortization Schedule" shall mean the amortization schedule for the
Secured Certificates delivered pursuant to Section 2.02 hereof.

     "Average Life Date" for each Secured Certificate to be redeemed shall be
the date which follows the redemption date by a period equal to the Remaining
Weighted Average Life at the redemption date of such Secured Certificate.
"REMAINING WEIGHTED AVERAGE LIFE" of such Secured Certificate, at the
redemption date of such Secured Certificate, shall be the number of days equal
to the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the sum of the products obtained by
multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining installment of principal,
including the payment due on the maturity date of such Secured Certificate, by
(ii) the number of days from and including the redemption date to but excluding
the scheduled payment date of such principal installment; by (b) the then
unpaid principal amount of such Secured Certificate.

     "Cash Equivalents" shall mean the investments specified in Section 22(a)
of the Lease.
 



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     "Certificate Holder" shall mean any holder from time to time of one or
more Secured Certificates.

     "Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

     "Continuous Stay Period" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.04(a) hereof.

     "Corporate Trust Department" or "Trust Office" means the principal
corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at 79 South Main Street,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or such
other office at which the Owner Trustee's corporate trust business shall be
administered which the Owner Trustee shall have specified by notice in writing
to Lessee, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant and each Certificate
Holder.

     "Corporate Trust Office" shall mean the principal office of the Indenture
Trustee located at Two International Place, 4th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts
02110, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or such other office at which the
Indenture Trustee's corporate trust business shall be administered which
the Indenture Trustee shall have specified by notice in writing to Lessee, the
Owner Trustee and each Certificate Holder.

     "Debt" shall mean any liability for borrowed money, or any liability for
the payment of money in connection with any letter of credit transaction, or
other liabilities evidenced or to be evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or
other similar instruments or for the deferred purchase price of property, goods
or services.

     "Debt Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Series, the rate per annum
specified for such Series under the heading "Interest Rate" in Schedule I to
the Trust Indenture.

     "Default" means any event or condition that with the giving of notice or
the lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default or Lease Event of
Default.

     "Dollars" and "$" shall mean the lawful currency of the United States of
America.

     "Enforcement Date" shall have meaning specified in Section 4.03 hereof.

     "Event of Default" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02
hereof.

     "Excess Amount" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)
hereof.

     "Excluded Payments" shall mean (i) indemnity payments paid or payable by
Lessee to or in respect of the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity, their respective Affiliates, successors and permitted
assigns and their directors, officers, employees, servants and agents
(collectively, the "OWNER INDEMNITEES") pursuant to Sections 7(b), 7(c), 16 and
17 of the Participation Agreement, (ii) proceeds of public liability insurance
in respect of the Aircraft payable as a result of insurance claims made, or
losses suffered, by the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee in their
respective individual capacities or by any of the Owner Indemnitees, (iii)
proceeds of insurance maintained with respect to the Aircraft by the Owner
Participant (whether directly or through the Owner Trustee) or any other Owner
Indemnitee and permitted under Section 11(e) of the Lease, (iv) all payments
required to be made under the Tax Indemnity Agreement by Lessee and all
payments of Supplemental Rent by Lessee in respect of any amounts payable under
the Tax Indemnity Agreement, (v) fees payable to the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to the last sentence of Section 7(c) of the
Participation Agreement, (vi) provided that the Secured Certificates shall have
been duly assumed by Lessee pursuant to Section 2.13 hereof, the amounts
payable to the Owner Trustee pursuant to the third sentence of Section 19(d) of
the Lease plus all reasonable expenses incurred by the Owner Trustee and the
Owner Participant in connection with such assumption, as applicable, (vii) any
payment of the foregoing under the Guarantee, (viii) interest accrued on any of
the above, and (ix) any right to enforce the payment of any amount described in
clauses (i) through (viii) above and the right to declare an Event of Default
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     "Government Entity" means (a) any federal, state, provincial or similar
government, and any body, board, department, commission, court, tribunal,
authority, agency or other instrumentality of any such government or otherwise
exercising any executive, legislative, judicial, administrative or regulatory   
functions of such government or (b) any other government entity having
jurisdiction over any matter contemplated by the Operative Agreements or
relating to the observance or performance of the obligations of any of the
parties to the Operative Agreements.

     "Guarantor " shall have the meaning specified in the Lease.

     "Indenture Agreements" means the Participation Agreement, the Lease, the
Purchase Agreement, the Purchase Agreement Assignment, the Consent and
Agreement, the Guarantee, the Bills of Sale and any other contract, agreement
or instrument from time to time assigned or pledged under the Trust Indenture.

     "Indenture Trustee Event" means either (i) the Secured Certificates shall
have become due and payable pursuant to Section 4.04(b) of the Trust Indenture
or (ii) the Indenture Trustee has taken action or notified Owner Trustee that
it intends to take action to foreclose the Lien of the Trust Indenture or
otherwise commence the exercise of any significant remedy under the Trust
Indenture or the Lease.

     "Law" shall mean (a) any constitution, treaty, statute, law, regulation,
order, rule or directive of any Government Entity, and (b) any judicial or
administrative interpretation or application of, or decision under, any of the
foregoing.

     "Lease" shall mean that certain Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of
April 24, 1996, entered into by the Owner Trustee and Lessee concurrently with
the execution and delivery of the Original Trust Indenture, as said Lease
Agreement has been, or may from time to time be, supplemented or amended, or
the terms thereof waived or modified, to the extent permitted by, and in
accordance with, the terms of this Indenture.  The term "Lease" shall also
include each Lease Supplement from time to time entered into pursuant to the
terms of the Lease.

     "Lease Default" shall mean any event or condition that with the giving of
notice or the lapse of time or both would become a Lease Event of Default.

     "Lease Event of Default" shall mean an "Event of Default" as defined in
the Lease.

     "Lessee" shall mean Northwest Airlines, Inc., a Minnesota corporation.

     "Lessee Operative Documents" means the Participation Agreement, the Lease,
Lease Supplement No. 1, the Tax Indemnity Agreement, the Purchase Agreement
Assignment and each other agreement between Lessee and any other party to the
Participation Agreement, relating to the Transactions, delivered on the
Delivery Date.

     "Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders" as of a particular date of
determination shall mean the holders of more than a majority in aggregate
unpaid Principal Amount of all Secured Certificates outstanding as of such date
(excluding any Secured Certificates held by the Owner Trustee or the Owner
Participant or any interests of the Owner Participant therein by reason of
subrogation pursuant to Section 4.03 hereof (unless all Secured Certificates
then outstanding shall be held by the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant)
or Lessee or any affiliate of any thereof).

     "Make-Whole Amount" means, with respect to any Secured Certificate, the
amount (as determined by an independent investment banker selected by Lessee
and reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Participant)   
by which (a) the present value of the remaining scheduled payments of principal
and interest from the redemption date to maturity of such Secured Certificate
computed by discounting each such payment on a semiannual basis from its
respective Payment Date (assuming a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) using
a discount rate equal to the Treasury Yield exceeds (b) the outstanding
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plus accrued interest.  For purposes of determining the Make-Whole Amount,
"TREASURY YIELD" at the time of determination with respect to any Secured
Certificate means the interest rate (expressed as a semiannual equivalent and as
a decimal and, in the case of United States Treasury bills, converted to a bond
equivalent yield) determined to be the per annum rate equal to the semiannual
yield to maturity for United States Treasury securities maturing on the Average
Life Date of such Secured Certificate and trading in the public securities
market either as determined by interpolation between the most recent weekly
average yield to maturity for two series of United States Treasury securities,
trading in the public securities markets, (A) one maturing as close as possible
to, but earlier than, the Average Life Date of such Secured Certificate and (B)
the other maturing as close as possible to, but later than, the Average Life
Date of such Secured Certificate, in each case as published in the most recent
H.15(519) or, if a weekly average yield to maturity for United States Treasury
securities maturing on the Average Life Date of such Secured Certificate is
reported on the most recent H.15(519), such weekly average yield to maturity as
published in such H.15(519).  "H.15(519)" means the weekly statistical release
designated as such, or any successor publication, published by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.  The date of determination of a
Make-Whole Amount shall be the third Business Day prior to the applicable
redemption date and the "MOST RECENT H.15(519)" means the H.15(519) published
prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the applicable
redemption date.

     "Mortgaged Property" shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.03
hereof.

     "Owner Indemnitee" shall have the meaning specified in the definition of
Excluded Payments herein.

     "Owner Participant" shall mean [________________________], a [__________]
corporation, so long as such party shall have any interest in the Trust Estate,
and transferees thereof as permitted by Section 8 of the Participation
Agreement.

     "PA Amendment No. 1" shall mean the First Amendment to Participation
Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the Refinancing Date, among Lessee, the
Owner Trustee, the Pass Through Trustee, the Owner Participant, the
Subordination Agent and State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its individual
capacity and as Indenture Trustee.

     "Participants" shall mean and include the Loan Participants and the Owner
Participant.

     "Participation Agreement" shall mean that certain Participation Agreement
[NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996, among the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, Lessee and the Participants, as amended by the PA Amendment No. 1, as
the same may from time to time be supplemented or further amended, or the terms
thereof waived or modified, to the extent permitted by, and in accordance with,
the terms thereof.

     "Past Due Rate" shall mean, with respect to the Secured Certificates, the
rate per annum equal to 2% over the Debt Rate as in effect from time to time.

     "Payment Date" shall mean each January 2 and July 2, commencing on January
2, 1997 (or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the immediately succeeding
Business Day) until the Secured Certificates have been paid in full.

     "Principal Amount" with respect to a Secured Certificate means the stated
original principal amount of such Secured Certificate and, with respect to all
Secured Certificates, means the aggregate stated original principal amounts of
all Secured Certificates.

     "Principal Amount Repayment Date" shall mean each Payment Date on which
any portion of the Principal Amount is due and payable in accordance with the
Amortization Schedule.

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     "Replacement Airframe" shall mean any airframe substituted for the
Airframe pursuant to Section 5.06 hereof.

     "Replacement Engine" shall mean any engine substituted for an Engine
pursuant to Section 5.06 hereof.

     "Responsible Officer" means with respect to the Owner Trustee, a
responsible officer in the Trust Office of the Owner Trustee (including,
without limitation, any authorized officer in the Trust Office of the Owner
Trustee), and with respect to the Indenture Trustee, a responsible officer in
the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee.

     "Section 1110 Period" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.04(a)
hereof.

     "Secured Certificates" shall mean and include any Secured Certificates
issued hereunder, and issued in exchange therefor or replacement thereof.

     "Secured Obligations" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.06
hereof.

     "Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

     "Senior Holder" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c)
hereof.

     "Series A" or "Series A Secured Certificates" means Secured Certificates
issued and designated as "Series A" hereunder, in the Principal Amount and
maturities and bearing interest as specified in Schedule I to the Trust
Indenture under the heading "Series A."

     "Series B" or "Series B Secured Certificates" means Secured Certificates
issued and designated as "Series B" hereunder, in the Principal Amount and
maturities and bearing interest as specified in Schedule I to the Trust
Indenture under the heading "Series B."

     "Series C" or "Series C Secured Certificates" means Secured Certificates
issued and designated as "Series C" hereunder, in the Principal Amount and
maturities and bearing interest as specified in Schedule I to the Trust
Indenture under the heading "Series C."

     "State Street" means State Street Bank and Trust Company, a Massachusetts
trust company, not in its capacity as Indenture Trustee under the Trust
Indenture, but in its individual capacity.

     "Transactions" means the transactions contemplated by the Participation
Agreement and the other Operative Documents.

     "Trust Agreement and Indenture Supplement" shall mean a supplement to the
Trust Agreement and to this Indenture, in substantially the form of Exhibit A
hereto, which shall particularly describe the Aircraft, and any Replacement
Airframe and Replacement Engine included in the property of the Owner Trustee
covered by the Trust Agreement.

     "Trust Indenture", "this Trust Indenture", "the Trust Indenture",
"Indenture", "this Indenture", and "the Indenture" shall mean this Amended and
Restated Trust Indenture and Security Agreement [NW 1996 B] as it may from time
to time be supplemented or amended as herein provided, including supplementing
by the Trust Agreement and Indenture Supplement pursuant hereto.

     "Trust Indenture Estate" shall mean all estate, right, title and interest
of the Indenture Trustee in and to the properties referred to in the Granting
Clause of this Trust Indenture, excluding Excluded Payments.







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     SECTION 1.02. REFERENCE TO OTHER DOCUMENTS.  For all purposes of this
Trust Indenture the terms used but not defined herein are used as defined in
the Lease.

                                   ARTICLE II


                            THE SECURED CERTIFICATES

     SECTION 2.01.  FORM OF SECURED CERTIFICATES

     The Secured Certificates shall be substantially in the form set forth
below:

THIS SECURED CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED PURSUANT TO THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"), OR PURSUANT TO THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY
STATE. ACCORDINGLY, THIS SECURED CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE SOLD UNLESS EITHER
REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT AND SUCH APPLICABLE STATE LAWS OR AN EXEMPTION FROM
SUCH REGISTRATIONS IS AVAILABLE.

FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS OWNER TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST
AGREEMENT [NW 1996 B] DATED AS OF APRIL 24, 1996.

SERIES [___] NON-RECOURSE SECURED CERTIFICATE DUE [___] ISSUED IN CONNECTION
WITH THE BOEING MODEL 757-251 AIRCRAFT BEARING UNITED STATES REGISTRATION
NUMBER N538US.




No.____                      Date:  [______,__]
$__________________

              INTEREST RATE                 MATURITY DATE

          _____________________        ________________________
               [________]                  [________,_______]
         
         
     FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee (herein in such capacity called the "OWNER
TRUSTEE") under that certain Trust Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24,
1996, between the Owner Participant named therein and the Owner Trustee (herein
as such Trust Agreement may be supplemented or amended from time to time called
the "TRUST AGREEMENT"), hereby promises to pay to ___________, or the
registered assignee thereof, the principal sum of $_________ (the "PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT"), together with interest on the amount of the Principal Amount
remaining unpaid from time to time (calculated on the basis of a year of 360
days comprised of twelve 30-day months) from the date hereof until paid in full
at a rate per annum equal to the Interest Rate indicated above.  The Principal
Amount of this Secured Certificate shall be payable in installments on the
dates set forth in Schedule I hereto equal to the corresponding percentage of
the Principal Amount of this Secured Certificate set forth in Schedule I
hereto.  Accrued but unpaid interest shall be due and payable in semi-annual
installments commencing January 2, 1997, and thereafter on July 2 and January 2
of each year, to and including _______, _____.  Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the final payment made on this Secured Certificate shall be in an amount
sufficient to discharge in full the unpaid Principal Amount and all accrued and
unpaid interest on, and any other amounts due under, this Secured Certificate.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if any date on which
a payment under this Secured Certificate becomes due and payable is not a
Business Day then such payment shall not be made on such scheduled date but
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and if such payment is made
on such next succeeding Business Day, no interest shall accrue on the amount of
such payment during such extension.

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     For purposes hereof, the term "TRUST INDENTURE" means the Amended and
Restated Trust Indenture and Security Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the
Refinancing Date, between the Owner Trustee and State Street Bank and Trust
Company (the "INDENTURE TRUSTEE"), as the same may be amended or supplemented
from time to time.  All other capitalized terms used in this Secured
Certificate and not defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned
in the Trust Indenture.

     This Secured Certificate shall bear interest, payable on demand, at the
Past Due Rate (calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days comprised of
twelve 30-day months) on any overdue Principal Amount, any overdue Make-Whole
Amount, if any, and (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any overdue
interest and any other amounts payable hereunder which are overdue, in each
case for the period the same is overdue.  Amounts shall be overdue if not paid
when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise).

     All payments of Principal Amount, interest, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and
other amounts, if any, to be made by the Owner Trustee hereunder and under the
Trust Indenture or the Participation Agreement shall be payable only from the   
income and proceeds from the Trust Estate to the extent included in the Trust
Indenture Estate and only to the extent that the Owner Trustee shall have
sufficient income or proceeds from the Trust Estate to the extent included in
the Trust Indenture Estate to enable the Indenture Trustee to make such payments
in accordance with the terms of Section 2.03 and Article III of the Trust
Indenture and each holder hereof, by its acceptance of this Secured Certificate,
agrees that it will look solely to the income and proceeds from the Trust
Indenture Estate to the extent available for distribution to the holder hereof
as above provided and that none of the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee is personally liable or liable in any manner extending to
any assets other than the Trust Indenture Estate to the holder hereof for any
amounts payable or any liability under this Secured Certificate or, except as
provided in the Trust Indenture or in the Participation Agreement, for any
liability under the Trust Indenture or the Participation Agreement; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall limit, restrict or impair the right
of the Indenture Trustee, subject always to the terms and provisions of the
Trust Indenture, to accelerate the maturity of this Secured Certificate upon
occurrence of an Event of Default under the Trust Indenture in accordance with
Section 4.04(b) of the Trust Indenture, to bring suit and obtain a judgment
against the Owner Trustee on this Secured Certificate for purposes of realizing
upon the Trust Indenture Estate and to exercise all rights and remedies provided
under the Trust Indenture or otherwise realize upon the Trust Indenture Estate.

     There shall be maintained a Secured Certificate Register for the purpose
of registering transfers and exchanges of Secured Certificates at the Corporate
Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or at the office of any successor in the
manner provided in Section 2.07 of the Trust Indenture.

     The Principal Amount and interest and other amounts due hereunder shall be
payable in Dollars in immediately available funds at the Corporate Trust Office
of the Indenture Trustee, or as otherwise provided in the Trust Indenture.
Each such payment shall be made on the date such payment is due and without any
presentment or surrender of this Secured Certificate, except that in the case
of any final payment with respect to this Secured Certificate, the Secured
Certificate shall be surrendered promptly thereafter by the Indenture Trustee
to the Owner Trustee for cancellation.

     The holder hereof, by its acceptance of this Secured Certificate, agrees
that, except as provided in the Trust Indenture, each payment received by it
hereunder shall be applied, first, to the payment of accrued interest on this
Secured Certificate (as well as any interest on any overdue Principal Amount,
any overdue Make-Whole Amount, if any, or, to the extent permitted by Law, any
overdue interest and other amounts hereunder) to the date of such payment,
second, to the payment of the Principal Amount of this Secured Certificate then
due, third, to the payment of Make-Whole Amount, if any, and any other amount
due hereunder or under the Trust Indenture, and fourth, the balance, if any,
remaining thereafter, to the payment of Principal Amount of this Secured
Certificate remaining unpaid in the inverse order of their normal maturity.

     This Secured Certificate is one of the Secured Certificates referred to in
the Trust Indenture which have been or are to be issued by the Owner Trustee
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Indenture Estate is held by the Indenture Trustee as security, in part, for
the Secured Certificates.  The provisions of this Secured Certificate are
subject to the Trust Indenture.  Reference is hereby made to the Trust Indenture
and the Participation Agreement for a complete statement of the rights and
obligations of the holder of, and the nature and extent of the security for,
this Secured Certificate and the rights and obligations of the holders of, and
the nature and extent of the security for, any other Secured Certificates
executed and delivered under the Trust Indenture, as well as for a statement of
the terms and conditions of the Trust created by the Trust Indenture, to all of
which terms and conditions in the Trust Indenture and the Participation
Agreement each holder hereof agrees by its acceptance of this Secured
Certificate.

     As provided in the Trust Indenture and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, this Secured Certificate is exchangeable for a like
aggregate Principal Amount of Secured Certificates of different authorized
denominations, as requested by the holder surrendering the same.

     Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of this Secured
Certificate, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall treat the person
in whose name this Secured Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for
all purposes whether or not this Secured Certificate be overdue, and neither of
the Owner Trustee nor the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.

     This Secured Certificate is subject to redemption as provided in Sections
2.10, 2.11 and 2.12 of the Trust Indenture but not otherwise.  This Secured
Certificate is also subject to assumption by Lessee as provided in Section 2.13
of the Trust Indenture, to exchange and to purchase by the Owner Participant or
the Owner Trustee as provided in Section 2.14 of the Trust Indenture but not
otherwise.

     The indebtedness evidenced by this Secured Certificate is, to the extent
and in the manner provided in the Trust Indenture, subordinate and subject in
right of payment to the prior payment in full of the Secured Obligations (as
defined in the Trust Indenture) in respect of [Series A Secured Certificates]1,
[Series A and Series B Secured Certificates]2 and this Secured Certificate is
issued subject to such provisions.  The Certificate Holder of this Secured
Certificate, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such
provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Indenture Trustee on his behalf to
take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination as provided in the Trust Indenture and (c) appoints the Indenture
Trustee his attorney-in-fact for such purpose.**

     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by or on
behalf of the Indenture Trustee by manual signature, this Secured Certificate
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Trust Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.

     THIS SECURED CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                                *      *      *



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1  To be inserted in the case of a Series B Secured Certificate.
2  To be inserted in the case of a Series C Secured Certificate.
** To be inserted for each Secured Certificate other than any Series A Secured
   Certificate.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee has caused this Secured Certificate
to be executed in its corporate name by its officer thereunto duly authorized
on the date hereof.

                                    FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION,

                                         not in its individual capacity but
                                         solely as
                                         Owner Trustee

                                    By
                                         -------------------------------------
                                         Name:
                                         Title:

               INDENTURE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Secured Certificates referred to in the
within-mentioned Trust Indenture.

                                    STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
                                         as Indenture Trustee


                                    By
                                         -------------------------------------
                                         Name:
                                         Title:



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                                   SCHEDULE I

                       SECURED CERTIFICATES AMORTIZATION

                                                        Percentage of    
                                                      Principal Amount   
   Payment Date                                          to be Paid      
   ------------                                       ----------------   


                       [SEE SCHEDULE I TO TRUST INDENTURE
                        WHICH IS INSERTED UPON ISSUANCE]

                                *      *      *
     SECTION 2.02. ISSUANCE AND TERMS OF SECURED CERTIFICATES.

     The Secured Certificates shall be dated the date of issuance thereof,
shall be issued in three separate series consisting of Series A, Series B and
Series C and in the maturities and principal amounts and shall bear interest as
specified in Schedule I hereto.  On the date of the consummation of the
Refinancing Transaction, (i) each Refinancing Secured Certificate shall be
issued to the Pass Through Trustees (or their designee) under the Pass Through
Agreements as set forth in Schedule II hereto in connection therewith and (ii)
the Secured Certificates issued under the Original Indenture shall be
concurrently redeemed.  The Secured Certificates shall be issued in registered
form only.  The Secured Certificates shall be issued in denominations of $1,000
and integral multiples thereof, except that one Secured Certificate of each
Series may be in an amount that is not an integral multiple of $1,000.

     Each Secured Certificate shall bear interest at the Debt Rate (calculated
on the basis of a year of 360 days comprised of twelve 30-day months) on the
unpaid Principal Amount thereof from time to time outstanding, payable in
arrears on January 2, 1997, and on each July 2 and January 2 thereafter until
maturity.  The Principal Amount of each Secured Certificate shall be payable on
the dates and in the installments equal to the corresponding percentage of the
Principal Amount as set forth in Schedule I hereto which shall be attached as
Schedule I to the Secured Certificates.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
final payment made under each Secured Certificate shall be in an amount
sufficient to discharge in full the unpaid Principal Amount and all accrued and
unpaid interest on, and any other amounts due under, such Secured Certificate.
Each Secured Certificate shall bear interest at the Past Due Rate (calculated
on the basis of a year of 360 days comprised of twelve 30-day months) on any
part of the Principal Amount, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and to the extent
permitted by applicable law, interest and any other amounts payable thereunder
not paid when due for any period during which the same shall be overdue, in
each case for the period the same is overdue.  Amounts shall be overdue if not
paid when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if any date on which
a payment under any Secured Certificate becomes due and payable is not a
Business Day then such payment shall not be made on such scheduled date but
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and if such payment is made
on such next succeeding Business Day, no interest shall accrue on the amount of
such payment during such extension.

     The Owner Trustee agrees to pay to the Indenture Trustee for distribution
in accordance with Section 3.04 hereof (a) any and all indemnity amounts
received by the Owner Trustee which are payable by Lessee to (i) the Indenture
Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) the Certificate Holders, (iii) the
Subordination Agent, (iv) the Liquidity Provider, or (v) the Pass Through
Trustees, in each case pursuant to Section 7 of the Participation Agreement,
(b) the Owner Trustee's pro rata share of all amounts owed to the Liquidity
Provider by the Subordination Agent under each Liquidity Facility other than
amounts due as (i) repayments of the principal of advances thereunder, and (ii)
interest on Interest Drawings and Final Drawings except to the extent included
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Interest and Related Charges, and (c) any and all amounts received by
the Owner Trustee which are payable by Lessee under clause (c) or (d) of the
definition of Supplemental Rent.  As used in this Section, the Owner Trustee's
pro rata share means as of any time:

           (A) with respect to all amounts other than Net Interest and Related
      Charges, a fraction the numerator of which is the aggregate principal
      balance then outstanding of the Secured Certificates and the denominator
      of which is the aggregate principal balance of all Equipment Notes, plus

           (B) with respect to all Net Interest and Related Charges (x) if
      there exists a Payment Default under any Secured Certificate a fraction,
      the numerator of which is the aggregate principal balance then
      outstanding of Secured Certificates and the denominator of which is the
      aggregate principal balance then outstanding of all Equipment Notes
      issued under Indentures under which there exists a Payment Default or (y)
      at all other times, zero;

provided, however, neither the numerator nor the denominator of the fractions
in paragraphs (A) or (B) shall include any Series D Secured Certificates or
Series D Equipment Notes.  As used in this Section, "Net Interest and Related
Charges" means the sum of (i) the amount, if any, by which interest payable to
the Liquidity Provider on any Interest Drawing and/or Final Drawing exceeds the
amount which would be payable if such drawings bore interest at the weighted
average Past Due Rate (as defined in the applicable Indentures) applicable to
amounts in default on all Equipment Notes plus (ii) any amounts payable under
Section 3.1, Section 3.2, Section 3.3 or Section 7.7 of each Liquidity Facility
(or similar provisions of any succeeding Liquidity Facility) which result from
any Interest Drawing or Final Drawing.  As used in this Section, a Payment
Default when used in connection with a Secured Certificate or Equipment Note
means a default in the payment of principal thereof or interest thereon which
has not been cured other than solely because of acceleration.  The following
terms are used as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement:  Equipment Notes,
Final Drawing, Indentures, Interest Drawing and Series D Equipment Notes.

     The Secured Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Owner Trustee
by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents or
Assistant Secretaries or other authorized officer.  Secured Certificates
bearing the signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers
of the Owner Trustee shall bind the Owner Trustee, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Secured Certificates or did not hold such
offices at the respective dates of such Secured Certificates.  The Owner
Trustee may from time to time execute and deliver Secured Certificates with
respect to the Aircraft to the Indenture Trustee for authentication upon
original issue and such Secured Certificates shall thereupon be authenticated
and delivered by the Indenture Trustee upon the written request of the Owner
Trustee signed by a Vice President or Assistant Vice President or other
authorized officer of the Owner Trustee; provided, however, that each such
request shall specify the aggregate Principal Amount of all Secured
Certificates to be authenticated hereunder on original issue with respect to
the Aircraft.  No Secured Certificate shall be secured by or entitled to any
benefit under this Trust Indenture or be valid or obligatory
for any purposes, unless there appears on such Secured Certificate a
certificate of authentication in the form provided for herein executed by the
Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers and
such certificate upon any Secured Certificates shall be conclusive evidence,
and the only evidence, that such Secured Certificate has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.

     SECTION 2.03. PAYMENTS FROM TRUST INDENTURE ESTATE ONLY.

     (a) Without impairing any of the other rights, powers, remedies,
privileges, liens or security interests of the Certificate Holders under this
Trust Indenture, each Certificate Holder, by its acceptance of a Secured
Certificate, agrees that as between it and the Owner Trustee, except as
expressly provided in this Trust Indenture, the Participation Agreement or any
other Operative Document, (i) the obligation to make all payments of the
Principal Amount of, interest on, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and all other
amounts due with respect to the Secured Certificates, and the performance by
the Owner Trustee of every obligation or covenant contained in this Trust
Indenture and in the Participation Agreement or any of the other Operative
Documents, shall be payable only from the income and proceeds from the Trust
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included in the Trust Indenture Estate and only to the  extent that the Owner
Trustee shall have sufficient income or proceeds from the Trust Estate to the
extent included in the Trust Indenture Estate to enable the Indenture Trustee to
make such payments in accordance with the terms of Article III hereof, and all
of the statements, representations, covenants and agreements made by the Owner
Trustee (when made in such capacity) contained in this Trust Indenture and any
agreement referred to herein other than the Trust Agreement, unless expressly
otherwise stated, are made and intended only for the purpose of binding the
Trust Estate and establishing the existence of rights and remedies which can be
exercised and enforced against the Trust Estate; therefore, anything contained
in this Trust Indenture or such other agreements to the contrary notwithstanding
(except for any express provisions or representations that the Owner Trustee is
responsible for, or is making, in its individual capacity, for which there would
be personal liability of the Owner Trustee), no recourse shall be had with
respect to this Trust Indenture or such other agreements against the Owner
Trustee in its individual capacity or against any institution or person which
becomes a successor trustee or co-trustee or any officer, director, trustee,
servant or direct or indirect parent or controlling Person or Persons of any of
them, and (ii) none of the Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity, the Owner
Participant, the Indenture Trustee and any officer, director, trustee, servant,
employee, agent or direct or indirect parent or controlling Person or Persons of
any of them shall have any personal liability for any amounts payable, or other
obligation owed, hereunder, under the Participation Agreement or any of the
other Operative Documents or under the Secured Certificates except as expressly
provided herein or in the Participation Agreement; provided, however, that
nothing contained in this Section 2.03(a) shall be construed to limit the
exercise and enforcement in accordance with the terms of this Trust Indenture or
such other agreements of rights and remedies against the Trust Estate.  These
provisions are not intended as any release or discharge of the indebtedness
represented by the Secured Certificates and the Trust Indenture, but are
intended only as a covenant not to sue the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee in their individual capacities, except as expressly
provided herein or in the Participation Agreement, for a deficiency with respect
to such indebtedness, the indebtedness represented by this Trust Indenture and
the Secured Certificates to remain in full force and effect as fully as though
these provisions were not contained in this Trust Indenture.  The Owner Trustee
hereby acknowledges that the Certificate Holders have expressly reserved all
their rights and remedies against the Trust Indenture Estate, including the
right, in the event of a default in the payment of all or part of the Principal
Amount of, interest on, Make-Whole Amount, if any,      or any other amount due
with respect to any Secured Certificate within the periods provided for in
Section 4.02(b) hereof, or upon the occurrence and continuation of any other
Event of Default under this Trust Indenture, to foreclose upon this Trust
Indenture, and/or to receive the proceeds from the Trust Indenture Estate and
otherwise to enforce any other right under this Trust Indenture.  Nothing in
this Section 2.03(a) shall (x) release the Owner Participant from personal
liability, or constitute a covenant not to sue the Owner Participant, for any
breach by it of any of its covenants, representations or warranties contained in
the Participation Agreement or for any of the payments it has agreed to make
pursuant to the Participation Agreement or (y) release the Owner Trustee or
constitute a covenant not to sue the Owner Trustee for any breach by it of any
representations, warranties or covenants of the Owner Trustee contained in the
Operative Documents or (z) release the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity
from personal liability, or constitute a covenant not to sue the Owner Trustee
in its individual capacity for any breach by it of any representations,
warranties or covenants of the Owner Trustee made in its individual capacity in
the Operative Documents.

     (b) If (i) all or any part of the Trust Estate becomes the property of, or
the Owner Trustee or Owner Participant becomes, a debtor subject to the
reorganization provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, (ii) pursuant to such
reorganization provisions, including Section 1111(b) of the Bankruptcy Code,
the Owner Trustee (in its individual capacity) or the Owner Participant is
required, by reason of the Owner Trustee (in its individual capacity) or the
Owner Participant being held to have recourse liability to any Certificate
Holder or the Indenture Trustee, directly or indirectly (other than the
recourse liability of the Owner Trustee (in its individual capacity), to make
payment on account of any amount payable as principal, Make-Whole Amount, if
any, interest or other amounts on the Secured Certificates or under this
Indenture and (iii) any Certificate Holder or the Indenture Trustee actually
receives any Excess Amount (as hereinafter defined) which reflects any payment
by the Owner Trustee (in its individual capacity) or the Owner Participant on
account of clause (ii) above, then such Certificate Holder or the Indenture
Trustee, as the case may be, shall promptly refund to the Owner Trustee (in its
individual capacity) or the Owner Participant (whichever shall have made such
payment) such Excess Amount.

     For purposes of this Section 2.03(b), "EXCESS AMOUNT" means the amount by
which such payment exceeds the amount that would have been received by a
Certificate Holder or the Indenture Trustee if the Owner Trustee (in its
individual capacity) or the Owner Participant had not become subject to the
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referred to in clause (ii) above.  Nothing contained in this
Section 2.03(b) shall prevent a Certificate Holder or the Indenture Trustee
from enforcing any personal recourse obligation (and retaining the proceeds
thereof) of the Owner Trustee (in its individual capacity) or the Owner
Participant under the Participation Agreement or this Trust Indenture (and any
exhibits or annexes hereto or thereto) or by separate agreement or from
retaining any amount paid by Owner Participant under Section 2.14 or 4.03
hereof.

     SECTION 2.04. METHOD OF PAYMENT.

     (a) The Principal Amount of, interest on, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and
other amounts due under each Secured Certificate or hereunder will be payable
in Dollars by wire transfer of  immediately available funds not later than 12:00
noon, New York City time, on the due date of payment to the Indenture Trustee at
the Corporate Trust Office for distribution among the Certificate Holders in the
manner provided herein. The Owner Trustee shall not have any responsibility for
the distribution of such payment to any Certificate Holder.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing or any provision in any Secured Certificate to the contrary, the
Indenture Trustee will use reasonable efforts to pay or cause to be paid, if so
directed in writing by any Certificate Holder (with a copy to the Owner
Trustee), all amounts paid by the Owner Trustee hereunder and under such
holder's Secured Certificate or Secured Certificates to such holder or a nominee
therefor (including all amounts distributed pursuant to Article III of this
Trust Indenture) by transferring, or causing to be transferred, by wire transfer
of immediately available funds in Dollars, prior to 2:00 p.m., New York City
time, on the due date of payment, to an account maintained by such holder with a
bank located in the continental United States the amount to be distributed to
such holder, for credit to the account of such holder maintained at such bank. 
If the Indenture Trustee shall fail to make any such payment as provided in the
immediately preceding sentence after its receipt of funds at the place and prior
to the time specified above, the Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity
and not as trustee, agrees to compensate such holders for loss of use of funds
at the Debt Rate until such payment is made and the Indenture Trustee shall be
entitled to any interest earned on such funds until such payment is made.  Any
payment made hereunder shall be made without any presentment or surrender of any
Secured Certificate, except that, in the case of the final payment in respect of
any Secured Certificate, such Secured Certificate shall be surrendered to the
Indenture Trustee for cancellation promptly after such payment.  Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Trust Indenture to the contrary, the Indenture
Trustee shall not be required to make, or cause to be made, wire transfers as
aforesaid prior to the first Business Day on which it is practicable for the
Indenture Trustee to do so in view of the time of day when the funds to be so
transferred were received by it if such funds were received after 12:00 noon,
New York City time, at the place of payment.  Prior to the due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Secured Certificate, the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee shall deem and treat the Person in whose name any Secured
Certificate is registered on the Secured Certificate Register as the absolute
owner and holder of such Secured Certificate for the purpose of receiving
payment of all amounts payable with respect to such Secured Certificate and for
all other purposes, and none of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee shall
be affected by any notice to the contrary.  So long as any signatory to the
Participation Agreement or nominee thereof shall be a registered Certificate
Holder, all payments to it shall be made to the account of such Certificate
Holder specified in Schedule I thereto and otherwise in the manner provided in
or pursuant to the Participation Agreement (or, upon consummation of the
Refinancing Transaction, the Refunding Agreement) unless it shall have specified
some other account or manner of payment by notice to the Indenture Trustee
consistent with this Section 2.04.

     (b) The Indenture Trustee, as agent for the Owner Trustee, shall exclude
and withhold at the appropriate rate from each payment of Principal Amount of,
interest on, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and other amounts due hereunder or
under each Secured Certificate (and such exclusion and withholding shall
constitute payment in respect of such Secured Certificate) any and all United
States withholding taxes applicable thereto as required by Law.  The Indenture
Trustee agrees to act as such withholding agent and, in connection therewith,
whenever any present or future United States taxes or similar charges are
required to be withheld with respect to any amounts payable hereunder or in
respect of the Secured Certificates, to withhold such amounts (and such
withholding shall constitute payment in respect of such Secured Certificate)
and timely pay the same to the appropriate authority in the name of and on
behalf of the Certificate Holders, that it will file any necessary United
States withholding tax returns or statements when due, and that as promptly as
possible after the payment thereof it will deliver to each Certificate
Holder (with a copy to the Owner Trustee and Lessee) appropriate receipts
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the payment thereof, together with such additional documentary evidence
as any such Certificate Holder may reasonably request from time to time.

     If a Certificate Holder which is a Non-U.S. Person has furnished to the
Indenture Trustee a properly completed and currently effective U.S. Internal
Revenue Service Form 1001 or W-8 (or such successor form or forms as may be
required by the United States Treasury Department) during the calendar year in
which the payment hereunder or under the Secured Certificate(s) held by such
holder is made (but prior to the making of such payment), or in either of the
two preceding calendar years, and has not notified the Indenture Trustee of the
withdrawal or inaccuracy of such form prior to the date of such payment (and
the Indenture Trustee has no reason to know that any information set forth in
such form is inaccurate), the Indenture Trustee shall withhold only the amount,
if any, required by Law (after taking into account any applicable exemptions
claimed by the Certificate Holder) to be withheld from payments hereunder or
under the Secured Certificates held by such holder in respect of United States
federal income tax (and such withholding shall constitute payment in respect of
such Secured Certificate).  If a Certificate Holder (x) which is a Non-U.S.
Person has furnished to the Indenture Trustee a properly completed and
currently effective U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form 4224 in duplicate (or
such successor certificate, form or forms as may be required by the United
States Treasury Department as necessary in order to avoid withholding of United
States federal income tax), during the calendar year in which the payment is
made (but prior to the making of such payment), and has not notified the
Indenture Trustee of the withdrawal or inaccuracy of such certificate or form
prior to the date of such payment (and the Indenture Trustee has no reason to
know that any information set forth in such form is inaccurate) or (y) which is
a U.S. Person has furnished to the Indenture Trustee a properly completed and
currently effective U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9, if applicable,
prior to a payment hereunder or under the Secured Certificates held by such
holder, no amount shall be withheld from payments in respect of United States
federal income tax.  If any Certificate Holder has notified the Indenture
Trustee that any of the foregoing forms or certificates is withdrawn or
inaccurate, or if such holder has not filed a form claiming an exemption from
United States withholding tax or if the Code or the regulations thereunder or
the administrative interpretation thereof are at any time after the date hereof
amended to require such withholding of United States federal income taxes from
payments under the Secured Certificates held by such holder, the Indenture
Trustee agrees to withhold from each payment due to the relevant Certificate
Holder withholding taxes at the appropriate rate under Law and will, on a
timely basis as more fully provided above, deposit such amounts with an
authorized depository and make such returns, statements, receipts and other
documentary evidence in connection therewith as required by applicable law.

     SECTION 2.05. APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS.

     In the case of each Secured Certificate, each payment of Principal Amount,
Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest or other amounts due thereon shall be
applied:

           First: to the payment of accrued interest on such Secured
      Certificate (as well as any interest on any overdue Principal Amount, any
      overdue Make-Whole Amount, if any, and to the extent permitted by Law,
      any overdue interest and any other overdue amounts thereunder) to the
      date of such payment;

           Second: to the payment of the Principal Amount of such Secured
      Certificate (or a portion thereof) then due thereunder;

           Third: to the payment of Make-Whole Amount, if any, and any other
      amount due hereunder or under such Secured Certificate; and

           Fourth: the balance, if any, remaining thereafter, to the payment of
      the Principal Amount of such Secured Certificate remaining unpaid
      (provided that such Secured Certificate shall not be subject to
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The amounts paid pursuant to clause "Fourth" above shall be applied to the
installments of Principal Amount of such Secured Certificate in the inverse
order of their normal maturity.

     SECTION 2.06. TERMINATION OF INTEREST IN TRUST INDENTURE ESTATE.

     A Certificate Holder shall not, as such, have any further interest in, or
other right with respect to, the Trust Indenture Estate when and if the
Principal Amount of, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest on and other
amounts due under all Secured Certificates held by such Certificate Holder and
all other sums then payable to such Certificate Holder hereunder and under the
other Operative Documents by the Owner Trustee (collectively, the "SECURED
OBLIGATIONS") shall have been paid in full.

     SECTION 2.07. REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF SECURED CERTIFICATES.

     The Indenture Trustee shall keep a register (the "SECURED CERTIFICATE
REGISTER") in which the Indenture Trustee shall provide for the registration of
Secured Certificates and the registration of transfers of Secured Certificates.
No such transfer shall be given effect unless and until registration hereunder
shall have occurred.  The Secured Certificate Register shall be kept at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee.  The Indenture Trustee is
hereby appointed "Secured Certificate Registrar" for the purpose of registering
Secured Certificates and transfers of Secured Certificates as herein provided.
A holder of any Secured Certificate intending to exchange such Secured
Certificate shall surrender such Secured Certificate to the Indenture Trustee
at the Corporate Trust Office, together with a written request from the
registered holder thereof for the issuance of a new Secured Certificate,
specifying, in the case of a surrender for transfer, the name and address of
the new holder or holders.  Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any
Secured Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Secured Certificates of a like aggregate Principal
Amount and of the same series.  At the option of the Certificate Holder,
Secured Certificates may be exchanged for other Secured Certificates of any
authorized denominations of a like aggregate Principal Amount, upon surrender
of the Secured Certificates to be exchanged to the Indenture Trustee at the
Corporate Trust Office.  Whenever any Secured Certificates are so surrendered
for exchange, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Secured Certificates which the Certificate Holder
making the exchange is entitled to receive.  All Secured Certificates issued
upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Secured Certificates (whether
under this Section 2.07 or under Section 2.08 hereof or otherwise under this
Trust Indenture) shall be the valid obligations of the Owner Trustee evidencing 
the same respective obligations, and entitled to the same security and benefits
under this Trust Indenture, as the Secured Certificates surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange.  Every Secured Certificate presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer, shall (if so required by the Indenture
Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by the Certificate
Holder or such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and the Indenture
Trustee shall require evidence satisfactory to it as to the compliance of any
such transfer with the Securities Act, and the securities Laws of any applicable
state.  The Indenture Trustee shall make a notation on each new Secured
Certificate of the amount of all payments of Principal Amount previously made on
the old Secured Certificate or Secured Certificates with respect to which such
new Secured Certificate is issued and the date to which interest on such old
Secured Certificate or Secured Certificates has been paid. Interest shall be
deemed to have been paid on such new Secured Certificate to the date on which
interest shall have been paid on such old Secured Certificate, and all payments
of the Principal Amount marked on such new Secured Certificate, as provided
above, shall be deemed to have been made thereon.  The Owner Trustee shall not
be required to exchange any surrendered Secured Certificates as provided above
during the ten-day period preceding the due date of any payment on such Secured
Certificate.  The Owner Trustee shall in all cases deem the Person in whose name
any Secured Certificate shall have been issued and registered as the absolute
owner and holder of such Secured Certificate for the purpose of receiving
payment of all amounts payable by the Owner Trustee with respect to such Secured
Certificate and for all purposes until a notice stating otherwise is received
from the Indenture Trustee and such change is reflected on the Secured
Certificate Register.  The Indenture Trustee will promptly notify the Owner
Trustee, the Owner Participant and Lessee of each registration of a transfer of
a Secured Certificate.  Any such transferee of a Secured Certificate, by its
acceptance of a Secured Certificate, agrees to the provisions of the
Participation Agreement applicable to Certificate Holders, including Sections 6,
8(c), 8(e), 8(j), 8(k), 8(k), 8(l), 8(q)(A), 8(r), 8(t), 8(ff), 13(b), 13(c),
15(b), 15(c) and 16, and 

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shall be deemed to have represented and warranted (except as provided
above), and covenanted, to the parties to the Participation Agreement as to the
matters represented, warranted and covenanted by the original Loan Participant
in the Participation Agreement.  Subject to compliance by the Certificate Holder
and its transferee (if any) of the requirements set forth in this Section 2.07,
the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall use all reasonable efforts to
issue new Secured Certificates upon transfer or exchange within 10 Business Days
of the date a Secured Certificate is surrendered for transfer or exchange.

     SECTION 2.08. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN SECURED CERTIFICATES.

     If any Secured Certificate shall become mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen, the Owner Trustee shall, upon the written request of the holder of such
Secured Certificate, execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in replacement thereof a new Secured Certificate, payable in the same
Principal Amount dated the same date and captioned as issued in connection with
the Aircraft.  If the Secured Certificate being replaced has become mutilated,
such Secured Certificate shall be surrendered to the Indenture Trustee and a
photocopy thereof shall be furnished to the Owner Trustee.  If the Secured
Certificate being replaced has been destroyed, lost or stolen, the holder of
such Secured Certificate shall furnish to the Owner Trustee, the Owner
Participant and the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant and the
Indenture Trustee harmless and evidence satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the
Owner Participant and the Indenture Trustee of the destruction, loss or theft
of such Secured Certificate and of the ownership thereof.  If a
"qualified institutional buyer" of the type referred to in paragraph
(a)(l)(i)(A), (B), (D) or (E) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act (a "QIB") is
the holder of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Secured Certificate, then the
written indemnity of such QIB, signed by an authorized officer thereof, in favor
of, delivered to and in form reasonably satisfactory to Lessee, the Owner
Participant, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall be accepted as
satisfactory indemnity and security and no further indemnity or security shall
be required as a condition to the execution and delivery of such new Secured
Certificate.  Subject to compliance by the Certificate Holder of the
requirements set forth in this Section 2.08, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner
Trustee shall use all reasonable efforts to issue new Secured Certificates
within 10 Business Days of the date of the written request therefor from the
Certificate Holder.

     SECTION 2.09. PAYMENT OF EXPENSES ON TRANSFER; CANCELLATION.

     (a) No service charge shall be made to a Certificate Holder for any
registration of transfer or exchange of Secured Certificates, but the Indenture
Trustee, as Secured Certificate Registrar, may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Secured
Certificates; provided, however, that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Owner
Participant shall bear costs of registration, transfer or exchange in
connection with the consummation of the Refinancing Transaction.

     (b) The Indenture Trustee shall cancel all Secured Certificates
surrendered for replacement, redemption, transfer, exchange, payment or
cancellation and shall destroy the canceled Secured Certificates.


     SECTION 2.10. MANDATORY REDEMPTIONS OF SECURED CERTIFICATES.

     (a) On the date on which Lessee is required pursuant to Section 10(a)(i)
of the Lease to make payment for an Event of Loss with respect to the Aircraft,
all of the Secured Certificates shall be redeemed in whole at a redemption
price equal to 100% of the unpaid Principal Amount thereof, together with all
accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption and all other amounts
payable hereunder or under the Participation Agreement to the Certificate
Holders but without Make-Whole Amount.

     (b) If the Lease is terminated with respect to the Aircraft by Lessee
pursuant to Section 9 or Section 19(d) thereof and Lessee shall not have
assumed all of the obligations of the Owner Trustee hereunder pursuant to
Section 2.13 and to Section 8(x) of the Participation Agreement, on the date
the Lease is so terminated all the Secured Certificates shall be redeemed in
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Amount  thereof, together with accrued interest thereon to the date of
redemption and all other amounts payable hereunder or under the Participation
Agreement to the Certificate Holders plus Make-Whole Amount, if any.

     SECTION 2.11. VOLUNTARY REDEMPTIONS OF SECURED CERTIFICATES.

     Any or all of the Secured Certificates may be redeemed by the Owner
Trustee in connection with a transaction described in, and subject to the terms
and conditions of, Section 17 of the Participation Agreement upon at least 30
days' revocable prior written notice to the Indenture Trustee and the
Certificate Holders, and the Secured Certificates shall, as provided in Section
17 of the Participation Agreement, be redeemed in whole at a redemption price
equal to 100% of the unpaid Principal Amount thereof, together with accrued
interest thereon to the date of redemption and all other amounts payable
hereunder or under the Participation Agreement to the Certificate Holders plus
Make-Whole Amount, if any.

     SECTION 2.12. REDEMPTIONS; NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.

     (a) Neither any redemption of any Secured Certificate nor any purchase by
the Owner Trustee of any Secured Certificate may be made except to the extent
and in the manner expressly permitted by this Trust Indenture.  No purchase of
any Secured Certificate may be made by the Indenture Trustee.

     (b) Notice of redemption or purchase with respect to the Secured
Certificates shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, mailed not less than 15 nor more than 60 days prior to the
applicable redemption date, to each Certificate Holder of such Secured
Certificates to be redeemed or purchased, at such Certificate Holder's address
appearing in the Secured Certificate Register; provided that, in the case of a
redemption to be made pursuant to Section 2.10(b) or Section 2.11, such notice
shall be revocable and shall be deemed revoked in the event that the Lease does
not in fact terminate on the specified termination date or if notice of such
redemption shall have been given in connection with a refinancing of Secured
Certificates and the Indenture Trustee receives written notice of such
revocation from Lessee or the Owner Trustee not later than three days prior to
the redemption date.  All notices of redemption shall state:  (1) the
redemption date, (2) the applicable basis for determining the redemption price,
(3) that on the redemption date, the redemption price will become due and
payable upon each such Secured Certificate, and that, if any such Secured
Certificates are then outstanding, interest on such Secured Certificates shall
cease to accrue on and after such redemption date, and (4) the place or places
where such Secured Certificates are to be surrendered for payment of the
redemption price.

     (c) On or before the redemption date, the Owner Trustee (or any person on
behalf of the Owner Trustee) shall, to the extent an amount equal to the
redemption price for the Secured Certificates to be redeemed or purchased on
the redemption date shall not then be held in the Trust Indenture Estate,
deposit or cause to be deposited with the Indenture Trustee by 12:00 noon on
the redemption date in immediately available funds the redemption price of the
Secured Certificates to be redeemed or purchased.

     (d) Notice of redemption or purchase having been given as aforesaid (and
not deemed revoked as contemplated in the proviso to Section 2.12(b)), the
Secured Certificates to be redeemed or  purchased shall, on the redemption date,
become due and payable at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or
at any office or agency maintained for such purposes pursuant to Section 2.07,
and from and after such redemption date (unless there shall be a default in the
payment of the redemption price) any such Secured Certificates then outstanding
shall cease to bear interest.  Upon surrender of any such Secured Certificate
for redemption or purchase in accordance with said notice, such Secured
Certificate shall be redeemed at the redemption price.  If any Secured
Certificate called for redemption or purchase shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal amount thereof shall, until
paid, continue to bear interest from the applicable redemption date at the
interest rate in effect for such Secured Certificate as of such redemption date.

     SECTION 2.13. ASSUMPTION OF SECURED CERTIFICATES BY LESSEE.

     If, in accordance with Section 8(x) of the Participation Agreement, and
subject to the provisions of Section 8(o) thereof, Lessee shall assume (on a
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hereunder, under the Secured Certificates and all other Operative Documents
by supplemental indenture satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee (which shall
contain (i) the provisions substantially similar to Sections 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and
12 of the Lease and (ii) other provisions necessary or advisable to effectuate
such assumption), then upon delivery of such supplemental indenture, payment by
Lessee of all expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) for
the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant, delivery by the Guarantor of a
guarantee of the Secured Certificates and other amounts owing to the Certificate
Holders substantially in the form of the Guarantee, and delivery of an opinion
of counsel for Lessee that such assumption has been duly and validly effected,
the Owner Trustee shall be released and discharged from any further obligations
hereunder and under the Secured Certificates and all other Operative Documents
and the Owner Participant shall be released and discharged from any further
obligations under the Participation Agreement and any other Operative Document
to which it is a party, except with respect to any such obligations that accrued
prior thereto.

     SECTION 2.14. OPTION TO PURCHASE SECURED CERTIFICATES.

     Either the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant may, upon the events and
subject to the terms and conditions and for the price set forth in this Section
2.14, purchase all but not less than all of the Secured Certificates
outstanding hereunder, and each Certificate Holder agrees that it will, upon
such events and subject to such terms and conditions and upon receipt of such
price, sell, assign, transfer and convey to such purchaser or its nominee
(without recourse or warranty of any kind except as to its title to the Secured
Certificates and except against Liens on such Secured Certificates arising by,
through or under such holder), all of the right, title and interest of such
Certificate Holder in and to the Trust Indenture Estate, this Trust Indenture
and the Secured Certificates held by it, and such purchaser or its nominee
shall assume all of such holder's obligations under the Participation Agreement
and hereunder.

     Such option to purchase the Secured Certificates may be exercised by the
Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant upon any of the following events, and,
in any such event, the purchase price thereof shall equal for each Secured
Certificate the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount thereof, plus
accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of purchase and all other
amounts (other than the Make-Whole Amount, except as provided in the next
sentence) then payable hereunder or under the Participation Agreement to the
holder thereof.  Such option to purchase the Secured Certificates may be
exercised:  (i) upon an Indenture Trustee Event or (ii) in the event there
shall have occurred and be continuing a Lease Event of Default, provided that
if such option is exercised pursuant to this clause (ii) at a time when there
shall have occurred and be continuing for less than 120 days a Lease Event of
Default, the purchase price thereof shall equal the price provided in the
preceding sentence plus the Make-Whole Amount, if any.

     Such option to purchase the Secured Certificates may be exercised by the
Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant giving written notice of its election of
such option to the Indenture Trustee, which notice shall specify a date for
such purchase not more than 30 days or less than 15 days after the date of such
notice.  The Indenture Trustee shall not exercise any of the remedies hereunder
and, without the consent of the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant, under
the Lease, during the period from the time that an exercise by the Owner
Participant of such option to purchase becomes irrevocable until the date on
which such purchase is required to occur pursuant to the terms of the preceding
sentence.  Such election to purchase the Secured Certificates shall become
irrevocable upon the sixteenth day preceding the date specified in the written
notice described in the first sentence of this paragraph.

     If the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant on or before the date of
such purchase shall so request, the Certificate Holders will comply with all
the provisions of Section 2.07 to enable new Secured Certificates to be issued
to the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant or its nominee in such
denominations as the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant shall request.  All
taxes, charges and expenses required pursuant to Section 2.09 in connection
with the issuance of such new Secured Certificate shall be borne by the Owner
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     SECTION 2.15. SUBORDINATION.

     (a) The Owner Trustee and, by acceptance of its Secured Certificates of
any Series, each Certificate Holder of such Series, hereby agree that no
payment or distribution shall be made on or in respect of the Secured
Obligations owed to such Certificate Holder of such Series, including any
payment or distribution of cash, property or securities after the commencement
of a proceeding of the type referred to in Section 4.02(g) hereof, except as
expressly provided in Article III hereof.

     (b) By the acceptance of its Secured Certificates of any Series (other
than Series A), each Certificate Holder of such Series agrees that in the event
that such Certificate Holder, in its capacity as a Certificate Holder, shall
receive any payment or distribution on any Secured Obligations in respect of
such Series which it is not entitled to receive under this Section 2.15 or
Article III hereof, it will hold any amount so received in trust for the Senior
Holder (as defined in Section 2.15(c) hereof) and will forthwith turn over such
payment to the Indenture Trustee in the form received to be applied as provided
in Article III hereof.

     (c) As used in this Section 2.15, the term "SENIOR HOLDER" shall mean, (i)
the Certificate Holders of Series A until the Secured Obligations in respect of
Series A Secured Certificates have been paid in full and (ii) after the Secured
Obligations in respect of Series A Secured Certificates have been paid in full,
the Certificate Holders of Series B until the Secured Obligations in respect of
Series B Secured Certificates have been paid in full.


                                  ARTICLE III

                    RECEIPT, DISTRIBUTION AND APPLICATION OF
                     INCOME FROM THE TRUST INDENTURE ESTATE

     SECTION 3.01. BASIC RENT DISTRIBUTION.

     Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.03 hereof, each installment of
Basic Rent or Interim Rent, any payment of interest on overdue installments of
Basic Rent and any payment received by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 4.03 hereof shall be promptly distributed in the following order of
priority:

FIRST, (i)   so much of such installment or payment as shall be required to pay
             in full the aggregate amount of the payment or payments of         
             Principal Amount and interest and other amounts (as well as any
             interest on any overdue Principal Amount and, to the extent
             permitted by applicable law, on any overdue interest and any other
             overdue amounts) then due under all Series A Secured Certificates
             shall be distributed to the Certificate Holders of Series A
             ratably, without priority of one over the other, in the proportion
             that the amount of such payment or payments then due under each
             Series A Secured Certificate bears to the aggregate amount of the
             payments then due under all Series A Secured Certificates;

       (ii)  after giving effect to paragraph (i) above, so
             much of such installment or payment remaining as shall be  required
             to pay in full the aggregate amount of the payment or payments of
             Principal Amount and interest and other amounts (as well as any
             interest on any overdue Principal Amount and, to the extent
             permitted by applicable law, on any overdue interest and any other
             overdue amounts) then due under all Series B Secured Certificates
             shall be distributed to the Certificate Holders of Series B
             ratably, without priority of one over the other, in the proportion
             that the amount of such payment or payments then due under each
             Series B Secured Certificate bears to the aggregate amount of the
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      (iii)  after giving effect to paragraph (ii) above, so
             much of such installment or payment remaining as shall be
             required to pay in full the aggregate
             amount of the payment or payments of Principal Amount and
             interest and other amounts (as well as any interest on any overdue
             Principal Amount and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, on
             any overdue interest and any other overdue amounts) then due under
             all Series C Secured Certificates shall be distributed to the
             Certificate Holders of Series C ratably, without priority of one
             over the other, in the proportion that the amount of such payment
             or payments then due under each Series C Secured Certificate bears
             to the aggregate amount of the payments then due under all Series C
             Secured Certificates; and 

SECOND,      the balance, if any, of such installment remaining thereafter 
             shall be distributed to the Owner Trustee; provided, however,
             that if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
             then such balance shall not be distributed as provided in this
             clause "Second" but shall be held by the Indenture Trustee as part
             of the Trust Indenture Estate and invested in accordance with
             Section 5.09 hereof until whichever of the following shall first
             occur: (i) all Events of Default shall have been cured or waived,
             in which event such balance shall be distributed as provided in
             this clause "Second" without reference to this proviso, (ii)
             Section 3.03 hereof shall be applicable, in which event such
             balance shall be distributed in accordance with the provisions of
             such Section 3.03, or (iii) the 120th day after the receipt of such
             payment in which case such payment shall be distributed as provided
             in this clause "Second" without reference to this proviso.


     SECTION 3.02. EVENT OF LOSS; REPLACEMENT; VOLUNTARY TERMINATION;
REFINANCING.

     Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.03 hereof, any payments received
by the Indenture Trustee (i) with respect to the Aircraft as the result of an
Event of Loss, (ii) pursuant to a voluntary termination of the Lease pursuant
to Section 9 or 19(d) thereof, or (iii) in connection with a refinancing of the
Secured Certificates pursuant to Section 17 of the Participation Agreement
shall be applied to redemption of the Secured Certificates and to all other
amounts payable hereunder or to the Indenture Trustee or any Certificate Holder
under the Participation Agreement by applying such funds in the following order
of priority:

FIRST,   (a)   to reimburse the Indenture Trustee and the Certificate Holders
               for any reasonable costs or expenses incurred in connection with
               such redemption for which they are entitled to reimbursement, or
               indemnity by Lessee, under the Operative Documents and then (b)
               to pay any other amounts then due to the Indenture Trustee and
               the Certificate Holders under this Trust Indenture, the
               Participation Agreement or the Secured Certificates;

SECOND,  (i)   to pay the amounts specified in paragraph (i) of clause "Third"
               of Section 3.03 hereof plus Make-Whole Amount, if any, then due
               and payable in respect of the Series A Secured Certificates;

         (ii)  after giving effect to paragraph (i) above, to pay
               the amounts specified in paragraph (ii) of clause "Third" of
               Section 3.03 hereof plus Make-Whole Amount, if any, then due
               and payable in respect of the Series B Secured Certificates;
               and

         (iii) after giving effect to paragraph (ii) above, to pay
               the amounts specified in paragraph (iii) of clause "Third" of
               Section 3.03 hereof plus Make-Whole Amount, if any, then due and
               payable in respect of the Series C Secured Certificates; and

THIRD,   as provided in clause "Fourth" of Section 3.03 hereof;


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provided, however, that if a Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine shall
be substituted for the Airframe or Engine subject to such Event of Loss as
provided in Section 10 of the Lease and in accordance with Section 5.06 hereof,
any insurance, condemnation or similar proceeds which result from such Event of
Loss and are paid over to the Indenture Trustee shall be held by the Indenture
Trustee as permitted by Section 6.04 hereof (provided that such moneys shall be
invested as provided in Section 5.09 hereof) as additional security for the
obligations of Lessee under the Lessee Operative Documents and, unless
otherwise applied pursuant to the Lease, such proceeds (and such investment
earnings) shall be released to Lessee at Lessee's written request upon the
release of such damaged Airframe or Engine and the replacement thereof as
provided in the Lease.

     SECTION 3.03. PAYMENTS AFTER EVENT OF DEFAULT.

     Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.04 hereof, all payments received
and amounts held or realized by the Indenture Trustee (including any amounts
realized by the Indenture Trustee from the exercise of any remedies pursuant to
Section 15 of the Lease or Article IV hereof) after both an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing and the Secured Certificates shall have
become due and payable pursuant to Section 4.04(b) hereof, as well as all
payments or amounts then held by the Indenture Trustee as part of the Trust
Indenture Estate, shall be promptly distributed by the Indenture Trustee in the
following order of priority:

FIRST,   so much of such payments or amounts as shall be required to reimburse
         the Indenture Trustee for any tax, expense or other loss
         (including, without limitation, all amounts to be expended at the      
         expense of, or charged upon the tolls, rents, revenues, issues,
         products and profits of, the property included in the Trust Indenture
         Estate (all such property being herein called the "MORTGAGED PROPERTY")
         pursuant to Section 4.05(b) hereof) incurred by the Indenture Trustee
         (to the extent not previously reimbursed), the expenses of any sale,
         taking or other proceeding, reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses,
         court costs, and any other expenditures incurred or expenditures or
         advances made by the Indenture Trustee or the Certificate Holders in
         the protection, exercise or enforcement of any right, power or remedy
         or any damages sustained by the Indenture Trustee or any Certificate
         Holder, liquidated or otherwise, upon such Event of Default shall be
         applied by the Indenture Trustee as between itself and the Certificate
         Holders in reimbursement of such expenses and any other expenses for
         which the Indenture Trustee or the Certificate Holders are entitled to
         reimbursement under any Operative Document and in the case the
         aggregate amount to be so distributed is insufficient to pay as
         aforesaid, then ratably, without priority of one over the other, in
         proportion to the amounts owed each hereunder;


SECOND,  so much of such payments or amounts remaining as shall be
         required to reimburse the then existing or prior
         Certificate Holders for payments made pursuant to Section
         5.03 hereof (to the extent not previously reimbursed)
         shall be distributed to such then existing or prior
         Certificate Holders ratably, without priority of one over
         the other, in accordance with the amount of the payment
         or payments made by each such then existing or prior
         Certificate Holder pursuant to said Section 5.03 hereof;

THIRD,   (i)  so much of such payments or amounts remaining as shall be required
         to pay in full the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all Series A
         Secured Certificates, and the accrued but unpaid interest and other
         amounts due thereon and all other Secured Obligations in respect of the
         Series A Secured Certificates to the date of distribution, shall be
         distributed to the Certificate Holders of Series A, and in case the
         aggregate amount so to be distributed shall be insufficient to pay in
         full as aforesaid, then ratably, without priority of one over the
         other, in the proportion that the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of
         all Series A Secured Certificates held by each holder plus the accrued
         but unpaid interest and other amounts due hereunder or thereunder to
         the date of distribution, bears to the aggregate unpaid Principal
         Amount of all Series A Secured 


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              Certificates held by all such holders plus
              the accrued but unpaid interest and other amounts due thereon to
              the date of distribution;


         (ii) after giving effect to paragraph (i) above, so much
              of such payments or amounts remaining as shall be required to
              pay in full the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all Series
              B Secured Certificates, and the accrued but unpaid interest and
              other amounts due thereon and all other Secured Obligations in
              respect of the Series B Secured Certificates to the date of
              distribution, shall be distributed to the Certificate Holders
              of Series B, and in case the aggregate amount so to be
              distributed shall be insufficient to pay in full as aforesaid,
              then ratably, without priority of one over the other, in the
              proportion that the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all
              Series B Secured Certificates held by each holder plus the
              accrued but unpaid interest and other amounts due hereunder       
              or thereunder to the date of distribution, bears to the aggregate
              unpaid Principal Amount of all Series B Secured Certificates held
              by all such holders plus the accrued but unpaid interest and other
              amounts due thereon to the date of distribution; and

        (iii) after giving effect to paragraph (ii) above, so much
              of such payments or amounts remaining as shall be required to
              pay in full the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all Series C
              Secured Certificates, and the accrued but unpaid interest and
              other amounts due thereon and all other Secured Obligations in
              respect of the Series C Secured Certificates to the date of
              distribution, shall be distributed to the Certificate Holders of
              Series C, and in case the aggregate amount so to be distributed
              shall be insufficient to pay in full as aforesaid, then ratably,
              without priority of one over the other, in the proportion that the
              aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all Series C Secured
              Certificates held by each holder plus the accrued but unpaid
              interest and other amounts due hereunder or thereunder to the date
              of distribution, bears to the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of
              all Series C Secured Certificates held by all such holders plus
              the accrued but unpaid interest and other amounts due thereon to
              the date of distribution; and

FOURTH, the balance, if any, of such payments or amounts remaining thereafter
        shall be distributed to the Owner Trustee.

     No Make-Whole Amount shall be due and payable on the Secured Certificates
as a consequence of the acceleration of the Secured Certificates

     SECTION 3.04. CERTAIN PAYMENTS.

     (a) Any payments received by the Indenture Trustee for which no provision
as to the application thereof is made in this Trust Indenture and for which
such provision is made in the Lease, the Participation Agreement or any other
Operative Document shall be applied forthwith to the purpose for which such
payment was made in accordance with the terms of the Lease, the Participation
Agreement or such other Operative Document, as the case may be.

     (b) The Indenture Trustee will distribute promptly upon receipt any
indemnity payment received by it from the Owner Trustee or Lessee in respect of
(i) the Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any Certificate
Holder, (iii) the Subordination Agent, (iv) the Liquidity Provider, and (v) the
Pass Through Trustees, in each case whether pursuant to Section 7 of the
Participation Agreement or as Supplemental Rent, directly to the Person
entitled thereto.  Any payment received by the Indenture Trustee under clause
(b) of the third paragraph of Section 2.02 shall be distributed to the
Subordination Agent to be distributed in accordance with the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement, and any payment received by the
Indenture Trustee under clause (c) of the third paragraph of Section 2.02 shall
be distributed directly to the Persons entitled thereto.


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     (c) [Intentionally Omitted]

     (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article
III, any amounts received by the Indenture Trustee which constitute Excluded
Payments shall be distributed promptly upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee
directly to the Person or Persons entitled thereto.

     (e) Notwithstanding any provision of this Trust Indenture to the contrary,
any amounts held by the Indenture Trustee that would, but for the provisions of
Section 3.03 hereof, otherwise be distributed to Lessee shall, notwithstanding
the provisions of said Section, be distributed to Lessee unless and until a
Lease Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

     SECTION 3.05. OTHER PAYMENTS.

     Any payments received by the Indenture Trustee for which no provision as
to the application thereof is made in the Lease, the Participation Agreement,
elsewhere in this Trust Indenture or in any other Operative Document shall be
distributed by the Indenture Trustee to the extent received or realized at any
time (i) prior to the payment in full of all Secured Obligations due the
Certificate Holders, in the order of priority specified in Section 3.01 hereof
subject to the proviso thereto, and (ii) after payment in full of all Secured
Obligations due the Certificate Holders, in the following order of priority:

FIRST,         to the extent payments or amounts described in clause "First" 
               of Section 3.03 hereof are otherwise obligations of Lessee
               under the Operative Documents or for which Lessee is obligated
               to indemnify against thereunder, in the manner provided in
               clause "First" of Section 3.03 hereof, and

SECOND,        in the manner provided in clause "Fourth" of Section 3.03 hereof.

               Further, and except as otherwise provided in Sections 3.02,
               3.03 and 3.04 hereof, all payments received and amounts realized
               by the Indenture Trustee under the Lease or otherwise with
               respect to the Aircraft (including, without limitation, all
               amounts realized upon the sale or release of the Aircraft after
               the termination of the Lease with respect thereto), to the
               extent received or realized at any time after payment in full of
               all Secured Obligations due the Certificate Holders, shall be
               distributed by the Indenture Trustee in the order of priority
               specified in clause (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence
               of this Section 3.05.



     SECTION 3.06.   PAYMENTS TO OWNER TRUSTEE.


     Any amounts distributed hereunder by the Indenture Trustee to the Owner
Trustee shall be paid to the Owner Trustee (within the time limits contemplated
by Section 2.04(a)) by wire transfer of funds of the type received by the
Indenture Trustee at such office and to such account or accounts of such entity
or entities as shall be designated by notice from the Owner Trustee to the
Indenture Trustee from time to time.  The Owner Trustee hereby notifies the
Indenture Trustee that unless and until the Indenture Trustee receives notice
to the contrary from the Owner Trustee, all amounts to be distributed to the
Owner Trustee pursuant to clause "Second" of Section 3.01 hereof shall be
distributed by wire transfer of funds of the type received by the Indenture
Trustee to the Owner Participant's account (within the time limits contemplated
by Section 2.04(a)) specified in Schedule I to the Participation Agreement.

     SECTION 3.07 APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS UNDER GUARANTEE.

     All payments received by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee
shall be distributed forthwith by the Indenture Trustee in the same order of
priority, and in the same manner, as it would have distributed the payment in
respect of which such payment under the Guarantee was received.



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                                   ARTICLE IV

                     COVENANTS OF OWNER TRUSTEE; EVENTS OF
                     DEFAULT; REMEDIES OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE

     SECTION 4.01. COVENANTS OF OWNER TRUSTEE.

     The Owner Trustee hereby covenants and agrees (the covenants and
agreements only in clause (b) below being made by the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity) as follows:

           (a) the Owner Trustee will duly and punctually pay the Principal
      Amount of, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest on and other amounts
      due under the Secured Certificates and hereunder in accordance with the
      terms of the Secured Certificates and this Trust Indenture and all
      amounts, if any, payable by it to the Certificate Holders under the
      Participation Agreement;

           (b) the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity covenants and
      agrees that it shall not, directly or indirectly, cause or permit to
      exist a Lessor Lien attributable to it in its individual capacity with
      respect to the Aircraft or any other portion of the Trust Estate; that it
      will promptly, at its own expense, take such action as may be necessary
      to duly discharge such Lessor Lien attributable to it in its individual
      capacity; and that it will make restitution to the Trust Estate for any   
      actual diminution of the assets of the Trust Estate resulting from such
      Lessor Liens attributable to it in its individual capacity;

           (c) in the event the Owner Trustee shall have Actual Knowledge of an
      Event of Default, a Default or an Event of Loss, the Owner Trustee will
      give prompt written notice of such Event of Default, Default or Event of
      Loss to the Indenture Trustee, each Certificate Holder, Lessee and the
      Owner Participant;

           (d) the Owner Trustee will furnish to the Indenture Trustee,
      promptly upon receipt thereof, duplicates or copies of all reports,
      notices, requests, demands, certificates and other instruments furnished
      to the Owner Trustee under the Lease, including, without limitation, a
      copy of any Termination Notice and a copy of each report or notice
      received pursuant to Section 9(a) and 11(c) of the Lease to the extent
      that the same shall not have been furnished to the Indenture Trustee
      pursuant to the Lease;

           (e) except pursuant to the Operative Documents or with the consent
      of the Indenture Trustee (acting pursuant to instructions given in
      accordance with Section 9.01 hereof), the Owner Trustee will not contract
      for, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Debt, and will not
      guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect
      of assuring another's payment or performance on any obligation or
      capability of so doing, or otherwise), endorse or otherwise be or become
      contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the Debt
      of any other person; and

           (f) the Owner Trustee will not enter into any business or other
      activity other than the business of owning the Aircraft, the leasing
      thereof to Lessee and the carrying out of the transactions contemplated
      hereby and by the Lease, the Participation Agreement, the Trust Agreement
      and the other Operative Documents.

     SECTION 4.02. EVENT OF DEFAULT.

     "EVENT OF DEFAULT" means any of the following events (whatever the reason
for such Event of Default and whether such event shall be voluntary or
involuntary or come about or be effected by operation of Law or pursuant to or
in compliance with any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order,
rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):


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           (a) any Lease Event of Default (provided that any such Lease Event
      of Default caused solely by a failure of Lessee to pay to the Owner
      Trustee or the Owner Participant when due any amount that is included in
      the definition of Excluded Payments shall not constitute an Event of
      Default unless notice is given by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture
      Trustee that such failure shall constitute an Event of Default); or

           (b) the failure of the Owner Trustee to pay when due any payment of
      Principal Amount of, interest on, Make-Whole Amount, if any, or other
      amount due and payable under any Secured Certificate or hereunder (other
      than any such failure arising by virtue of a tax withheld pursuant to
      Section 2.04(b) hereof or as a result of a Lease Event of Default or a
      Lease Default) and such failure shall have continued unremedied for ten
      Business Days in the case of any payment of Principal Amount or interest
      or Make-Whole Amount, if any, thereon and, in the case of any other
      amount, for ten Business Days after the Owner Trustee or the Owner
      Participant receives written demand from the Indenture Trustee or any
      Certificate Holder; or

           (c) any Lien required to be discharged by the Owner Trustee, in its
      trust capacity pursuant to Section 8(h) of the Participation Agreement,
      or by the Owner Participant pursuant to Section 8(h) of the Participation
      Agreement shall remain undischarged for a period of 30 days after the
      Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant shall have received written
      notice from the Indenture Trustee or any Certificate Holder of such Lien;
      or

           (d) any representation or warranty made by the Owner Participant or
      the Owner Trustee (but not in any manner relating to its individual
      capacity) herein, in the Participation Agreement (or, upon consummation
      of the Refinancing Transaction, the Refunding Agreement) or in any
      certificate furnished by the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee to
      the Indenture Trustee or any Certificate Holder in connection with the
      transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents shall prove to have
      been false or incorrect when made in any material respect and continues
      to be material; and if such misrepresentation is capable of being
      corrected and if such correction is being sought diligently, such
      misrepresentation shall not have been corrected within 60 days (or,
      without affecting Section 4.02(f) hereof, in the case of the
      representations made in Section 8(c) of the Participation Agreement as to
      the citizenship of the Owner Participant as soon as is reasonably
      practicable but in any event within 60 days) following notice thereof
      from the Indenture Trustee or any Certificate Holder to the Owner Trustee
      or the Owner Participant, as the case may be; or

           (e) other than as provided in (c) above or (f) below, any failure by
      the Owner Trustee or Owner Participant to observe or perform any other
      covenant or obligation of the Owner Trustee or Owner Participant, as the
      case may be, for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee or the Certificate
      Holders contained in the Participation Agreement, the Secured
      Certificates or this Trust Indenture which is not remedied within a
      period of 60 days after notice thereof has been given to the Owner
      Trustee and the Owner Participant; or

           (f) if at any time when the Aircraft is registered under the laws of
      the United States, the Owner Participant shall not be a Citizen of the
      United States, and as the result thereof the registration of the Aircraft
      under the Federal Aviation Act, and regulations then applicable
      thereunder, shall cease to be effective; provided that no Event of
      Default shall be deemed to have occurred under this paragraph (f) unless
      such circumstances continue unremedied for more than 60 days after
      the Owner Participant has Actual Knowledge of the state of facts that
      resulted in such ineffectiveness and of such loss of citizenship; or

           (g) at any time either (i) the commencement of an involuntary case
      or other proceeding in respect of the Owner Participant, the Owner
      Trustee or the Trust Estate under the federal bankruptcy Laws, as now
      constituted or hereafter amended, or any other applicable federal or
      state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar Law in the United States or
      seeking the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian,
      trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of the Owner 
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     Trustee or the Trust Estate or for all or substantially all of its
     property, or seeking the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs and the
     continuation of any such case or other proceeding undismissed and unstayed
     for a period of 90 consecutive days; or (ii) the commencement by the Owner
     Participant, the Owner Trustee or the Trust Estate of a voluntary case or
     proceeding under the federal bankruptcy Laws, as now constituted or
     hereafter amended, or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
     insolvency or other similar Law in the United States, or the consent by the
     Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee or the Trust Estate to the appointment
     of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
     custodian, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Owner
     Participant, the Owner Trustee or the Trust Estate or for all or
     substantially all of its property, or the making by the Owner Participant,
     the Owner Trustee or the Trust Estate of any assignment for the benefit of
     creditors or the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee shall take any
     action to authorize any of the foregoing; provided, however, that an event
     referred to in this Section 4.02(g) with respect to the Owner Participant
     shall not constitute an Event of Default if within 30 days of the
     commencement of the case or proceeding a final non-appealable order,
     judgment or decree shall be entered in such case or proceeding by a court
     or a trustee, custodian, receiver or liquidator, to the effect that, no
     part of the Trust Estate (except for the Owner Participant's beneficial
     interest therein) and no right, title or interest under the Trust Indenture
     Estate shall be included in, or be subject to, any declaration or
     adjudication of, or proceedings with respect to, the bankruptcy, insolvency
     or liquidation of the Owner Participant referred to in this Section
     4.02(g).

     SECTION 4.03. CERTAIN RIGHTS.

     The Indenture Trustee shall give the Certificate Holders, the Owner
Trustee and the Owner Participant prompt written notice of any Event of Default
of which the Indenture Trustee has Actual Knowledge and, if any such Event of
Default results from a Lease Event of Default, shall give the Certificate
Holders, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant not less than ten Business
Days' prior written notice of the date (the "ENFORCEMENT DATE") on or after
which the Indenture Trustee may commence and consummate the exercise of any
remedy or remedies described in Section 4.04, 4.05 or 4.06 hereof, or the
exercise of any remedy or remedies pursuant to the provisions of Section 15 of  
the Lease.  If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
Owner Trustee shall have the following rights hereunder, any of which may be
exercised directly by the Owner Participant.

     If as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default in respect of the
nonpayment by Lessee of Interim Rent or Basic Rent due under the Lease, the
Indenture Trustee shall have insufficient funds to make any payment of
Principal Amount and interest on any Secured Certificate on the day it becomes
due and payable, the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant may, but shall not
be obligated to, pay the Indenture Trustee prior to the Enforcement Date, in
the manner provided in Section 2.04 hereof, for application in accordance with
Section 3.01 hereof, an amount equal to the portion of the Principal Amount and
interest (including interest, if any, on any overdue payments of such portion
of Principal Amount and interest) then due and payable on the Secured
Certificates, and, unless the Owner Trustee has cured Events of Default in
respect of payments of Basic Rent on each of the three immediately preceding
Basic Rent payment dates, or on the Commencement Date and each of the two
immediately succeeding Basic Rent payment dates in respect of payment of
Interim Rent, or the Owner Trustee has cured six previous Events of Default in
respect of payments of Interim Rent and/or Basic Rent, such payment by the
Owner Trustee shall, solely for purposes of this Trust Indenture be deemed to
cure any Event of Default which would otherwise have arisen on account of the
nonpayment by Lessee of such installment of Interim Rent or Basic Rent (but not
any other Default or Event of Default which shall have occurred and be
continuing).

     If any Event of Default (other than in respect of the nonpayment of
Interim Rent or Basic Rent by Lessee) which can be cured has occurred, the
Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant may, but shall not be obligated to, cure
such Event of Default prior to the Enforcement Date as is necessary to
accomplish the observance or performance of the defaulted covenant, condition
or agreement.

     Except as hereinafter in this Section 4.03 provided, the Owner Trustee
shall not, as a result of exercising the right to cure any such Event of
Default, obtain any Lien on any of the Mortgaged Property or any Rent payable
under the Lease for or on account of costs or expenses incurred in connection
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right, nor shall any claim of the Owner Trustee against Lessee or any other
party for the repayment of such costs or expenses impair the prior right and
security interest of the Indenture Trustee in and to the Mortgaged Property. 
Upon any payment by the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant pursuant to the
first or second preceding paragraphs of this Section 4.03, the Owner Trustee or
the Owner Participant, as the case may be, shall be subrogated to the rights of
the Indenture Trustee and the Certificate Holders in respect of the Interim
Rent or Basic Rent which was overdue at the time of such payment and interest
payable by Lessee on account of its being overdue and any Supplemental Rent in
respect of the reimbursement of amounts paid by Owner Trustee pursuant to the
immediately preceding paragraph (but in either case shall have no rights as a
secured party hereunder), and thereafter, the Owner Trustee or the Owner
Participant, as the case may be, shall be entitled to receive such overdue
Interim Rent or Basic Rent or Supplemental Rent, as the case may be, and
interest thereon upon receipt thereof by the Indenture Trustee (and shall be
entitled to bring an action against Lessee to enforce such payment); provided,
however, that (i) if the Principal Amount and interest on the Secured
Certificates shall have become due and payable pursuant to Section 4.04(b)
hereof, such subrogation shall, until the Principal Amount of, interest on,     
Make-Whole Amount, if any, and all other amounts due with respect to all
Secured Certificates shall have been paid in full, be subordinate to the rights
of the Indenture Trustee and the Certificate Holders in respect of such payment
of overdue Interim Rent, Basic Rent, Supplemental Rent and such interest and
(ii) the Owner Trustee shall not be entitled to seek to recover any such
payment (or any payment in lieu thereof) except pursuant to the foregoing right
of subrogation by demand or suit for damages.

     SECTION 4.04. REMEDIES.

     (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.14 hereof, if an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and so long as the same shall
continue unremedied, then and in every such case the Indenture Trustee may,
subject to the second paragraph of this Section 4.04(a), on and after the
Enforcement Date if such Event of Default results from a Lease Event of
Default, exercise any or all of the rights and powers and pursue any and all of
the remedies pursuant to this Article IV and shall have and may exercise all of
the rights and remedies of a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code
and, in the event such Event of Default is also a Lease Event of Default, any
and all of the remedies pursuant to Section 15 of the Lease and may take
possession of all or any part of the properties covered or intended to be
covered by the Lien created hereby or pursuant hereto and may exclude the Owner
Participant, the Owner Trustee and Lessee and all persons claiming under any of
them wholly or partly therefrom, provided, that the Indenture Trustee shall
give the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant twenty days' prior written
notice of its intention to sell the Aircraft or to foreclose the Lien of this
Indenture.  Without limiting any of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed
that the Indenture Trustee may exercise any right of sale of the Aircraft
available to it, even though it shall not have taken possession of the Aircraft
and shall not have possession thereof at the time of such sale.

     Anything in this Trust Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Indenture Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any remedy hereunder as a
result of an Event of Default which arises solely by reason of one or more
events or circumstances which constitute a Lease Event of Default unless the
Indenture Trustee as security assignee of the Owner Trustee shall have
exercised or concurrently be exercising one or more of the remedies provided
for in Section 15 of the Lease to terminate the Lease or take possession and/or
sell the Aircraft; provided, however, that such requirement to exercise one or
more of such remedies under the Lease shall not apply in circumstances where
the Indenture Trustee is, and has been, for a continuous period in excess of 60
days or such other period as may be specified in Section 1110(a)(1)(A) of the
Bankruptcy Code (such 60-day or other period being the "SECTION 1110 PERIOD"),
involuntarily stayed or prohibited by applicable law or court order from
exercising such remedies under the Lease (a "CONTINUOUS STAY PERIOD"); provided
further, however, that the requirement to exercise one or more of such remedies
under the Lease shall nonetheless be applicable during a Continuous Stay Period
subsequent to the expiration of the Section 1110 Period to the extent that the
continuation of such Continuous Stay Period subsequent to the expiration of the
Section 1110 Period (A) results from an agreement by the trustee or the
debtor-in-possession in such proceeding during the Section 1110 Period with the
approval of the relevant court to perform the Lease in accordance with Section
1110(a)(1)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code and continues to perform as required by
Section 1110(a)(1)(A-B) of the Bankruptcy Code or (B) is an extension of the
Section 1110 Period with the consent of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 1110(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or (C) results from Lessee's assumption
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Lease pursuant to Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code or (D) is the consequence
of the Indenture Trustee's own failure to give  any requisite notice to any
Person.  In the event that the applicability of Section 1110 of the Bankruptcy
Code to the Aircraft is being contested by Lessee in judicial proceedings, so
long as the Indenture Trustee fails to participate in such proceedings, the
Owner Trustee shall have the right (without affecting in any way any rights or
remedy of the Indenture Trustee hereunder) to participate in such proceedings.

     It is expressly understood and agreed that, subject only to the
immediately preceding paragraph, the inability, described in such paragraphs,
of the Indenture Trustee to exercise any right or remedy under the Lease shall
in no event and under no circumstances prevent the Indenture Trustee from
exercising any or all of its rights, powers and remedies under this Trust
Indenture, including, without limitation, this Article IV.

     (b) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then and
in every such case the Indenture Trustee may (and shall, upon receipt of a
written demand therefor from a Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders),
subject to Section 4.03 hereof, at any time, by delivery of written notice or
notices to the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant, declare all the Secured
Certificates to be due and payable, whereupon the unpaid Principal Amount of
all Secured Certificates then outstanding, together with accrued but unpaid
interest thereon (without Make-Whole Amount) and other amounts due thereunder,
shall immediately become due and payable without presentment, demand, protest
or notice, all of which are hereby waived.

     This Section 4.04(b), however, is subject to the condition that, if at any
time after the Principal Amount of the Secured Certificates shall have become
so due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the
money so due, or any thereof, shall be entered, all overdue payments of
interest upon the Secured Certificates and all other amounts payable under the
Secured Certificates (except the Principal Amount of the Secured Certificates
which by such declaration shall have become payable) shall have been duly paid,
and every other Default and Event of Default with respect to any covenant or
provision of this Trust Indenture shall have been cured, then and in every such
case a Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders may (but shall not be
obligated to), by written instrument filed with the Indenture Trustee, rescind
and annul the Indenture Trustee's declaration and its consequences; but no such
rescission or annulment shall extend to or affect any subsequent Default or
Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

     (c) Any Certificate Holder shall be entitled, at any sale pursuant to
Section 15 of the Lease or this Section 4.04, to credit against any purchase
price bid at such sale by such holder all or any part of the unpaid obligations
owing to such Certificate Holder and secured by the Lien of this Trust
Indenture (but only to the extent that such purchase price would have been paid
to such Certificate Holder pursuant to Article III hereof if such purchase
price were paid in cash and the foregoing provisions of this subsection (c)
were not given effect).

     (d) In the event of any sale of the Trust Indenture Estate, or any part
thereof, pursuant to any judgment or decree of any court or otherwise in
connection with the enforcement of any of the terms of this Trust Indenture,    
the unpaid Principal Amount of all Secured Certificates then outstanding,
together with accrued interest thereon, and other amounts due thereunder, shall
immediately become due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or
notice, all of which are hereby waived.

     (e) Notwithstanding anything contained herein, so long as the Pass Through
Trustee under any Pass Through Trust Agreement or the Subordination Agent on
its behalf is a Certificate Holder, the Indenture Trustee will not be
authorized or empowered to acquire title to any Mortgaged Property or take any
action with respect to any Mortgaged Property so acquired by it if such
acquisition or action would cause any Trust to fail to qualify as a "grantor
trust" for federal income tax purposes.

     SECTION 4.05. RETURN OF AIRCRAFT, ETC.

     (a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, subject
to Sections 4.03 and 4.04 hereof, at the request of the Indenture Trustee, the
Owner Trustee shall promptly execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee such
instruments of title and other documents as the Indenture Trustee may deem
necessary or advisable to enable the Indenture Trustee or an agent or
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time or times and place or places as the Indenture Trustee may specify, to
obtain possession of all or any part of the Mortgaged Property included in
the Trust Indenture Estate to which the Indenture Trustee shall at the time be
entitled hereunder. If the Owner Trustee shall for any reason fail to execute
and deliver such instruments and documents after such request by the Indenture
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee may (i) obtain a judgment conferring on the
Indenture Trustee the right to immediate possession and requiring the Owner
Trustee to execute and deliver such instruments and documents to the Indenture
Trustee, to the entry of which judgment the Owner Trustee hereby specifically
consents to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and (ii) pursue all
or part of such Mortgaged Property wherever it may be found and, in the event
that a Lease Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, may enter any of
the premises of Lessee wherever such Mortgaged Property may be or be supposed
to be and search for such Mortgaged Property and take possession of and remove
such Mortgaged Property.  All expenses of obtaining such judgment or of
pursuing, searching for and taking such property shall, until paid, be secured
by the Lien of this Trust Indenture.

     (b) Upon every such taking of possession, the Indenture Trustee may, from
time to time, at the expense of the Mortgaged Property, make all such
expenditures for maintenance, use, operation, storage, insurance, leasing,
control, management, disposition, modifications or alterations to and of the
Mortgaged Property, as it may deem proper.  In each such case, the Indenture
Trustee shall have the right to maintain, use, operate, store, insure, lease,
control, manage, dispose of, modify or alter the Mortgaged Property and to
carry on the business and to exercise all rights and powers of the Owner
Participant and the Owner Trustee relating to the Mortgaged Property, as the
Indenture Trustee shall deem best, including the right to enter into any and
all such agreements with respect to the maintenance, use, operation, storage,
insurance, leasing, control, management, disposition, modification or
alteration of the Mortgaged Property or any part thereof as the Indenture
Trustee may determine, and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to collect
and receive directly all tolls, rents (including Rent), revenues, issues,
income, products and profits of the Mortgaged Property and every part thereof,
except Excluded Payments, without prejudice, however, to the right of the
Indenture Trustee under any provision of this Trust Indenture to collect and
receive all cash held by, or required to be deposited with, the Indenture
Trustee hereunder.  Such tolls, rents (including Rent), revenues, issues,
income, products and profits shall be applied to pay the expenses of the
maintenance, use, operation, storage, insurance, leasing, control, management,
disposition, improvement, modification or alteration of the Mortgaged Property
and of conducting the business thereof, and to make all payments which the
Indenture Trustee may be required or may elect to make, if any, for taxes,
assessments, insurance or other proper charges upon the Mortgaged Property or
any part thereof (including the employment of engineers and accountants to
examine, inspect and make reports upon the properties and books and records of
the Owner Trustee), and all other payments which the Indenture Trustee may be
required or authorized to make under any provision of this Trust Indenture, as
well as just and reasonable compensation for the services of the Indenture
Trustee, and of all persons properly engaged and employed by the Indenture
Trustee with respect hereto.

     SECTION 4.06. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.

     Each and every right, power and remedy given to the Indenture Trustee
specifically or otherwise in this Trust Indenture shall be cumulative and shall
be in addition to every other right, power and remedy herein specifically given
or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute, and each and
every right, power and remedy whether specifically herein given or otherwise
existing may be exercised from time to time and as often and in such order as
may be deemed expedient by the Indenture Trustee, and the exercise or the
beginning of the exercise of any power or remedy shall not be construed to be a
waiver of the right to exercise at the same time or thereafter any other right,
power or remedy.  No delay or omission by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise
of any right, remedy or power or in the pursuance of any remedy shall impair
any such right, power or remedy or be construed to be a waiver of any default
on the part of the Owner Trustee or Lessee or to be an acquiescence therein.

     SECTION 4.07. DISCONTINUANCE OF PROCEEDINGS.

     In case the Indenture Trustee shall have instituted any proceeding to
enforce any right, power or remedy under this Trust Indenture by foreclosure,
entry or otherwise, and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or
abandoned for any reason or shall have been determined adversely to the
Indenture Trustee, then and in every such case the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
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such proceedings, be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder
with respect to the Mortgaged Property, and all rights, remedies and powers of
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or Lessee shall continue as if no such
proceedings had been instituted.

     SECTION 4.08. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.

     Upon written instruction from a Majority in Interest of Certificate
Holders, the Indenture Trustee shall waive any past Default hereunder and its
consequences and upon any such waiver such Default shall cease to exist and any
Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every
purpose of this Trust Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon; provided,
that in the absence of written instructions from all the Certificate Holders,
the Indenture Trustee shall not waive any Default (i) in the payment of the
Principal Amount, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest and other amounts due
under any Secured Certificate then outstanding, or (ii) in respect of a
covenant or provision hereof which, under Article IX hereof, cannot be modified
or amended without the consent of each Certificate Holder.

     SECTION 4.09. APPOINTMENT OF RECEIVER.

     The Indenture Trustee shall, as a matter of right, be entitled to the
appointment of a receiver (who may be the Indenture Trustee or any successor or
nominee thereof) for all or any part of the Mortgaged Property, whether such
receivership be incidental to a proposed sale of the Mortgaged Property or the
taking of possession thereof or otherwise, and the Owner Trustee hereby
consents to the appointment of such a receiver and will not oppose any such
appointment.  Any receiver appointed for all or any part of the Mortgaged
Property shall be entitled to exercise all the rights and powers of the
Indenture Trustee with respect to the Mortgaged Property.

     SECTION 4.10. INDENTURE TRUSTEE AUTHORIZED TO EXECUTE BILLS OF SALE, ETC..

     The Owner Trustee irrevocably appoints the Indenture Trustee the true and
lawful attorney-in-fact of the Owner Trustee in its name and stead and on its
behalf, for the purpose of effectuating any sale, assignment, transfer or
delivery for the enforcement of the Lien of this Trust Indenture, whether
pursuant to foreclosure or power of sale, assignments and other instruments as
may be necessary or appropriate, with full power of substitution, the Owner
Trustee hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney or any
substitute shall do by virtue hereof in accordance with applicable law.
Nevertheless, if so requested by the Indenture Trustee or any purchaser, the
Owner Trustee shall ratify and confirm any such sale, assignment, transfer or
delivery, by executing and delivering to the Indenture Trustee or such
purchaser all bills of sale, assignments, releases and other proper instruments
to effect such ratification and confirmation as may be designated in any such
request.

     SECTION 4.11. RIGHTS OF CERTIFICATE HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PAYMENT.

     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Indenture, the right of
any Certificate Holder to receive payment of principal of, and premium, if any,
and interest on a Secured Certificate on or after the respective due dates
expressed in such Secured Certificate, or to bring suit for the enforcement of
any such payment on or after such respective dates in accordance with the terms
hereof, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such
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                                   ARTICLE V


                        DUTIES OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

     SECTION 5.01. NOTICE OF EVENT OF DEFAULT.

     If the Indenture Trustee shall have Actual Knowledge of an Event of
Default or of a Default arising from a failure to pay Rent, the Indenture
Trustee shall give prompt written notice thereof to the Owner Trustee, the
Owner Participant, Lessee, and each Certificate Holder.  Subject to the terms
of Sections 4.03, 4.04, 4.08, 5.02 and 5.03 hereof, the Indenture Trustee shall
take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such
Event of Default or Default (including with respect to the exercise of any
rights or remedies hereunder) as the Indenture Trustee shall be instructed in
writing by a Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders. Subject to the
provisions of Section 5.03, if the Indenture Trustee shall not have received
instructions as above provided within 20 days after mailing notice of such
Event of Default to the Certificate Holders, the Indenture Trustee may, subject
to instructions thereafter received pursuant to the preceding provisions of
this Section 5.01, take such action, or refrain from taking such action, but
shall be under no duty to take or refrain from taking any action, with respect
to such Event of Default or Default as it shall determine advisable in the best
interests of the Certificate Holders.  If the Indenture Trustee shall at any
time declare the Lease to be in default pursuant to Section 15 thereof or shall
elect to foreclose or otherwise enforce this Trust Indenture, the Indenture
Trustee shall forthwith notify the Owner Participant, the Certificate Holders,
the Owner Trustee and Lessee.  For all purposes of this Trust Indenture, in the
absence of Actual Knowledge on the part of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or
the Owner Participant, as the case may be, shall not be deemed to have
knowledge of a Default or an Event of Default (except, in the case of the
Indenture Trustee, the failure of Lessee to pay any installment of Interim Rent
or Basic Rent within one Business Day after the same shall become due, if any
portion of such installment was then required to be paid to the Indenture
Trustee, which failure shall constitute knowledge of a Default) unless notified
in writing by Lessee, the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant or one or more
Certificate Holders.

     SECTION 5.02. ACTION UPON INSTRUCTIONS; CERTAIN RIGHTS AND LIMITATIONS.

     (a) Subject to the terms of Sections 2.14, 4.03, 4.04(a), 4.08, 5.01 and
5.03 hereof, upon the written instructions at any time and from time to time of
a Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders, the Indenture Trustee shall,
subject to the terms of this Section 5.02, take such of the following actions
as may be specified in such instructions: (i) give such notice or direction or
exercise such right, remedy or power hereunder as shall be specified in such
instructions; (ii) give such notice or direction or exercise such right, remedy
or power under the Lease, the Participation Agreement, the Purchase Agreement,
or any other part of the Trust Indenture Estate as shall be specified in such
instructions; and (iii) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an
Event of Default, approve as satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee all matters
required by the terms of the Lease to be satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, it
being understood that without the written instructions of a Majority in
Interest of Certificate Holders, the Indenture Trustee shall not approve any
such matter as satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee; provided,
that anything contained in this Trust Indenture, the Lease or the other
Operative Documents to the contrary notwithstanding:

           (1) the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant may, without the
      consent of the Indenture Trustee, demand, collect, sue for or otherwise
      obtain all amounts included in Excluded Payments from Lessee or the
      Guarantor, exercise any election or option or make any decision or
      determination or to give or receive any notice, consent, waiver or
      approval in respect of any Excluded Payment and seek legal or equitable
      remedies to require Lessee or the Guarantor to maintain the insurance
      coverage referred to in Section 11 of the Lease; provided, that the
      rights referred to in this clause (1) shall not be deemed to include the
      exercise of any remedies provided for in Section 15 of the Lease other
      than the right to proceed by appropriate court action, either at law or
      in equity, to enforce payment by Lessee or the Guarantor of such amounts
      included in Excluded Payments or performance by Lessee or the Guarantor
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      such insurance covenant, or to recover damages for the breach thereof
      or for specific performance of any covenant of Lessee or the Guarantor;

           (2) unless an Event of Default and an Indenture Trustee Event shall
      have occurred and be continuing and except as provided in clause (4)
      below, the Indenture Trustee shall not, without the consent of the Owner
      Trustee, which consent shall not be withheld if no right or interest of
      the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant shall be diminished or
      impaired thereby, (i) enter into, execute and deliver amendments,
      modifications, waivers or consents in respect of any of the provisions of
      the Lease, or (ii) approve any accountants, engineers, appraisers or
      counsel as satisfactory to render services for or issue opinions to the
      Owner Trustee pursuant to the Operative Documents; provided that, subject
      to the Indenture Trustee's right to exercise remedies under Section 15 of
      the Lease without the consent of the Owner Trustee whether or not an
      Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, no amendment,
      modification, waiver or consent in respect of the Lease shall materially
      adversely affect the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee;

           (3) whether or not a Default or Event of Default under the Trust
      Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the Owner Trustee and the Owner
      Participant shall have the right, together with the Indenture Trustee,
      (i) to receive from Lessee all notices, certificates, reports, filings,
      opinions of counsel and other documents and all information which any
      thereof is permitted or required to give or furnish to the Owner Trustee
      or Lessor pursuant to any Operative Document (including pursuant to
      Section 7(b) of the Participation Agreement), (ii) to exercise inspection
      rights pursuant to Section 12 of the Lease, (iii) to retain all rights
      with respect to insurance maintained for its own account which Section
      11(e) of the Lease specifically confers on Lessor or the Owner
      Participant, (iv) to exercise, to the extent necessary to enable it to
      exercise its rights under Section 4.03 hereof, the rights of Lessor under
      Section 21 of the Lease and (v) to give notices of default under Section
      14 of the Lease;

           (4) whether or not a Default or Event of Default under the Trust
      Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the Owner Trustee shall have
      the right to the exclusion of the Indenture Trustee to adjust Rent,
      Stipulated Loss Values and Termination Values as provided in Section 3(d)
      of the Lease and to select counsel with respect to any opinion relating
      to tax matters to be delivered solely to the Owner Participant;

           (5) whether or not a Default or Event of Default under the Trust
      Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the Owner Trustee may, without
      the consent of the Indenture Trustee, (i) solicit and make bids with
      respect to the Aircraft under Section 9 of the Lease in respect of a
      termination of the Lease by Lessee pursuant to Section 9 thereof, (ii)
      determine "fair market sales value" and "fair market rental value" under
      Section 19 of the Lease for all purposes except following an Event of
      Default pursuant to Section 15 of the Lease, and (iii) make an election
      pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of Section 9(c) of the
      Lease; and

           (6) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be
      continuing, except as provided in clauses (2) and (3) above, all rights
      of the "Lessor" under the Lease shall be exercised by the Owner Trustee
      to the exclusion of the Indenture Trustee including, without limitation,
      the right to (i) exercise all rights with respect to Lessee's use and
      operation, modification or maintenance of the Aircraft and any Engine
      which the Lease specifically confers on Lessor, and (ii) consent to and
      approve any assignment pursuant to Section 13 of the Lease; provided that
      the foregoing shall not limit (A) any rights separately granted to the
      Indenture Trustee under the Operative Documents or (B) the right of the
      Indenture Trustee to receive any funds to be delivered to the "Lessor"
      under the Lease (except with respect to Excluded Payments) and under the
      Purchase Agreement.

     Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Indenture
Trustee shall have the right, to the exclusion of the Owner Trustee and the
Owner Participant, to (A) declare the Lease to be in default under Section 15
thereof and (B) subject only to the provisions of Sections 4.03, 4.04(a) and
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the remedies set forth in such Section 15 (other than in connection with
Excluded Payments) at any time that a Lease Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing.

     The Indenture Trustee will execute and the Owner Trustee will file or
cause to be filed such continuation statements with respect to financing
statements relating to the security interest created hereunder in the Trust
Indenture Estate as specified by Lessee pursuant to Section 8(e) of the
Participation Agreement or as may be specified from time to time in written
instructions of a Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders (which
instructions may, by their terms, be operative only at a future date and which
shall be accompanied by the form of such continuation statement so to be
filed).  The Indenture Trustee will furnish to each Certificate Holder (and,
during the continuation of an Indenture Trustee Event, to the Owner Trustee and
Owner Participant), promptly upon receipt thereof, duplicates or copies of all
reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates and other instruments
furnished to the Indenture Trustee under the Lease or hereunder, including,
without limitation, a copy of any Termination Notice (as defined in the Lease)
and a copy of each report or notice received pursuant to Sections 9(a) and
11(c) of the Lease, respectively, to the extent that the same shall not
have been furnished to such Certificate Holder pursuant hereto or to the Lease.

     (b) If any Lease Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
and the Owner Trustee shall not have cured fully such Lease Event of Default
under and in accordance with Section 4.03 hereof, on request of a Majority in
Interest of Certificate Holders, the Indenture Trustee shall declare the Lease
to be in default pursuant to Section 15 thereof and exercise those remedies
specified by such Certificate Holders.  The Indenture Trustee agrees to provide
to the Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant and Lessee
concurrently with such declaration by the Indenture Trustee, notice of such
declaration by the Indenture Trustee.

     SECTION 5.03. INDEMNIFICATION.

     The Indenture Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action
under this Trust Indenture and nothing herein or therein shall require the
Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur the risk
of any financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers if
it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it (the written indemnity of any Certificate Holder who is a QIB, signed by an
authorized officer thereof, in favor of, delivered to and in form reasonably
satisfactory to Indenture Trustee shall be accepted as reasonable assurance of
adequate indemnity).  The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to take any
action under Section 5.01 (other than the first sentence thereof) or 5.02 or
Article IV hereof, nor shall any other provision of this Trust Indenture or any
other Operative Document be deemed to impose a duty on the Indenture Trustee to
take any action, if the Indenture Trustee shall have been advised by counsel
that such action is contrary to the terms hereof or of the Lease or is
otherwise contrary to Law.

     SECTION 5.04. NO DUTIES EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED IN TRUST INDENTURE OR
INSTRUCTIONS.

     The Indenture Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to use,
operate, store, lease, control, manage, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with
the Aircraft or any other part of the Trust Indenture Estate, or to otherwise
take or refrain from taking any action under, or in connection with, this Trust
Indenture or any part of the Trust Indenture Estate, except as expressly
provided by the terms of this Trust Indenture or as expressly provided in
written instructions from Certificate Holders as provided in this Trust
Indenture; and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Trust
Indenture against the Indenture Trustee.  The Indenture Trustee agrees that it
will in its individual capacity and at its own cost and expense (but without
any right of indemnity in respect of any such cost or expense under Section
7.01 hereof), promptly take such action as may be necessary duly to discharge
all liens and encumbrances on any part of the Trust Indenture Estate which
result from claims against it in its individual capacity not related to the
ownership of the Aircraft or the administration of the Trust Indenture Estate
or any other transaction pursuant to this Trust Indenture or any document
included in the Trust Indenture Estate.


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     SECTION 5.05. NO ACTION EXCEPT UNDER LEASE, TRUST INDENTURE OR
INSTRUCTIONS.

     The Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee agree that they will not use,
operate, store, lease, control, manage, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with
the Aircraft or any other part of the Trust Indenture Estate except (i) as
required by the terms of the Lease or (ii) in accordance with the powers
granted to, or the authority conferred upon, the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Trust Indenture and in accordance with the
express terms hereof.

     SECTION 5.06. REPLACEMENT AIRFRAMES AND REPLACEMENT ENGINES.

     At any time an Airframe or Engine is to be replaced under or pursuant to
Section 10 of the Lease by a Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine, if no
Lease Event of Default is continuing, the Owner Trustee shall direct the
Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an appropriate
instrument releasing such Airframe and/or Engine as appropriate from the Lien
of this Trust Indenture and the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver
such instrument as aforesaid, but only upon compliance by Lessee with the
applicable provisions of Section 10 of the Lease and upon receipt by or deposit
with the Indenture Trustee of the following:

     (1) A written request from the Owner Trustee, requesting such release
specifically describing the Airframe and/or Engine(s) so to be released.

     (2) A certificate signed by a duly authorized officer of Lessee stating
the following:

            A.   With respect to the Replacement of
                 any Airframe:

                  (i)  a description of the Airframe which
                       shall be identified by manufacturer, model, FAA
                       registration number (or other applicable registration
                       information) and manufacturer's serial number;

                  (ii) a description of the Replacement
                       Airframe to be received (including the manufacturer,
                       model, FAA registration number (or other applicable
                       registration information) and manufacturer's serial
                       number) as consideration for the Airframe to be
                       released;

                 (iii) that on the date of the Trust Agreement and Indenture 
                       Supplement relating to the
                       Replacement Airframe the Owner Trustee will be the legal
                       owner of such Replacement Airframe free and clear of all
                       Liens except as are permitted by Section 6 of the Lease,
                       that such Replacement Airframe will on such date be in
                       good working order and condition, and that such
                       Replacement Airframe has been or, substantially
                       concurrently with such withdrawal, will be duly
                       registered in the name of the Owner Trustee under the
                       Federal Aviation Act or under the law then applicable to
                       the registration of the Airframe and that an
                       airworthiness certificate has been duly issued under the
                       Federal Aviation Act (or such other applicable law) with
                       respect to such Replacement Airframe, and that such
                       registration and certificate 

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                       is in full force and effect, and that Lessee will have
                       the full right and authority to use such Replacement
                       Airframe;

                 (iv)  the existence of the insurance required
                       by Section 11 of the Lease with respect to such
                       Replacement Airframe and the payment of all premiums then
                       due thereon;

                  (v)  that the Replacement Airframe is of
                       the same or an improved model as the Airframe requested
                       to be released from this Indenture;

                 (vi)  the fair market value of the
                       Replacement Airframe as of the date of such certificate
                       (which in the judgment of Lessee shall be not less than
                       the then fair market value of the Airframe requested to
                       be released (assuming such Airframe was in the condition
                       and repair required to be maintained under the Lease));

                 (vii) the fair market value of the Airframe
                       immediately prior to the date the Airframe suffered an
                       Event of Loss (assuming such Airframe was in the
                       condition and repair required to be maintained under the
                       Lease);

                (viii) that no Lease Event of Default and no event which, with
                       lapse of time or notice, or both, would become a Lease
                       Event of Default, has occurred which has not been 
                       remedied or waived, and that Lessee will not be in
                       default, by the making and granting of the request for
                       release and the addition of a Replacement Airframe, in
                       the performance of any of the terms and covenants of the
                       Lease; and

                 (ix)  that the release of the Airframe so to
                       be released will not be in contravention of any of the
                       provisions of this Indenture; or

            B.   with respect to the replacement of
                 any Engine:

                  (i)  a description of the Engine which shall be identified 
                       by manufacturer's serial number;

                  (ii) a description of the Replacement Engine (including the 
                       manufacturer's name and serial number) as consideration
                       for the Engine to be released;

                 (iii) that on the date of the Trust Agreement and Indenture 
                       Supplement relating to the Replacement Engine the Owner
                       Trustee will be the legal owner of such Replacement
                       Engine free and clear of all Liens except as are
                       permitted by Section 6 of the 
                       

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                       Lease, that such Replacement Engine will on such date
                       be in good working order and condition and that such
                       Replacement Engine is substantially the same as the
                       Engine to be released (or as improved model);

                 (iv)  the fair market value of the Replacement Engine as of 
                       the date of such certificate (which value shall not be
                       less than the then fair market value of the Engine to be
                       released (assuming such Engine was in the condition and
                       repair required to be maintained under the Lease));

                  (v)  the fair market value of the Engine to be released 
                       (immediately prior to any Event of Loss suffered by
                       such Engine and assuming that such Engine was in the
                       condition and repair required to be maintained under the
                       Lease);

                 (vi)  that each of the conditions specified in Section 10(b) 
                       of the Lease with respect to such Replacement
                       Engine have been satisfied and that Lessee will not be
                       in default, by the making and granting of the request
                       for release and the addition of the Replacement Engine,
                       in the performance of any of the terms and covenants of
                       the Lease;

                 (vii) that, with respect to the replacement of an Engine 
                       pursuant to Section 9(d) of the Lease, no Lease Event
                       of Default and no Lease Default has occurred which has
                       not been remedied or waived; and

                (viii) that the release of the Engine so to be released will
                       not be in contravention of any of the provisions of this
                       Indenture.

     (3) (a) The appropriate instruments (i) transferring to the Owner Trustee
title to the Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine to be received as
consideration for the Airframe or Engine to be released and (ii) assigning to
the Owner Trustee the benefit of all manufacturer's and vendor's warranties
generally available with respect to such Replacement Airframe or Replacement
Engine, and a Trust Agreement and Indenture Supplement subjecting such
Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine and any related warranty rights to
the Lien of this Indenture.

     (b) With respect to the replacement of any Engine, such Uniform Commercial
Code financing statements covering the lien created by this Indenture as deemed
necessary or desirable by counsel for the Indenture Trustee to protect the lien
under the Indenture in the Replacement Engine.


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     (4) A certificate from either an aircraft engineer (who may be an employee
of Lessee) or a firm of independent aircraft appraisers selected by Lessee
confirming the accuracy of the information set forth in clause (2)A(vi) of this
section 5.06.

     (5) The opinion of in-house counsel to Lessee, or other counsel
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating that:

                  (i)  the certificates, opinions and other
                       instruments and/or property which have been or are
                       therewith delivered to and deposited with the Indenture
                       Trustee conform to the requirements of this Indenture
                       and the Lease and, upon the basis of such application,
                       the property so sold or disposed of may be lawfully
                       released from the Lien of this Indenture and all
                       conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
                       such release have been complied with; and

                  (ii) the Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine has been 
                       validly subjected to the Lien of this Indenture and
                       covered by the Lease, the instruments subjecting such
                       Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine to the Lease
                       and to the Lien of this Indenture, as the case may be,
                       have been duly filed for recordation pursuant to the
                       Federal Aviation Act or any other law then applicable to
                       the registration of the Aircraft, and no further action,
                       filing or recording of any document is necessary or
                       advisable in order to establish and perfect the right,
                       title, estate and interest of the Owner Trustee to and
                       the Lien of this Indenture on such Replacement Aircraft
                       or Replacement Engine.

     SECTION 5.07. INDENTURE SUPPLEMENTS FOR REPLACEMENTS.

     If a Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine is being substituted as
contemplated by Section 10 of the Lease, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee agree for the benefit of the Certificate Holders and Lessee, subject to
fulfillment of the conditions precedent and compliance by Lessee with its
obligations set forth in Section 10 of the Lease and the requirements of
Section 5.06 hereof with respect to such Replacement Airframe or Replacement
Engine, to execute and deliver a Lease Supplement and a Trust Agreement and
Indenture Supplement, as applicable, as contemplated by Section 10 of the
Lease.

     SECTION 5.08. EFFECT OF REPLACEMENT.

     In the event of the substitution of an Airframe or of a Replacement Engine
pursuant to Section 10 of the Lease, (a) all provisions of this Trust Indenture
relating to the Airframe or Engine or Engines being replaced shall be
applicable to such Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine or Engines with
the same force and effect as if such Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine
or Engines were the same airframe or engine or engines, as the case may be, as
the Airframe or Engine or Engines being replaced but for the Event of Loss with
respect to the Airframe or Engine or Engines being replaced, and (b) the
provisions of this Trust Indenture shall no longer be applicable to the
Airframe or Engine or Engines being replaced, which shall be released from the
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     SECTION 5.09. INVESTMENT OF AMOUNTS HELD BY INDENTURE TRUSTEE.

     Any amounts held by the Indenture Trustee as assignee of the Owner
Trustee's rights to hold monies for security pursuant to Section 22(a) of the
Lease shall be held in accordance with the terms of such Section and the
Indenture Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Lessee, to perform the duties of
the Owner Trustee under such Section.  Any amounts held by the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to the proviso to the first sentence of Section 3.01, pursuant
to Section 3.02, or pursuant to any provision of any other Operative Document
providing for amounts to be held by the Indenture Trustee which are not
distributed pursuant to the other provisions of Article III hereof shall be
invested by the Indenture Trustee from time to time in Cash Equivalents as
directed by Lessee so long as the Indenture Trustee may acquire the same using
its best efforts.  Unless otherwise expressly provided in this Trust Indenture,
any income realized as a result of any such investment, net of the Indenture
Trustee's reasonable fees and expenses in making such investment, shall be held
and applied by the Indenture Trustee in the same manner as the principal amount
of such investment is to be applied and any losses, net of earnings and such
reasonable fees and expenses, shall be charged against the principal amount
invested.  The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any loss resulting
from any investment required to be made by it under this Trust Indenture other
than by reason of its willful misconduct or gross negligence, and any such
investment may be sold (without regard to its maturity) by the Indenture
Trustee without instructions whenever such sale is necessary to make a
distribution required by this Trust Indenture.

                                   ARTICLE VI

                  THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

     SECTION 6.01. ACCEPTANCE OF TRUSTS AND DUTIES.

     The Indenture Trustee accepts the duties hereby created and applicable to
it and agrees to perform the same but only upon the terms of this Trust
Indenture and agrees to receive and disburse all monies constituting part of
the Trust Indenture Estate in accordance with the terms hereof.  The Owner
Trustee, in its individual capacity, and the Indenture Trustee, in its  
individual capacity, shall not be answerable or accountable under any
circumstances, except (i) for their own willful misconduct or gross negligence
(other than for the handling of funds, for which the standard of accountability
shall be willful misconduct or negligence), (ii) in the case of the Indenture
Trustee, as provided in the fourth sentence of Section 2.04(a) hereof and the
last sentence of Section 5.04 hereof, and (iii) for liabilities that may
result, in the case of the Owner Trustee, from the inaccuracy of any
representation or warranty of the Owner Trustee expressly made in its
individual capacity in the Participation Agreement (or, upon consummation of
the Refinancing Transaction, the Refunding Agreement) or in Section 4.01(b) or
6.03 hereof (or in any certificate furnished to the Indenture Trustee or any
Certificate Holder in connection with the transactions contemplated by the
Operative Documents) or, in the case of the Indenture Trustee (in its
individual capacity), from the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty of
the Indenture Trustee (in its individual capacity) in the Participation
Agreement (or, upon consummation of the Refinancing Transaction, the Refunding
Agreement) or expressly made hereunder. Neither the Owner Trustee nor the
Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any action or inaction of the other or of
the Owner Participant.

     SECTION 6.02. ABSENCE OF DUTIES.

     In the case of the Indenture Trustee, except in accordance with written
instructions furnished pursuant to Section 5.01 or 5.02 hereof, and except as
provided in, and without limiting the generality of, Sections 5.03 and 5.04
hereof and, in the case of the Owner Trustee, except as provided in Section
4.01(b) hereof, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have no duty
(i) to see to any registration of the Aircraft or any recording or filing of
the Lease or of this Trust Indenture or any other document, or to see to the
maintenance of any such registration, recording or filing, (ii) to see to any
insurance on the Aircraft or to effect or maintain any such insurance, whether
or not Lessee shall be in default with respect thereto, (iii) to see to the
payment or discharge of any lien or encumbrance of any kind against any part of
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confirm, verify or inquire into the failure to receive any financial
statements from Lessee, or (v) to inspect the Aircraft at any time or ascertain
or inquire as to the performance or observance of any of Lessee's covenants
under the Lease with respect to the Aircraft.  The Owner Participant shall not
have any duty or responsibility hereunder, including, without limitation, any
of the duties mentioned in clauses (i) through (v) above; provided, that
nothing contained in this sentence shall limit any obligations of the Owner
Participant under the Participation Agreement or relieve the Owner Participant
from any restriction under Section 4.03 hereof.

     SECTION 6.03. NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO AIRCRAFT OR
DOCUMENTS.

     NEITHER THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE IN ITS INDIVIDUAL OR TRUST CAPACITY NOR THE
OWNER TRUSTEE IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY OR AS OWNER TRUSTEE UNDER THE TRUST
AGREEMENT, NOR THE OWNER PARTICIPANT MAKES OR SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE MADE AND
EACH HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, AS TO THE TITLE, AIRWORTHINESS, VALUE, COMPLIANCE WITH SPECIFICATIONS,
CONDITION, DESIGN, QUALITY, DURABILITY, OPERATION, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS
FOR USE FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT OR ANY ENGINE, AS TO THE
ABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE, AS TO THE
ABSENCE OF ANY INFRINGEMENT OF ANY PATENT, TRADEMARK OR COPYRIGHT, AS TO THE
ABSENCE OF OBLIGATIONS BASED ON STRICT LIABILITY IN TORT OR ANY OTHER
REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY WHATSOEVER, except the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity warrants that (i) the Owner Trustee has received on the
Delivery Date whatever title was conveyed to it by Lessee, and (ii) the
Aircraft is free and clear of Lessor Liens (including for this purpose Liens
that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor
Liens) attributable to the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity.  Neither
the Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement, nor the Indenture Trustee, in its individual or trust
capacities, makes or shall be deemed to have made any representation or
warranty as to the validity, legality or enforceability of this Trust
Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the Participation Agreement (or, upon
consummation of the Refinancing Transaction, the Refunding Agreement), the
Secured Certificates, the Lease, the Purchase Agreement, the Purchase Agreement
Assignment, the Consent and Agreement or the Guarantee, or as to the
correctness of any statement contained in any thereof, except for the
representations and warranties of the Owner Trustee made in its individual
capacity and the representations and warranties of the Indenture Trustee, in
each case expressly made in this Trust Indenture or in the Participation
Agreement (or, upon consummation of the Refinancing Transaction, the Refunding
Agreement).  The Loan Participants, the Certificate Holders and the Owner
Participant make no representation or warranty hereunder whatsoever.

     SECTION 6.04. NO SEGREGATION OF MONIES; NO INTEREST.

     Any monies paid to or retained by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to any
provision hereof and not then required to be distributed to the Certificate
Holders, Lessee or the Owner Trustee as provided in Article III hereof need not
be segregated in any manner except to the extent required by Law or Section
10(f) or 11(g) of the Lease and Section 5.09 hereof, and may be deposited under
such general conditions as may be prescribed by Law, and the Indenture Trustee
shall not be liable for any interest thereon (except that the Indenture Trustee
shall invest all monies held as directed by Lessee so long as no Lease Event of
Default or Lease Default has occurred and is continuing (or in the absence of
such direction, by the Majority In Interest of Certificate Holders) in Cash
Equivalents; provided, however, that any payments received, or applied
hereunder, by the Indenture Trustee shall be accounted for by the Indenture
Trustee so that any portion thereof paid or applied pursuant hereto shall be
identifiable as to the source thereof.

     SECTION 6.05. RELIANCE; AGREEMENTS; ADVICE OF COUNSEL.

     Neither the Owner Trustee nor the Indenture Trustee shall incur any
liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument, notice,
resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or
other document or paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be
signed by the proper party or parties.  The Owner Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee may accept a copy of a resolution of the Board of Directors (or
Executive Committee thereof) of any party to the Participation Agreement,
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thereof as duly adopted and in full force and effect, as conclusive evidence
that such resolution has been duly adopted and that the same is in full force
and effect.  As to the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of Secured
Certificates outstanding as of any date, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes
hereof rely on a certificate signed by any Vice President or other authorized
corporate trust officer of the Indenture Trustee.  As to any fact or matter
relating to Lessee the manner of ascertainment of which is not specifically
described herein, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee may for all
purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by a duly authorized officer
of Lessee, as to such fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute
full protection to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee for any action
taken or omitted to be taken by them in good faith in reliance thereon.  The
Indenture Trustee shall assume, and shall be fully protected in assuming, that
the Owner Trustee is authorized by the Trust Agreement to enter into this Trust
Indenture and to take all action to be taken by it pursuant to the provisions
hereof, and shall not inquire into the authorization of the Owner Trustee with
respect thereto.  In the administration of the trusts hereunder, the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee each may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereof and perform its powers and duties hereunder directly or through agents
or attorneys and may at the expense of the Trust Indenture Estate, advise with
counsel, accountants and other skilled persons to be selected and retained by
it, and the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for
anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by them in accordance with the
written advice or written opinion of any such counsel, accountants or other
skilled persons.

     SECTION 6.06. CAPACITY IN WHICH ACTING.

     The Owner Trustee acts hereunder solely as trustee as herein and in the
Trust Agreement provided, and not in its individual capacity, except as
otherwise expressly provided herein, in the Trust Agreement and in the
Participation Agreement.

     SECTION 6.07. COMPENSATION.

     The Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to reasonable compensation,
including expenses and disbursements (including the reasonable fees and
expenses of counsel), for all services rendered hereunder and shall, on and
subsequent to an Event of Default hereunder, have a priority claim on the Trust
Indenture Estate for the payment of such compensation, to the extent that such
compensation shall not be paid by Lessee, and shall have the right, on and
subsequent to an Event of Default hereunder, to use or apply any monies held by
it hereunder in the Trust Indenture Estate toward such payments.  The Indenture
Trustee agrees that it shall have no right against the Loan Participants, the
Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant for any fee as
compensation for its services as trustee under this Trust Indenture.

     SECTION 6.08. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.

     In the administration of the trusts created hereunder, the Indenture
Trustee shall have the right to seek instructions from a Majority in Interest
of Certificate Holders should any provision of this Trust Indenture appear to
conflict with any other provision herein or should the Indenture Trustee's
duties or obligations hereunder be unclear, and the Indenture Trustee shall
incur no liability in refraining from acting until it receives such
instructions.  The Indenture Trustee shall be fully protected for acting in
accordance with any instructions received under this Section 6.08.


                                  ARTICLE VII


     INDEMNIFICATION OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE BY OWNER TRUSTEE

     SECTION 7.01. SCOPE OF INDEMNIFICATION.

     The Owner Trustee, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner
Trustee, hereby agrees, except as otherwise provided in Section 2.03 hereof, to
assume liability for, and does hereby indemnify, protect, save and keep
harmless the Indenture Trustee (in its individual and trust capacities), and
its successors, assigns, agents and servants, from and against any and all
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any taxes payable by the Indenture Trustee on or measured by any
compensation received by the Indenture Trustee for its services under this
Trust Indenture), claims, actions, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements
(including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature
whatsoever, which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the
Indenture Trustee (whether or not also indemnified against by any other Person
under any other document) in any way relating to or arising out of this Trust
Indenture or any other Operative Document to which it is a party or the
enforcement of any of the terms of any thereof, or in any way relating to or
arising out of the manufacture, purchase, acceptance, non-acceptance,
rejection, ownership, delivery, lease, possession, use, operation, condition,
sale, return or other disposition of the Aircraft or any Engine (including,
without limitation, latent or other defects, whether or not discoverable, and
any claim for patent, trademark or copyright infringement), or in any way
relating to or arising out of the administration of the Trust Indenture Estate
or the action or inaction of the Indenture Trustee hereunder, to the extent not
reimbursed by Lessee. Without limiting the foregoing, the Indenture Trustee
agrees that, prior to seeking indemnification from the Trust Indenture Estate,
it will demand, and take such action as it may in its discretion determine to
be reasonable to pursue, indemnification available to the Indenture Trustee
under the Lease or the Participation Agreement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Indenture Trustee shall not be entitled to any indemnification for any
Expenses to the extent relating to or arising from the willful misconduct or
gross negligence (or negligence in the case of handling funds) of the Indenture
Trustee in the performance of its duties hereunder or resulting from the
inaccuracy of any representation or warranty of the Indenture Trustee (in its
individual capacity) referred to in Section 6.03 hereof, or as provided in
Section 6.01 hereof or in the last sentence of Section 5.04 hereof, or as
otherwise excluded by the terms of Sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the Participation
Agreement from Lessee's indemnities under such Sections.  In addition, if
necessary, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification from the
Trust Indenture Estate for any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty,
claim, action, suit, cost, expense or disbursement indemnified against pursuant
to this Section 7.01 to the extent not reimbursed by Lessee or others, but
without releasing any of them from their respective agreements of
reimbursement; and to secure the same the Indenture Trustee shall have a prior
Lien on the Trust Indenture Estate.



                                  ARTICLE VIII


                        SUCCESSOR AND SEPARATE TRUSTEES

     SECTION 8.01. NOTICE OF SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEE.

     In the case of any appointment of a successor to the Owner Trustee
pursuant to the Trust Agreement including upon any merger, conversion,
consolidation or sale of substantially all of the corporate trust business of
the Owner Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement, the successor Owner Trustee
shall give prompt written notice thereof to the Indenture Trustee, Lessee and
the Certificate Holders.

     SECTION 8.02. RESIGNATION OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.

     (a) The Indenture Trustee or any successor thereto may resign at any time
without cause by giving at least 30 days' prior written notice to Lessee, the
Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant and each Certificate Holder, such
resignation to be effective upon the acceptance of the trusteeship by a
successor Indenture Trustee.  In addition, a Majority in Interest of
Certificate Holders may at any time (but only with the consent of Lessee, which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, except that such consent shall not
be necessary if a Lease Event of Default is continuing) remove the Indenture
Trustee without cause by an instrument in writing delivered to the Owner
Trustee, Lessee, the Owner Participant and the Indenture Trustee, and the
Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify each Certificate Holder thereof in
writing, such removal to be effective upon the acceptance of the trusteeship by
a successor Indenture Trustee.  In the case of the resignation or removal of
the Indenture Trustee, a Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders may
appoint a successor Indenture Trustee by an instrument signed by such holders,
which successor, so long as no Lease Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, shall be subject to Lessee's reasonable approval.  If a
successor Indenture Trustee shall not have been appointed within 30 days after
such notice of resignation or removal, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Trustee, the Owner Participant or any Certificate Holder may apply to any court
of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Indenture Trustee to act until
such time, if any, as a successor shall have been appointed as above provided.
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Trustee so appointed by such court shall immediately and without
further act be superseded by any successor Indenture Trustee appointed as above
provided.

     (b) Any successor Indenture Trustee, however appointed, shall execute and
deliver to the Owner Trustee, the predecessor Indenture Trustee and Lessee an
instrument accepting such appointment and assuming the obligations of the
Indenture Trustee under the Participation Agreement arising from and after the
time of such appointment, and thereupon such successor Indenture Trustee,
without further act, shall become vested with all the estates, properties,
rights, powers and duties of the predecessor Indenture Trustee hereunder in the
trust hereunder applicable to it with like effect as if originally named the
Indenture Trustee herein; but nevertheless upon the written request of such
successor Indenture Trustee, such predecessor Indenture Trustee shall execute
and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Indenture Trustee,
upon the trusts herein expressed applicable to it, all the estates, properties,
rights and powers of such predecessor Indenture Trustee, and such predecessor
Indenture Trustee shall duly assign, transfer, deliver and pay over to such
successor Indenture Trustee all monies or other property then held by such
predecessor Indenture Trustee hereunder.

     (c) Any successor Indenture Trustee, however appointed, shall be a bank or
trust company having its principal place of business in the Borough of
Manhattan, City and State of New York;  Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chicago,
Illinois; Hartford, Connecticut; Wilmington, Delaware; or Boston, Massachusetts
and having (or whose obligations under the Operative Documents are guaranteed
by an affiliated entity having) a combined capital and surplus of at least
$100,000,000, if there be such an institution willing, able and legally
qualified to perform the duties of the Indenture Trustee hereunder upon
reasonable or customary terms.

     (d) Any corporation into which the Indenture Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Indenture Trustee
shall be a party, or any corporation to which substantially all the corporate
trust business of the Indenture Trustee may be transferred, shall, subject to
the terms of paragraph (c) of this Section 8.02, be a successor Indenture
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee under this Trust Indenture without further
act.

     SECTION 8.03. APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL AND SEPARATE TRUSTEES.

     (a) Whenever (i) the Indenture Trustee shall deem it necessary or
desirable in order to conform to any law of any jurisdiction in which all or
any part of the Trust Indenture Estate shall be situated or to make any claim
or bring any suit with respect to or in connection with the Trust Indenture
Estate, this Trust Indenture, any other Indenture Agreement, the Secured
Certificates or any of the transactions contemplated by the Participation
Agreement, (ii) the Indenture Trustee shall be advised by counsel satisfactory
to it that it is so necessary or prudent in the interests of the Certificate
Holders (and the Indenture Trustee shall so advise the Owner Trustee and
Lessee), or (iii) the Indenture Trustee shall have been requested to do so by a
Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders, then in any such case, the
Indenture Trustee and, upon the written request of the Indenture Trustee, the
Owner Trustee, shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto and
such other instruments as may from time to time be necessary or advisable
either (1) to constitute one or more bank or trust companies or one or more
persons approved by the Indenture Trustee, either to act jointly with the
Indenture Trustee as additional trustee or trustees of all or any part of the
Trust Indenture Estate, or to act as separate trustee or trustees of all or any
part of the Trust Indenture Estate, in each case with such rights, powers,
duties and obligations consistent with this Trust Indenture as may be provided
in such supplemental indenture or other instruments as the Indenture Trustee or
a Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders may deem necessary or advisable,
or (2) to clarify, add to or subtract from the rights, powers, duties and
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additional and separate trustee, subject in each case to the remaining
provisions of this Section 8.03.  If the Owner Trustee shall not have taken any
action requested of it under this Section 8.03(a) that is permitted or
required by its terms within 15 days after the receipt of a written request from
the Indenture Trustee so to do, or if an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee may act under the foregoing provisions
of this Section 8.03(a) without the concurrence of the Owner Trustee; and the
Owner Trustee hereby irrevocably appoints (which appointment is coupled with an
interest) the Indenture Trustee, its agent and attorney-in-fact to act for it
under the foregoing provisions of this Section 8.03(a) in either of such
contingencies.  The Indenture Trustee may, in such capacity, execute, deliver
and perform any such supplemental indenture, or any such instrument, as may be
required for the appointment of any such additional or separate trustee or for
the clarification of, addition to or subtraction from the rights, powers, duties
or obligations theretofore granted to any such additional or separate trustee. 
In case any additional or separate trustee appointed under this Section 8.03(a)
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all the assets,
property, rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations of such additional or
separate trustee shall revert to the Indenture Trustee until a successor
additional or separate trustee is appointed as provided in this Section 8.03(a).

     (b) No additional or separate trustee shall be entitled to exercise any of
the rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred upon the Indenture Trustee
in respect of the custody, investment and payment of monies and all monies
received by any such additional or separate trustee from or constituting part
of the Trust Indenture Estate or otherwise payable under any Operative Document
to the Indenture Trustee shall be promptly paid over by it to the Indenture
Trustee.  All other rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon any additional or separate trustee shall be exercised or performed by the
Indenture Trustee and such additional or separate trustee jointly except to the
extent that applicable Law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act is
to be performed renders the Indenture Trustee incompetent or unqualified to
perform such act, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations
(including the holding of title to all or part of the Trust Indenture Estate in
any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed by such additional or
separate trustee.  No additional or separate trustee shall take any
discretionary action except on the instructions of the Indenture Trustee or a
Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders.  No trustee hereunder shall be
personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee
hereunder, except that the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for the
consequences of its lack of reasonable care in selecting, and Indenture
Trustee's own actions in acting with, any additional or separate trustee.  Each
additional or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 8.03 shall be
subject to, and shall have the benefit of Articles IV through VIII and Article
X hereof insofar as they apply to the Indenture Trustee.  The powers of any
additional or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 8.03 shall
not in any case exceed those of the Indenture Trustee hereunder.

     (c) If at any time the Indenture Trustee shall deem it no longer necessary
or desirable in order to conform to any such law or take any such action or
shall be advised by such counsel that it is no longer so necessary or desirable
in the interest of the Certificate Holders, or in the event that the Indenture
Trustee shall have been requested to do so in writing by a Majority in Interest
of Certificate Holders, the Indenture Trustee and, upon the written request of
the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, shall execute and deliver an
indenture supplemental hereto and all other instruments and agreements
necessary or proper to remove any additional or separate trustee.  The
Indenture Trustee may act on behalf of the Owner Trustee under this Section
8.03(c) when and to the extent it could so act under Section 8.03(a) hereof.


                                   ARTICLE IX


               SUPPLEMENT AND AMENDMENTS TO THIS TRUST INDENTURE
                              AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

     SECTION 9.01. INSTRUCTIONS OF MAJORITY; LIMITATIONS.

     (a) Except as provided in Section 5.02 hereof, and except with respect to
Excluded Payments, the Owner Trustee agrees it shall not enter into any
amendment of or supplement to the Lease, the Purchase Agreement, the Purchase
Agreement Assignment, the Consent and Agreement or the Guarantee, or execute
and deliver any written waiver or modification of, or consent under, the terms
of the Lease, the Purchase Agreement, the Purchase Agreement Assignment, the
Consent and Agreement or the Guarantee, unless such supplement, amendment,
waiver, modification or consent is consented to in writing by the Indenture
Trustee and a Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders.  Anything to the
contrary contained herein notwithstanding, without the necessity of the consent
of any of the Certificate Holders or the Indenture Trustee, (i) any Excluded
Payments payable to the Owner Participant may be modified, amended, changed or
waived in such manner as shall be agreed to by the Owner Participant and Lessee
and (ii) the Owner Trustee and Lessee may enter into amendments of or additions
to the Lease to modify Section 5 (except to the extent that such amendment
would affect the rights or exercise of remedies under Section 15 of the Lease),
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modifications and changes do not and would not affect the time of, or reduce
the amount of, Rent payments until after the payment in full of all Secured
Obligations or otherwise adversely affect the Certificate Holders.

     (b) Without limiting the provisions of Section 9.01(a) hereof and subject
to Section 5.02(a)(2) hereof, the Indenture Trustee agrees with the Certificate
Holders that it shall not enter into any amendment, waiver or modification of,
supplement or consent to this Trust Indenture, the Lease, the Purchase
Agreement, the Purchase Agreement Assignment, the Consent and Agreement, the
Guarantee or the Participation Agreement, or any other agreement included in
the Trust Indenture Estate, unless such supplement, amendment, waiver,
modification or consent is consented to in writing by a Majority in Interest of
Certificate Holders, or does not adversely effect the Certificate Holders, but
upon the written request of a Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders, the
Indenture Trustee shall from time to time enter into any such supplement or
amendment, or execute and deliver any such waiver, modification or consent, as
may be specified in such request and as may be (in the case of any such
amendment, supplement or modification), to the extent such agreement is
required, agreed to by the Owner Trustee and Lessee or, as may be appropriate,
the Manufacturer; provided, however, that, without the consent of each holder
of an affected Secured Certificate then outstanding, no such amendment of or
supplement to this Trust Indenture, the Lease, the Purchase Agreement, the
Purchase Agreement Assignment, the Consent and Agreement, the Guarantee or the
Participation Agreement or waiver or modification of the terms of, or consent
under, any thereof, shall (i) modify any of the provisions of this Section
9.01, or of Sections 2.02, 2.10, 2.11, 2.15, 4.02, 4.04(c), 4.04(d), 5.02 or
5.06 hereof, Section 14 (except to add an Event of Default) of the Lease, the
definitions of "Event of Default", "Default", "Lease Event of Default", "Lease
Default", "Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders", "Make-Whole
Amount" or "Certificate Holder", or the percentage of Certificate Holders
required to take or approve any action hereunder, (ii) reduce the amount, or
change the time of payment or method of calculation of any amount, of Principal
Amount, Make-Whole Amount, if any, or interest with respect to any Secured
Certificate, or alter or modify the provisions of Article III hereof with
respect to the order of priorities in which distribution thereunder shall be
made as among the Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee and Lessee, (iii)
reduce, modify or amend any indemnities in favor of the Certificate Holders,
(iv) consent to any change in the Trust Indenture or the Lease which would
permit redemption of Secured Certificates earlier than permitted under Section
2.10 or 2.11 hereof or the purchase of the Secured Certificates other than as
permitted by Section 2.14 hereof, (v) modify any of the provisions of Section
3(d)(v) of the Lease, or modify, amend or supplement the Lease or consent to
any assignment of the Lease, in either case releasing Lessee from its
obligations in respect of the payment of Interim Rent, Basic Rent, Stipulated
Loss Value or Termination Value for the Aircraft or altering the absolute and
unconditional character of the obligations of Lessee to pay Rent as set forth
in Sections 3 and 18 of the Lease or (vi) permit the creation of any Lien on
the Trust Indenture Estate or any part thereof other than Permitted Liens or
deprive any Certificate Holder of the benefit of the Lien of this Trust
Indenture on the Trust Indenture Estate, except as provided in connection with
the exercise of remedies under Article IV hereof.  So long as no Lease Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, without the consent of Lessee no
amendment or supplement to this Trust Indenture or waiver or modification of
the terms hereof shall adversely affect Lessee.

     (c) At any time after the date of the consummation of the Refinancing
Transaction, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee may enter into one or
more agreements supplemental hereto without the consent of any Certificate
Holder for any of the following purposes:  (i) (a) to cure any defect or
inconsistency herein or in the Secured Certificates, or to make any change not
inconsistent with the provisions hereof (provided that such change does not
adversely affect the interests of any Certificate Holder in its capacity solely
as Certificate Holder) or (b) to cure any ambiguity or correct any mistake;
(ii) to evidence the succession of another party as the Owner Trustee in
accordance with the terms of the Trust Agreement or to evidence the succession
of a new trustee hereunder pursuant hereto, the removal of the trustee
hereunder or the appointment of any co-trustee or co-trustees or any separate
or additional trustee or trustees; (iii) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage
or pledge any property to or with the Indenture Trustee or to make any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising hereunder so long as
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Certificate Holders
in its capacity solely as Certificate Holder; (iv) to correct or amplify the
description of any property at any time subject to the Lien of this Trust
Indenture or better to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee
any property subject or required to be subject to the Lien of this Trust
Indenture, the Airframe or Engines or any Replacement Airframe or Replacement
Engine; (v) to add to the covenants of the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificate Holders, or to surrender any rights or power herein conferred upon
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add to the rights of the Certificate Holders; and (vii) to include on the
Secured Certificates any legend as may be required by law.

     SECTION 9.02. TRUSTEES PROTECTED.

     If, in the opinion of the institution acting as Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement or the institution acting as Indenture Trustee hereunder, any
document required to be executed by it pursuant to the terms of Section 9.01
hereof adversely affects any right, duty, immunity or indemnity with respect to
such institution under this Trust Indenture or the Lease, such institution may
in its discretion decline to execute such document.

     SECTION 9.03. DOCUMENTS MAILED TO CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.

     Promptly after the execution by the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee
of any document entered into pursuant to Section 9.01 hereof, the Indenture
Trustee shall mail, by first class mail, postage prepaid, a copy thereof to
Lessee and to each Certificate Holder at its address last set forth in the
Secured Certificate Register, but the failure of the Indenture Trustee to mail
such copies shall not impair or affect the validity of such document.

     SECTION 9.04. NO REQUEST NECESSARY FOR LEASE SUPPLEMENT OR TRUST AGREEMENT
AND INDENTURE SUPPLEMENT.

     No written request or consent of the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate
Holders or the Owner Participant pursuant to Section 9.01 hereof shall be
required to enable the Owner Trustee to enter into any Lease Supplement
specifically required by the terms of the Lease or to execute and deliver a
Trust Agreement and Indenture Supplement specifically required by the terms
hereof.

                                   ARTICLE X

                                 MISCELLANEOUS

     SECTION 10.01. TERMINATION OF TRUST INDENTURE.

     Upon (or at any time after) payment in full of the Principal Amount of,
Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest on and all other amounts due under all
Secured Certificates and provided that there shall then be no other Secured
Obligations due to the Certificate Holders and the Indenture Trustee hereunder
or under the Participation Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall direct the
Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to or as directed in writing by the
Owner Trustee an appropriate instrument releasing the Aircraft and the Engines
from the Lien of this Trust Indenture and releasing the Lease, the Guarantee,
the Purchase Agreement, the Purchase Agreement Assignment with the Consent and
Agreement attached thereto from the assignment and pledge thereof hereunder and
the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver such instrument as aforesaid
and give written notice thereof to Lessee; provided, however, that this Trust
Indenture and the trusts created hereby shall earlier terminate and this Trust
Indenture shall be of no further force or effect upon any sale or other final
disposition by the Indenture Trustee of all property constituting part of the
Trust Indenture Estate and the final distribution by the Indenture Trustee of
all monies or other property or proceeds constituting part of the Trust
Indenture Estate in accordance with the terms hereof.  Except as aforesaid
otherwise provided, this Trust Indenture and the trusts created hereby shall
continue in full force and effect in accordance with the terms hereof.

     SECTION 10.02. NO LEGAL TITLE TO TRUST INDENTURE ESTATE IN CERTIFICATE
HOLDERS.

     No holder of a Secured Certificate shall have legal title to any part of
the Trust Indenture Estate.  No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of
any Secured Certificate or other right, title and interest of any Certificate
Holder in and to the Trust Indenture Estate or hereunder shall operate to
terminate this Trust Indenture or entitle such holder or any successor or
transferee of such holder to an accounting or to the transfer to it of any
legal title to any part of the Trust Indenture Estate.


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     SECTION 10.03. SALE OF AIRCRAFT BY INDENTURE TRUSTEE IS BINDING.

     Any sale or other conveyance of the Trust Indenture Estate, or any part
thereof (including any part thereof or interest therein), by the Indenture
Trustee made pursuant to the terms of this Trust Indenture shall bind the
Certificate Holders and shall be effective to transfer or convey all right,
title and interest of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Owner
Participant and such holders in and to such Trust Indenture Estate or part
thereof.  No purchaser or other grantee shall be required to inquire as to the
authorization, necessity, expediency or regularity of such sale or conveyance
or as to the application of any sale or other proceeds with respect thereto by
the Indenture Trustee.

     SECTION 10.04. TRUST INDENTURE FOR BENEFIT OF OWNER TRUSTEE, INDENTURE
TRUSTEE, OWNER PARTICIPANT, LESSEE AND CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.

     Nothing in this Trust Indenture, whether express or implied, shall be
construed to give any person other than the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Participant, Lessee and the Certificate Holders, any legal
or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Trust
Indenture.

     SECTION 10.05. NOTICES.

     Unless otherwise expressly specified or permitted by the terms hereof, all
notices, requests, demands, authorizations, directions, consents, waivers or
documents provided or permitted by this Trust Indenture to be made, given,
furnished or filed shall be in writing, personally delivered or mailed by
certified mail, postage prepaid, or by facsimile or confirmed telex, and (i) if
to the Owner Trustee, addressed to it at its office at 79 South Main Street,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, Attention: Corporate Trust Department (Telecopy No.
(801) 246-5053), with a copy to the Owner Participant addressed as provided in
clause (iii) below, (ii) if to the Indenture Trustee, addressed to it at its
office at Two International Place, 4th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02110,
Attention: Corporate Trust Department (Telecopy No. (617) 664-5371), (iii) if
to any Participant, Lessee or any Certificate Holder, addressed to such party
at such address as such party shall have furnished by notice to the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, or, until an address is so furnished,
addressed to the address of such party (if any) set forth on the signature
pages to the Refunding Agreement or in the Secured Certificate Register.
Whenever any notice in writing is required to be given by the Owner Trustee,
any Participant or the Indenture Trustee or any Certificate Holder or Lessee to
any of the other of them, such notice shall be deemed given and such
requirement satisfied when such notice is received, or if such notice is mailed 
by certified mail, postage prepaid, three Business Days after being mailed,
addressed as provided above.  Any party hereto may change the address to which
notices to such party will be sent by giving notice of such change to the other
parties to this Trust Indenture.

     SECTION 10.06. SEVERABILITY.

     Any provision of this Trust Indenture which is prohibited or unenforceable
in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the
extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the
remaining provisions hereof.  Any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such
provision in any other jurisdiction.

     SECTION 10.07. NO ORAL MODIFICATION OR CONTINUING WAIVERS.

     No term or provision of this Trust Indenture or the Secured Certificates
may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an
instrument in writing signed by the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, in
compliance with Section 9.01 hereof.  Any waiver of the terms hereof or of any
Secured Certificate shall be effective only in the specific instance and for
the specific purpose given.

     SECTION 10.08. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.

     All covenants and agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and
inure to the benefit of, each of the parties hereto and the permitted
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notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by any
Certificate Holder shall bind the successors and assigns of such holder.  This
Trust Indenture and the Trust Indenture Estate shall not be affected by any
amendment or supplement to the Trust Agreement or by any other action taken
under or in respect of the Trust Agreement, except that each reference in this
Trust Indenture to the Trust Agreement shall mean the Trust Agreement as
amended and supplemented from time to time to the extent permitted hereby,
thereby and by the Participation Agreement.  Each Certificate Holder by its
acceptance of a Secured Certificate agrees to be bound by this Trust Indenture
and all provisions of the Participation Agreement applicable to a Loan
Participant or a Certificate Holder.

     SECTION 10.09. HEADINGS.

     The headings of the various Articles and sections herein and in the table
of contents hereto are for convenience of reference only and shall not define
or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

     SECTION 10.10. NORMAL COMMERCIAL RELATIONS.

     Anything contained in this Trust Indenture to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, any Participant or
any bank or other Affiliate of such Participant may conduct any banking or
other financial transactions, and have banking or other commercial
relationships,  with Lessee, fully to the same extent as if this Trust
Indenture were not in effect, including without limitation the making of loans
or other extensions of credit to Lessee for any purpose whatsoever, whether
related to any of the transactions contemplated hereby or otherwise.

     SECTION 10.11. GOVERNING LAW; COUNTERPART FORM.

     THIS TRUST INDENTURE SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING ALL
MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE.  THIS TRUST INDENTURE IS
BEING DELIVERED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  This Trust Indenture may be executed
by the parties hereto in separate counterparts (or upon separate signature
pages bound together into one or more counterparts), each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.

     SECTION 10.12. VOTING BY CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.

     All votes of the Certificate Holders shall be governed by a vote of a
Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders, except as otherwise provided
herein.

     SECTION 10.13. BANKRUPTCY.

     It is the intention of the parties that the Owner Trustee, as lessor under
the Lease (and the Indenture Trustee as assignee of the Owner Trustee
hereunder), shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 1110 with respect to
the right to take possession of the Aircraft, Airframe, Engines and Parts as
provided in the Lease in the event of a case under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy
Code in which Lessee is a debtor, and in any instance where more than one
construction is possible of the terms and conditions hereof or any other
pertinent Operative Document, each such party agrees that a construction which
would preserve such benefits shall control over any construction which would
not preserve such benefits.

     SECTION 10.14. NO ACTION CONTRARY TO LESSEE'S RIGHTS UNDER THE LEASE.

     Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Trust Indenture or the Trust
Agreement to the contrary, neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Trustee
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the Lease, including the right to possession and use of, and the quiet
enjoyment of, the Aircraft, except in accordance with provisions of the Lease.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Indenture to
be duly executed by their respective officers thereof duly authorized as of the
day and year first above written.

                                    FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION, not in its individual
                                    capacity, except as expressly provided
                                    herein, but solely as Owner Trustee, as
                                    Owner Trustee



                                    By: _________________________________
                                    Name: _______________________________
                                    Title:


                                    STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, as
                                    Indenture Trustee



                                    By: _________________________________
                                    Name: _______________________________
                                    Title:


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                                                                EXHIBIT A
                                                                  TO
                                                    TRUST INDENTURE AND MORTGAGE

                    TRUST AGREEMENT AND INDENTURE SUPPLEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

     This TRUST AGREEMENT AND INDENTURE SUPPLEMENT [NW 1996 B], dated _______
__, _____ (herein called this "TRUST INDENTURE SUPPLEMENT") of FIRST SECURITY
BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity, but solely
as Owner Trustee (herein called the "OWNER TRUSTEE") under that certain Trust
Agreement [NW 1996 B] dated as of April 24, 1996 (the "TRUST AGREEMENT"),
between the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant named therein.

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

     WHEREAS, the AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST INDENTURE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
[NW 1996 B], dated as of [________], 1996 (as amended and supplemented to the
date hereof, the "TRUST INDENTURE") between the Owner Trustee and STATE STREET
BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, as Indenture Trustee (the "INDENTURE TRUSTEE"),
provides for the execution and delivery of a supplement thereto substantially
in the form hereof, which shall particularly describe the Aircraft, and shall
specifically mortgage such Aircraft to the Indenture Trustee; and

     WHEREAS, the Trust Indenture relates to the Airframe and Engines described
below, and a counterpart of the Trust Indenture is attached hereto and made a
part hereof and this Trust Indenture Supplement, together with such counterpart
of the Trust Indenture, is being filed for recordation on the date hereof with
the FAA as one document;

     NOW, THEREFORE, this Trust Indenture Supplement witnesseth that the Owner
Trustee hereby confirms that the Lien of the Trust Indenture on the Trust
Indenture Estate covers all of Owner Trustee's right, title and interest in and
to the following described property:





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                                    AIRFRAME

     One airframe identified as follows:



                         FAA
                     Registration  Manufacturer's
Manufacturer  Model     Number     Serial Number
- ------------  -----  ------------  --------------


together with all of the Owner Trustee's right, title and interest in and to
all Parts of whatever nature, whether now owned or hereinafter acquired and
which are from time to time incorporated or installed in or attached to said
airframe.

                                AIRCRAFT ENGINES

     Two aircraft engines, each such engine having 750 or more rated take-off
horsepower or the equivalent thereof, identified as follows:



Manufacturer  Manufacturer's Model  Serial Number
- ------------  --------------------  -------------


together with all of Owner Trustee's right, title and interest in and to all
Parts of whatever nature, whether now owned or hereafter acquired and which are
from time to time incorporated or installed in or attached to any of such
engines.

     Together with all of Owner Trustee's right, title and interest in and to
all Parts of whatever nature, which from time to time are included within the
definition of "Airframe" or "Engine", whether now owned or hereafter acquired,
including all substitutions, renewals and replacements of and additions,
improvements, accessions and accumulations to the Airframe and Engines (other
than additions, improvements, accessions and accumulations which constitute
appliances, parts, instruments, appurtenances, accessories, furnishings or
other equipment excluded from the definition of Parts).

     As further security for the obligations referred to above and secured by
the Trust Indenture and hereby, the Owner Trustee has granted, bargained, sold,
assigned, transferred, conveyed, mortgaged, pledged and confirmed, and does
hereby grant, bargain, sell, assign, transfer, convey, mortgage, pledge and
confirm, unto the Indenture Trustee, its successors and assigns, for the
security and benefit of the Certificate Holders, in the trust created by the
Trust Indenture, all of the right, title and interest of the Owner Trustee in,
to and under the Lease Supplement [of even date herewith] covering the property
described above.

     Notwithstanding any provision hereof, no Excluded Payment shall constitute
security for any of the aforementioned obligations.

     TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular the aforesaid property unto the
Indenture Trustee, its successors and assigns, in trust for the equal and
proportionate benefit and security of the Certificate Holders, except as
provided in Section 2.15 and Article III of the Trust Indenture without any
preference, distinction or priority of any one Secured Certificate over any
other by reason of priority of time of issue, sale, negotiation, date of
maturity 

                                  EXHIBIT A-2

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thereof or otherwise for any reason whatsoever, and for the uses and
purposes and subject to the terms and provisions set forth in the Trust
Indenture.

     This Trust Indenture Supplement shall be construed as supplemental to the
Trust Indenture and shall form a part thereof.  The Trust Indenture is each
hereby incorporated by reference herein and is hereby ratified, approved and
confirmed.

     This Trust Indenture Supplement is being delivered in the State of New
York.

     AND, FURTHER, the Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges that the Aircraft
referred to in this Trust Indenture Supplement and the aforesaid Lease
Supplement has been delivered to the Owner Trustee and is included in the
property of the Owner Trustee covered by all the terms and conditions of the
Trust Agreement, subject to the pledge and mortgage thereof under the Trust
Indenture.

                                     * * *
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee has caused this Trust Indenture
Supplement to be duly executed by one of its officers, thereunto duly
authorized, on the day and year first above written.

                                    FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION,
                                         not in its individual capacity, but
                                         solely as Owner Trustee, Owner Trustee

                                    By:
                                        ------------------------------------
                                         Name:
                                         Title:



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                                   SCHEDULE I



                      PRINCIPAL AMOUNT  INTEREST RATE
                      ----------------  -------------
Series A . . . . . .
Series B . . . . . .
Series C . . . . . .
 . . . . . .

                   [Intentionally omitted from the version of
                      this document filed with the FAA as
                containing confidential financial information.]




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                       SECURED CERTIFICATES AMORTIZATION

                                    SERIES A



                                            PERCENTAGE OF ORIGINAL   
                    PAYMENT DATE              AMOUNT TO BE PAID      
                    ------------            ----------------------   

                   [Intentionally omitted from the version of
                      this document filed with the FAA as
                containing confidential financial information.]




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                                    SERIES B



                                        PERCENTAGE OF ORIGINAL  
             PAYMENT DATE                 AMOUNT TO BE PAID     
             ------------               ----------------------  

                   [Intentionally omitted from the version of
                      this document filed with the FAA as
                containing confidential financial information.]




<PAGE>   65




                                    SERIES C


                                        PERCENTAGE OF ORIGINAL  
             PAYMENT DATE                 AMOUNT TO BE PAID     
             ------------               ----------------------  



                   [Intentionally omitted from the version of
                      this document filed with the FAA as
           containing confidential financial information.]


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                                 SCHEDULE II

                         PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENTS

1. Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trust Agreement, supplemented by
Trust Supplement No. ___ dated ___________, 1996.

2. Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trust Agreement, supplemented by
Trust Supplement No. ___ dated ___________, 1996.

3. Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trust Agreement, supplemented by
Trust Supplement No. ___ dated ___________, 1996.









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                                                                  Exhibit (f)(3)

                                                                  EXECUTION COPY

================================================================================

                                LEASE AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

                                  DATED AS OF

                                 APRIL 24, 1996

                                    BETWEEN

               FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

              NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY

                 PROVIDED HEREIN, BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE,

                                     Lessor

                                      AND

                           NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.,

                                     Lessee

                          ONE BOEING 757-251 AIRCRAFT

================================================================================

As set forth in Section 20 hereof, Lessor has assigned to the Indenture Trustee
(as defined herein) certain of its right, title and interest in and to this
Lease.  To the extent, if any, that this Lease constitutes chattel paper (as
such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any
applicable jurisdiction) no security interest in this Lease may be created
through the transfer or possession of any counterpart other than the original
executed counterpart, which shall be identified as the counterpart containing
the receipt therefor executed by the Indenture Trustee on the signature page
thereof.



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                      TABLE OF CONTENTS TO LEASE AGREEMENT

                                                                         Page
                                                                         ----
SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS ................................................   1
                                                                        
SECTION 2.  ACCEPTANCE AND LEASE .......................................  15
                                                                        
SECTION 3.  TERM AND RENT ..............................................  15
                                                                        
            (a)  Interim Term and Basic Term ...........................  15 
            (b)  Interim Rent ..........................................  16 
            (c)  Basic Rent ............................................  16 
            (d)  Adjustments to Basic Rent .............................  17 
            (e)  Supplemental Rent .....................................  19 
            (f)  Payments in General ...................................  20 
            (g)  Prepayment of Certain Rent Payments ...................  21 
                                                                        
SECTION 4.  LESSOR'S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES ....................  21
                                                                        
SECTION 5.  RETURN OF THE AIRCRAFT .....................................  22
            (a)  Condition Upon Return .................................  22
            (b)  Return of the Engines .................................  23
            (c)  Fuel; Manuals .........................................  24
            (d)  Storage Upon Return ...................................  24
                                                                        
SECTION 6.  LIENS ......................................................  24
                                                                        
SECTION 7.  REGISTRATION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION;                    
            POSSESSION AND SUBLEASES; INSIGNIA .........................  25
            (a)  Registration and Maintenance  .........................  25
            (b)  Possession and Subleases ..............................  27
            (c)  Insignia ..............................................  31
                                                                        
SECTION 8.  REPLACEMENT AND POOLING OF PARTS;                           
            ALTERATIONS, MODIFICATIONS AND ADDITIONS ...................  31
            (a)  Replacement of Parts ..................................  31
            (b)  Pooling of Parts ......................................  32
            (c)  Alterations, Modifications and Additions ..............  32

                                                                        

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                                                                         ----
SECTION 9.  VOLUNTARY TERMINATION.......................................  33
            (a)  Termination Event .....................................  33
            (b)  [Intentionally Omitted] ...............................  34
            (c)  Optional Sale of the Aircraft .........................  34
            (d)  Termination as to Engines .............................  36

SECTION 10. LOSS, DESTRUCTION, REQUISITION, ETC. .......................  36

            (a)  Event of Loss with Respect to the Aircraft ............  36
            (b)  Event of Loss with Respect to an Engine ...............  39
            (c)  Application of Payments from Governmental
                 Authorities for Requisition of Title, etc. ............  40
            (d)  Requisition for Use of the Aircraft by the United States 
                 Government or the Government of Registry 
                 of the Aircraft Which is a Member of OECD  ............  40
            (e)  Requisition for Use of an Engine by the United States
                 Government or the Government of Registry of the Aircraft
                 Which is a Member of OECD .............................  41
            (f)  Application of Payments During Existence of Event of 
                 Default ...............................................  42

SECTION 11. INSURANCE ..................................................  42

            (a)  Public Liability and Property Damage Insurance ........  42
            (b)  Insurance Against Loss or Damage to the Aircraft ......  43
            (c)  Reports, etc. .........................................  46
            (d)  Self-Insurance ........................................  47
            (e)  Additional Insurance by Lessor and Lessee .............  47
            (f)  Indemnification by Government in Lieu of Insurance ....  47
            (g)  Application of Payments During Existence of an Event of 
                 Default ...............................................  48

SECTION 12. INSPECTION .................................................  48

SECTION 13. ASSIGNMENT .................................................  48

SECTION 14. EVENTS OF DEFAULT ..........................................  49

SECTION 15. REMEDIES ...................................................  51

SECTION 16. LESSEE'S COOPERATION CONCERNING CERTAIN MATTERS ............  54

SECTION 17. NOTICES ....................................................  55

SECTION 18. NO SET-OFF, COUNTERCLAIM, ETC. .............................  56
                                                                        
                                                                        
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                                                                         ----
SECTION 19. RENEWAL OPTIONS; PURCHASE OPTIONS; VALUATION ...............  57

            (a)Renewal Options .........................................  57
            (b)Purchase Options ........................................  58
            (c)Valuation ...............................................  58
            (d)Special Purchase Option .................................  59

SECTION 20. SECURITY FOR LESSOR'S OBLIGATION
            TO HOLDERS OF SECURED CERTIFICATES .........................  60

SECTION 21. LESSOR'S RIGHT TO PERFORM FOR LESSEE .......................  61

SECTION 22. INVESTMENT OF SECURITY FUNDS; 
            LIABILITY OF LESSOR LIMITED ................................  61

            (a)Investment of Security Funds ............................  61
            (b)Liability of Lessor Limited  ............................  61

SECTION 23. SERVICE OF PROCESS .........................................  62

SECTION 24. MISCELLANEOUS ..............................................  62

SECTION 25. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE ..........................................  62

SECTION 26. COVENANT OF QUIET ENJOYMENT ................................  64


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                                    EXHIBITS

   EXHIBIT A   -    Form of Lease Supplement
   EXHIBIT B   -    Interim Rent, Basic Rent, Excess Amount, Lessor's Cost,
                    Special Purchase Price, Initial Installment and Remaining
                    Installments Schedule
   EXHIBIT C   -    Stipulated Loss Value Schedule
   EXHIBIT D   -    Termination Value Schedule
   EXHIBIT E   -    Rent Recalculation Verification
   EXHIBIT F   -    Return Conditions


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                                LEASE AGREEMENT
        

                                  [NW 1996 B]

     This LEASE AGREEMENT [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996, between
FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual
capacity, except as expressly provided herein, but solely as Owner Trustee
under the Trust Agreement (as defined in Section 1 hereof) (in such capacity,
"LESSOR"), and NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., a corporation organized and existing
pursuant to the laws of the State of Minnesota ("LESSEE");

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

        SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the
following terms shall have the following meanings for all purposes of this Lease
Agreement [NW 1996 B] and shall be equally applicable to both the singular and
the plural forms of the terms herein defined:

                 "Administrative Agent" means Bankers Trust Company, a New York
         banking corporation, as administrative agent pursuant to the
         Participation Agreement, and any successor acting as administrative
         agent.
         
              "Affiliate" means, with respect to any person, any other
         person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under
         common control with such person.  For the purposes of this
         definition, "control" (including "controlled by" and "under common
         control with") shall mean the power, directly or indirectly, to
         direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
         such person whether through the ownership of voting securities or
         by contract or otherwise.
         
              "After-Tax Basis" means an amount, which, after deduction of
         all Federal, state, local and foreign taxes required to be paid by
         or on behalf of the recipient in respect of the receipt or
         realization of such amount, is equal to the payment required under
         the provisions of any Operative Document that requires payments to
         be made on an After-Tax Basis.
         
              "Aircraft" means the Airframe to be delivered and leased
         hereunder (or any airframe from time to time substituted for such
         Airframe pursuant to Section 10(a) hereof) together with the two
         Engines initially leased hereunder (or any engine substituted for
         either of such Engines pursuant to the terms hereof), whether or
         not any of such initial or substituted Engines may from time to
         time be installed on such initial or substituted Airframe or may be
         installed on any other airframe or on any other aircraft.
         


        
        
<PAGE>   7
        
        
        
        
             "Airframe" means:  (i) the Boeing 757-251 aircraft (except
        Engines or engines from time to time installed thereon) specified
        in the initial Lease Supplement, which aircraft shall be leased by
        Lessor to Lessee hereunder and under such Lease Supplement, and any
        aircraft (except Engines or engines from time to time installed
        thereon) which may from time to time be substituted for such
        aircraft (except Engines or engines from time to time installed
        thereon) pursuant to clause (ii) of the first paragraph of Section
        10(a); and (ii) any and all Parts (A) so long as the same shall be
        incorporated or installed in or attached to such aircraft (except
        Engines or engines from time to time installed thereon), or (B) so
        long as title thereto shall remain vested in Lessor in accordance
        with the terms of Section 8 after removal from such aircraft
        (except Engines or engines from time to time installed thereon);
        provided, however, that at such time as an aircraft (except Engines
        or engines from time to time installed thereon) shall be deemed
        part of the property leased hereunder in substitution for the
        Airframe pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, the replaced
        Airframe shall cease to be an Airframe hereunder.
        
             "Applicable Rate" means as of any date the weighted average of
        the interest rates borne by the Secured Certificates then
        outstanding and, if no Secured Certificates shall be outstanding,
        the Base Rate.
        
             "Assumed Interest Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section
        3(c) hereof.
        
             "Bankruptcy Code" means the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, as
        amended, or any subsequent legislation that amends, supplements or
        supersedes such provisions.
        
             "Base Rate" means the rate of interest announced publicly by
        The Bank of New York in New York, New York from time to time as its
        prime rate.
        
             "Basic Rent" means, for the Basic Term, the rent payable for
        the Aircraft pursuant to Section 3(c) as adjusted as provided in
        Section 3(d) but subject always to the provisions of Section
        3(d)(v) hereof and, for any Renewal Term, Basic Rent determined
        pursuant to Section 19.
        
             "Basic Term" means the term for which the Aircraft is leased
        hereunder pursuant to Section 3(a) hereof commencing on the
        Commencement Date and ending on January 2, 2019, or such earlier
        date as this Lease may be terminated in accordance with the
        provisions hereof.
        
             "Bill of Sale" means a full warranty bill of sale covering the
        Aircraft, executed by Lessee in favor of the Owner Trustee, dated
        the Delivery Date, specifically referring to the Airframe and each
        Engine, which Bill of Sale shall contain, among other things, a
        statement that such Bill of Sale thereby conveys to the Owner
        Trustee good title to the Airframe and each Engine described in
        
                                    - 2 -
        
        
<PAGE>   8
        
        
        
        
        such Bill of Sale, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and
        rights of others except Liens permitted by clause (v) of Section 6
        of the Lease.
        
             "Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday
        or a day on which commercial banks are required or authorized to
        close in New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Salt Lake City,
        Utah; or Minneapolis, Minnesota and, in connection with any payment
        of Rent and so long as any Secured Certificate is a Eurodollar Loan
        (as defined in the Trust Indenture), such day is also a day for
        trading by and between banks in the interbank Eurodollar market.
        
             "Certificate Holder" means Certificate Holder as defined in
        the Trust Indenture.
        
             "Certificated Air Carrier" means a Citizen of the United
        States holding a carrier operating certificate issued by the
        Secretary of Transportation pursuant to Chapter 447 of Title 49,
        United States Code, for aircraft capable of carrying ten or more
        individuals or 6,000 pounds or more of cargo or that otherwise is
        certified or registered to the extent required to fall within the
        purview of 11 U.S.C. Section 1110 or any analogous successor
        provision of the Bankruptcy Code.
        
             "Citizen of the United States" has the meaning specified in
        Section 40102(a)(15) of Title 49 of the United States Code or any
        similar legislation of the United States of America enacted in
        substitution or replacement therefor.
        
             "Civil Reserve Air Fleet Program" means the Civil Reserve Air
        Fleet Program currently administered by the United States Air Force
        Air Mobility Command pursuant to Executive Order No. 11490, as
        amended, or any substantially similar program.
        
             "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
        
             "Commencement Date" means January 2, 1997.
        
             "Commitment" means the commitment of a Loan Participant or of
        the Owner Participant, as the case may be, to finance the Owner
        Trustee's payment of Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft.
        
             "Consent and Agreement" means the Consent and Agreement [NW
        1996 B], dated as of the date hereof, executed by the Manufacturer,
        as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to
        time in accordance with the applicable provisions thereof.
        
             "Credit Agreement" means the Credit Agreement, dated as of
        November 2, 1995, among Lessee, the banks, financial institutions
        and other institutional
        
                                 - 3 -
        
        
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        lenders listed on the signature pages thereof, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.,
        as documentation agent, Bankers Trust Company, as administrative
        agent, and Chemical Securities, Inc., as syndication agent, as the
        same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
        to time.
        
             "Debt Rate" has the meaning set forth in the Trust Indenture.
        
             "Default" means any event which with the giving of notice or
        the lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default.
        
             "Delivery Date" means the date of the initial Lease Supplement
        for the Aircraft, which date shall be the date the Aircraft is
        leased by Lessor to Lessee and accepted by Lessee hereunder.
        
             "Depreciation Period" means the period commencing on the
        Delivery Date and ending on December 31, 2003.
        
             "Documentation Agent" means ABN AMRO Bank N.V., a bank
        organized under the laws of the Netherlands, as documentation agent
        pursuant to the Participation Agreement, and any successor acting
        as documentation agent.
        
             "Dollars" and "$" means the lawful currency of the United
        States of America.
        
             "Engine" means (i) each of the two Pratt & Whitney Model
        PW2037 engines listed by manufacturer's serial number in the
        initial Lease Supplement, whether or not from time to time
        thereafter installed on the Airframe or installed on any other
        airframe or on any other aircraft; and (ii) any engine which may
        from time to time be substituted, pursuant to the terms hereof, for
        either of such two engines, together in each case with any and all
        Parts incorporated or installed in or attached thereto or any and
        all Parts removed therefrom so long as title thereto shall remain
        vested in Lessor in accordance with the terms of Section 8 after
        removal from such Engine; provided, however, that at such time as
        an engine shall be deemed part of the property leased hereunder in
        substitution for an Engine pursuant to the applicable provisions
        hereof, the replaced Engine shall cease to be an Engine hereunder.
        The term "Engines" means, as of any date of determination, all
        Engines then leased hereunder.
        
             "Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 14
        hereof.
        
             "Event of Loss" with respect to the Aircraft, Airframe or any
        Engine means any of the following events with respect to such
        property:  (i) the loss of such property or of the use thereof due
        to the destruction of or damage to such property which renders
        repair uneconomic or which renders such property
        
                                 - 4 -
        
        
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        permanently unfit for normal use by Lessee for any reason
        whatsoever; (ii) any damage to such property which results in an
        insurance settlement with respect to such property on the basis of
        a total loss, or a constructive or compromised total loss; (iii)
        the theft or disappearance of such property, or the confiscation,
        condemnation, or seizure of, or requisition of title to, or use of,
        such property (other than a requisition for use by the United
        States Government or any other government of registry of the
        Aircraft which is a member of OECD, or any agency or
        instrumentality of any thereof) which in the case of any event
        referred to in this clause (iii) (other than a requisition of
        title) shall have resulted in the loss of possession of such
        property by Lessee for a period in excess of 180 consecutive days
        or, if earlier, at the end of the Term or, in the case of a
        requisition of title, the requisition of title shall not have been
        reversed within 90 days from the date of such requisition of title
        or, if earlier, at the end of the Term; (iv) as a result of any
        law, rule, regulation, order or other action by the Federal
        Aviation Administration or other governmental body of the
        government of registry of the Aircraft having jurisdiction, the use
        of such property in the normal course of the business of air
        transportation shall have been prohibited for a period of 180
        consecutive days, unless Lessee, prior to the expiration of such
        180 day period, shall have undertaken and shall be diligently
        carrying forward all steps which are necessary or desirable to
        permit the normal use of such property by Lessee, but in any event
        if such use shall have been prohibited for a period of two
        consecutive years, provided that no Event of Loss shall be deemed
        to have occurred if such prohibition has been applicable to
        Lessee's entire U.S. registered fleet of Boeing Model 757-200
        aircraft and Lessee, prior to the expiration of such two-year
        period, shall have conformed at least one such aircraft in its
        fleet to the requirements of any such law, rule, regulation, order
        or other action and commenced regular commercial use of the same in
        such jurisdiction and shall be diligently carrying forward, in a
        manner which does not discriminate against the Aircraft in so
        conforming the Aircraft, all steps which are necessary or desirable
        to permit the normal use of the Aircraft by Lessee, but in any
        event if such use shall have been prohibited for a period of three
        years or such use shall be prohibited at the expiration of the
        Term; (v) the requisition for use by the United States Government
        or any other government of registry of the Aircraft which is a
        member of OECD or any instrumentality or agency of any thereof,
        which shall have occurred during the Basic Term (or the Interim
        Term or any Renewal Term) and shall have continued for thirty (30)
        days beyond the Term, provided, however, that no Event of Loss
        pursuant to this clause (v) shall exist if Lessor shall have
        furnished to Lessee the written notice specified in Section 10(d)
        hereof; and (vi) any divestiture of title to or interest in an
        Engine treated as an Event of Loss pursuant to Section 7(b) hereof.
        An Event of Loss with respect to the Aircraft shall be deemed to
        have occurred if an Event of Loss occurs with respect to the
        Airframe.
        
        
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             "Excess Amount" for the Transition Date means an amount equal
        to the amount determined by multiplying Lessor's Cost by the
        percentage set forth in Exhibit B hereto under the heading "Excess
        Amount" opposite the Transition Date; provided, however, that, to
        the extent that the aggregate amount of interest due and payable on
        the Transition Date on the Secured Certificates relating to the
        period from and including the Delivery Date to but excluding the
        Transition Date is less than the aggregate amount of interest on
        the Secured Certificates that would have been due and payable on
        the Transition Date if such Secured Certificates had borne interest
        at the Assumed Interest Rate for such period, the corresponding
        percentage set forth in Exhibit B shall be decreased by the amount
        which when multiplied by Lessor's Cost will equal such
        differential.
        
             "Expenses" has the meaning specified in Section 7(c) of the
        Participation Agreement.
        
             "FAA Bill of Sale" means a bill of sale for the Aircraft on AC
        Form 8050-2 or such other form as may be approved by the Federal
        Aviation Administration on the Delivery Date for the Aircraft,
        executed by Lessee in favor of the Owner Trustee and dated the
        Delivery Date.
        
             "Federal Aviation Act" means that portion of the United States
        Code comprising those provisions formerly referred to as the
        Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended, or any subsequent
        legislation that amends, supplements or supersedes such provisions.
        
             "Federal Aviation Administration" and "FAA" mean the United
        States Federal Aviation Administration and any agency or
        instrumentality of the United States government succeeding to their
        functions.
        
             "Funding Loss Amount" has the meaning assigned to that term in
        the Trust Indenture.
        
             "Guarantee" means the Guarantee [NW 1996 B], dated as of the
        date hereof, made by the Guarantor in favor of the Parties, as such
        Guarantee may be amended or supplemented from time to time pursuant
        to the applicable provisions thereof.
        
             "Guarantor" means Northwest Airlines Corporation, a Delaware
        corporation.
        
             "Indemnitee" means the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee,
        in its individual capacity and as trustee under the Trust
        Agreement, the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee, the
        Administrative Agent, the Documentation Agent, the Loan
        Participants and each other Certificate Holder, and each of their
        respective
        
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        Affiliates, successors, permitted assigns, directors, officers,
        employees, servants and agents.
        
             "Indenture Trustee" means the Indenture Trustee under the
        Trust Indenture, and any entity which may from time to time be
        acting as indenture trustee under the Trust Indenture.
        
             "Indenture Trustee Documents" means the Participation
        Agreement and the Trust Indenture.
        
             "Indenture Trustee's Liens" means any Lien which arises as a
        result of (A) claims against the Indenture Trustee not related to
        its interest in the Aircraft or the administration of the Trust
        Estate pursuant to the Trust Indenture, (B) acts of the Indenture
        Trustee not permitted by, or failure of the Indenture Trustee to
        take any action required by, the Operative Documents to the extent
        such acts arise or such failure arises from or constitutes gross
        negligence or willful misconduct, (C) claims against the Indenture
        Trustee relating to Taxes or Expenses which are excluded from the
        indemnification provided by Section 7 of the Participation
        Agreement pursuant to said Section 7, or (D) claims against the
        Indenture Trustee arising out of the transfer by the Indenture
        Trustee of all or any portion of its interest in the Aircraft, the
        Trust Estate, the Trust Indenture Estate or the Operative Documents
        other than a transfer of the Aircraft pursuant to Section 9, 10 or
        19 of the Lease or Article IV or V of the Trust Indenture, or a
        transfer of the Aircraft pursuant to Section 15 of the Lease while
        an Event of Default is continuing and prior to the time that the
        Indenture Trustee has received all amounts due pursuant to the
        Trust Indenture.
        
             "Initial Installment" has the meaning set forth in Section
        19(d) hereof.
        
             "Interest Period" means Interest Period as defined in the
        Trust Indenture.
        
             "Interim Rent" means the rent payable for the Aircraft for the
        Interim Term pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof.
        
             "Interim Term" means the period commencing on the Delivery
        Date and ending on and including the day immediately preceding the
        Commencement Date unless earlier terminated in accordance with the
        provisions hereof.
        
             "Lease Agreement", "this Lease Agreement", "this Lease", "this
        Agreement", "herein", "hereof", "hereunder", "hereby" or other like
        words mean this Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B] as originally executed
        or as modified, amended or supplemented pursuant to the applicable
        provisions hereof and in accordance with the Trust Agreement and
        the Trust Indenture, including, without limitation, supplementation
        hereof by one or more Lease Supplements entered into pursuant to
        the applicable provisions hereof.
        
        
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             "Lease Period" means each of the consecutive semi-annual
        periods throughout the Basic Term and any Renewal Term ending on a
        Lease Period Date, the first such period commencing on and
        including the Commencement Date.
        
             "Lease Period Date" means July 2, 1997 and each succeeding
        January 2 and July 2, to and including the last such date in the
        Term.
        
             "Lease Supplement" means a Lease Supplement, substantially in
        the form of Exhibit A hereto, to be entered into between Lessor and
        Lessee on the Delivery Date for the purpose of leasing the Aircraft
        under and pursuant to the terms of this Lease Agreement, and any
        subsequent Lease Supplement entered into in accordance with the
        terms hereof.
        
             "Lessee Documents" means the Participation Agreement, the
        Lease, the Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft, the Purchase
        Agreement (insofar as it relates to the Aircraft), the FAA Bill of
        Sale, the Bill of Sale, the Purchase Agreement Assignment and the
        Tax Indemnity Agreement.
        
             "Lessor Liens" means any Lien or disposition of title or
        interest affecting or in respect of the Aircraft, the Airframe, any
        Engine, this Lease or the Trust Estate arising as a result of (i)
        claims against Lessor, First Security Bank of Utah, National
        Association, in its individual capacity, or the Owner Participant
        not related to the transactions contemplated by the Operative
        Documents, (ii) any act or omission of the Owner Participant,
        Lessor, or First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in
        its individual capacity, which is not related to the transactions
        contemplated by the Operative Documents or is in violation of any
        of the terms of the Operative Documents, (iii) claims against the
        Owner Participant, Lessor, or First Security Bank of Utah, National
        Association, in its individual capacity, with respect to Taxes or
        Expenses against which Lessee is not required to indemnify the
        Owner Participant, Lessor or First Security Bank of Utah, National
        Association, in its individual capacity, pursuant to Section 7 of
        the Participation Agreement or (iv) claims against Lessor or the
        Owner Participant arising out of any transfer by Lessor or the
        Owner Participant of all or any portion of the respective interests
        of Lessor or the Owner Participant in the Aircraft, the Trust
        Estate or the Operative Documents other than the transfer of
        possession of the Aircraft by Lessor pursuant to this Agreement,
        the transfer pursuant to the Trust Indenture or a transfer of the
        Aircraft pursuant to Section 9, 10 or 19 hereof or pursuant to the
        exercise of the remedies set forth in Section 15 hereof, provided,
        however, that any Lien which is attributable solely to First
        Security Bank of Utah, National Association or the Owner
        Participant and would otherwise constitute a Lessor Lien hereunder
        shall not constitute a Lessor Lien hereunder so long as (1) the
        existence of such Lien poses no material risk of the sale,
        forfeiture or loss of the Aircraft, (2) the existence of such Lien
        does not interfere in any way with the use, possession, operation,
        or
        
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        quiet enjoyment of the Aircraft by Lessee (or any Sublessee), (3)
        the existence of such Lien does not affect the priority or
        perfection of, or otherwise jeopardize, the Lien of the Trust
        Indenture, (4) First Security Bank of Utah, National Association or
        the Owner Participant, as appropriate, is diligently contesting
        such Lien and (5) the existence of such Lien does not pose a
        material threat of interference with the payment of Rent (other
        than Excluded Payments in favor of First Security Bank of Utah,
        National Association or the Owner Participant, as appropriate).
        
             "Lessor's Cost" for the Aircraft means the amount denominated
        as such in Exhibit B to the Lease.
        
             "Lien" means any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, claim, lease,
        sublease, sub-sublease, security interest, or encumbrance of any
        kind.
        
             "Loan Participant" means each institution executing the
        Participation Agreement as a Loan Participant, and its respective
        successors and assigns, and any Certificate Holder; at any time
        when there is only one Certificate Holder, "each Loan Participant"
        shall mean such Certificate Holder.
        
             "Loan Participant Liens" means any Lien which arises from acts
        or claims against any Loan Participant not related to the
        transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents.
        
             "Loss Payment Date" has the meaning specified in Section 10(a)
        hereof.
        
             "Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders" has the meaning
        assigned to that term in the Trust Indenture.
        
             "Manufacturer" means The Boeing Company, a Delaware
        corporation.
        
             "Manufacturer Documents" means the Purchase Agreement and the
         Consent and Agreement.
         
             "Net Economic Return" shall have the meaning ascribed to such
        term in paragraph 2 of Exhibit E to the Lease.
        
             "Net Present Value of Rents" means the net present value, as
        of the Delivery Date, of Basic Rent set forth in Exhibit B hereto,
        Special Purchase Price and Remaining Installments, discounted at an
        annual interest rate of 12.0 percent on a semi-annual basis.
        
             "OECD" means the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
        Development.
        
        
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             "Operative Documents" and "Operative Document" means each of
        the Participation Agreement, the Lease, the Trust Indenture, the
        Trust Agreement, an acceptance certificate covering the Aircraft in
        the form agreed to by the Participants and Lessee, the Tax
        Indemnity Agreement, the Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft,
        the Trust Supplement covering the Aircraft, the Secured
        Certificates, the Bill of Sale, the FAA Bill of Sale, the Purchase
        Agreement (insofar as it relates to the Aircraft), the Guarantee,
        the Purchase Agreement Assignment and the Consent and Agreement.
        
             "Overall Transaction" means all the transactions contemplated
        by the Operative Documents.
        
             "Owner Participant" means the corporation executing the
        Participation Agreement as the Owner Participant and any person to
        which such corporation transfers all or any portion of its right,
        title and interest in and to the Trust Agreement, the Trust Estate
        and the Participation Agreement, to the extent permitted by Section
        8 of the Participation Agreement.
        
             "Owner Participant Documents" means the Participation
        Agreement, the Trust Agreement, and the Tax Indemnity Agreement.
        
             "Owner Trustee" means the entity executing the Participation
        Agreement as Owner Trustee and any entity appointed as successor
        Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Trust Agreement, and
        references to a predecessor Owner Trustee in its individual
        capacity by name in the Operative Documents shall include such
        successor Owner Trustee in its individual capacity from and after
        such succession.
        
             "Owner Trustee Documents" means the Participation Agreement,
        the Trust Agreement, the Trust Supplement covering the Aircraft,
        the Lease, the Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft, the Purchase
        Agreement Assignment, the Trust Indenture and the Secured
        Certificates.
        
             "Participants" means and includes the Loan Participants and
        the Owner Participant.
        
             "Participation Agreement" means that certain Participation
        Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof, among Lessee,
        the Loan Participants, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant
        and Owner Trustee, as such Participation Agreement may be amended
        or supplemented from time to time pursuant to the applicable
        provisions thereof.
        
             "Parties" means the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and
        the Participants.
        
        
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             "Parts" means all appliances, parts, instruments,
        appurtenances, accessories, furnishings and other equipment of
        whatever nature (other than (a) complete Engines or engines, (b)
        any items leased by Lessee from a third party (other than Lessor)
        and (c) cargo containers) which may from time to time be
        incorporated or installed in or attached to the Airframe or any
        Engine or so long as title thereto shall remain vested in Lessor in
        accordance with Section 8 after removal therefrom.
        
             "Past Due Rate" means (i) with respect to the portion of any
        payment of Rent that may be required by the Trust Indenture to be
        paid by the Indenture Trustee to the Loan Participants, or the
        holders of any outstanding Secured Certificates, the "Past Due
        Rate" as defined in the Trust Indenture and (ii) with respect to
        the remaining portion of any payment of Rent (and the entire amount
        of any payment of Rent after the satisfaction and discharge of the
        Trust Indenture), a rate per annum equal to 1% over the Base Rate.
        
             "Permitted Lien" means any Lien referred to in clauses (i)
        through (viii) of Section 6 hereof.
        
             "Permitted Sublessee" means any manufacturer of airframes or
        aircraft engines, any Affiliate of a manufacturer of airframes or
        aircraft engines, or any foreign air carrier domiciled in a country
        listed in Exhibit B to the Participation Agreement and regularly
        engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by aircraft
        or the transportation of mail by aircraft.
        
             "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
        venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
        organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
        thereof.
        
             "Prepaid Rent" has the meaning assigned in Section 3(g)
        hereof.
        
             "Purchase Agreement" means the Purchase Agreement No. 1631,
        dated December 1, 1989, between the Manufacturer and Lessee
        relating to the purchase by Lessee of the Aircraft, as originally
        executed or as modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with
        the terms thereof, but only insofar as the foregoing relates to the
        Aircraft.
        
             "Purchase Agreement Assignment" means the Purchase Agreement
        Assignment [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof, between Lessee
        and Lessor, as the same may be amended, supplemented or modified
        from time to time, with a form of Consent and Agreement to be
        executed by the Manufacturer attached thereto.
        
             "Reimbursement Amount" has the meaning set forth in Section
        3(g) hereof.
        
        
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             "Remaining Installments" has the meaning set forth in Section
        19(d) hereof.
        
             "Renewal Term" means any Fixed Renewal Term or Fair Market
        Renewal Term as those terms are defined in Section 19 hereof.
        
             "Rent" means Interim Rent, Basic Rent and Supplemental Rent,
        collectively.
        
             "Rent Differential Amount" has the meaning set forth in
        Section 3(c) hereof.
        
             "Secured Certificates" has the meaning assigned to that term
        in the Trust Indenture.
        
             "Special Purchase Price" shall mean the amount denominated as
        such in Exhibit B hereto.
        
             "Stipulated Loss Value" with respect to the Aircraft as of any
        date through and including January 2, 2019, means, but subject
        always to the provisions of Section 3(d)(v) hereof, the amount
        determined by multiplying Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft by the
        percentage specified in Exhibit C hereto opposite the Stipulated
        Loss Value Date with respect to which the amount is determined (as
        such Exhibit C may be adjusted from time to time as provided in
        Section 3(d) hereof and in Section 7 of the Tax Indemnity
        Agreement).  To the extent that the actual amount of interest paid
        and to be paid on the Secured Certificates during the Interim Term
        or the Lease Period in which such Stipulated Loss Value Date occurs
        up to and including such Stipulated Loss Value Date is greater or
        less than the amount included in calculating the percentage set
        forth in Exhibit C with respect to such Stipulated Loss Value Date
        on account of such interest, the corresponding percentage set forth
        in Exhibit C shall be adjusted appropriately to compensate for such
        differential.  "Stipulated Loss Value" as of any date after January
        2, 2019 shall be the amount determined as provided in Section 19(a)
        hereof.
        
             "Stipulated Loss Value Date" means the 2nd calendar day of
        each calendar month during the Interim Term, Basic Term and any
        Renewal Term.
        
             "Sublease" means any sublease permitted by the terms of
        Section 7(b)(x) hereof.
        
             "Sublessee" means any Person for so long, but only so long, as
        such Person is in possession of the Airframe and/or any Engine
        pursuant to the terms of a Sublease which is then in effect
        pursuant to Section 7(b)(x) hereof.
        
        
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             "Supplemental Rent" means all amounts, liabilities and
        obligations (other than Interim Rent and Basic Rent) which Lessee
        assumes or agrees to pay to Lessor or others hereunder, under the
        Participation Agreement, under the Tax Indemnity Agreement or under
        any of the other Operative Documents.  The parties acknowledge that
        Supplemental Rent is a general category and, accordingly, agree
        that any provision of any Operative Document which calls for the
        payment of Supplemental Rent and also calls for the payment of
        specific items which are includable in Supplemental Rent is not to
        be interpreted as requiring any double payment.
        
             "Tax Indemnitee" means the Owner Participant, the Owner
        Trustee, in its individual capacity and as trustee under the Trust
        Agreement, the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee, the Loan
        Participants and each other Certificate Holder, and each of their
        respective Affiliates, successors and permitted assigns and, in the
        case of the Owner Participant, directors, officers, employees,
        servants and agents of the Owner Participant.
        
             "Tax Indemnity Agreement" means that certain Tax Indemnity
        Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof, between the
        Owner Participant and Lessee, as originally executed or as
        modified, amended or supplemented pursuant to the applicable
        provisions thereof.
        
             "Taxes" means any and all fees (including, without limitation,
        license, recording, documentation and registration fees), taxes
        (including, without limitation, net income, gross income, gross
        receipts, sales, rental, use, turnover, value added, property
        (tangible and intangible), excise and stamp taxes), license,
        levies, imposts, duties, charges, assessments or withholdings of
        any nature whatsoever, together with any and all penalties, fines,
        additions to tax and interest thereon (each, individually a "TAX").
        
             "Term" means the Interim Term, Basic Term and, if actually
        entered into, any Renewal Term.
        
             "Termination Date" has the meaning set forth in Section 9(a)
        hereof.
        
             "Termination Value" with respect to the Aircraft as of any
        date through and including January 2, 2019, means, but subject
        always to the provisions of Section 3(d)(v) hereof, the amount
        determined by multiplying Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft by the
        percentage specified in Exhibit D hereto opposite the Termination
        Date with respect to which the amount is determined (as such
        Exhibit D may be adjusted from time to time as provided in Section
        3(d) hereof and in Section 7 of the Tax Indemnity Agreement).  In
        the event that the Termination Date with respect to which
        Termination Value is determined is a date on which Basic Rent is
        payable in advance as indicated on Exhibit B, to the extent that
        the actual amount of interest paid and to be paid on the Secured
        
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        Certificates during the Lease Period ending on such Termination
        Date is greater or less than the amount included in calculating the
        corresponding percentage set forth in Exhibit D with respect to
        such Termination Date on account of such interest, the
        corresponding percentage set forth in Exhibit D shall be adjusted
        appropriately to compensate for such differential.
        
          "Transaction Expenses" means:  (i) the reasonable and actual
        fees, expenses and disbursements of (1) Bingham, Dana & Gould LLP,
        special counsel for the Indenture Trustee, such information to be
        furnished by the Indenture Trustee, (2) Ray, Quinney & Nebeker,
        special counsel for the Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement,
        such information to be furnished by the Owner Trustee, (3) Vedder,
        Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, special counsel to the Loan
        Participants, such information to be furnished by the Documentation
        Agent, (4) Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, special counsel to Lessee
        and Guarantor, such information to be furnished by Lessee, and (5)
        Crowe & Dunlevy, P.C., special counsel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
        such information to be furnished by Lessee, (ii) all fees, taxes
        and other charges payable in connection with the recording or
        filing of instruments and financing statements, such information to
        be furnished by Lessee, (iii) the initial fee and reasonable and
        actual disbursements of the Owner Trustee under the Trust
        Agreement, such information to be furnished by the Owner Trustee,
        (iv) the initial fee and reasonable and actual disbursements of the
        Indenture Trustee under the Trust Indenture, such information to be
        furnished by the Indenture Trustee, (v) the fee of BK Associates,
        Inc. (or of such other appraiser as shall be acceptable to Lessee
        and the Owner Participant) with respect to the appraisals of the
        Aircraft pursuant to Sections 4(a)(xx) and 4(a)(xxix) of the
        Participation Agreement, such information to be furnished by the
        Owner Participant, (vi) the reasonable and actual fees, expenses
        and disbursements of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., special counsel
        to the Owner Participant, such information to be furnished by the
        Owner Participant, (vii) the equity placement fee and reasonable
        disbursements of Babcock and Brown Financial Corporation, such
        information to be furnished by Lessee, and (viii) the fee payable
        to the Loan Participants on the Delivery Date.
        
             "Transition Date" means the date designated as such in Exhibit
        B hereto.
        
             "Trust Agreement" means that certain Trust Agreement [NW 1996
        B], dated as of the date hereof, between the Owner Participant and
        First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its
        individual capacity, as originally executed or as modified, amended
        or supplemented pursuant to the applicable provisions thereof,
        including, without limitation, supplementation thereof by one or
        more Trust Supplements entered into pursuant to the applicable
        provisions thereof.
        
        
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             "Trust Estate" means the Trust Estate as that term is defined
        in the Trust Agreement.
        
             "Trust Indenture" means that certain Trust Indenture and
        Security Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof,
        between Lessor and the Indenture Trustee, as originally executed or
        as modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the
        provisions thereof.
        
             "Trust Supplement" means a supplement to the Trust Agreement
        and the Trust Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to
        the Trust Indenture.
        
             "U.S. Air Carrier" means any Certificated Air Carrier as to
        which there is in force an air carrier operating certificate issued
        pursuant to Part 121 of the regulations under the Federal Aviation
        Act, or which may operate as an air carrier by certification or
        otherwise under any successor or substitute provisions therefor or
        in the absence thereof.
        
             "Wet Lease" means any arrangement whereby the Lessee (or any
        Sublessee) agrees to furnish the Airframe and Engines or engines
        installed thereon to a third party pursuant to which such Airframe
        and Engines or engines (i) shall be operated solely by regular
        employees of Lessee (or any Sublessee) possessing all current
        certificates and licenses that would be required under the Federal
        Aviation Act or, if the Aircraft is not registered in the United
        States, all certificates and licenses required by the laws of the
        jurisdiction of registry, for the performance by such employees of
        similar functions within the United States of America or such other
        jurisdiction of registry (it is understood that cabin attendants
        need not be regular employees of Lessee (or any Sublessee)) and
        (ii) shall be maintained by Lessee (or any Sublessee) in accordance
        with its normal maintenance practices.
        
         SECTION 2. ACCEPTANCE AND LEASE.  Lessor hereby agrees (subject to
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 4(a) of the Participation
Agreemen to accept the transfer of title from and simultaneously to lease to
Lessee henderunder, and Lessee hereby agrees (subject to satisfaction of the
condition set forth in Section 4(b) of the Participation Agreement) to lease
from Lessor hereunder, the Aircraft as evidenced by the execution by Lessor and
Lessee of a Lease Supplement leasing the Aircraft hereunder.  Lessee hereby
agrees that such acceptance of the Aircraft by Lessor shall, without further
act, irrevocably constitute acceptance by Lessee of such Aircraft for all
purposes of this Lease.
         
        SECTION 3. TERM AND RENT.  (a)  Interim Term and Basic Term.  The
 Interim Term shall commence on the Delivery Date and end on and include the day
immediately preceding the Commencement Date unless earlier terminated pursuant
 to the provisions hereof.  The Basic Term shall commence on the Commencement
 Date and on January 2019, or such earlier date as this Lease may be terminated
 in accordance with the provisions hereof.


 
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        (b) Interim Rent.  Lessee shall pay Interim Rent on the Commencement
Date in an amount equal to Lessor's Cost multiplied by the percentage specified
 in Exhibit B hereto for Interim Rent on the Commencement Date.
         
        Although the Interim Rent percentage set forth in Exhibit B hereto has
been compd on the assumption that the rate of interest on the Secured Certifica
will be the Assumed Interest Rate, Lessor and Lessee recognize that the ual
rate of interest on the Secured Certificates may be a rate from time to t which
may be greater or less than the Assumed Interest Rate and that the ated basis
upon which interest on the Secured Certificates will be computed l be as
provided in the Trust Indenture.  Accordingly, the Interim Rent paya on the
Commencement Date shall be increased or decreased (but not below zerby the
difference between (i) the aggregate amount of interest due and payable on the
Secured Certificates on the Commencement Date relating to the period from the
Transition Date to but excluding the Commencement Date and (ii) the aggregate
amount of interest on the Secured Certificates that would have been due and
payable on the Secured Certificates on the Commencement Date relating the
period from the Transition Date to the Commencement Date if such Secured
Certificates had borne interest at the Assumed Interest Rate.  If the
amount determined in accordance with clause (i) of the preceding sentence shall
 be greater than the amount determined in accordance with clause (ii) of such
 sentence, the amount of Interim Rent payable on the Commencement Date shall be
 increased by such difference.  If the amount determined in accordance with
 clause (i) of the preceding sentence shall be less than the amount determined
 accordance with clause (ii) of such sentence, the amount of Interim Rent pay-
able on the Commencement Date shall be decreased (but not below zero) by such
difference.

        (c) Basic Rent.  Lessee shall pay Basic Rent with respect to each Lease
Period during the Basic Term on each Lease Period Date during the Basic Term, in
consecutive installments in the amounts as provided in the next sentence, each
such installment to cover the Lease Period specified in Exhibit B.  Each such
installment of Basic Rent shall be equal to Lessor's Cost multiplied by the
percentage for the applicable Lease Period Date specified in Exhibit B hereto.

        Although the Basic Rent percentages set forth in Exhibit B hereto have
been computed on the assumption that the rate of interest on the Secured
Certificates throughout the Term will be 6.50% per annum, computed on the basis
of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months (the "ASSUMED INTEREST RATE"), Lessor
and Lessee recognize that the actual rate of interest on the Secured
Certificates may be a rate from time to time which may be greater or less than
the Assumed Interest Rate and that the related basis upon which interest on the
Secured Certificates will be computed will be as provided in the Trust
Indenture.  Accordingly, each installment of Basic Rent shall be increased or
decreased (but not below zero), as the case may be, by the Rent Differential
Amount (as defined herein).  For purposes hereof, "RENT DIFFERENTIAL AMOUNT"
shall mean, as of any Lease Period Date with respect to the Basic Term, the
difference between (i) the aggregate amount of interest due and payable on such
Lease Period Date on the Secured Certificates, and (ii) the aggregate amount of
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such Secured Certificates had borne interest at the Assumed Interest Rate, in
each case for the period from and including the Lease Period Date (or the
Commencement Date in the case of the first Lease Period) next preceding
such Lease Period Date to but excluding such Lease Period Date.  If, as of any
Lease Period Date, the amount determined in accordance with clause (i) of the
immediately preceding sentence shall be greater than the amount determined in
accordance with clause (ii) of such sentence, the amount of Basic Rent payable
on such Lease Period Date shall be increased by the Rent Differential Amount. 
If, as of any Lease Period Date, the amount determined in accordance with such
clause (ii) shall exceed the amount determined in accordance with such clause
(i), the amount of Basic Rent due on such Lease Period Date shall be decreased
(but not below zero) by the Rent Differential Amount.

        (d)     Adjustments to Basic Rent.

                (i) In the event that (A) the Delivery Date occurs other than
        on April 30, 1996, or (B) Transaction Expenses paid by Lessor
        pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Participation Agreement are determined
        to be other than 1.0% of Lessor's Cost, then in each case the Basic Rent
        percentages set forth in Exhibit B and Stipulated Loss Value percentages
        set forth in Exhibit C, the Termination Value percentages set forth in
        Exhibit D, the Special Purchase Price (subject to clause (vii) below),
        the Initial Installment and the Remaining Installments shall be
        recalculated by the Owner Participant, on or prior to November 15, 1996
        using the same methods and assumptions used to calculate original Basic
        Rent, Stipulated Loss Value and Termination Value percentages, the
        Special Purchase Price, the Initial Installment and the Remaining
        Installments, in order to:  (1) maintain the Owner Participant's Net
        Economic Return and (2) minimize the Net Present Value of Rents to
        Lessee to the extent    possible consistent with clause (1) hereof.

                (ii) (A)   In the event of a refinancing as contemplated by 
        Section 17 of the Participation Agreement, then the Basic Rent
        percentages set forth in Exhibit B and Stipulated  Loss Value
        percentages set forth in Exhibit C, the Termination Value percentages
        set forth in Exhibit D, the Special Purchase Price, the Initial
        Installment and the Remaining Installments shall be recalculated
        (upwards or, subject to clause (vii) below, downwards) by the Owner
        Participant as contemplated by such Section to (1) maintain the Owner
        Participant's Net Economic Return and (2) to the extent possible
        consistent with clause (1) hereof, minimize the Net Present Value of
        Rents to Lessee and (B) in the event that Lessee elects to satisfy any
        indemnity obligation under the Tax Indemnity Agreement pursuant to
        Section 4(e)(ii) of the Tax Indemnity Agreement, then the Basic Rent
        percentages set forth in Exhibit B and the Stipulated Loss Value
        percentages set forth in Exhibit C, the Termination Value percentages
        set forth in Exhibit D, the Special Purchase Price, the Initial
        Installment and the Remaining Installments shall be recalculated
        (upwards or, subject to clause (vii) below, downwards) by Owner
        Participant, using the same methods and assumptions (except to the
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        to take into account the Loss or Foreign Tax Credit Loss (as each such
        term is defined in the Tax Indemnity Agreement) that is the subject of
        such indemnification and any prior or contemporaneous Loss or Foreign
        Tax Credit Loss) used to calculate the Basic Rent percentages, the
        Stipulated Loss Value percentages and the Termination Value percentages,
        the Special Purchase Price, the Initial Installment and the Remaining
        Installments on the Delivery Date, in order to (1) maintain the Owner
        Participant's Net Economic Return and (2) to the extent possible
        consistent with clause (1) hereof, minimize the Net Present Value of
        Rents to Lessee.

                 (iii) Whenever Basic Rent is recalculated pursuant to this
        Section 3(d), the Owner Participant shall redetermine the Excess Amount
        set forth in Exhibit B in a manner consistent with such recalculation. 
        In addition, (X) any recalculation of Basic Rent, Stipulated Loss Value
        or Termination Value percentages made pursuant to this Section 3(d)
        shall take into account any decrease in the Excess Amount with respect
        to the Transition Date required by the proviso to the definition of
        "Excess Amount", (Y) after January 2, 1997 but prior to July 2, 1997,
        the Basic Rent percentages set forth in Exhibit B, the Stipulated Loss
        Value percentages set forth in Exhibit C and the Termination Value
        percentages set forth in Exhibit D shall be recalculated to take into
        account any decrease in Excess Amount with respect to the Transition
        Date that has not theretofore been taken into account in accordance with
        clause (X) of this sentence, and (Z) at the time of any payment of
        Stipulated Loss Value or Termination Value, the Stipulated Loss Value
        percentage set forth in Exhibit C or the Termination Value percentage
        set forth in Exhibit D, by reference to which the amount of such payment
        is determined shall be recalculated to take into account any decrease in
        the Excess Amount with respect to the Transition Date that has not
        theretofore been taken into account in accordance with clause (X) or
        clause (Y) of this sentence.

                 (iv) Any recalculation of Basic Rent, Excess Amount,
        Stipulated Loss Value and Termination Value percentages, Special
        Purchase Price, Initial Installment and Remaining Installments pursuant
        to this Section 3(d) shall be determined by the Owner Participant and
        shall be subject to the verification procedures set forth in Exhibit E
        hereto.  Such recalculated Basic Rent, Excess Amount, Stipulated Loss
        Value and Termination Value percentages, Special Purchase Price, Initial
        Installment and Remaining Installments shall be set forth in a Lease
        Supplement or an amendment to this Lease.

                 (v) Anything contained in the Participation Agreement or this
       Lease to the contrary notwithstanding, each installment of Interim Rent
       and Basic Rent payable hereunder, whether or not adjusted in accordance
       with this Section 3(d), shall, together with the amount of the Excess
       Amount in respect of the date on which such installment is payable, and
       each payment of Termination Value and Stipulated Loss Value, whether or
       not adjusted in accordance with this Section

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        3(d), shall, together with all other amounts (including an amount equal
        to the premium, if any, payable by Lessor on the Secured Certificates)
        payable simultaneously by Lessee pursuant to this Lease, in each case
        be, under any circumstances and in any event, in an amount at least
        sufficient to pay in full, on the date on which such amount of Rent is
        due, any payments then required to be made on account of the principal
        of, premium, if any, and interest on the Secured Certificates.  It is
        agreed that no installment of Interim Rent, Basic Rent or payment of
        Termination Value or Stipulated Loss Value shall be increased or
        adjusted by reason of (i) any attachment or diversion of Rent on account
        of Lessor Liens, (ii) any modification of the payment terms of the
        Secured Certificates made without the prior written consent of Lessee or
        (iii) the acceleration of any Secured Certificate or Secured
        Certificates due to the occurrence of an "Event of Default" (as defined
        in the Trust Indenture) which does not constitute an Event of Default
        hereunder.

                 (vi) All adjustments to Basic Rent under this Section 3(d)
        shall be (A) in compliance with the tax law as then in effect,
        including, without limitation, Rev. Proc. 75-28 as amended and then in
        effect (or any successor thereto) and no such adjustment shall cause the
        Lease to constitute a "disqualified leaseback or long-term agreement"
        within the meaning of Section 467 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
        as amended, and any regulations thereunder, except to the extent that on
        the Delivery Date the Lease constituted a "disqualified leaseback or
        long-term agreement" under Section 467 of the Code on the Delivery Date
        or was not in compliance with Rev. Proc. 75-28 and without regard to any
        adjustments to Basic Rent occurring after such date and (B) subject     
        to verification pursuant to Exhibit E.

                 (vii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no adjustment effected
        pursuant to this Section 3(d) shall result in the Special Purchase      
        Price   being decreased below $27,536,250.00.

        (e) Supplemental Rent.  Lessee shall pay (or cause to be paid) promptly
to Lessor, or to whomsoever shall be entitled thereto, any and all Supplemental
Rent constituting Stipulated Loss Value, Termination Value or Special Purchase
Price as the same shall become due and owing and all other amounts of
Supplemental Rent within five days after demand or within such other relevant
period as may be provided in any Operative Document, and in the event of any
failure on the part of Lessee to pay any Supplemental Rent when due, Lessor
shall have all rights, powers and remedies provided for herein or in any other
Operative Document or by law or equity or otherwise in the case of nonpayment of
Basic Rent.  Lessee shall pay as Supplemental Rent when due any amount of
premium payable when due under the Trust Indenture and shall pay amounts equal
to the amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.16 and Section 11.02 of the Trust
Indenture, as and when the same shall become due and payable.  Lessee also will
pay to Lessor, or to whomsoever shall be entitled thereto, on demand, as
Supplemental Rent, to the extent permitted by applicable law, interest at the
Past Due Rate on any part of any installment of Interim Rent and Basic Rent not
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for which the same shall be overdue and on any payment of Supplemental Rent not
paid when due for the period until the same shall be paid.               

        (f) Payments in General.  All payments of Rent shall be made directly by
Lessee (whether or not any Sublease shall be in effect) by wire transfer of
immediately available funds prior to 10:30 A.M., New York time, on the date of
payment, to Lessor at its account at First Security Bank of Utah, National
Association, 79 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, ABA No.
124-000-12, Account No. 051-0922115, Attention:  Corporate Trust Department,
Credit Northwest/NW 1996 B (or such other account of Lessor in the continental
United States as Lessor shall direct in a notice to Lessee at least 10 Business
Days prior to the date such payment of Rent is due); provided that so long as
the Trust Indenture shall not have been fully discharged, Lessor hereby
irrevocably directs and Lessee agrees, that, unless the Indenture Trustee shall
otherwise direct, all Rent payable to Lessor and assigned to the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to the Trust Indenture shall be paid prior to 10:30 A.M., New
York time, on the due date thereof in funds of the type specified in this
Section 3(f) directly to the Indenture Trustee at its account at State Street
Bank and Trust Company, 225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, ABA
No. 011-00-0028, Account No. 9903-943-0, Attention:  Corporate Trust Department,
Reference:  Northwest/NW 1996 B (or such other account of the Indenture Trustee
in the continental United States as the Indenture Trustee shall direct in a
notice to Lessee at least 10 Business Days prior to the date such payment of
Rent is due).  All payments of Supplemental Rent owing to the Indenture Trustee
or to a Loan Participant or any other Certificate Holder pursuant to the
Participation Agreement shall be made in Dollars in immediately available funds
prior to 10:30 A.M., New York time, on the due date thereof at the office of the
Indenture Trustee or at such other office of such other financial institution
located in the continental United States as the party entitled thereto may so
direct at least 10 Business Days prior to the due date thereof.  All payments of
Supplemental Rent payable to the Owner Participant, to the extent that such
amounts constitute Excluded Payments (as defined in the Trust Indenture), shall
be made in Dollars in immediately available funds prior to 10:30 A.M., New York
time, on the due date thereof, to the account of the Owner Participant specified
in Schedule I to the Participation Agreement (or to such other account as may be
specified in writing by the Owner Participant from time to time).

        Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if any date
on which a payment of Rent becomes due and payable is not a Business Day, then
such payment shall not be made on such scheduled date but shall be made on the
next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such
scheduled date and (provided such payment is made on such next succeeding
Business Day) no interest shall accrue on the amount of such payment from and
after such scheduled date.      


        (g) Prepayment of Certain Rent Payments.  To the extent, if any, that
there shall not have been received by the Indenture Trustee to its account and
in funds of the type specified in Section 3(f) hereof by 10:30 A.M., New York
time, on the Transition Date from Lessor an amount equal to the Excess Amount
for such date, Lessee shall on the Transition Date, prepay on the Transition
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so paid (the amount of such Basic Rent to be prepaid by Lessee being herein
called "PREPAID RENT"); provided that Lessee shall, under all circumstances and
whether or not an Event of Default shall be continuing on the Transition Date,
pay as Basic Rent (and not as Prepaid Rent) on the Transition Date an amount
equal to the excess, if any, of the interest  on the Secured Certificates
relating to the period from and including the Delivery Date to but excluding the
Transition Date over the Excess Amount payable on the Transition Date; provided,
further, that Lessee will also pay to the Indenture Trustee, on demand, as
Supplemental Rent, to the extent permitted by applicable law, interest at the
Past Due Rate in effect from time to time on any part of any Prepaid Rent and on
the amount, if any, payable pursuant to the immediately preceding proviso not
paid when due for any period for which the same shall be overdue.  Lessor agrees
to reimburse Lessee in the manner provided in the following sentence for (x) the
Prepaid Rent so paid by Lessee, plus (y) any Supplemental Rent paid with respect
to Prepaid Rent by Lessee pursuant to this Section 3(g), plus (z) accrued
interest on the unreimbursed portion thereof at a rate equal to the Base Rate as
in effect from time to time plus 5% per annum from the date such amount is paid
by Lessee to but not including the date of each such reimbursement (such amounts
to be reimbursed being herein called the "REIMBURSEMENT AMOUNT").  Lessor shall
pay to Lessee, in funds of the type specified in Section 3(f) hereof, within
five days after Lessor, the Owner Participant and the Indenture Trustee shall
have received written notice from Lessee demanding payment, the Reimbursement
Amount.  In addition, if, for any reason, Lessor shall fail to pay to Lessee the
Reimbursement Amount as above provided, Lessee shall be entitled to offsets
(without duplication) against each succeeding payment (other than as limited by
the proviso to this sentence) due from Lessee to Persons other than the Loan
Participants, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity (including, without limitation, Basic Rent, payments due under Section
9, 10, 15 and 19 hereof, payments due under the Tax Indemnity Agreement and
payments due to Persons other than the Loan Participants, the Indenture Trustee
and Lessor in its individual capacity under Section 7 of the Participation
Agreement), until Lessee has been fully reimbursed for the Reimbursement Amount;
provided, however, that in the case of any payment due from Lessee which is
distributable under the terms of the Trust Indenture, Lessee's right of offset
shall be limited to amounts distributable to Lessor thereunder. No such offset
or aggregate combined effect of separate offsets shall reduce the amount of any
installment of Interim Rent or Basic Rent to an amount insufficient, together
with the Excess Amount and all other amounts payable simultaneously by Lessee,
to pay in full the payments then required to be made on account of the principal
of and interest on (and premium, if any, due with respect to) the Secured
Certificates then outstanding.

        SECTION 4. LESSOR'S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.  LESSOR LEASES AND
LESSEE TAKES THE AIRCRAFT AND EACH PART THEREOF "AS-IS," "WHERE-IS."  LESSEE HAS
SELECTED THE AIRCRAFT AND THE MANUFACTURER THEREOF AND NEITHER LESSOR, THE
INDENTURE TRUSTEE NOR ANY PARTICIPANT MAKES, HAS MADE OR SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE
MADE, AND EACH HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS AND WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE EXPRESSLY
DISCLAIMED, ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE TITLE,
AIRWORTHINESS, WORKMANSHIP, CONDITION, DESIGN, OPERATION, MERCHANTABILITY OR
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A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT OR ANY PART THEREOF, AS TO THE ABSENCE OF
LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE, AS TO THE ABSENCE OF ANY
INFRINGEMENT OF ANY PATENT, TRADEMARK OR COPYRIGHT, AS TO THE ABSENCE OF
OBLIGATIONS BASED ON STRICT LIABILITY IN TORT, OR ANY OTHER REPRESENTATION OR
WARRANTY WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE AIRCRAFT OR ANY
PART THEREOF, except that First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in
its individual capacity, (i) represents and warrants that on the Delivery Date,
Lessor shall have received whatever title to the Aircraft was conveyed to it by
Lessee, (ii) represents and warrants that on the Delivery Date the Aircraft
shall be free of Lessor Liens (including for this purpose Liens that would be
Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens) attributable
to it, (iii) covenants that it will not, through its own actions or inactions,
interfere in Lessee's quiet enjoyment of the Aircraft during the Term, (iv)
agrees that it will not directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or suffer
to exist any Lessor Lien attributable to it on or with respect to the Airframe
or any Engine or any portion of the Trust Estate and (v) represents and warrants
that it is a Citizen of the United States without making use of a voting trust,
voting powers agreement or similar arrangement, and agrees that if at any time
it shall cease to be a Citizen of the United States without making use of a
voting trust, voting powers agreement or similar arrangement it will promptly
resign as Owner Trustee (if and so long as such citizenship is necessary under
the Federal Aviation Act as in effect at such time or, if it is not necessary,
if and so long as the Owner Trustee's citizenship would have any material
adverse effect on the Loan Participants, the Owner Participant or Lessee),
effective upon the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee in accordance with
Section 9.01 of the Trust Agreement.  None of the provisions of this Lease shall
be deemed to amend, modify or otherwise affect the representations, warranties
or other obligations (express or implied) of the Manufacturer, any subcontractor
or supplier of the Manufacturer with respect to the Airframe, the Engines or any
Parts, or to release the Manufacturer, or any such subcontractor or supplier,
from any such representation, warranty or obligation.  Lessor covenants that
during the Term (so long as this Lease shall not have been declared (or deemed
to be declared) in default pursuant to Section 15 hereof) it will not, through
its own actions or inactions, interfere in the quiet enjoyment of the Aircraft
in accordance with the terms hereof by Lessee or any Sublessee and agrees that
it will not directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any
Lessor Lien attributable to it on or with respect to the Airframe or any
Engine.

        SECTION 5. RETURN OF THE AIRCRAFT.  (a)  Condition Upon Return.  Unless
purchased by Lessee pursuant to Section 19 hereof, upon the termination of this
Lease at the end of the Basic Term or any Renewal Term or pursuant to Section
9(c) or 15, Lessee, at its own expense, will return the Airframe to Lessor at a
major airport in one of the forty-eight contiguous states of the United States
chosen by Lessee and reasonably acceptable to Lessor, and Lessee will give
Lessor at least fifteen (15) days' prior written notice of the place of such
return; provided, however, that if Lessor shall have made the request for
storage pursuant to Section 5(d) hereof, Lessee shall return the Airframe to
Lessor at the site of the storage at the end of the storage period, provided
that the return conditions shall be satisfied on the date the Aircraft is placed
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requested by Lessor at least ninety (90) days prior to the return hereunder,
cause the Aircraft, if it is not then so registered, to be registered under the
laws of the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration in the name
of the Lessor or its designee, provided that Lessee shall be relieved of its
obligations under this sentence if such registration is prohibited by reason of
the failure of Lessor or its designee to be eligible on such date to own an
aircraft registered with the Federal Aviation Administration; the Airframe will
be fully equipped with the Engines (or other Pratt & Whitney Model PW2037
engines or two engines of the same or another manufacturer of not less than
equivalent utility, value and remaining useful life, and suitable for
installation and use on the Airframe without impairing the value, utility or
remaining useful life of the Aircraft; provided that both engines shall be of
the same make and model) duly installed thereon.  Also, at the time of such
return, such Airframe and Engines or engines (i) shall be certified (or, if not
then registered under the Federal Aviation Act, shall be eligible for
certification) as an airworthy aircraft by the Federal Aviation Administration
consistent with use in domestic passenger service in the United States, (ii)
shall be free and clear of all Liens (other than Lessor Liens (including for
this purpose Liens which would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the
definition of Lessor Liens)) and rights of third parties under pooling,
interchange, overhaul, repair or other similar agreements or arrangements,
(iii) shall be in as good an operating condition as when delivered to Lessee
hereunder, ordinary wear and tear excepted, or, in the case of any such engines
owned by Lessee, shall have a value, utility and remaining useful life at least
equal to, and shall be in as good an operating condition as required by the
terms hereof with respect to, Engines constituting part of the Aircraft but not
then installed on the Airframe, and (iv) shall be in compliance with the return
conditions, if any, set forth in Exhibit F.

        During the last six (6) months of the Term (unless Lessee shall have
elected to purchase the Aircraft or renew this Lease in accordance with the
terms of this Lease), with reasonable notice, Lessee will cooperate, and cause
any Sublessee to cooperate, in all reasonable respects with the efforts of
Lessor to sell or lease the Aircraft, including, without limitation, permitting
prospective purchasers or lessees to inspect fully the Aircraft and the records
relating thereto, provided that such cooperation shall not interfere with the
operation or maintenance of the Aircraft by Lessee or any Sublessee.

        (b) Return of the Engines.  In the event that any engine not owned by
Lessor shall be delivered with the returned Airframe as set forth in paragraph
(a) of this Section 5, Lessee, concurrently with such delivery, will, at no cost
to Lessor, furnish, or cause to be furnished, to Lessor a full warranty (as to
title) bill of sale including as to the absence of Liens other than Lessor Liens
(including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso
in the definition of Lessor Liens) with respect to each such engine, in form and
substance satisfactory to Lessor (together with an opinion of counsel to the
effect that such full warranty bill of sale has been duly authorized and
delivered and is enforceable in accordance with its terms and that such engines
are free and clear of Liens other than Lessor Liens (including for this purpose
Liens which would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the definition of
Lessor Liens), Loan Participant Liens and Indenture Trustee Liens), against
receipt from Lessor of a bill of sale or other instrument evidencing the
transfer, without recourse or warranty (except as to the absence of Lessor
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Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor
Liens), by Lessor to Lessee or its designee of all of Lessor's right, title and
interest in and to any Engine constituting part of the Aircraft but not
installed on the Airframe at the time of the return of the Airframe.

        (c) Fuel; Manuals.  Upon the return of the Airframe upon any termination
of this Lease in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section 5, (i) Lessor
shall pay Lessee, as compensation for any fuel or oil contained in the fuel or
oil tanks of such Airframe, the value of such fuel or oil at the price paid by
Lessee for such fuel or oil, as the case may be, and (ii) Lessee shall deliver
or cause to be delivered to Lessor all logs, manuals and data and inspection,
modification and overhaul records required to be maintained with respect thereto
under applicable rules and regulations of each country under the laws of which
the Aircraft has been registered during the period of operation thereof.

        (d) Storage Upon Return.  If, at least thirty (30) days prior to   
termination of this Lease at the end of the Basic Term or any Renewal Term or
pursuant to Section 9(c), Lessee receives from Lessor a written request for
storage of the Aircraft upon its return hereunder, Lessee will provide Lessor,
or cause Lessor to be provided, with (i) free parking facilities for the
Aircraft (maintenance costs and other out-of-pocket costs other than parking
fees to be for the account of Lessor) for a period not exceeding thirty (30)
days commencing on the date of such termination and (ii) parking facilities for
the Aircraft (maintenance costs, other out-of-pocket costs and parking fees to
be for the account of Lessor) for a period not exceeding an additional thirty
(30) days commencing at the end of such initial thirty (30) day period, in each
case at a location in the continental United States selected by Lessee used as a
location for the parking or storage of aircraft; provided that Lessee shall have
no obligation to move the Aircraft from such location during the storage
periods.  Lessee will maintain insurance for the Aircraft during such period not
exceeding sixty (60) days and be reimbursed by Lessor for the premiums thereon.

        SECTION 6. LIENS.  Lessee will not directly or indirectly create, incur,
assume or suffer to exist any Lien on or with respect to the Aircraft, title
thereto or any interest therein or in this Lease, except (i) the respective
rights of Lessor as owner of the Aircraft and Lessee as herein provided, the
Lien of the Trust Indenture, and any other rights existing pursuant to the
Operative Documents, (ii) the rights of others under agreements or arrangements
to the extent permitted by the terms of Sections 7(b) and 8(b) hereof, (iii)
Lessor Liens (including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but
for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens), Loan Participant Liens, and
Indenture Trustee's Liens, (iv) Liens for taxes of Lessee (or any Sublessee)
either not yet due or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
so long as such proceedings do not involve any material risk of the sale,
forfeiture or loss of the Airframe or any Engine or any interest therein or, so
long as any Secured Certificates shall be outstanding, adversely affect the Lien
of the Trust Indenture, (v) materialmen's, mechanics', workmen's, repairmen's,
employees' or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of Lessee's (or,
if a Sublease is then in effect, the Sublessee's) business (including those
arising under maintenance agreements entered into in the ordinary course of
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forty-five (45) days or are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings so long as such proceedings do not involve any material risk of the
sale, forfeiture or loss of the Airframe or any Engine or any interest therein
or, so long as any Secured Certificates shall be outstanding, adversely affect
the Lien of the Trust Indenture, (vi) Liens arising out of any judgment or award
against Lessee (or any Sublessee), unless the judgment secured shall not, within
forty-five (45) days after the entry thereof, have been discharged, vacated,
reversed or execution thereof stayed pending appeal or shall not have been
discharged, vacated or reversed within forty-five (45) days after the expiration
of such stay so long as such judgment does not involve any material risk of the
sale, forfeiture or loss of the Aircraft, or any Engine or any interest therein,
and (vii) any other Lien with respect to which Lessee (or any Sublessee) shall
have provided a bond, cash collateral or other security adequate in the
reasonable opinion of Lessor. Lessee will promptly, at its own expense, take (or
cause to be taken) such actions as may be necessary duly to discharge any such
Lien not excepted above if the same shall arise at any time.

        SECTION 7. REGISTRATION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION; POSSESSION AND
SUBLEASES; INSIGNIA.  (a)(I)  Registration and Maintenance.  Lessee, at its own
cost and expense, shall (or shall cause any Sublessee to): (i) forthwith upon
the delivery thereof hereunder, cause the Aircraft to be duly registered in the
name of Lessor, and, subject to the second paragraph of this Section 7(a) and
Section 8(f) of the Participation Agreement, to remain duly registered in the
name of Lessor under the Federal Aviation Act, provided that Lessor shall
execute and deliver all such documents as Lessee (or any Sublessee) may
reasonably request for the purpose of effecting and continuing such
registration, and shall not register the Aircraft or permit the Aircraft to be
registered under any laws other than the Federal Aviation Act at any time except
as provided in Section 8(f) of the Participation Agreement and Lessee shall
cause the Trust Indenture to be duly recorded and maintained of record as a
first mortgage on the Aircraft; (ii) maintain, service, repair and overhaul (or
cause to be maintained, serviced, repaired and overhauled) the Aircraft so as to
keep the Aircraft in as good an operating condition as delivered to Lessee
hereunder, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and as may be necessary to enable
the applicable airworthiness certification for the Aircraft to be maintained in
good standing at all times (other than during temporary periods of storage in
accordance with applicable regulations or during maintenance or modification
permitted hereunder) under the Federal Aviation Act, except when all Boeing
757-200 aircraft powered by engines of the same type as those with which the
Airframe shall be equipped at the time of such grounding and registered in the
United States have been grounded by the FAA (although such certification need
actually be maintained only during such periods as the Aircraft is registered in
the United States), or the applicable laws of any other jurisdiction in which
the Aircraft may then be registered from time to time in accordance with Section
8(f) of the Participation Agreement, utilizing, except during any period that a
Sublease is in effect, the same manner and standard of maintenance, service,
repair or overhaul used by Lessee with respect to similar aircraft operated by
Lessee in similar circumstances and utilizing, during any period that a Sublease
is in effect, the same manner and standard of maintenance, service, repair or
overhaul used by the Sublessee with respect to similar aircraft operated by the
Sublessee in similar circumstances and without in any case discriminating
against the Aircraft by reason of its leased status; provided, however, that in
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maintained by Lessee (or any Sublessee) in accordance with maintenance standards
required by, or substantially equivalent to those required by, the FAA or the
central civil aviation authority of Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the
Netherlands or the United Kingdom; (iii) maintain or cause to be maintained all
records, logs and other materials required to be maintained in respect of the
Aircraft by the FAA or the applicable regulatory agency or body of any other
jurisdiction in which the Aircraft may then be registered (which records, logs
and other materials, as between Lessor and Lessee and all parties claiming
through Lessee, shall be the property of Lessor but shall be maintained by
Lessee during the Term and shall become the property of Lessee upon Lessee's
purchase of the Aircraft pursuant to the terms of this Lease or upon the
occurrence of an Event of Loss and Lessee's compliance with Section 10 hereof);
and (iv) promptly furnish or cause to be furnished to Lessor and the Owner
Participant such information as may be required to enable Lessor to file any
reports required to be filed by Lessor or the Owner Participant with any
governmental authority because of Lessor's ownership of the Aircraft.  (II)
Operation.  Lessee will not maintain, use, service, repair, overhaul or operate
the Aircraft (or permit any Sublessee to maintain, use, service, repair,
overhaul or operate the Aircraft) in violation of any law or any rule,
regulation, order or certificate of any government or governmental authority
(domestic or foreign) having jurisdiction, or in violation of any airworthiness
certificate, license or registration relating to the Aircraft issued by any such
authority, except to the extent Lessee (or, if a Sublease is then in effect, any
Sublessee) is contesting in good faith the validity or application of any such
law, rule, regulation or order in any reasonable manner which does not
materially adversely affect Lessor or its right, title and interest in the
Aircraft or, so long as any Secured Certificates shall be outstanding, the first
priority Lien of the Trust Indenture and does not involve any material risk of
sale, forfeiture or loss of the Aircraft or any material risk of civil liability
or any risk of criminal liability being imposed on Lessor or the Owner
Participant.  Lessee will not operate the Aircraft, or permit any Sublessee to
operate the Aircraft, in any area excluded from coverage by any insurance
required by the terms of Section 11; provided, however, that the failure of
Lessee to comply with the provisions of this sentence shall not give rise to an
Event of Default hereunder where such failure is attributable to causes beyond
the reasonable control of Lessee (or any Sublessee) or to extraordinary
circumstances involving an isolated occurrence or series of incidents not in the
ordinary course of the regular operations of Lessee (or any Sublessee) and in
each case Lessee (or such Sublessee, as the case may be) is taking all
reasonable steps to remedy such failure as soon as is reasonably practicable.

        At any time after the Depreciation Period, Lessor, upon compliance with
all of the terms of Section 8(f) of the Participation Agreement, shall, at the
request and sole expense of Lessee, cooperate with Lessee to take all actions
required to change the registration of the Aircraft to another country.

        (b) Possession and Subleases.  Lessee will not, without the prior
written consent of Lessor, sublease or otherwise in any manner deliver, transfer
or relinquish possession of the Airframe or any Engine or install or permit any
Engine to be installed on any airframe other than the Airframe or enter into any
Wet Lease; provided that, so long as no Default of the type referred to in
Section 14(a) or 14(e) or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
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possession or installation or such Wet Lease and no Default of the type
referred to in Section 14(b) shall have occurred and be continuing at the time
of such sublease, and so long as the action to be taken shall not deprive the
Indenture Trustee of the perfected first priority lien of the Trust Indenture
on the Airframe or (subject to the further proviso (B) to clause (i) of this
Section 7(b)) any Engine, and so long as Lessee (or any Sublessee) shall comply
with the provisions of Sections 7(a) and 11 hereof, Lessee may, without the
prior written consent of Lessor:

                 (i) subject the Airframe and the Engines or engines then
            installed thereon to normal interchange agreements or any Engine to
            normal pooling or similar arrangements, in each case customary in
            the airline industry and entered into by Lessee (or any Sublessee)
            in the ordinary course of its business; provided that (A) no such
            agreement or arrangement contemplates, requires or results in the
            transfer of title to the Airframe, (B) if Lessor's title to any
            Engine shall be divested under any such agreement or arrangement,
            such divestiture shall be deemed to be an Event of Loss with
            respect to such Engine and Lessee shall (or shall cause Sublessee
            to) comply with Section 10(b) hereof in respect thereof, and (C)
            any interchange agreement to which the Airframe may be subject
            shall be with a U.S. Air Carrier or a foreign air carrier domiciled
            in a country listed on Exhibit B to the Participation Agreement, in
            either case not subject to a proceeding or final order under
            applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization laws on the
            date such interchange agreement is entered into;

                 (ii) deliver possession of the Airframe or any Engine to the
            manufacturer thereof (or for delivery thereto) or to any
            organization (or for delivery thereto) for testing, service,
            repair, maintenance or overhaul work on the Airframe or Engine or
            any part of any thereof or for alterations or modifications in or
            additions to such Airframe or Engine to the extent required or
            permitted by the terms of Section 8(c) hereof;

                 (iii) install an Engine on an airframe owned by Lessee (or any
            Sublessee) free and clear of all Liens, except:  (A) Permitted
            Liens and those which apply only to the engines (other than
            Engines), appliances, parts, instruments, appurtenances,
            accessories, furnishings and other equipment (other than Parts)
            installed on such airframe (but not to the airframe as an entirety),
            (B) the rights of third parties under interchange agreements which
            would be permitted under clause (i) above, provided that Lessor's
            title to such Engine and, if any Secured Certificates shall be
            outstanding, the first priority Lien of the Trust Indenture shall
            not be divested or impaired as a result thereof and (C) mortgage
            liens or other security interests, provided that (as regards this
            clause (C)) such mortgage liens or other security interests
            effectively provide that such Engine shall not become subject to the
            lien of such mortgage or security interest, notwithstanding the
            installation thereof on such airframe;

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                 (iv) install an Engine on an airframe leased to Lessee (or any
            Sublessee) or purchased by Lessee (or any Sublessee) subject to a
            conditional sale or other security agreement, provided that (x)
            such airframe is free and clear of all Liens, except: (A) the
            rights of the parties to the lease or conditional sale or other
            security agreement covering such airframe, or their assignees, and
            (B) Liens of the type permitted by subparagraph (iii) of this
            paragraph (b) and (y) such lease, conditional sale or other
            security agreement effectively provides that such Engine shall not
            become subject to the lien of such lease, conditional sale or other
            security agreement, notwithstanding the installation thereof on
            such airframe;

                 (v) install an Engine on an airframe owned by Lessee (or any
            Sublessee), leased to Lessee (or any Sublessee) or purchased by
            Lessee (or any Sublessee) subject to a conditional sale or other
            security agreement under circumstances where neither subparagraph
            (iii) nor subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph (b) is applicable,
            provided that such installation shall be deemed an Event of Loss
            with respect to such Engine and Lessee shall (or shall cause any
            Sublessee to) comply with Section 10(b) hereof in respect thereof,
            Lessor not intending hereby to waive any right or interest it may
            have to or in such Engine under applicable law until compliance by
            Lessee with such Section 10(b);

                 (vi) to the extent permitted by Section 8(b) hereof, subject
            any appliances, Parts or other equipment owned by Lessor and
            removed from the Airframe or any Engine to any pooling arrangement
            referred to in Section 8(b) hereof;

                 (vii) subject (or permit any Sublessee to subject) the 
            Airframe or any Engine to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet Program
            and transfer (or permit any Sublessee to transfer) possession of
            the Airframe or any Engine to the United States of America or any
            instrumentality or agency thereof pursuant to the Civil Reserve Air
            Fleet Program, so long as Lessee (or any Sublessee) shall (A)
            promptly notify Lessor upon subjecting the Airframe or any Engine
            to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet Program in any contract year and
            provide Lessor with the name and address of the Contracting Office
            Representative for the Air Mobility Command of the United States
            Air Force to whom notice must be given pursuant to Section 15
            hereof, and (B) promptly notify Lessor upon transferring possession
            of the Airframe or any Engine to the United States of America or
            any agency or instrumentality thereof pursuant to such program;

                 (viii) for a period not to extend beyond the end of the Term,
            enter into a Wet Lease for the Airframe and Engines or engines then
            installed thereon with any third party; provided that if Lessee (or
            any Sublessee) shall enter into any Wet Lease for a period of more
            than one year (including renewal options) Lessee shall provide
            Lessor written notice of such Wet Lease (such notice to be 

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            given prior to entering into such Wet Lease, if practicable, but in
            any event promptly after entering into such Wet Lease);

                 (ix) for a period not to extend beyond the end of the Term,
            transfer possession of the Airframe or any Engine to the United
            States of America or any instrumentality or agency thereof pursuant
            to a contract, a copy of which shall be provided to Lessor; or

                 (x) Lessee may, at any time, enter into any sublease with (1)
            a U.S. Air Carrier, (2) any Person approved in writing by the Owner
            Participant and the Indenture Trustee, in their sole discretion, or
            (3) after the Depreciation Period, any Permitted Sublessee if (A)
            in any such case, the Sublessee under such sublease is not subject
            to a proceeding or final order under applicable bankruptcy,
            insolvency or reorganization laws on the date such sublease is
            entered into, (B) in the event that the Sublessee under such
            sublease is a foreign air carrier or Person based in a country
            other than the United States (other than a foreign air carrier
            principally based in Taiwan), the United States maintains
            diplomatic relations with the country in which such proposed
            Sublessee is principally based at the time such sublease is entered
            into (or, in the case of a sublease to a proposed Sublessee
            principally based in Taiwan, maintains diplomatic relations at
            least as good as those in effect on the Delivery Date) and (C) in
            the event that the Sublessee under such sublease is a foreign air
            carrier or Person based in a country other than the United States,
            prior to the effectiveness of such sublease Lessor and the
            Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion (in form and
            substance reasonably acceptable to Lessor) of counsel to Lessee
            (reasonably acceptable to Lessor) to the effect that (I) the terms
            of the proposed sublease will be legal, valid, binding and (subject
            to customary exceptions) enforceable against the proposed Sublessee
            in the country in which the proposed Sublessee is principally
            based, (II) there exist no possessory rights in favor of the
            Sublessee under such Sublease under the laws of such Sublessee's
            country of domicile that would, upon bankruptcy or insolvency of or
            other default by Lessee and assuming at such time such Sublessee is
            not insolvent or bankrupt, prevent the return or repossession of
            the Aircraft in accordance with the terms of this Lease, (III) the
            laws of such Sublessee's country of domicile require fair
            compensation by the government of such jurisdiction payable in
            currency freely convertible into Dollars for the loss of
            use of the Aircraft in the event of the requisition by such
            government of such use, (IV) the laws of such Sublessee's country
            of domicile would give recognition to Lessor's title to the
            Aircraft, to the registry of the Aircraft in the name of Lessor (or
            Lessee, as "lessee", or the proposed Sublessee, as "sublessee", as
            appropriate) and to the Lien of the Trustee Indenture, and (V) all
            filings, if any, required to be made in such jurisdiction in
            connection with the execution of such sublease in order to protect
            the interest of Lessor in the Aircraft have been made, provided,
            however, that no sublease entered into pursuant to this clause (x)
            shall extend beyond the expiration of the Basic Term 




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        or any Renewal Term then in effect unless Lessee shall have     
        irrevocably committed to purchase the Aircraft.

        The rights of any Sublessee or other transferee who receives possession
by reason of a transfer permitted by this paragraph (b) (other than the
transfer of an Engine which is deemed an Event of Loss) shall be effectively
subject and subordinate to, and any Sublease permitted by this paragraph (b)
shall be expressly subject and subordinate to, all the terms of this Lease and
to the Lien of the Trust Indenture, including, without limitation, the
covenants contained in Section 7(a) hereof and Lessor's rights to repossession
pursuant to Section 15 hereof and to avoid such Sublease upon such
repossession, and Lessee shall remain primarily liable hereunder for the
performance of all of the terms of this Lease to the same extent as if such
Sublease or transfer had not occurred, and the terms of any such Sublease shall
not permit any Sublessee to take any action not permitted to be taken by Lessee
in this Lease with respect to the Aircraft.  No pooling agreement, sublease or
other relinquishment of possession of the Airframe or any Engine or Wet Lease
shall in any way discharge or diminish any of Lessee's obligations to Lessor
hereunder or constitute a waiver of Lessor's rights or remedies hereunder.  Any
sublease permitted under Section 7(b) shall expressly prohibit any further
sub-sublease by the Sublessee.  Lessor agrees, for the benefit of Lessee (and
any Sublessee) and for the benefit of any mortgagee or other holder of a
security interest in any engine (other than an Engine) owned by Lessee (or any
Sublessee), any lessor of any engine (other than an Engine) leased to Lessee
(or any Sublessee) and any conditional vendor of any engine (other than an
Engine) purchased by Lessee (or any Sublessee) subject to a conditional sale
agreement or any other security agreement, that no interest shall be created
hereunder in any engine so owned, leased or purchased and that none of Lessor,
its successors or assigns will acquire or claim, as against Lessee (or any
Sublessee) or any such mortgagee, lessor or conditional vendor or other holder
of a security interest or any successor or assignee of any thereof, any right,
title or interest in such engine as the result of such engine being installed
on the Airframe; provided, however, that such agreement of Lessor shall not be
for the benefit of any lessor or secured party of any airframe (other than the
Airframe) leased to Lessee (or any Sublessee) or purchased by Lessee (or any
Sublessee) subject to a conditional sale or other security agreement or for the
benefit of any mortgagee of or any other holder of a security interest in an
airframe owned by Lessee (or any Sublessee), unless such lessor, conditional
vendor, other secured party or mortgagee has expressly agreed (which agreement
may be contained in such lease, conditional sale or other security agreement or
mortgage) that neither it nor its successors or assigns will acquire, as
against Lessor, any right, title or interest in an Engine as a result of such
Engine being installed on such airframe.  Lessee shall provide to the Owner
Participant and the Indenture Trustee (i) written notice of any Sublease to a
U.S. Air Carrier hereunder (such notice to be given not later than five days
prior to entering into such Sublease, if practicable, but in any event promptly
after entering into any such Sublease) and written notice of any Sublease to a
Permitted Sublessee hereunder (such notice to be given not later than ten (10)
days prior to entering into such Sublease) and (ii) a copy of each Sublease
which has a term of more than three months.  Lessee shall pay all reasonable
fees and expenses of Lessor and the Owner Participant (including its counsel)
in connection with any sublease or proposed sublease under Section 7(b)(x).


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        (c) Insignia.  On or prior to the Delivery Date, or as soon as
practicable thereafter, Lessee agrees to affix and maintain (or cause to be
affixed and maintained), at its expense, in the cockpit of the Airframe adjacent
to the airworthiness certificate therein and on each Engine a nameplate bearing
the inscription:

                                  Leased From


      First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, as Owner Trustee,

                                     Lessor

and, for so long as the Airframe and each Engine shall be subject to the Lien
of the Trust Indenture, bearing the following additional inscription:

                                  Mortgaged To


                      State Street Bank and Trust Company,

                              as Indenture Trustee

(such nameplate to be replaced, if necessary, with a nameplate reflecting the
name of any successor Lessor or successor Indenture Trustee, in each case as
permitted under the Operative Documents).  Except as above provided, Lessee
will not allow the name of any Person to be placed on the Airframe or on any
Engine as a designation that might be interpreted as a claim of ownership;
provided that nothing herein contained shall prohibit Lessee (or any Sublessee)
from placing its customary colors and insignia on the Airframe or any Engine.

        SECTION 8. REPLACEMENT AND POOLING OF PARTS; ALTERATIONS, MODIFICATIONS
AND ADDITIONS.  (a)  Replacement of Parts.  Lessee, at its own cost and expense,
will promptly replace or cause to be replaced all Parts which may from time to
time be incorporated or installed in or attached to the Airframe or any Engine
and which may from time to time become worn out, lost, stolen, destroyed,
seized, confiscated, damaged beyond repair or permanently rendered unfit for use
for any reason whatsoever, except as otherwise provided in paragraph (c) of this
Section 8 or if the Airframe or an Engine to which a Part relates has suffered
an Event of Loss.  In addition, Lessee (or any Sublessee) may, at its own cost
and expense, remove in the ordinary course of maintenance, service, repair,
overhaul or testing, any Parts, whether or not worn out, lost, stolen,
destroyed, seized, confiscated, damaged beyond repair or permanently rendered
unfit for use, provided that Lessee (or any Sublessee), except as otherwise
provided in paragraph (c) of this Section 8, will, at its own cost and expense,
replace such Parts as promptly as practicable.  All replacement Parts shall be
free and clear of all Liens (except for Permitted Liens and pooling arrangements
to the extent permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section 8 and except in the
case of replacement property temporarily installed on an emergency basis) and
shall be in as good operating condition as, and shall have a value and utility
at least equal to, the Parts replaced assuming such replaced Parts were in the
condition and repair required to be maintained by the terms hereof.  Except as
otherwise provided in paragraph (c) of this Section 8, all Parts at any time
removed from the Airframe or any Engine shall remain the property of Lessor, no
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such time as such Parts shall be replaced by Parts which have been
incorporated or installed in or attached to the Airframe or such Engine and
which meet the requirements for replacement Parts specified above.  Immediately
upon any replacement part becoming incorporated or installed in or attached to
the Airframe or any Engine as above provided, without further act (subject only
to Permitted Liens and any pooling arrangement to the extent permitted by
paragraph (b) of this Section 8 and except in the case of replacement property
temporarily installed on an emergency basis), (i) title to such replacement Part
shall thereupon vest in Lessor, (ii) such replacement Part shall become subject
to this Lease and be deemed part of the Airframe or such Engine for all purposes
hereof to the same extent as the Parts originally incorporated or installed in
or attached to the Airframe or such Engine, and (iii) title to the replaced Part
shall thereupon vest in Lessee (or, if a Sublease is then in effect, any
Sublessee), free and clear of all rights of Lessor, and shall no longer be
deemed a Part hereunder. Lessee represents and warrants that on the Delivery
Date no appliance, part, instrument, appurtenance, accessory, furnishing or
other equipment on the Aircraft which is necessary for navigation of the
Aircraft has been leased from any Person other than Lessor.

        (b) Pooling of Parts.  Any Part removed from the Airframe or any Engine
as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section 8 may be subjected by Lessee (or
any Sublessee) to a normal pooling arrangement customary in the airline
industry of which Lessee (or, if a Sublease is then in effect, any Sublessee)
is a party entered into in the ordinary course of Lessee's (or any Sublessee's)
business; provided that the Part replacing such removed Part shall be
incorporated or installed in or attached to such Airframe or Engine in
accordance with such paragraph (a) as promptly as practicable after the removal
of such removed Part.  In addition, any replacement Part when incorporated or
installed in or attached to the Airframe or any Engine in accordance with such
paragraph (a) may be owned by any third party subject to such a normal pooling
arrangement, provided that Lessee (or any Sublessee), at its expense, as
promptly thereafter as practicable, either (i) causes title to such replacement
Part to vest in Lessor in accordance with such paragraph (a) by Lessee (or any
Sublessee) acquiring title thereto for the benefit of, and transferring such
title to, Lessor free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens (other than
pooling arrangements) or (ii) replaces such replacement Part by incorporating
or installing in or attaching to the Airframe or Engine a further replacement
Part owned by Lessee (or any Sublessee) free and clear of all Liens except
Permitted Liens (other than pooling arrangements) and by causing title to such
further replacement Part to vest in Lessor in accordance with such paragraph
(a).

        (c) Alterations, Modifications and Additions.  Lessee, at its own
expense, will make (or cause to be made) such alterations and modifications in
and additions to the Airframe and Engines as may be required from time to time
to meet the applicable standards of the FAA or any applicable regulatory agency
or body of any other jurisdiction in which the Aircraft may then be registered
as permitted by Section 8(f) of the Participation Agreement regardless of upon
whom nominally imposed; provided, however, that Lessee (or, if a Sublease is
then in effect, any Sublessee) may, in good faith, contest the validity or
application of any such law, rule, regulation or order in any reasonable manner
which does not materially adversely affect Lessor or its right, title and
interest in the Aircraft or, so long as any Secured Certificates are
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sale, forfeiture or loss of the Aircraft or any material risk of civil liability
or any risk of criminal liability being imposed on Lessor; provided further,
that no appliance, part, instrument, appurtenance, accessory, furnishing or
other equipment of whatever nature relating to such alteration, modification or
addition may be leased from any Person other than Lessor.  In addition, Lessee
(or any Sublessee), at its own expense, may from time to time add further parts
or accessories and make such alterations and modifications in and additions to
the Airframe or any Engine as Lessee (or any Sublessee) may deem desirable in
the proper conduct of its business, including, without limitation, removal of
Parts which Lessee (or any Sublessee) has determined in its reasonable judgment
to be obsolete or no longer suitable or appropriate for use on the Airframe or
such Engine (such parts, "OBSOLETE PARTS"); provided that no such alteration,
modification or addition shall diminish the value, utility or remaining useful
life  of the Airframe or such Engine below the value, utility or remaining
useful life thereof immediately prior to such alteration, modification or
addition, assuming the Airframe or such Engine was then in the condition
required to be maintained by the terms of this Lease, except that the value (but
not the utility or remaining useful life) of the Airframe or any Engine may be
reduced by the value of Obsolete Parts which shall have been removed so long as
the aggregate original cost of all Obsolete Parts which shall have been removed
and not replaced shall not exceed $400,000. Title to all Parts incorporated or
installed in or attached or added to the Airframe or an Engine as the result of
such alteration, modification or addition (the "ADDITIONAL PARTS") shall,
without further act, vest in Lessor. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence,
Lessee (or any Sublessee) may remove or suffer to be removed any Additional
Part, provided that such Additional Part (i) is in addition to, and not in
replacement of or substitution for, any Part originally incorporated or
installed in or attached to the Airframe or any Engine at the time of delivery
thereof hereunder or any Part in replacement of, or substitution for, any such
Part, (ii) is not required to be incorporated or installed in or attached or
added to the Airframe or any Engine pursuant to the terms of Section 7 hereof or
the first sentence of this paragraph (c) and (iii) can be removed from the
Airframe or such Engine without diminishing or impairing the value, utility or
remaining useful life which the Airframe or such Engine would have had at the
time of removal had such alteration, modification or addition not occurred,
assuming that such Airframe or Engine was in the condition and repair required
to be maintained by the terms hereof.   Upon the removal by Lessee (or
Sublessee) of any Part as provided above, title thereto shall, without further
act, vest in Lessee (or any Sublessee, as the case may be) and such Part shall
no longer be deemed part of the Airframe or Engine from which it was removed. 
Any Part not removed by Lessee (or any Sublessee) as above provided prior to the
return of the Airframe or Engine to Lessor hereunder shall remain the property
of Lessor.

        SECTION 9. VOLUNTARY TERMINATION.  (a)  Termination Event.  (1)
[Intentionally Omitted].

        (2) Lessee shall have the right to elect to terminate this Lease on any
Lease Period Date occurring on or after the fifth anniversary of the Delivery
Date if Lessee shall have made the good faith determination, which shall be
evidenced by a resolution duly adopted by its Board of Directors (or the
Executive Committee thereof), that the Aircraft is obsolete or surplus to its
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        (3) Lessee shall give to Lessor at least ninety (90) days' and no more
than 365 days' revocable advance written notice of Lessee's intention to so
terminate this Lease (any such notice, a "TERMINATION NOTICE") specifying (i)
the Lease Period Date on which Lessee intends to terminate this Lease in
accordance with this Section 9 (such specified date, a "TERMINATION DATE") and
(ii) that Lessee has determined that the Aircraft is obsolete or surplus to its
needs.  Any Termination Notice shall become irrevocable ten (10) days prior to
the Termination Date.

        (b) [Intentionally Omitted].

        (c) Optional Sale of the Aircraft.  In the event that Lessee shall have
exercised its right to terminate this Lease under Section 9(a)(2), then during
the period from the giving of the notice referred to in Section 9(a)(3) until
the proposed Termination Date (unless Lessee shall have revoked the Termination
Notice specifying such proposed Termination Date), Lessee, as agent for Lessor
and at no expense to Lessor, shall use its best efforts to obtain bids in the
worldwide market for the purchase of the Aircraft and, in the event it receives
any bid, Lessee shall, within five Business Days after receipt thereof and at
least ten Business Days prior to the proposed Termination Date, certify to
Lessor in writing the amount and terms of such bid, and the name and address of
the party or parties (who shall not be Lessee or any Affiliate of Lessee or any
Person with whom Lessee or any such Affiliate has an arrangement or
understanding regarding the future use of the Aircraft by Lessee or any such
Affiliate but who may be the Owner Participant, any Affiliate thereof or any
Person contacted by the Owner Participant) submitting such bid.  After Lessee
shall have certified to Lessor all bids received, the Owner Participant, any
Affiliate thereof or any Person contacted by the Owner Participant may submit a
further bid or bids to Lessee not later than five Business Days prior to the
Termination Date proposed by Lessee (unless Lessee shall have revoked the
Termination Notice specifying such proposed Termination Date).  Subject to the
next succeeding sentence, on or before the Termination Date, subject to the
release of all mortgage and security interests with respect to the Aircraft
under the Trust Indenture:  (1) Lessee shall deliver the Aircraft, or cause the
Aircraft to be delivered, to the bidder(s), if any, which shall have submitted
the highest bid therefor at least ten (or, in the case of the Owner Participant,
any Affiliate thereof, or Person contacted by the Owner Participant, five)
Business Days prior to such Termination Date, in the same manner and in the same
condition and otherwise in accordance with all the terms of this Lease as if
delivery were made to Lessor pursuant to Section 5, and shall duly transfer to
Lessor title to any engines not owned by Lessor all in accordance with the terms
of Section 5, (2) Lessor shall comply with the terms of the Trust Indenture
relating to the release of the Aircraft from the Lien of the Trust Indenture and
shall, without recourse or warranty (except as to the absence of Lessor Liens,
including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso
in the definition of Lessor Liens), subject to prior or concurrent payment by
Lessee of all amounts due under clause (3) of this sentence, sell all of
Lessor's right, title and interest in and to the Aircraft for cash in Dollars to
such bidder(s), the total sales price realized at such sale to be retained by
Lessor, and (3) Lessee shall simultaneously pay or cause to be paid to Lessor in
funds of the type specified in Section 3(f) hereof, an amount equal to the sum
of (A) the excess, if any, of (i) the Termination Value for the Aircraft,
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net sale price of the Aircraft sold by Lessor after deducting the reasonable
expenses incurred by Lessor and the Owner Participant in connection with such
sale, and (B) all unpaid Basic Rent with respect to the Aircraft due prior to
such Termination Date and, if such Basic Rent is payable in arrears on such
Termination Date as indicated on Exhibit B, on such Termination Date, and all
unpaid Supplemental Rent due on or prior to the Termination Date with respect to
the Aircraft, including, without limitation, the premium and Funding Loss
Amount, if any, due on the Secured Certificates, and upon such payment Lessor
simultaneously will transfer to Lessee, without recourse or warranty (except as
to the absence of Lessor Liens, including for this purpose Liens that would be
Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens), all of
Lessor's right, title and interest in and to any Engines constituting part of
the Aircraft which were not sold with the Aircraft. Without duplication of any
amounts otherwise paid or withheld pursuant to the preceding sentence in the
event of a sale, Lessee agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and
expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable counsel fees and
disbursements) of Lessor and the Owner Participant in connection therewith. 
Notwithstanding the second preceding sentence, Lessor may, if Lessee has not
revoked the Termination Notice, elect to retain title to the Aircraft.  If
Lessor so elects, Lessor shall give to Lessee written notice of such election at
least five Business Days prior to the Termination Date accompanied by an
irrevocable undertaking by the Owner Participant to make available to the Lessor
for payment to the Indenture Trustee on the Termination Date the amount required
to pay in full the unpaid principal amount of the Secured Certificates
outstanding on the Termination Date plus interest accrued thereon through the
Termination Date and, without affecting the obligations of Lessee in respect of
such amounts under the second following sentence, together with the premium and
Funding Loss Amount, if any, due on the Secured Certificates.  Upon receipt of
notice of such an election by Lessor and the accompanying undertaking by the
Owner Participant, Lessee shall cease its efforts to obtain bids as provided
above and shall reject all bids theretofore or thereafter received.  On the
Termination Date, Lessor shall pay in full the unpaid principal amount of the
Secured Certificates outstanding on the Termination Date plus interest accrued
thereon through the Termination Date together with all premium and Funding Loss
Amount, if any, due on the Secured Certificates and, so long as the Secured
Certificates are paid as aforesaid, Lessee shall deliver the Airframe and
Engines or engines to Lessor in accordance with Section 5 and shall pay all
Basic Rent due prior to the Termination Date and, if such Basic Rent is payable
in arrears on such Termination Date as indicated on Exhibit B, on such
Termination Date, and all Supplemental Rent (other than Termination Value) due
on or prior to the Termination Date, including Supplemental Rent of the type
described in the second sentence of Section 3(e).  If no sale shall have
occurred on the Termination Date and Lessor has not made the payment
contemplated by the preceding sentence and thereby caused this Lease to
terminate or if Lessee revokes its Termination Notice, this Lease shall continue
in full force and effect as to the Aircraft, Lessee shall pay the reasonable
costs and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and disbursements)
incurred by the Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee and Lessor (unless such
failure to terminate the Lease is a consequence of the failure of Lessor or the
Owner Participant without due cause to make, or cause to be made, the payment
referred to in the immediately preceding sentence, in which case Lessee shall
pay only the reasonable costs and expenses of the Indenture Trustee), if any, in
connection with preparation for such sale and Lessee may give one or more
additional Termination Notices in accordance with Section 9(a)(2), subject
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sentence of this Section 9(c).  In the event of any such sale or such retention
of the Aircraft by Lessor and upon compliance by Lessee with the provisions of
this paragraph, the obligation of Lessee to pay Basic Rent or any other amounts
hereunder (but without affecting the provisions of Section 7(b), 7(c) or 15(b)
of the Participation Agreement) shall cease to accrue and this Lease shall
terminate.  Lessor may, but shall be under no duty to, solicit bids, inquire
into the efforts of Lessee to obtain bids or otherwise take any action in
connection with any such sale other than to transfer (in accordance with the
foregoing provisions) to the purchaser named in the highest bid certified by
Lessee to Lessor all of Lessor's right, title and interest in the Aircraft,
against receipt of the payments provided herein.  Lessee may revoke a
Termination Notice given pursuant to Section 9(a)(2) no more than two times
during the Term.

        (d) Termination as to Engines.  So long as no Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, Lessee shall have the right at its option at
any time during the Term, on at least thirty (30) days' prior written notice, to
terminate this Lease with respect to any Engine.  In such event, and prior to
the date of such termination, Lessee shall replace such Engine hereunder by
complying with the terms of Section 10(b) to the same extent as if an Event of
Loss had occurred with respect to such Engine and shall indemnify the Owner
Participant for any adverse tax consequences resulting from such substitution,
and Lessor shall transfer such right, title and interest as it may have to the
replaced Engine as provided in Section 5(b).  No termination of this Lease with
respect to any Engine as contemplated by this Section 9(d) shall result in any
reduction of Interim Rent or Basic Rent.

        SECTION 10. LOSS, DESTRUCTION, REQUISITION, ETC.  (a)  Event of Loss
with Respect to the Aircraft.  Upon the occurrence of an Event of Loss with
respect to the Airframe or the Airframe and the Engines and/or engines then
installed thereon, Lessee shall forthwith (and in any event, within fifteen (15)
days after such occurrence) give Lessor written notice of such Event of Loss,
and within forty-five (45) days after such Event of Loss Lessee shall give
Lessor written notice of its election to perform one of the following options
(it being agreed that if Lessee shall not have given such notice of election
within such period, Lessee shall be deemed to have elected the option set forth
in clause (i) below).  Lessee may elect either to:

                 (i) make the payments specified in this clause (i), in which
            event not later than the earlier of (x) the Business Day next
            succeeding the 120th day following the occurrence of such Event of
            Loss or (y) the third Business Day following the receipt of
            insurance proceeds in respect of such occurrence (but not earlier
            than thirty (30) days after such occurrence) (the "LOSS PAYMENT
            DATE") Lessee shall pay or cause to be paid to Lessor in funds of
            the type specified in Section 3(f) hereof, an amount equal to the
            Stipulated Loss Value of the Aircraft corresponding to the
            Stipulated Loss Value Date occurring on or immediately following
            the Loss Payment Date; provided, however, that if the Commencement
            Date or a Lease Period Date shall occur prior to the Loss Payment
            Date with respect to which Stipulated Loss Value is determined,
            Lessee shall pay on the Commencement Date or such Lease Period Date
            an amount equal to the Interim Rent or Basic Rent that would have
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            Commencement Date or such Lease Period Date if such Event of Loss 
            had not occurred, or

                 (ii) so long as no Default of the type referred to in Section
            14(a), 14(b) or 14(e) or Event of Default shall have occurred and
            be continuing, substitute an aircraft or an airframe or an airframe
            and one or more engines, as the case may be;

provided that, if Lessee does not perform its obligation to effect such
substitution in accordance with this Section 10(a), during the period of time
provided herein, then Lessee shall pay or cause to be paid to Lessor on the
Business Day next succeeding the 120th day following the occurrence of such
Event of Loss the amount specified in clause (i) above.

        At such time as Lessor shall have received the amounts specified in
subparagraph (i) above, together with all other amounts that then may be due
hereunder (including, without limitation, all Basic Rent due on or before the
Stipulated Loss Value Date by reference to which the Stipulated Loss Value is
calculated for the Loss Payment Date (excluding Basic Rent payable in advance on
such Stipulated Loss Value Date) and all Supplemental Rent, including of the
type described in the second sentence of Section 3(e)), under the Participation
Agreement and under the Tax Indemnity Agreement, (1) the obligation of Lessee to
pay the installments of Basic Rent, Supplemental Rent, Stipulated Loss Value,
Termination Value shall cease to accrue (but without affecting the provisions of
Section 7(b), 7(c) or 15(b) of the Participation Agreement), (2) this Lease
shall terminate, (3) Lessor will comply with the terms of the Trust Indenture
relating to the release of the Aircraft from the Lien of the Trust Indenture and
transfer to or at the direction of Lessee, without recourse or warranty (except
as to the absence of Lessor Liens, including for this purpose Liens that would
be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens), all of
Lessor's right, title and interest in and to the Airframe and any Engines
subject to such Event of Loss, as well as any Engines not subject to such Event
of Loss, and furnish to or at the direction of Lessee a bill of sale in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee (or any Sublessee), evidencing such
transfer, and (4) Lessee will be subrogated to all claims of Lessor, if any,
against third parties, for damage to or loss of the Airframe and any Engines
which were subject to such Event of Loss to the extent of the then insured value
of the Aircraft.

        In the event Lessee shall elect to substitute an aircraft (or an
airframe or an airframe and one or more engines, as the case may be) Lessee
shall, at its sole expense, not later than the Business Day next succeeding the
120th day following the occurrence of such Event of Loss, (A) convey or cause to
be conveyed to Lessor and to be leased by Lessee hereunder, a Boeing model
aircraft (or a Boeing model airframe or a Boeing model airframe and one or more
engines which, together with the Engines constituting a part of the Aircraft but
not installed thereon at the time of such Event of Loss constitute the Aircraft)
free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens) and having a value,
utility and remaining useful life at least equal to the Aircraft subject to such
Event of Loss assuming that the Aircraft had been maintained in accordance with
this Lease; provided that any aircraft, airframe or engine so substituted 
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hereunder and (B) prior to or at the time of any such substitution, Lessee (or
any Sublessee), at its own expense, will (1) furnish Lessor with a full warranty
bill of sale and a Federal Aviation Administration bill of sale, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessor, evidencing such transfer of title,
(2) cause a Lease Supplement and a Trust Supplement to be duly executed by
Lessee and filed for recording pursuant to the Federal Aviation Act, or the
applicable laws, rules and regulations of any other jurisdiction in which the
Airframe may then be registered as permitted by Section 8(f) of the
Participation Agreement, (3) cause a financing statement or statements with
respect to such substituted property to be filed in such place or places as are
deemed necessary or desirable by Lessor to perfect its and the Indenture
Trustee's interest therein and herein, (4) furnish Lessor with such evidence of
compliance with the insurance provisions of Section 11 with respect to such
substituted property as Lessor may reasonably request, (5) furnish Lessor with
copies of the documentation required to be provided by Lessee pursuant to
Section 5.06 of the Trust Indenture in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Lessor, and Lessor simultaneously will comply with the terms of
the Trust Indenture relating to the release of the Aircraft from the Lien of the
Trust Indenture and transfer to or at the direction of Lessee, without recourse
or warranty (except as to the absence of Lessor Liens, including for this
purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the definition
of Lessor Liens), all of Lessor's right, title and interest, if any, in and to
the Aircraft or the Airframe and one or more Engines, as the case may be, with
respect to which such Event of Loss occurred and furnish to or at the direction
of Lessee a bill of sale in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee
(or any Sublessee), evidencing such transfer, (6) furnish Lessor with an opinion
of counsel (which shall be Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and, if not, other
counsel chosen by Lessee and reasonably acceptable to Lessor) reasonably
satisfactory to Lessor to the effect that Lessor and the Indenture Trustee as
assignee of Lessor will be entitled to the benefits of Section 1110 of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code with respect to the substitute aircraft, provided that such
opinion need not be delivered to the extent that immediately prior to such
substitution the benefits of Section 1110 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code were not,
solely by reason of a change in law or governmental interpretation thereof,
available to Lessor and, so long as any Secured Certificates are outstanding,
the Indenture Trustee as assignee of Lessor's rights under the Lease with
respect to the Aircraft, (7) furnish Lessor with an opinion of counsel (which
may be the General Counsel or an Associate General Counsel of Lessee, or other
counsel chosen by Lessee and reasonably acceptable to Lessor) to the effect that
the full warranty bill of sale referred to in clause (1) constitutes an
effective instrument for the conveyance of title to the replacement aircraft,
airframe, engine or engines, (8) furnish Lessor (at Lessor's sole cost and
expense) with a certificate of an independent aircraft appraiser reasonably
acceptable to Lessor certifying that such replacement aircraft, airframe, engine
or engines complies with the value, utility and remaining useful life
requirements set forth above in this sentence, (9) furnish Lessor with an
opinion of tax counsel chosen by the Owner Participant and reasonably acceptable
to Lessee as to the federal income tax consequences (without any requirement as
to the nature of such federal income tax consequences) to Lessor and the Owner
Participant of such substitution, and shall indemnify the Owner Participant for
any adverse tax consequences resulting from such substitution, and (10) Lessee
will be subrogated to all claims of Lessor, if any, against third parties for
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Event of Loss to the extent of the then insured value of the Aircraft.  For all
purposes hereof, the property so substituted shall after such transfer be deemed
part of the property leased hereunder and shall be deemed an "Aircraft",
"Airframe" and "Engine", as the case may be, as defined herein.  No Event of
Loss with respect to the Airframe or the Airframe and the Engines or engines
then installed thereon for which substitution has been elected pursuant to
Section 10(a)(ii) hereof shall result in any reduction in Interim Rent or
Basic Rent.

        (b) Event of Loss with Respect to an Engine.  Upon the occurrence of an
Event of Loss with respect to an Engine under circumstances in which there has
not occurred an Event of Loss with respect to the Airframe, Lessee shall
forthwith (and in any event, within fifteen days after such occurrence) give
Lessor written notice thereof and shall, within sixty (60) days after the
occurrence of such Event of Loss, convey or cause to be conveyed to Lessor, as
replacement for the Engine with respect to which such Event of Loss occurred,
title to another Pratt & Whitney Model PW2037 engine (or engine of the same or
another manufacturer of the same, an equivalent or an improved model and
suitable for installation and use on the Airframe without impairing the value,
utility or remaining useful life of the Aircraft; provided that both Engines
shall be of the same make and model) free and clear of all Liens (other than
Permitted Liens, which engine may upon its transfer to Lessor become subject to
any and all Permitted Liens) and having a value, utility and remaining useful
life at least equal to the Engine subject to such Event of Loss assuming that
such Engine had been maintained in accordance with this Lease.  Prior to or at
the time of any such conveyance, Lessee, at its own expense, will (i) furnish
Lessor with a warranty (as to title) bill of sale, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to Lessor, with respect to such replacement engine, (ii)
cause a Lease Supplement and Trust Supplement to be duly executed by Lessee and
to be filed for recording pursuant to the Federal Aviation Act, or the
applicable laws, rules and regulations of any other jurisdiction in which the
Airframe may then be registered as permitted by Section 8(f) of the
Participation Agreement, (iii) furnish Lessor with such evidence of compliance
with the insurance provisions of Section 11 hereof with respect to such
replacement engine as Lessor may reasonably request and furnish Lessor with
copies of the documentation required to be provided by Lessee pursuant to
Section 5.06 of the Trust Indenture in form and substance reasonably acceptable
to Lessor and (iv) furnish Lessor with an opinion of counsel (which may be the
General Counsel or an Associate General Counsel of Lessee, or other counsel
chosen by Lessee and reasonably acceptable to Lessor) to the effect that the
bill of sale referred to in clause (i) above constitutes an effective instrument
for the conveyance of title to the replacement engine, and Lessor will comply
with the terms of the Trust Indenture relating to the release of the Aircraft
from the Lien of the Trust Indenture and transfer to or at the direction of
Lessee without recourse or warranty (except as to absence of Lessor Liens,
including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso
in the definition of Lessor Liens) all of Lessor's right, title and interest, if
any, in and to (A) the Engine with respect to which such Event of Loss occurred
and furnish to or at the direction of Lessee a bill of sale in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee, evidencing such transfer and (B)
all claims, if any, against third parties, for damage to or loss of the Engine
subject to such Event of Loss, and such Engine shall thereupon cease to be the
Engine leased hereunder.  For all purposes hereof, each such replacement engine
shall, after such conveyance, be deemed part of the property leased hereunder,
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"ENGINE".  No Event of Loss with respect to an Engine under the circumstances
contemplated by the terms of this paragraph (b) shall result in any     
reduction in Interim Rent or Basic Rent.

        (c) Application of Payments from Governmental Authorities for
Requisition of Title, etc.  Any payments (other than insurance proceeds the
application of which is provided for in Section 11) received at any time by
Lessor or by Lessee from any governmental authority or other Person with respect
to an Event of Loss will be applied as follows:

                 (i) if payments are received with respect to the Airframe (or
        the Airframe and any Engine or engines then installed thereon), (A)
        unless the same are replaced pursuant to the last paragraph of Section
        10(a), after reimbursement of Lessor (as provided in Section 7.01 of the
        Trust Agreement) for reasonable costs and expenses, so much of such
        payments remaining as shall not exceed the Stipulated Loss Value
        required to be paid by Lessee pursuant to Section 10(a), shall be
        applied in reduction of Lessee's obligation to pay Stipulated Loss
        Value, if not already paid by Lessee, or, if already paid by Lessee,
        shall be applied to reimburse Lessee for its payment of Stipulated Loss
        Value, and following the foregoing application, the balance, if any, of
        such payments will be paid over to, or retained by Lessee, provided that
        Lessor shall be entitled to so much of the excess, if any, of such
        payment over the greater of (x) the Stipulated Loss Value and (y) the
        fair market value of the Aircraft as Lessor shall demonstrate to
        Lessee's reasonable satisfaction is attributable to compensation for
        loss of Lessor's interest in the Aircraft as distinguished from the loss
        of use of the Aircraft; or (B) if such property is replaced pursuant to
        the last paragraph of Section 10(a), such payments shall be paid over
        to, or retained by, Lessee; provided that Lessee shall have fully
        performed or, concurrently therewith, will fully perform the terms of
        the last paragraph of Section 10(a) with respect to the Event of Loss
        for which such payments are made; and

                 (ii) if such payments are received with respect to an Engine 
        under circumstances contemplated by Section 10(b) hereof, so much of
        such payments remaining after reimbursement of Lessor (as provided for
        in Section 7.01 of the Trust Agreement) for reasonable costs and
        expenses shall be paid over to, or retained by, Lessee, provided that
        Lessee shall have fully performed, or concurrently therewith will
        perform, the terms of Section 10(b) with respect to the Event of
        Loss for which such payments are made.
        
        (d)  Requisition for Use of the Aircraft by the United States Government
or the Government of Registry of the Aircraft Which is a Member of OECD .  In
the event of the requisition for use of the Airframe and the Engines or engines
installed on the Airframe during the Term by the United States Government or any
other government of registry of the Aircraft which is a member of OECD or any
instrumentality or agency of any thereof, Lessee shall promptly notify Lessor of
such requisition, and all of Lessee's obligations under this Lease Agreement
with respect to the Aircraft shall continue to the same extent as if such
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had not occurred, provided that if such Airframe and Engines or engines
installed thereon are not returned by such government prior to the end of the
Term, Lessee shall be obligated to return the Airframe and such Engines or
engines to Lessor pursuant to, and in all other respects in compliance with the
provisions of, Section 5 promptly on the date of such return by such
government.  Unless an Event of Loss shall be deemed to have occurred pursuant
to the next sentence or Lessor shall have given Lessee the written notice
specified in the next sentence, Lessee shall pay to Lessor for each day (but
not to exceed 30 days) beyond the scheduled expiration of the Term during which
the Aircraft is not returned to Lessor by reason of such requisition an amount
equal to the average daily Basic Rent payable by Lessee during the Term.  If,
in the event of any such requisition, Lessee shall fail to return the Aircraft
on or before the thirtieth day beyond the end of the Term, such failure shall
constitute an Event of Loss which shall be deemed to have occurred on the last
day of the Term and in such event Lessee shall make the payment contemplated by
Section 10(a)(i) in respect of such Event of Loss; provided, however, that
Lessor may notify Lessee in writing on or before the twentieth day prior to the
last day of the Term that, in the event Lessee shall fail by reason of such
requisition to return the Airframe and such Engines or engines on or before the
thirtieth day beyond the end of the Term, such failure shall not be deemed an
Event of Loss.  Upon the giving of such notice and such failure to return by
the thirtieth day beyond the end of the Term, Lessee shall be relieved of all
of its obligations pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 (including Exhibit
F) (except that Lessee shall deliver to Lessor all logs, manuals and data and
inspection, modification and overhaul records in regard to the Aircraft then in
its possession) but not under any other Section, except that if any engine not
owned by Lessor shall then be installed on the Airframe, Lessee will, at no
cost to Lessor, furnish, or cause to be furnished, to Lessor a full warranty
(as to title) bill of sale including as to the absence of Liens other than
Lessor Liens (including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but
for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens) with respect to each such
engine, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessor (together with
an opinion of counsel to the effect that such full warranty bill of sale has
been duly authorized and delivered and is enforceable in accordance with its
terms and that such engines are free and clear of Liens other than Lessor Liens
(including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the
proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens), Loan Participant Liens and
Indenture Trustee Liens), against receipt from Lessor of a bill of sale
evidencing the transfer, without recourse or warranty (except as to the absence
of Lessor Liens, including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens
but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens), by Lessor to Lessee or
its designee of all of Lessor's right, title and interest in and to any Engine
constituting part of the Aircraft but not then installed on the Airframe.  All
payments received by Lessor or Lessee from such government for the use of such
Airframe and Engines or engines during the Term shall be paid over to, or
retained by, Lessee (or, if directed by Lessee, any Sublessee); and all
payments received by Lessor or Lessee from such government for the use of such
Airframe and Engines or engines after the end of the Term shall be paid over
to, or retained by, Lessor unless Lessee shall have exercised its purchase      
option hereunder, in which case such payments shall be made to Lessee.

        (e) Requisition for Use of an Engine by the United States Government or
the Government of Registry of the Aircraft Which is a Member of OECD.  In the
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requisition for use of an Engine by the United States Government or any other
government of registry of the Aircraft which is a member of OECD or any agency
or instrumentality of any thereof (other than in the circumstances contemplated
by subsection (d)), Lessee shall replace such Engine hereunder by complying (or
causing any Sublessee to comply) with the terms of Section 10(b) to the same
extent as if an Event of Loss had occurred with respect thereto, and, upon
compliance with Section 10(b) hereof, any payments received by Lessor or Lessee
from such government with respect to such requisition shall be paid     over to,
or retained by, Lessee.

        (f) Application of Payments During Existence of Event of Default.  Any
amount referred to in this Section 10 which is payable to or retainable by
Lessee (or any Sublessee) shall not be paid to or retained by Lessee (or such
Sublessee) if at the time of such payment or retention a Default of the type
specified in Section 14(a), 14(b) or 14(e) or an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, but shall be held by or paid over to Lessor as
security for the obligations of Lessee (or such Sublessee) under this Lease and,
if Lessor declares this Lease to be in default pursuant to Section 15 hereof,
applied against Lessee's obligations hereunder as and when due.  At such time as
there shall not be continuing any such Default or Event of Default, such amount
shall be paid to Lessee (or such Sublessee) to the extent not previously applied
in accordance with the preceding sentence.






        SECTION 11. INSURANCE.  (a)  Public Liability and Property Damage
Insurance.  (I)  Except as provided in clause (II) of this Section 11(a), Lessee
will carry or cause to be carried at its or any Sublessee's  expense (i)
aircraft public liability (including, without limitation, passenger legal
liability) (and including aircraft war risk and hijacking insurance, if and to
the extent the same is maintained by Lessee (or any Sublessee) with respect to
other aircraft owned or leased, and operated by Lessee (or such Sublessee) on
the same routes) insurance and property damage insurance (exclusive of
manufacturer's product liability insurance) with respect to the Aircraft, in an
amount not less than the greater of (x) the amount of public liability and
property damage insurance from time to time applicable to aircraft owned or
operated by Lessee of the same type as the Aircraft and (y) such amount per
occurrence as may have been agreed to on the Delivery Date by the Owner
Participant and (ii) cargo liability insurance, in the case of both clause (i)
and clause (ii), (A) of the type and covering the same risks as from time to
time applicable to aircraft operated by Lessee of the same type as the Aircraft
and (B) which is maintained in effect with insurers of recognized
responsibility.  Any policies of insurance carried in accordance with this
paragraph (a) and any policies taken out in substitution or replacement for any
of such policies (A) shall be amended to name Lessor, in its individual capacity
and as owner trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Participant (but
without imposing on any such parties liability to pay the premiums for such
insurance) (and, if any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its capacity as
sublessor under the Sublease) as additional insureds as their respective
interests may appear, (B) shall provide that in respect of the respective
interests of Lessor, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Participant (and, if
any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its capacity as sublessor under the
Sublease) in such policies the insurance shall not be invalidated by any action
or inaction of Lessee (or, if any Sublease is then in effect, any Sublessee) or
any other Person and shall insure Lessor, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner
Participant (and, if any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its capacity as
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breach or violation of any warranty, declaration or condition contained in such
policies by Lessee (or, if any Sublease is then in effect, any Sublessee), (C)
may provide for self-insurance to the extent permitted by Section 11(d) and (D)
shall provide that if the insurers cancel such insurance for any reason whatever
or if any material change is made in such insurance which adversely affects the
interest of Lessor, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant (or, if any
Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its capacity as sublessor under the
Sublease), or such insurance shall lapse for non-payment of premium, such
cancellation, lapse or change shall not be effective as to Lessor, the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Participant (or, if any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee
in its capacity as sublessor under the Sublease) for thirty (30) days (seven (7)
days in the case of war risk and allied perils coverage) after issuance to
Lessor, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant (or, if any Sublease
shall be in effect, Lessee in its capacity as sublessor under the Sublease),
respectively, of written notice by such insurers of such cancellation, lapse or
change; provided, however, that if any notice period specified above is not
reasonably obtainable, such policies shall provide for as long a period of prior
notice as shall then be reasonably obtainable.  Each liability policy (1) shall
be primary without right of contribution from any other insurance which is
carried by Lessor, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant
(or, if any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its capacity as sublessor
under the Sublease), (2) shall expressly provide that all of the provisions
thereof, except the limits of liability, shall operate in the same manner as if
there were a separate policy covering each insured, and (3) shall waive any
right of the insurers to any set-off or counterclaim or any other deduction,
whether by attachment or otherwise, in respect of any liability of Lessor or
the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant (or, if any Sublease shall be in
effect, Lessee in its capacity as sublessor under the Sublease) to the extent
of any moneys due to Lessor, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant
(or, if any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its capacity as sublessor
under the Sublease).

     (II) During any period that the Aircraft is on the ground and not in
operation, Lessee may carry or cause to be carried, in lieu of the insurance
required by clause (I) above, insurance otherwise conforming with the
provisions of said clause (I) except that (A) the amounts of coverage shall not
be required to exceed the amounts of public liability and property damage
insurance from time to time applicable to aircraft owned or operated by Lessee
of the same type as the Aircraft which are on the ground and not in operation;
and (B) the scope of the risks covered and the type of insurance shall be the
same as from time to time shall be applicable to aircraft owned or operated by
Lessee of the same type which are on the ground and not in operation.

        (b) Insurance Against Loss or Damage to the Aircraft.  (I)  Except as
provided in clause (II) of this Section 11(b), Lessee shall maintain or cause to
be maintained in effect, at its or any Sublessee's expense, with insurers of
recognized responsibility, all-risk ground and flight aircraft hull insurance
covering the Aircraft and all-risk ground and flight coverage of Engines and
Parts while temporarily removed from the Aircraft and not replaced by similar
components (including, without limitation, war risk and governmental
confiscation and expropriation (other than by the government of registry of the
Aircraft) and hijacking insurance, if and to the extent the same is maintained
by Lessee (or, if a Sublease is then in effect, any Sublessee) with respect to
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Sublessee) on the same  routes, except that Lessee (or such Sublessee) shall
maintain war risk and governmental confiscation and expropriation (other than
by the government of registry of the Aircraft) and hijacking insurance if the
Aircraft is operated on routes where the custom is for major international air
carriers flying comparable routes to carry such insurance) which is of the type
as from time to time applicable to aircraft owned by Lessee of the same type as
the Aircraft; provided that such insurance shall at all times while the
Aircraft is subject to this Lease be for an amount (subject to self-insurance
to the extent permitted by Section 11(d)) not less than the Stipulated Loss
Value for the Aircraft.  Any policies carried in accordance with this paragraph
(b) covering the Aircraft and any policies taken out in substitution or
replacement for any such policies (i) shall name Lessor, as owner trustee, the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Participant (and, if any Sublease shall be in
effect, Lessee in its capacity as sublessor under the Sublease) as additional
insureds, as their respective interests may appear (but without imposing on any
such party liability to pay premiums with respect to such insurance), (ii) may
provide for self-insurance to the extent permitted in Section 11(d), (iii)
shall provide that (A) in the event of a loss involving proceeds in excess of
$3,500,000 (or, if the Aircraft is then under a Sublease, in excess of
$2,000,000), the proceeds in respect of such loss up to an amount equal to the
Stipulated Loss Value for the Aircraft shall be payable to Lessor (or, so long
as the Trust Indenture shall not have been discharged, the Indenture Trustee)
(except in the case of a loss with respect to an Engine installed on an
airframe other than the Airframe, in which case Lessee (or any Sublessee) shall
arrange for any payment of insurance proceeds in respect of such loss to be
held for the account of Lessor (or, so long as the Trust Indenture shall not
have been discharged, the Indenture Trustee) whether such payment is made to
Lessee (or any Sublessee) or any third party), it being understood and agreed
that in the case of any payment to Lessor (or the Indenture Trustee) otherwise
than in respect of an Event of Loss, Lessor (or the Indenture Trustee) shall,
upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to it that the damage giving rise to such
payment shall have been repaired or that such payment shall then be required to
pay for repairs then being made, pay the amount of such payment to Lessee or
its order, and (B) the entire amount of any loss involving proceeds of
$3,500,000 (or, if the Aircraft is then under a Sublease, of $2,000,000) or
less or the amount of any proceeds of any loss in excess of the Stipulated Loss
Value for the Aircraft shall be paid to Lessee or its order unless a Default of
the type specified in Section 14(a), 14(b) or 14(e) or an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing and the insurers have been notified
thereof by Lessor or the Indenture Trustee, (iv) shall provide that if the
insurers cancel such insurance for any reason whatever, or such insurance
lapses for non-payment of premium or if any material change is made in the
insurance which adversely affects the interest of Lessor, the Indenture Trustee
or the Owner Participant, such cancellation, lapse or change shall not be
effective as to Lessor, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant (or, if
any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its capacity as sublessor under the
Sublease) for thirty (30) days (seven (7) days in the case of hull war risk and
allied perils coverage) after issuance to Lessor, the Indenture Trustee or the
Owner Participant (or, if any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its
capacity as sublessor under the Sublease), respectively, of written notice by
such insurers of such cancellation, lapse or change, provided, however, that if
any notice period specified above is not reasonably obtainable, such policies
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obtainable, (v) shall provide that in respect of the respective interests of
Lessor, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Participant (and, if any Sublease
shall be in effect, Lessee in its capacity as sublessor under the Sublease) in
such policies the insurance shall not be invalidated by any action or inaction
of Lessee (or, if a Sublease is then in effect, any Sublessee) or any other
Person and shall insure the respective interests of Lessor, the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Participant (and, if any Sublease shall be in effect,
Lessee in its capacity as sublessor under the Sublease), as they appear,
regardless of any breach or violation of any warranty, declaration or condition
contained in such policies by Lessee (or, if a Sublease is then in effect, any
Sublessee), (vi) shall be primary without any right of contribution from any
other insurance which is carried by Lessor, the Owner Participant or the
Indenture Trustee (or, if any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its
capacity as sublessor under the Sublease), (vii) shall waive any right of
subrogation of the insurers against Lessor, the Owner Participant and the
Indenture Trustee (and, if any Sublease shall be in effect, Lessee in its
capacity as sublessor under the Sublease), and (viii) shall waive any right of
the insurers to set-off or counterclaim or any other deduction, whether by
attachment or otherwise, in respect of any liability of Lessor, the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Participant or Lessee (or any Sublessee) to the extent of any
moneys due to Lessor, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant.  In the
case of a loss with respect to an engine (other than an Engine) installed on the
Airframe, Lessor shall hold any payment to it of any insurance proceeds in
respect of such loss for the account of Lessee or any other third party that is
entitled to receive such proceeds.

        As between Lessor and Lessee, it is agreed that all insurance payments
received as the result of the occurrence of an Event of Loss will be applied as
follows:

                 (x) if such payments are received with respect to the Airframe
            (or the Airframe and the Engines installed thereon), (i) unless
            such property is replaced pursuant to the last paragraph of Section
            10(a), so much of such payments remaining, after reimbursement of
            Lessor (as provided in Section 7.01 of the Trust Agreement) for
            reasonable costs and expenses, as shall not exceed the Stipulated
            Loss Value required to be paid by Lessee pursuant to Section 10(a)
            hereof shall be applied in reduction of Lessee's obligation to pay
            such Stipulated Loss Value, if not already paid by Lessee, or, if
            already paid by Lessee, shall be applied to reimburse Lessee for
            its payment of such Stipulated Loss Value, and the balance, if any,
            of such payments remaining thereafter will be paid over to, or
            retained by, Lessee (or if directed by Lessee, any Sublessee); or
            (ii) if such property is replaced pursuant to the last paragraph of
            Section 10(a), such payments shall be paid over to, or retained by,
            Lessee (or if directed by Lessee, any Sublessee), provided that
            Lessee shall have fully performed or, concurrently therewith, will
            fully perform the terms of the last paragraph of Section 10(a) with
            respect to the Event of Loss for which such payments are made; and

                 (y) if such payments are received with respect to an Engine
            under the circumstances contemplated by Section 10(b) hereof, so
            much of such payments remaining, after reimbursement of Lessor (as
            provided in Section 7.01 of the Trust Agreement) for reasonable
            costs and expenses, shall be paid over to, or 

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            retained by, Lessee (or if directed by Lessee, any Sublessee),
            provided that Lessee shall have fully performed or, concurrently
            therewith, will fully perform, the terms of Section 10(b) with
            respect to the Event of Loss for which such payments are made.
        
        As between Lessor and Lessee, the insurance payments for any property
damage loss to the Airframe or any engine not constituting an Event of Loss with
respect thereto will be applied in payment for repairs or for replacement
property in accordance with the terms of Sections 7 and 8, if not already paid
for by Lessee (or any Sublessee), and any balance (or if already paid for by
Lessee (or any Sublessee), all such insurance proceeds) remaining after
compliance with such Sections with respect to such loss shall be paid to Lessee
(or any Sublessee if directed by Lessee).


        (II) During any period that the Aircraft is on the ground and not in
operation, Lessee may carry or cause to be carried, in lieu of the insurance
required by clause (I) above, insurance otherwise conforming with the provisions
of said clause (I) except that the scope of the risks and the type of insurance
shall be the same as from time to time applicable to aircraft owned by Lessee of
the same type similarly on the ground and not in operation, provided that Lessee
shall maintain insurance against risk of loss or damage to the Aircraft in an
amount equal to the Stipulated Loss Value of the Aircraft during such period
that the Aircraft is on the ground and not in operation.

        (c) Reports, etc.  Lessee will furnish, or cause to be furnished, to
Lessor, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Participant, on or before the
Delivery Date and on or before July 1 in each year thereafter during the Term
commencing July, 1996, a report, signed by Marsh & McLennan, Incorporated or any
other independent firm of insurance brokers reasonably acceptable to Lessor (the
"INSURANCE BROKERS"), describing in reasonable detail the insurance and
reinsurance then carried and maintained with respect to the Aircraft and stating
the opinion of such firm that the insurance then carried and maintained with
respect to the Aircraft complies with the terms hereof; provided, however, that
all information contained in the foregoing report shall not be made available by
Lessor, the Indenture Trustee, the Loan Participants or the Owner Participant to
anyone except (A) to prospective and permitted transferees of Lessor's, the Loan
Participants', the Owner Participant's or the Indenture Trustee's interest who
agree to hold such information confidential, (B) to Lessor's, the Loan
Participants', the Owner Participant's or the Indenture Trustee's counsel or
independent certified public accountants or independent insurance advisors who
agree to hold such information confidential, (C) as may be required by any
statute, court or administrative order or decree or governmental ruling or
regulation or as may be requested by any regulatory agency or body having
authority or (D) as may be necessary for purposes of protecting the interests of
any such Person or for the enforcement of this Lease by Lessor.  Lessee will
cause such Insurance Brokers to agree to advise Lessor, the Indenture Trustee
and the Owner Participant in writing of any default in the payment of any
premium and of any other act or omission on the part of Lessee of which it has
knowledge and which might invalidate or render unenforceable, in whole or in
part, any insurance on the Aircraft.  To the extent such agreement is reasonably
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advise Lessor, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Participant in writing at
least thirty (30) days (seven (7) days in the case of war risk and allied perils
coverage), prior to the expiration or termination date of any insurance carried
and maintained on the Aircraft pursuant to this Section 11.  In addition, Lessee
will also cause such Insurance Brokers to deliver to Lessor, the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Participant, on or prior to the date of expiration of any
insurance policy referenced in a previously delivered certificate of insurance,
a new certificate of insurance, substantially in the same form as delivered by
Lessee to such parties on the Delivery Date.  In the event that Lessee or any
Sublessee shall fail to maintain or cause to be maintained insurance as herein
provided, Lessor or the Indenture Trustee may at its sole option provide such
insurance and, in such event, Lessee shall, upon demand, reimburse Lessor or the
Indenture Trustee, as Supplemental Rent, for the cost thereof to Lessor or the 
Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, without waiver of any other rights Lessor
or the Indenture Trustee may have; provided, however, that no exercise by Lessor
or the Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, of said option shall affect the   
provisions of this Lease, including the provisions of Section 14(g) hereof. 

        (d) Self-Insurance.  Lessee may self-insure by way of deductible,
premium adjustment or franchise provisions or otherwise (including, with respect
to insurance maintained pursuant to Section 11(b), insuring for a maximum amount
which is less than the Stipulated Loss Value of the Aircraft) in the insurance
covering the risks required to be insured against pursuant to this Section 11
under a program applicable to all aircraft in Lessee's fleet, but in no case
shall the aggregate amount of self-insurance in regard to Section 11(a) and
Section 11(b) exceed during any policy year, with respect to all of the aircraft
in Lessee's fleet (including, without limitation, the Aircraft), the lesser of
(a) 50% of the largest replacement value of any single aircraft in Lessee's
fleet or (b) 1-1/2% of the average aggregate insurable value (during the
preceding policy year) of all aircraft (including, without limitation, the
Aircraft) on which Lessee carries insurance.  In addition, Lessee (and any
Sublessee) may self-insure to the extent of any applicable mandatory minimum per
aircraft (or, if applicable, per annum or other period) hull or liability
insurance deductible imposed by the aircraft hull or liability insurers.

        (e) Additional Insurance by Lessor and Lessee.  Lessee (and any
Sublessee) may at its own expense carry insurance with respect to its interest
in the Aircraft in amounts in excess of that required to be maintained by this
Section 11; the Owner Participant either directly or through Lessor may carry
for its own account at its sole cost and expense insurance with respect to its
interest in the Aircraft, provided that such insurance does not prevent Lessee
(or any Sublessee) from carrying the insurance required or permitted by this
Section 11 or adversely affect such insurance or the cost thereof.

        (f) Indemnification by Government in Lieu of Insurance.  Notwithstanding
any provisions of this Section 11 requiring insurance, Lessor agrees to accept,
in lieu of insurance against any risk with respect to the Aircraft,
indemnification from, or insurance provided by, the United States Government or
any agency or instrumentality thereof the obligations of which are backed by the
full faith and credit of the United States or, upon the written consent of
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government of registry of the Aircraft or any agency or instrumentality
thereof, against such risk in an amount which, when added to the amount of
insurance against such risk maintained by Lessee (or any Sublessee) with
respect to the Aircraft (including permitted self-insurance) shall be at least
equal to the amount of insurance against such risk otherwise required by this
Section 11.

        (g) Application of Payments During Existence of an Event of Default. 
Any amount referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section 11 which is payable to
or retainable by Lessee (or any Sublessee) shall not be paid to or retained by
Lessee (or any Sublessee) if at the time of such payment or retention a Default
of the type described in Section 14(a), 14(b) or 14(e) or an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, but shall be held by or paid over to
Lessor as security for the obligations of Lessee (or any Sublessee) under this
Lease and, if Lessor declares this Lease to be in default pursuant to Section 15
hereof, applied against Lessee's obligations hereunder as and when due.  At such
time as there shall not be continuing any such Default or Event of Default, such
amount shall be paid to Lessee (or such Sublessee) to the extent not previously
applied in accordance with the preceding sentence.

        SECTION 12. INSPECTION.  At all reasonable times, and upon at least 15
days' prior written notice to Lessee, Lessor, the Owner Participant or the
Indenture Trustee or their respective authorized representatives may (not more
than once every 12 months (unless during the circumstances set forth in the last
paragraph of Section 5(a) or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
when such inspection right shall not be so limited)) inspect the Aircraft and
inspect and make copies (at Lessor's, the Owner Participant's or the Indenture
Trustee's expense, as the case may be) of the books and records of Lessee
relating to the maintenance of the Aircraft; any such inspection of the Aircraft
shall be limited to a visual, walk-around inspection and shall not include
opening any panels, bays or the like without the express consent of Lessee
(unless already open); provided that no exercise of such inspection right shall
interfere with the operation or maintenance of the Aircraft by, or the business
of, Lessee (or any Sublessee).  In addition, upon receipt by Lessee of a written
request from the Owner Participant specifying that the Owner Participant desires
to have an authorized representative observe the next scheduled major overhaul
to be performed on the Aircraft, Lessee shall cooperate with the Owner
Participant to enable the Owner Participant's authorized representative to
observe the next scheduled major overhaul to be performed on the Aircraft;
provided  that Lessee shall be required to so cooperate only to the extent
necessary to enable the Owner Participant's authorized representative to observe
one scheduled major overhaul during each 18 month period of the Term; provided
that the Owner Participant's authorized representative shall merely observe such
major overhaul, shall not interfere with or extend in any manner the conduct or
duration of the major overhaul and shall not be entitled to direct any of the
work performed in connection with such overhaul.  None of Lessor, the Owner
Participant or the Indenture Trustee shall have any duty to make any such
inspection nor shall any of them incur any liability or obligation by reason of
not making such inspection.

        SECTION 13. ASSIGNMENT.  Except as otherwise provided herein, Lessee
will not, without prior written consent of Lessor, assign in whole or in part
any of its rights or obligations hereunder.  Lessor agrees that it will not
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interest in and to this Lease or the Aircraft except as provided herein, in the
Trust Agreement or in the Participation Agreement.  Subject to the foregoing,
the terms and provisions of this Lease shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of Lessor and Lessee and their  respective successors and permitted
assigns.

        SECTION 14. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.  Each of the following events shall
constitute an Event of Default (whether any such event shall be voluntary or
involuntary or come about or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to or
in compliance with any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule
or regulation of any administrative or governmental body) and each such Event of
Default shall continue so long as, but only as long as, it shall not have been
remedied:

                 (a) Lessee shall not have made a payment of Interim Rent,
            Basic Rent or Stipulated Loss Value within ten (10) days after the
            same shall have become due; or

                 (b) Lessee shall have failed to make a payment of Supplemental
            Rent (other than Stipulated Loss Value) after the same shall have
            become due and such failure shall continue for ten (10) Business
            Days after Lessee's receipt of written demand therefor by the party
            entitled thereto (provided that any failure to pay any amount owed
            by Lessee under the Tax Indemnity Agreement or any failure of
            Lessee to pay to Lessor or the Owner Participant when due any
            Excluded Payments (as defined in the Trust Indenture) shall not
            constitute an Event of Default unless notice is given by the Owner
            Participant to Lessee and the Indenture Trustee that such failure
            shall constitute an Event of Default); or

                 (c) Lessee shall have failed to perform or observe (or caused
            to be performed and observed) in any material respect any covenant
            or agreement (except the covenants set forth in the Tax Indemnity
            Agreement and in clauses (i)(B) and (ii) of the first sentence of
            second paragraph of Exhibit F) to be performed or observed by it
            under any Operative Document, and such failure shall continue
            unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after receipt by Lessee
            of written notice thereof from Lessor or the Indenture Trustee;
            provided, however, that if Lessee shall have undertaken to cure any
            such failure which arises under clause (ii) or clause (iii) of the
            first sentence of Section 7(a), or under the second sentence of
            Section 7(a) as it relates to maintenance, service, repair or
            overhaul or under Section 8 and, notwithstanding the diligence of
            Lessee in attempting to cure such failure, such failure is not
            cured within said thirty day period but is curable with future due
            diligence, there shall exist no Event of Default under this Section
            14 so long as Lessee is proceeding with due diligence to cure such
            failure and such failure is remedied not later than one hundred
            eighty (180) days after receipt by Lessee of such written notice;
            or

                 (d) any representation or warranty made by Lessee herein or in
            the Participation Agreement or any document or certificate
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            connection herewith or therewith or pursuant hereto or thereto
            (except the representations and warranties set forth in Section 3 of
            the Tax Indemnity Agreement and such documents or certificates as
            are furnished to the Owner Participant solely in connection with
            matters dealt with in the Tax Indemnity Agreement and for no other
            purpose and except the representations and warranties in, or in
            connection with, the Credit Agreement) shall prove to have been
            incorrect in any material respect at the time made and such
            incorrectness shall not have been cured (to the extent of the
            adverse impact of such incorrectness on the interests of the Owner
            Participant, Lessor or the Certificate Holders) within thirty (30)
            days after the receipt by Lessee of a written notice from Lessor or
            the Indenture Trustee advising Lessee of the existence of such 
            incorrectness; or

                 (e) the commencement of an involuntary case or other
            proceeding in respect of Lessee in an involuntary case under the
            federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any
            other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
            similar law in the United States or seeking the appointment of a
            receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator
            (or similar official) of Lessee or for all or substantially all of
            its property, or seeking the winding-up or liquidation of its
            affairs and the continuation of any such case or other proceeding
            undismissed and unstayed for a period of ninety (90) consecutive
            days or an order, judgment or decree shall be entered in any
            proceeding by any court of competent jurisdiction appointing,
            without the consent of Lessee, a receiver, trustee or liquidator of
            Lessee, or of any substantial part of its property, or sequestering
            any substantial part of the property of Lessee and any such order,
            judgment or decree or appointment or sequestration shall be final
            or shall remain in force undismissed, unstayed or unvacated for a
            period of ninety (90) days after the date of entry thereof; or

                 (f) the commencement by Lessee of a voluntary case under the
            federal bankruptcy laws, as now constituted or hereafter amended,
            or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
            other similar law in the United States, or the consent by Lessee to
            the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator,
            assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator (or other similar
            official) of Lessee or for all or substantially all of its
            property, or the making by Lessee of any assignment for the benefit
            of creditors, or Lessee shall take any corporate action to
            authorize any of the foregoing; or

                 (g) Lessee shall fail to carry and maintain on or with respect
            to the Aircraft (or cause to be carried and maintained) insurance
            required to be maintained in accordance with the provisions of
            Section 11 hereof;

provided, however, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
Section 14(c) or (d) hereof, any failure of Lessee to perform or observe any
covenant, condition, agreement or any error in a representation or warranty
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or error is caused solely by reason of an event that constitutes an Event of
Loss so long as Lessee is continuing to comply with all of the terms of Section
10 hereof.

        SECTION 15. REMEDIES.  Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default and
at any time thereafter so long as the same shall be continuing, Lessor may, at
its option, declare by written notice to Lessee this Lease Agreement to be in
default (provided that this Lease shall be deemed to be declared in default
without the necessity of such written declaration upon the occurrence of any
Event of Default described in Section 14(e) or Section 14(f)); and at any time
thereafter, so long as any such outstanding Events of Default shall not have
been remedied, Lessor may do one or more of the following with respect to all or
any part of the Airframe and any or all of the Engines as Lessor in its sole
discretion shall elect, to the extent permitted by, and subject to compliance
with any mandatory requirements of, applicable law then in effect; provided,
however, that during any period the Aircraft is subject to the Civil Reserve Air
Fleet Program in accordance with the provisions of Section 7(b) hereof and in
possession of the United States government or an agency or instrumentality of
the United States, Lessor shall not, on account of any Event of Default, be
entitled to do any of the following in such manner as to limit Lessee's control
under this Lease (or any Sublessee's control under any Sublease) of any Airframe
or any Engines installed thereon, unless at least sixty (60) days' (or such
lesser period as may then be applicable under the Air Mobility Command program
of the United States Government) written notice of default hereunder shall have
been given by Lessor by registered or certified mail to Lessee (and any
Sublessee) with a copy addressed to the Contracting Office Representative for
the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force under any contract with
Lessee (or any Sublessee) relating to the Aircraft:

                 (a) upon the written demand of Lessor and at Lessee's expense,
            cause Lessee to return promptly, and Lessee shall return promptly,
            the Airframe or any Engine as Lessor may so demand to Lessor or its
            order in the manner and condition required by, and otherwise in
            accordance with all the provisions of, Section 5 as if such
            Airframe or Engine were being returned at the end of the Term, or
            Lessor, at its option, may enter upon the premises where all or any
            part of the Airframe or any Engine is located and take immediate
            possession of and remove the same, without the necessity of first
            instituting proceedings, or by summary proceedings or otherwise
            (and/or, at Lessor's option, store the same at Lessee's premises
            until disposal thereof by Lessor), all without liability accruing
            to Lessor for or by reason of such entry or taking of possession or
            removing whether for the restoration of damage to property caused
            by such action or otherwise;

                 (b) sell the Airframe and/or any Engine at public or private
            sale, as Lessor may determine, or otherwise dispose of, hold, use,
            operate, lease to others or keep idle the Aircraft as Lessor, in
            its sole discretion, may determine, all free and clear of any
            rights of Lessee or any Sublessee and without any duty to account
            to Lessee with respect to such action or inaction or for any
            proceeds with respect thereto, except as hereinafter set forth in
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                 (c) whether or not Lessor shall have exercised, or shall
            thereafter at any time exercise, any of its rights under paragraph
            (a) or paragraph (b) above with respect to the Airframe and/or any
            Engine, Lessor, by written notice to Lessee specifying a payment
            date which shall be the Stipulated Loss Value Date not earlier than
            ten days from the date of such notice, may demand that the Lessee
            pay to Lessor, and Lessee shall pay Lessor, on the payment  date so
            specified, as liquidated damages for loss of a bargain and not as a
            penalty (in lieu of the installments of Interim Rent or Basic Rent
            for the Aircraft due on the Commencement Date or for Lease Periods
            commencing on or after the payment date in such notice), any unpaid
            Interim Rent or Basic Rent due on the payment date so specified
            (unless Basic Rent is payable in advance but including, without
            limitation, any adjustments to Basic Rent payable pursuant to
            Section 3(d)) plus whichever of the following amounts Lessor, in its
            sole discretion, shall specify in such notice (together with
            interest, if any, on such amount at the Past Due Rate from such
            specified payment date until the date of actual payment of such
            amount):  (i) an amount equal to the excess, if any, of  the
            Stipulated Loss Value for the Aircraft, computed as of the
            Stipulated Loss Value Date specified as the payment date in such
            notice, over the aggregate fair market rental value (computed as
            hereafter in this Section 15 provided) of such Aircraft for the
            remainder of the Term, after discounting such aggregate fair market
            rental value to present value as of the Stipulated Loss Value Date
            specified as the payment date in such notice at an annual rate equal
            to the Base Rate plus 1%; or (ii) an amount equal to the excess, if
            any, of the Stipulated Loss Value for such Aircraft, computed as of
            the Lease Period Date specified as the payment date in such notice
            over the fair market sales value of such Aircraft (computed as
            hereafter in this Section provided) as of the Stipulated Loss Value
            Date specified as the payment date in such notice, plus in the case
            of each such amount, interest thereon at the Past Due Rate from such
            specified payment date until the actual date of payment of such 
            amount;

                 (d) in the event Lessor, pursuant to paragraph (b) above,
            shall have sold the Airframe and/or any Engine, Lessor, in lieu of
            exercising its rights under paragraph (c) above with respect to
            such Aircraft, may, if it shall so elect, demand that Lessee pay
            Lessor, and Lessee shall pay to Lessor, on the date of such sale,
            as liquidated damages for loss of a bargain and not as a penalty
            (in lieu of the installments of Interim Rent or Basic Rent for the
            Aircraft due on or after such date), any unpaid Interim Rent or
            Basic Rent with respect to the Aircraft due on (unless such Basic
            Rent is payable in advance) or prior to such date (including,
            without limitation, any adjustments to Basic Rent payable pursuant
            to Section 3(d)) plus the amount of any deficiency between the net
            proceeds of such sale (after deduction of all reasonable costs of
            sale) and the Stipulated Loss Value of such Aircraft, computed as
            of the Stipulated Loss Value Date on or immediately preceding the
            date of such sale together with interest, if any, on the amount of
            such deficiency, at the Past Due Rate, from the date of such sale
            to the date of actual payment of such amount; and/or

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                 (e) Lessor may rescind this Lease Agreement as to the
        Aircraft, and/or may exercise any other right or remedy which may be
        available to it under applicable law or proceed by appropriate court
        action to enforce the terms hereof or to recover damages for breach
        hereof.

        For the purposes of paragraph (c) above, the "fair market rental value"
or the "fair market sales value" of the Aircraft shall be the rental value or
sales value, as the case may be, which would be obtained in an arm's-length
transaction between an informed and willing lessee or purchaser, as the case may
be, under no compulsion to lease or purchase, as the case may be, and an
informed and willing lessor or seller in possession under no compulsion to lease
or sell, as the case may be, in each case based upon the actual condition and
location of the Aircraft, which value shall be determined by mutual agreement
or, in the absence of mutual written agreement, pursuant to an appraisal
prepared and delivered by a nationally recognized firm of independent aircraft
appraisers nominated by Lessor, and Lessor shall immediately notify Lessee of
such nomination.  Unless Lessee shall have objected in writing within ten days
after its receipt of Lessor's notice, Lessor's nomination shall be conclusive
and binding.  If Lessee shall object, however, Lessor and Lessee shall endeavor,
within ten days after such objection is made, to select a mutually acceptable
appraiser; provided that, if Lessee shall not so endeavor to make such
selection, Lessor's nomination referred to in the preceding sentence hereof
shall be conclusive and binding.  If Lessor and Lessee fail to reach agreement
(except for the reason referred to in the proviso in the preceding sentence), or
if any appraiser selected fails to act for any reason, then the question shall
be determined by an appraisal (applying the definitions of "fair market rental
value" and "fair market sales value" as set forth above based upon the actual
condition of the Aircraft) mutually agreed to by two recognized independent
aircraft appraisers, one of which appraisers shall be chosen by Lessor and one
by Lessee within five Business Days after Lessor or Lessee shall have received
written notice from the other party of a demand that such an appraisal be made,
which notice shall specify the appraiser chosen by the party giving the notice
or, if such appraisers cannot agree on the amount of such appraisal within
twenty Business Days after the end of such five-day period, each shall render
its own appraisal and shall by mutual consent choose another appraiser within
five Business Days after the end of such twenty-day period.  If, within such
five-day period, such two appraisers fail to appoint a third appraiser, then
either Lessor or Lessee, on behalf of both, may request such appointment by the
then President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (or any
successor organization thereto) or, in his absence, failure, refusal or
inability to act, then either Lessor or Lessee may apply to the American
Arbitration Association (or any successor organization thereto) in New York, New
York for the appointment of such third appraiser.  The decision of the third
appraiser so appointed shall be given within twenty Business Days after the
appointment of such third appraiser.  As soon as the third appraiser has
delivered his appraisal, that appraisal shall be compared with the appraisals
given by the other two appraisers.  If the determination of one appraiser is
more disparate from the average of all three determinations than each of the
other two determinations, then the determination of such appraiser shall be
excluded, the remaining two determinations shall be averaged and such average
shall be final and binding upon the parties hereto.  If no determination is more
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binding upon the parties thereto.  The cost of such appraisal or appointment
shall be borne by Lessee.

        In addition, Lessee shall be liable, except as otherwise provided above
and without duplication of amounts payable hereunder, for any and all unpaid
Rent due hereunder before, after or during the exercise of any of the foregoing
remedies and for all reasonable legal fees and other costs and expenses
(including fees of the appraisers hereinabove referred to) incurred by Lessor,
the Indenture Trustee, the Loan Participants and the Owner Participant by reason
of the occurrence of any Event or Default or the exercise of Lessor's remedies
with respect thereto, including all costs and expenses incurred in connection
with the return of the Airframe or any Engine in accordance with the terms of
Section 5 or in placing such Airframe or Engine in the condition and
airworthiness required by such Section.

        At any sale of the Aircraft or any part thereof pursuant to this Section
15, Lessor (or the Indenture Trustee, any Loan Participant or the Owner
Participant) may bid for and purchase such property.  Lessor agrees to give
Lessee at least fifteen (15) days' prior written notice of the date fixed for
any public sale of the Airframe or any Engine or of the date on or after which
will occur the execution of any contract providing for any private sale. Except
as otherwise expressly provided above, no remedy referred to in this Section 15
is intended to be exclusive, but each shall be cumulative and in addition to any
other remedy referred to above or otherwise available to Lessor at law or in
equity; and the exercise or beginning of exercise by Lessor of any one or more
of such remedies shall not preclude the simultaneous or later exercise by Lessor
of any or all of such other remedies.  No waiver by Lessor of any Event of
Default shall in any way be, or be construed to be, a waiver of any future or
subsequent Event of Default.

        SECTION 16. LESSEE'S COOPERATION CONCERNING CERTAIN MATTERS.  Forthwith
upon the execution and delivery of each Lease Supplement and Trust Supplement
from time to time required by the terms hereof and upon the execution and
delivery of any amendment to this Lease, to the Trust Indenture or to the Trust
Agreement, Lessee will cause such Lease Supplement, Trust Supplement (and, in
the case of the initial Lease Supplement and Trust Supplement, this Lease, the
Trust Agreement and the Trust Indenture as well) or amendment to be duly filed
and recorded, and maintained of record, in accordance with the applicable laws
of the government of registry of the Aircraft.  In addition, Lessee will
promptly and duly execute and deliver to Lessor such further documents and take
such further action as Lessor or the Indenture Trustee may from time to time
reasonably request in order more effectively to carry out the intent and purpose
of this Lease and to establish and protect the rights and remedies created or
intended to be created in favor of Lessor and the Indenture Trustee hereunder,
including, without limitation, if requested by Lessor or the Indenture Trustee,
at the expense of Lessee, the execution and delivery of supplements or
amendments hereto or to the Trust Indenture, each in recordable form, subjecting
to this Lease and the Trust Indenture, any airframe or engine substituted for
the Airframe or any Engine pursuant to the terms thereof and the recording or
filing of counterparts thereof, in accordance with the laws of such
jurisdictions as Lessor or the Indenture Trustee may from time to time deem
advisable.  Lessee agrees to furnish to Lessor and the Indenture Trustee
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delivery of any supplement and amendment hereto and promptly after the 
execution and delivery of any supplement and amendment to the Trust Indenture
(except for any such supplement or amendment which does not require or receive
the approval of Lessee pursuant to the Operative Documents and is not required
pursuant to the terms of the Operative Documents), an opinion of counsel
reasonably satisfactory to Lessor and the Indenture Trustee as to the due
recording or filing of such supplement or amendment.  Commencing in 1997, on or
before April 30 of each year during the Term, Lessee will deliver to Lessor and
the Indenture Trustee a certificate of Lessee, signed by the President, a Vice
President or the Chief Financial Officer of Lessee to the effect that the signer
is familiar with or has reviewed the relevant terms of this Lease and the signer
does not have actual knowledge of the existence, as of the date of such
certificate, of any condition or event which constitutes a Default or an Event
of Default.  Lessee agrees that if the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating
Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of Lessee
has actual knowledge of the existence of a Default, then Lessee shall promptly
give to Lessor, the Owner Participant and the Indenture Trustee notice thereof
and such other information relating thereto as Lessor, the Owner Participant or
the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request.  Lessee agrees that if an officer
of Lessee has knowledge of the existence of an Event of Default, Lessee shall
promptly give to Lessor and the Indenture Trustee notice thereof and such other
information relating thereto as Lessor or the Indenture Trustee may reasonably
request.  Lessee will deliver to Lessor, the Owner Participant and the Indenture
Trustee (i) within sixty (60) days after the end of each of the first three
quarterly periods of each fiscal year of the Guarantor, the publicly filed Form
10-Q report of the Guarantor; (ii) within one hundred twenty (120) days after
the close of such fiscal year, the publicly filed annual report and Form 10-K
report of the Guarantor; and (iii) once each calendar quarter, any other
Securities and Exchange Commission filings of the Guarantor during the preceding
calendar quarter.  In addition, Lessee will deliver to Lessor and the Owner
Participant (i) within 60 days after the end of the first three quarterly
periods of each fiscal year of Lessee, a balance sheet of Lessee as of the close
of such period, together with the related statements of operations and cash
flows for such period; and (ii) within one hundred and twenty (120) days after
the close of such fiscal year, a balance sheet of Lessee as of the close of such
fiscal year, together with the related statements of operations and cash flows
for such fiscal year prepared in the case of clause (i) and (ii) in     
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied.

        SECTION 17. NOTICES.  All notices required under the terms and
provisions hereof shall be by telecopy or other telecommunication means (with
such telecopy or other telecommunication means to be confirmed in writing), or
if such notice is impracticable, by registered, first-class airmail, with
postage prepaid, or by personal delivery of written notice and any such notice
shall become effective when received, addressed:

                 (i) if to Lessee, for U.S. mail at 5101 Northwest Drive
            (A4010), St. Paul, Minnesota 55111-3034, and for overnight courier
            at 2700 Lone Oak Parkway (A4010), Eagan, Minnesota 55121,
            Attention:  Senior Vice President-Finance and Treasurer (Telecopy
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        or telecopy number as Lessee shall from time to time  designate in
        writing to  Lessor,

                 (ii) if to Lessor, at 79 South Main Street, Salt Lake City,
        Utah 84111, Attention:  Corporate Trust Department (Telecopy No. (801)
        246-5053), or to such other address or telecopy number as Lessor shall
        from time to time designate in writing to Lessee, and

                 (iii) if to a Loan Participant, the Indenture Trustee or the
        Owner Participant, addressed to such Loan Participant, the Indenture
        Trustee or the Owner Participant at such address or telecopy number as
        such Loan Participant, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant
        shall have furnished by notice to Lessor and to Lessee, and, until an
        address is so furnished, addressed to such Loan Participant, the
        Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant at its address or telecopy
        number set forth in Schedule I to the Participation Agreement.

        SECTION 18. NO SET-OFF, COUNTERCLAIM, ETC.  This Lease is a net lease.
All Rent shall be paid by Lessee to Lessor in funds of the type specified in
Section 3(f).  Except as provided in Section 3(g) hereof,  Lessee's obligation
to pay all Rent payable hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional and shall
not be affected by any circumstance, including, without limitation, (i) any
set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which Lessee may have
against Lessor, in its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement, the Indenture Trustee (in its individual capacity or as Indenture
Trustee), any Loan Participant, the Owner Participant, or anyone else for any
reason whatsoever (whether in connection with the transactions contemplated
hereby or any other transactions), including, without limitation, any breach by
Lessor or the Owner Participant of their respective warranties, agreements or
covenants contained in any of the Operative Documents, (ii) any defect in the
title, registration, airworthiness, condition, design, operation, or fitness for
use of, or any damage to or loss or destruction of, the Aircraft, or any
interruption or cessation in or prohibition of the use or possession thereof by
Lessee (or any Sublessee) for any reason whatsoever, including, without
limitation, any such interruption, cessation or prohibition resulting from the
act of any government authority, (iii) any insolvency, bankruptcy,
reorganization or similar case or proceedings by or against Lessee (or any
Sublessee) or any other person, or (iv) any other circumstance, happening, or
event whatsoever, whether or not unforeseen or similar to any of the foregoing.
If for any reason whatsoever this Lease shall be terminated in whole or in part
by operation of law or otherwise except as specifically provided herein, Lessee
nonetheless agrees without limitation of the other rights or remedies of Lessor
hereunder, subject to the rights of Lessee to setoff under Section 3(g) hereof,
to pay to Lessor an amount equal to each Rent payment at the time such payment
would have become due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof had this
Lease not been terminated in whole or in part.  Lessee hereby waives, to the
extent permitted by applicable law, any and all rights which it may now have or
which at any time hereafter may be conferred upon it, by statute or otherwise,
to terminate, cancel, quit or surrender this Lease except in accordance with the
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        SECTION 19. RENEWAL OPTIONS; PURCHASE OPTIONS; VALUATION.  (a)  Renewal
Options.  (1)  Fixed Renewal Term.  Lessee shall have the right to renew this
Lease for up to three consecutive one year renewal terms the first of which
shall commence only upon the expiration of the Basic Term (any such renewal
term, a "FIXED RENEWAL TERM") by delivery to Lessor at least one hundred eighty
(180) days before the end of the Basic Term, the first Fixed Renewal Term or the
second Fixed Renewal Term, as the case may be, a written notice irrevocably
electing to renew this Lease for a Fixed Renewal Term.  Basic Rent during any
Fixed Renewal Term shall be payable in an amount and at the times specified in
Section 19(a)(4).

        (2) Fair Market Renewal Term.  At the expiration of the third Fixed
Renewal Term or any Fair Market Renewal Term, Lessee shall have the option to
renew this Lease for a renewal term of not less than one year and not more than
four years for a Basic Rent equal to the "fair market rental value" of the
Aircraft for such period (any such renewal term, a "FAIR MARKET RENEWAL TERM").
Each such option to renew shall be exercised by Lessee delivering to Lessor, at
least one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the commencement of such Fair
Market Renewal Term, a written notice irrevocably electing to renew this Lease
for a Fair Market Renewal Term (which notice shall also specify the length of
the Fair Market Renewal Term).  The aggregate length of all Fair Market Renewal
Terms pursuant to this Section 19(a)(2) may not exceed four years.

        (3) If no written notice is delivered by Lessee to Lessor pursuant to
Section 19(a)(1) or 19(a)(2) on or before the day specified therefor, Lessee
shall be deemed to have waived any right to renew this Lease.

        (4) At the end of the Basic Term or any Renewal Term, if Lessee has
elected to renew this Lease as aforesaid, and provided that there shall not then
have occurred and be continuing a Default of the type referred to in Section
14(a), 14(b), 14(e) or 14(f) or an Event of Default and that all necessary
governmental authorizations and approvals shall have been received and that
Basic Rent for the Renewal Term has already been determined as above provided
and a Lease Supplement evidencing such renewal has been executed and filed for
recordation with the Federal Aviation Administration, this Lease shall continue
in full force and effect during the Renewal Term, except that (x) Lessee shall
pay Lessor Basic Rent for the Aircraft during the Renewal Term in an amount
equal to the "fair market rental value" thereof determined in accordance with
Section 19(c), but not to exceed in the case of a Fixed Renewal Term the higher
of (i) one-half of the average Basic Rent during the Basic Term (such average
being determined as the total of all payments of Basic Rent during the Basic
Term added together and divided by the number of payments of Basic Rent during
the Basic Term) and (ii) 2.092% multiplied by Lessor's Cost, which Basic Rent
shall be payable in semi-annual installments in arrears, each such installment
being due and payable on each Lease Period Date occurring during the Renewal
Term, commencing with the Lease Period Date immediately following the
commencement of the Renewal Term, and (y) the Stipulated Loss Values applicable
during the Renewal Term shall be determined separately for each Renewal Term by
the Owner Participant in good faith to reflect Stipulated Loss Values determined
in accordance with the following sentence.  Stipulated Loss Values during a
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on which such Renewal Term begins be equal to the fair market sales value of the
Aircraft as of such date, determined in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 19(a)(4) and Section 19(c) hereof, and shall decline ratably on a
monthly basis to the fair market sales value of the Aircraft as of the last day
of such Renewal Term, determined in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 19(a)(4) and Section 19(c) hereof.

        In determining fair market sales value for purposes of calculating
Stipulated Loss Value for any Renewal Term no effect shall be given to the
encumbrance on the Aircraft of any Renewal Term available or in force under this
Section 19.

        (b) Purchase Options.  Lessee shall have the option, upon at least one
hundred eighty (180) days' irrevocable prior written notice to Lessor, to
purchase the Aircraft on the last Business Day of the Basic Term or any Renewal
Term for a purchase price equal to the lesser of the fair market sales value of
the Aircraft and 50% of Lessor's Cost.  Upon payment to Lessor in immediately
available funds of the full amount of the purchase price and payment of any
other amounts then due hereunder (including all Rent and all costs or expenses
of the Owner Participant in connection with such purchase), Lessor will transfer
to Lessee, without recourse or warranty (except as to the absence of Lessor
Liens, including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the
proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens), all of Lessor's right, title and
interest in and to the Aircraft.

        (c) Valuation.  At any time not earlier than three hundred sixty-five
(365) days prior to the date on which Lessee may purchase the Aircraft pursuant
to Section 19(b) hereof or renew this Lease pursuant to Section 19(a)(1) or
Section 19(a)(2) hereof, Lessee may deliver to Lessor a revocable notice
(subject to the requirements as to irrevocable notice set forth in Sections
19(a)(1), 19(a)(2) and 19(b) hereof) of its intent to exercise its renewal
option or purchase option.  For all purposes of this Section 19, including the
appraisal referred to in this Section 19(c), in determining "fair market rental
value" or "fair market sales value", the Aircraft shall be valued (i) as if in
the condition and otherwise in compliance with the terms of Section 5 upon a
return of the Aircraft, (ii) on the basis of the value which would obtain in an
arm's-length transaction between an informed and willing buyer-user or lessee
under no compulsion to buy or lease and an informed and willing seller or lessor
unaffiliated with such buyer-user or lessee and under no compulsion to sell or
lease and disregarding the purchase and renewal options of the lessee provided
in this Lease, and (iii) in the case of such valuation for determining "fair
market rental value", assuming such lessee would have substantially the same
obligations during the Fair Market Renewal Term as provided hereunder including
without limitation the obligations of Lessee to carry and maintain the insurance
required by Section 11 hereof and to make certain payments with reference to
Stipulated Loss Value during the applicable Fair Market Renewal Term.  Upon
receipt of such notice Lessor and Lessee shall confer in good faith with a view
to reaching agreement on the "fair market rental value" or "fair market sales
value" of the Aircraft.  If the parties have not so agreed by two hundred
seventy (270) days prior to the end of the Basic Term or the Renewal Term in
question, then the question shall be determined by an appraisal mutually agreed
to by two recognized independent aircraft appraisers, one of which appraisers
shall be chosen by Lessor and one by Lessee within five Business Days after
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from the other party of a demand that such an appraisal be made, which notice
shall specify the appraiser chosen by the party giving the notice or, if such
appraisers cannot agree on the amount of such appraisal within twenty Business
Days after the end of such five-day period, each shall render its own appraisal
and shall by mutual consent choose another appraiser within five Business Days
after the end of such twenty-day period. If, within such five-day period, such
two appraisers fail to appoint a third appraiser, then either Lessor or Lessee,
on behalf of both, may request such appointment by the then President of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (or any successor organization
thereto) or, in his absence, failure, refusal or inability to act, then either
Lessor or Lessee may apply to the American Arbitration Association (or any
successor organization thereto) in New York, New York for the appointment of
such third appraiser.  The decision of the third appraiser so appointed shall
be given within twenty Business Days after the appointment of such third
appraiser.  As soon as the third appraiser has delivered his appraisal, that
appraisal shall be compared with the appraisals given by the other two
appraisers.  If the determination of one appraiser is more disparate from the
average of all three determinations than each of the other two determinations,
then the determination of such appraiser shall be excluded, the remaining two
determinations shall be averaged and such average shall be final and binding
upon the parties hereto.  If no determination is more disparate from the
average of all three determinations than each of the other determinations, then
such average shall be final and binding upon the parties thereto.  Lessee and
Lessor shall share equally all expenses relating to such appraisal procedure,
provided if Lessee elects not to renew this Lease or purchase the Aircraft
following such  appraisal, Lessee shall pay all expenses of such appraisal.

        (d) Special Purchase Option.  On January 2, 2012 (or, if January 2, 2012
is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately succeeding January 2, 2012),
Lessee shall have the option, upon at least ninety (90) days' irrevocable prior
notice to Lessor and, if any Secured Certificates are then outstanding, the
Indenture Trustee, to purchase the Aircraft on such date for a purchase price
equal to, at Lessee's option, either (a) the Special Purchase Price or (b) the
Initial Installment (payable on such date) plus the Remaining Installments
(payable thereafter).  In the event Lessee elects to purchase the Aircraft for a
purchase price equal to the Special Purchase Price, on such date Lessee shall
pay Lessor the Special Purchase Price.  In addition, if in the case of clause
(a) on such date there shall be any Secured Certificates outstanding, Lessee
shall also have the option to assume, pursuant to Section 8(x) of the
Participation Agreement and Section 2.15 of the Trust Indenture, all of the
obligations of Lessor under the Trust Indenture.  If such assumption is made,
Lessee shall pay Lessor a purchase price equal to (I) the Special Purchase Price
minus (II) an amount equal to principal of, and accrued but unpaid interest on,
any Secured Certificates that are outstanding on such date. Upon such payment in
full and payment of any other amounts then due hereunder (including costs or
expenses of the Owner Participant in connection with such purchase, any
installments of Basic Rent due prior to such date and, if Basic Rent is payable
in arrears on such date as indicated on Exhibit B, on such date (but not any
installment of Basic Rent due on such date if Basic Rent is payable in advance
on such date), and all unpaid Supplemental Rent due on or prior to such date,
including Supplemental Rent payable pursuant to the second sentence of Section
3(e)), Lessor will transfer to Lessee, without recourse or warranty (except as
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but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens), all of Lessor's right,
title and interest in and to the Aircraft and under the Trust Indenture and,
unless there shall be any Secured Certificates outstanding after such payment,
exercise such rights as it has to cause the Aircraft to be released from the
Lien of the Trust Indenture.  In the event Lessee elects to purchase the
Aircraft for a purchase price equal to the Initial Installment plus the
Remaining Installments, on such date Lessee shall pay Lessor an amount equal to
the amount set forth under the heading "Initial Installment" on Exhibit B (the
"INITIAL INSTALLMENT").  Upon such payment and payment of any other amounts then
due hereunder (including costs or expenses of the Owner Participant in
connection with such purchase, any installments of Basic Rent due prior to such
date and, if Basic Rent is payable in arrears on such date as indicated on
Exhibit B, on such date (but not any installment of Basic Rent due on such date
if Basic Rent is payable in advance on such date), and all unpaid Supplemental
Rent due on or prior to such date, including Supplemental Rent payable pursuant
to the second sentence of Section 3(e)), and after Lessee shall have provided
Lessor with its undertaking to pay the amounts due on the dates set forth under
the heading "Remaining Installments" on Exhibit B (the "REMAINING INSTALLMENTS")
and with collateral security for such undertaking reasonably acceptable to the
Owner Participant, Lessor will transfer to Lessee, without recourse or warranty
(except as to the absence of Lessor Liens, including for this purpose Liens that
would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens),
all of Lessor's right, title and interest in and to the Aircraft and under the
Trust Indenture and shall exercise such rights as it has to cause the Aircraft
to be released  from the Lien of the Trust Indenture.

        SECTION 20. SECURITY FOR LESSOR'S OBLIGATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURED
CERTIFICATES.  In order to secure the indebtedness evidenced by the Secured
Certificates, Lessor has agreed in the Trust Indenture, among other things, to
assign to the Indenture Trustee this Lease, the Lease Supplements and any
amendments to this Lease and to mortgage its interest in the Aircraft in favor
of the Indenture Trustee, subject to the reservations and conditions therein set
forth.  To the extent, if any, that this Lease, the Lease Supplements and any
amendments to this Lease constitute chattel paper (as such term is defined in
the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction), no
security interest in this Lease, the Lease Supplements and any amendments to
this Lease may be created through the transfer or possession of any counterpart
other than the original counterpart, which shall be identified as the
counterpart containing the receipt therefor executed by the Indenture Trustee on
the signature page thereof.  Lessee hereby accepts and consents to the
assignment of all Lessor's right, title and interest in and to this Lease
pursuant to the terms of the Trust Indenture.  Subject to Section 3(f) hereof,
Lessee agrees to pay directly to the Indenture Trustee (or, after receipt by
Lessee of notice from the Indenture Trustee of the discharge of the Trust
Indenture, to Lessor), all amounts of Rent due or to become due hereunder and
assigned to the Indenture Trustee and Lessee agrees that the Indenture Trustee's
right to such payments hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional and shall
not be affected by any circumstance, including, without limitation, the
circumstances set forth in clauses (i) through (iv) of Section 18 hereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing assignment of this Lease, the obligations of
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        SECTION 21. LESSOR'S RIGHT TO PERFORM FOR LESSEE.  If Lessee fails to
make any payment of Rent required to be made by it hereunder or fails to perform
or comply with any of its agreements contained herein, then (but in each case,
except in the case of failure to pay Rent or in the case of failure to maintain
insurance as required hereunder, no earlier than the fifteenth day after the
occurrence of such failure, whether or not it shall yet constitute an Event of
Default hereunder) Lessor may itself make such payment or perform or comply
with such agreement but shall not be obligated hereunder to do so, and the
amount of such payment and the amount of the reasonable expenses of Lessor
incurred in connection with such payment or the performance of or compliance
with such agreement, as the case may be, together with interest thereon at the
Past Due Rate, shall be deemed Supplemental Rent, payable by Lessee upon
demand.

        SECTION 22. INVESTMENT OF SECURITY FUNDS; LIABILITY OF LESSOR LIMITED.
(a)  Investment of Security Funds.  Any moneys held by Lessor as security
hereunder for future payments to Lessee at a time when there is not continuing
an Event of Default shall, until paid to Lessee, be invested by Lessor or, if
the Trust Indenture shall not have been discharged, by the Indenture Trustee, as
the case may be, as Lessee may from time to time direct in writing (and in
absence of a written direction by Lessee, there shall be no obligation to invest
such moneys) in (i) direct obligations of the United States of America and
agencies guaranteed by the United States government having a final maturity of
ninety (90) days or less from date of purchase thereof; (ii) certificates of
deposit issued by, bankers' acceptances of, or time deposits with, any bank,
trust company or national banking association incorporated under the laws of the
United States of America or one of the states thereof having combined capital
and surplus and retained earnings as of its last report of condition of at least
$500,000,000 and having a rating of Aa or better by Moody's Investors Service,
Inc. ("MOODY'S") or AA or better by Standard & Poor's Corporation ("S&P") and
having a final maturity of ninety (90) days or less from date of purchase
thereof; and (iii) commercial paper of any holding company of a bank, trust
company or national banking association described in (ii) and commercial paper
of any corporation or finance company incorporated or doing business under the
laws of the United States of America or any state thereof having a rating
assigned to such commercial paper of A1 by S&P or P1 by Moody's and having a
final maturity of ninety (90) days or less from the date of purchase thereof;
provided, however, that the aggregate amount at any one time so invested in
certificates of deposit issued by any one bank shall not be in excess of 5% of
such bank's capital and surplus.  There shall be promptly remitted to Lessee or
its order (but no more frequently than monthly) any gain (including interest
received) realized as a result of any such investment (net of any fees,
commissions and other expenses, if any, incurred in connection with such
investment) unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. 
Lessee shall be responsible for any net loss realized as a result of any such
investment and shall reimburse Lessor (or the Indenture Trustee, as the case may
be) therefor on demand.

        (b) Liability of Lessor Limited.  It is expressly agreed and understood
that all representations, warranties and undertakings of Lessor hereunder shall
be binding upon Lessor only in its capacity as trustee under the Trust
Agreement, and the institution acting as Lessor shall not be liable in its
individual capacity for any breach thereof except for its gross 

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<PAGE>   67


negligence or willful misconduct or for breach of its covenants, representations
and warranties contained herein, to the extent covenanted or made in its
individual capacity.

        SECTION 23. SERVICE OF PROCESS.  Lessor and Lessee each hereby
irrevocably submits itself to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York and to the
non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New
York County, for the purposes of any suit, action or other proceeding arising
out of this Lease, the subject matter hereof or any of the transactions
contemplated hereby brought by Lessor, Lessee, the Indenture Trustee, the Loan
Participants or the Owner Participant or their successors or assigns.

        SECTION 24. MISCELLANEOUS.  Any provision of this Lease which is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.  No term or provision of
this Lease may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by
an instrument in writing signed by Lessor, Lessee and any assignee of Lessor's
rights hereunder.  This Lease shall constitute an agreement of lease, and
nothing contained herein shall be construed as conveying to Lessee any right,
title or interest in the Aircraft except as a lessee only.  Neither Lessee nor
any affiliate of Lessee will file any tax returns in a manner inconsistent with
the foregoing fact or with Lessor's ownership of the Aircraft.  The section and
paragraph headings in this Lease and the table of contents are for convenience
of reference only and shall not modify, define, expand or limit any of the terms
or provisions hereof and all references herein to numbered sections, unless
otherwise indicated, are to sections of this Lease.  THIS LEASE HAS BEEN
DELIVERED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING ALL
MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE.  This Lease may be executed
by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed
and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.

        SECTION 25. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE.  Lessee agrees that in the case of the
appointment of any successor Owner Trustee pursuant to the terms of the Trust
Agreement, such successor Owner Trustee shall, upon written notice by such
successor Owner Trustee, succeed to all the rights, powers and title of Lessor
hereunder and shall be deemed to be Lessor and the owner of the Aircraft for all
purposes hereof without the necessity of any consent or approval by Lessee
(subject to Section 10 of the Participation Agreement) and without in any way
altering the terms of this Lease or Lessee's obligations hereunder.  One such
appointment and designation of a successor Owner Trustee shall not exhaust the
right to appoint and designate further successor Owner Trustees pursuant to the
Trust Agreement, but such right may be exercised repeatedly as long as this
Lease shall be in effect.





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<PAGE>   68






     SECTION 26. COVENANT OF QUIET ENJOYMENT.  So long as no Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing and notwithstanding any default by
Lessor, the Owner Participant or the Indenture Trustee under the Participation
Agreement, the Trust Agreement or the Trust Indenture, Lessor shall not
interfere with Lessee's continued possession, use and operation of, and quiet
enjoyment of, the Aircraft pursuant to the terms of this Lease or Lessee's
rights, benefits and obligations pursuant to the Overall Transaction during the
Term of this Lease, and this Lease shall not be terminated except as expressly
provided herein.



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<PAGE>   69





        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Lessor and Lessee have each caused this Lease to be
duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

                                    FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION,
                                    not in its individual capacity,
                                    except as expressly provided
                                    herein, but solely as Owner
                                    Trustee,
                                         Lessor




                                    BY:____________________________________
                                         Title:

                                    NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.,
                                         Lessee




                                    BY:____________________________________
                                         Title:

        Receipt of this original counterpart of the foregoing Lease is hereby   
acknowledged on the _____ day of __________, 199_.

                                    STATE STREET BANK AND
                                    TRUST COMPANY,
                                         Indenture Trustee





                                    BY:____________________________________
                                         Title:



                               - Signature Page -


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                                                                   EXHIBIT A
                                                                       TO
                                                                LEASE AGREEMENT
                                                                  [NW 1996 B]


                             LEASE SUPPLEMENT NO.
                                 [NW 1996 B]

        LEASE SUPPLEMENT NO. __, dated _________, 19___, between FIRST SECURITY
BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity, but solely
as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of _______ __,
199_, between BNY CAPITAL FUNDING CORP., as Owner Participant, and such Owner
Trustee (such Owner Trustee, in its capacity as such Owner Trustee, being herein
called "LESSOR"), and NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC. ("LESSEE").

        Lessor and Lessee have heretofore entered into that certain Lease
Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996, relating to one Boeing
757-251 aircraft (herein called the "LEASE," and the defined terms therein being
hereinafter used with the same meanings).  The Lease  provides for the execution
and delivery from time to time of Lease Supplements for the purpose of leasing
the Airframe and Engines under the Lease as and when delivered by Lessor to
Lessee in accordance with the terms thereof.

        (1)The Lease relates to the Airframe and Engines described below, and a
counterpart of the Lease is attached hereto, and made a part hereof, and this
Lease Supplement, together with such attachment, is being filed for recordation
on the date hereof with the Federal Aviation Administration as one document.

        (2)The Lease Agreement relates to the Airframe and Engines described
below, and a counterpart of the Lease Agreement, attached and made a part of
Lease Supplement No. 1 dated _______________, 19__ to the Lease Agreement, has
been recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration on ________________, 19__,
as one document and assigned Conveyance No. __.

        NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and other good and
sufficient consideration, Lessor and Lessee hereby agree as follows:

        1. Lessor hereby delivers and leases to Lessee under the Lease and
Lessee hereby accepts and leases from Lessor under the Lease the following
described Boeing 757-251 aircraft (the "AIRCRAFT"), which Aircraft as of the
date hereof consists of the following components:

__________________

(1)     This language for Lease Supplement No. 1.

(2)     This language for other Lease Supplements.




<PAGE>   71




                 (i) Airframe:  FAA Registration No. ______; manufacturer's
        serial no. _____; and

                (ii) Engines:  two (2) Pratt & Whitney Model PW2037 engines 
        bearing, respectively, manufacturer's serial nos. P______ and   P______
        (each of which engines has 750 or more rated takeoff horsepower or the
        equivalent of   such horsepower).

        2. The Delivery Date of the Aircraft is the date of this Lease
Supplement set forth in the opening paragraph hereof.  Except as otherwise
provided in the Lease, the Term for the Aircraft shall commence on the Delivery
Date and end on January 2, 2019.

        3. Lessee hereby confirms its agreement to pay Lessor Basic Rent for the
Aircraft throughout the Term therefor in accordance with Section 3 of the Lease.

        4. Lessee hereby confirms to Lessor that Lessee has accepted the
Aircraft  for all purposes hereof and of the Lease as being airworthy, in good
working order and repair and without defect or inherent vice in title,
condition, design, operation or fitness for use; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein or in the Lease  shall in any way diminish or otherwise affect
any right Lessee or Lessor may have with respect to the Aircraft against The
Boeing Company, or any subcontractor or supplier of The Boeing Company, under
the Purchase Agreement or otherwise.

        5. All of the terms and provisions of the Lease are hereby incorporated
by reference in this Lease Supplement to the same extent as if fully set forth
herein.

        6. This Lease Supplement may be executed by the parties hereto in
separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.  To the extent, if any, that this Lease Supplement constitutes
chattel paper (as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect in any jurisdiction), no security interest in this Lease Supplement may
be created through the transfer or possession of any counterpart other than the
original counterpart, which shall be identified as the counterpart containing
the receipt therefor executed by the Indenture Trustee on the signature page
hereof.


                               EXHIBIT A - PAGE 2


<PAGE>   72




        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Lessor and Lessee have caused this Lease Supplement
to be duly executed on the day and year first above written.

                                         FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, 
                                         NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                                          Not in its Individual Capacity,
                                          but Solely as Owner Trustee,

                                             Lessor




                                         By____________________________________
                                            Title:

                                         NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.,

                                             Lessee




                                         By____________________________________
                                            Title:

     3Receipt of this original counterpart of the foregoing Lease Supplement is
hereby acknowledged on this ____ day of _______________, 19__.
                                         
                                         STATE STREET BANK AND
                                         TRUST COMPANY,
                                           Indenture Trustee




                                         By____________________________________
                                           Title:

_______________________

(3)     This language contained in the original counterpart only.

        
                              EXHIBIT A - PAGE 3


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                                                                    EXHIBIT B
                                                                       TO
                                                                LEASE AGREEMENT
                                                                  [NW 1996 B]

                   INTERIM RENT, BASIC RENT, EXCESS AMOUNT,
                LESSOR'S COST, SPECIAL PURCHASE PRICE, INITIAL
               INSTALLMENT AND REMAINING INSTALLMENTS SCHEDULE

The portion of this Exhibit appearing below this text is intentionally deleted
from the FAA filing counterpart as the parties hereto deem it to contain
confidential information.

Interim Rent, Basic Rent and Excess Amount:

            Transition                             (Percentage of
              Date                                 Lessor's Cost)
- --------------------------------   --------------------------------------



        Commencement Date               Interim Rent (Percentage of 
                                                Lessor's Cost)

- --------------------------------   --------------------------------------



                                                       Basic Rent
                                                     (Percentage of
           Lease Period Date                         Lessor's Cost)
- --------------------------------   --------------------------------------






<PAGE>   74




*       Denotes payment in arrears from preceding Lease Period Date (or 
Commencement Date in the case of the first Lease Period) to specified Lease 
Period Date.

**      Denotes payment in advance from specified Lease Period Date to 
succeeding Lease Period Date.









                              EXHIBIT B - PAGE 2


<PAGE>   75




                   INTERIM RENT, BASIC RENT, EXCESS AMOUNT,
                LESSOR'S COST, SPECIAL PURCHASE PRICE, INITIAL
               INSTALLMENT AND REMAINING INSTALLMENTS SCHEDULE

The portion of this Exhibit appearing below this text is intentionally deleted
from the FAA filing counterpart as the parties hereto deem it to contain
confidential information.


                                                    
                                                    Basic Rent
                                                (Percentage of
            Lease Period Date                   Lessor's Cost)
      -------------------------------     ---------------------------














*        Denotes payment in arrears from preceding Lease Period Date (or 
Commencement Date in the case of the first Lease Period) to specified Lease 
Period Date.

**      Denotes payment in advance from specified Lease Period Date to 
succeeding Lease Period Date.







                               EXHIBIT B - PAGE 3


<PAGE>   76




Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft:

Special Purchase Price:

Initial Installment:

Remaining Installments:          Date           Amount
                                 ----           ------


Transition Date:









                               EXHIBIT B - PAGE 4

                                       
<PAGE>   77




                                                                   EXHIBIT C
                                                                       TO
                                                                LEASE AGREEMENT
                                                                  [NW 1996 B]


                                       
                         STIPULATED LOSS VALUE SCHEDULE

The portion of this Exhibit appearing below this text is intentionally deleted
from the FAA filing counterpart as the parties hereto deem it to contain
confidential information.

           Stipulated                                   Stipulated Loss
       Loss Value Date                                  Value Percentage
    ----------------------                            ---------------------




<PAGE>   78




                         STIPULATED LOSS VALUE SCHEDULE

               Stipulated                       Stipulated Loss
          Loss Value Date                       Value Percentage
        -------------------                   ---------------------





                               EXHIBIT C - PAGE 2


<PAGE>   79




                         STIPULATED LOSS VALUE SCHEDULE

             Stipulated                         Stipulated Loss
          Loss Value Date                       Value Percentage
        -------------------                   ---------------------





                               EXHIBIT C - PAGE 3


<PAGE>   80




                         STIPULATED LOSS VALUE SCHEDULE




               Stipulated                       Stipulated Loss
          Loss Value Date                       Value Percentage
        -------------------                   ---------------------





                               EXHIBIT C - PAGE 4


<PAGE>   81




                         STIPULATED LOSS VALUE SCHEDULE

             Stipulated                         Stipulated Loss
          Loss Value Date                       Value Percentage
        -------------------                   ---------------------




                               EXHIBIT C - PAGE 5


<PAGE>   82




                         STIPULATED LOSS VALUE SCHEDULE

           Stipulated                           Stipulated Loss
          Loss Value Date                       Value Percentage
        -------------------                   ---------------------





                               EXHIBIT C - PAGE 6


<PAGE>   83




                         STIPULATED LOSS VALUE SCHEDULE

               Stipulated                       Stipulated Loss
          Loss Value Date                       Value Percentage
        -------------------                   --------------------




                               EXHIBIT C - PAGE 7


<PAGE>   84




                                                                   EXHIBIT D
                                                                       TO
                                                                LEASE AGREEMENT
                                                                  [NW 1996 B]

                           TERMINATION VALUE SCHEDULE

The portion of this Exhibit appearing below this text is intentionally deleted
from the FAA filing counterpart as the parties hereto deem it to contain
confidential information.

                                                    Termination
                Termination                            Value
                   Date                             Percentage
              ---------------                     ---------------




<PAGE>   85




                                                                EXHIBIT E
                                                                   TO
                                                            LEASE AGREEMENT
                                                               [NW 1996 B]

                       RENT RECALCULATION VERIFICATION

The portion of this Exhibit appearing below this text is intentionally deleted
from the FAA filing counterpart as the parties hereto deem it to contain
confidential information.

        1. Any recalculation of Basic Rent, Excess Amount, Stipulated Loss
Value percentages, Termination Value percentages, Special Purchase Price,
Initial Installment and Remaining Installments pursuant to the Lease shall be
determined by the Owner Participant, and shall maintain the Owner Participant's
Net Economic Return except as assumptions have been modified pursuant to
Section 3 of the Lease or pursuant to the Tax Indemnity Agreement or the
Participation Agreement, as the case may be; provided, however, that if Lessee
believes that such calculations by the Owner Participant are in error then a
nationally recognized firm of accountants mutually acceptable to Lessee and the
Owner Participant shall be permitted to verify such calculations and the Owner
Participant will make available to such firm (subject to the execution by such
firm of a confidentiality agreement reasonably acceptable to the Owner
Participant) the methodology and assumptions and any changes made therein
pursuant to Section 3 of the Lease.  In the event of a verification under the
first sentence of this paragraph 1 the determination by such firm of
accountants shall be final.  Lessee will pay the reasonable costs and expenses
of the verification under the first sentence of this paragraph 1, unless an
error adverse to Lessee is established by such firm and if as a result of such
verification process the Basic Rent is adjusted and such adjustment causes the
Net Present Value of Rents to decline by 10 or more basis points (in which
event the Owner Participant shall pay the reasonable costs and expenses of such
verification process).  Such recalculated Basic Rent, Excess Amount, Stipulated
Loss Value percentages, Termination Value percentages, Special Purchase Price,
Initial Installment and Remaining Installments shall be set forth in a Lease
Supplement or an amendment to the Lease.

        2. "Net Economic Return" means the Owner Participant's net after-tax
book yield and aggregate net after-tax cash flow utilizing the multiple
investment sinking fund method of analysis, computed on the basis of the same
methodology and assumptions as were utilized by the Owner Participant in
determining Basic Rent, Special Purchase Price, Initial Installment, Remaining
Installments, Stipulated Loss Value and Termination Value percentages as of the
Delivery Date.




<PAGE>   86




                                                                EXHIBIT F
                                                                    TO
                                                            LEASE AGREEMENT
                                                              [NW 1996 B]

                               RETURN CONDITIONS

The portion of this Exhibit appearing below this text is intentionally deleted
from the FAA filing counterpart as the parties hereto deem it to contain
confidential information.

        Unless purchased by Lessee pursuant to Section 19 of the Lease, at the
time of return of the Airframe upon the termination of the Lease at the end of
the Basic Term or any Renewal Term or pursuant to Section 9(c) or 15 of the
Lease:  (i)  in the event that Lessee (or any Sublessee then in possession of
the Aircraft) shall not then be using a continuous maintenance program with
respect to the Airframe, Lessee agrees that during the period of operation of
the Aircraft immediately prior to such return (A) Lessee or such Sublessee, as
the case may be, shall have been using a block overhaul program with respect to
the Airframe which shall have been approved by all necessary governmental
approvals of the country under the laws of which the Aircraft shall then have
been registered and (B) the Airframe shall have remaining until the next
scheduled block overhaul at least 25% of the allowable hours between block
overhauls permitted under the block overhaul program then used by Lessee or
such Sublessee, (ii) in the event that Lessee (or any Sublessee then in
possession of the Aircraft) during the period of operation of the Aircraft
immediately prior to such return shall not have been using an on-condition
maintenance program with respect to the Engines or engines, Lessee agrees that
the average number of hours or cycles of operation (whichever shall be
applicable under the maintenance program then in use with respect to such
Engines or engines) on such Engines or engines remaining until the next
scheduled engine refurbishment shall be at least 25% of the hours or cycles
(whichever shall be applicable) between engine refurbishment allowed under the
maintenance program then in use with respect to such Engines or engines which
shall have been approved by all necessary governmental approvals of the country
under the laws of which the Aircraft shall have then been registered, (iii) the
Aircraft shall have all Lessee's and any Sublessee's exterior markings removed
or painted over and the areas where such markings were removed or painted over
refurbished as necessary to blend with adjacent areas, (iv) the Aircraft shall
have no outstanding airworthiness directives issued by the FAA requiring
terminating action by the date of return, and (v) the Aircraft shall be in
regular U.S. passenger configuration and the interior of the Aircraft shall be
clean in accordance with Lessee's customary standard for a "between flights"
cleaning.  In the event the FAA shall issue any directive which would require
improvements to the Aircraft in order for the airworthiness certificate of the
Aircraft to be maintained in good standing, Lessee shall not apply for an
extension of the date of compliance with the directive as to the Aircraft to a
date after the date of return of the Aircraft pursuant to Section 5 of the
Lease, unless it shall previously or concurrently have applied for such an
extension with respect to all Boeing 757-200 aircraft in its fleet affected by
such directive.  Lessee shall only be entitled to satisfy 


<PAGE>   87


the conditions set forth in Section 5 and this Exhibit F by reference to the
maintenance program of a Sublessee if satisfaction of such conditions by such
reference would not result in the Aircraft having a fair market value, utility
or remaining useful life on the date of return less than the fair market value,
utility and remaining useful life which the Aircraft would have had on the date
of return if the conditions set forth in Section 5 and this Exhibit F had been
satisfied by reference to the maintenance program of Lessee.  For purposes of
the foregoing sentence, in the event of a failure of Lessee and Lessor to agree
on the fair market value, utility and remaining useful life of the Aircraft by
reference, respectively, to each of Lessee's or a Sublessee's maintenance
program, such matters shall be determined in the same manner (including with
respect to time schedule in order to allow such determinations to be made prior
to return) as "fair market sales value" is determined pursuant to Section 19(c) 
of the Lease.

        If clause (i)(B) of the first sentence of the preceding paragraph shall
be applicable but the Airframe does not meet the conditions specified in said
clause (i)(B), Lessee shall pay or cause to be paid to Lessor a Dollar amount
computed by multiplying (I) 120% of the average direct cost to Lessee (based
upon the actual direct cost to Lessee for similar aircraft in the fleet of
Lessee) during the preceding 12 months of performing an airframe block overhaul
of the type referred to in such clause (i) by (II) a fraction of which (x) the
numerator shall be the excess of 25% of hours of operation allowable between
such block overhauls over the actual number of hours of operation remaining on
the Airframe to the next such block overhaul and (y) the denominator shall be
the number of hours of operation allowable between such block overhauls in
accordance with such block overhaul program.

        If clause (ii) of the first sentence of the second preceding paragraph
shall be applicable but the Engines or engines do not meet the conditions
specified in said clause (ii), Lessee shall pay or cause to be paid to Lessor a
Dollar amount computed by multiplying (aa) two by (bb) 120% of the average
direct cost to Lessee (based upon the actual direct cost to Lessee for similar
aircraft in the fleet of Lessee) during the preceding 12 months of performing
for an engine of the same model as the Engines the scheduled engine
refurbishment under the maintenance program then used by Lessee or any
Sublessee for engines of the same model as the Engines by (cc) a fraction of
which (x) the numerator shall be the excess of 25% of the hours or cycles of
operation (whichever is applicable) between engine refurbishment allowable for
an engine under the maintenance program then in use with respect to such
Engines or engines over the actual average number of hours or cycles of
operation on such Engines or engines remaining until the next such scheduled
engine refurbishment and (y) the denominator shall be the number of hours or
cycles allowable between such scheduled engine refurbishment.




                              EXHIBIT F - PAGE 2

<PAGE>   1
                                                             Exhibit 4(f)(4)

                                                               DRAFT 5/21/96


================================================================================

                       FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

                                  DATED AS OF

                                 JUNE __, 1996

                                    BETWEEN

               FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

              NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY

                 PROVIDED HEREIN, BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE,
                                                               LESSOR

                                      AND

                           NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.,
                                                               LESSEE

                          ONE BOEING 757-251 AIRCRAFT

================================================================================

As set forth in Section 20 of the Lease, Lessor has assigned to the Indenture
Trustee (as defined in the Lease) certain of its right, title and interest in
and to the Lease, including all amendments thereto.  To the extent, if any,
that this First Amendment to Lease Agreement constitutes chattel paper (as such
term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any applicable
jurisdiction), no security interest herein may be created through the transfer
or possession of any counterpart hereof other than the original executed
counterpart, which shall be identified as the counterpart containing the
receipt therefor executed by the Indenture Trustee on the signature page
thereof.

================================================================================



<PAGE>   2




                              TABLE OF CONTENTS TO

                       FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
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                                                                                 ----
<S>          <C>                                                                 <C>
Section 1.   Amendment of Section 1 of the Lease ...............................   2

Section 2.   Amendment of Sections 3(b), 3(c), 3(d), 3(e) and 3(g) 
             of the Lease ......................................................   6

Section 3.   Amendment of Section 7 of the Lease  ..............................   8

Section 4.   Amendment of Sections 9(a)(3) and 9(c) of the Lease ...............   8

Section 5.   Amendment of Section 10(a) of the Lease ...........................   8

Section 6.   Amendment of Section 14(d) of the Lease ...........................   9

Section 7.   Amendment of Section 15(c) of the Lease ...........................   9

Section 8.   Amendment of Section 17 of the Lease ..............................   9

Section 9.   Amendment of Section 19 of the Lease ..............................  10

Section 10.  Amendment of Section 26 of the Lease ..............................  10

Section 11.  Amendment of Exhibits .............................................  10

Section 12.  Effectiveness of Amendments .......................................  10

Section 13.  Ratification ......................................................  10

Section 14.  Miscellaneous .....................................................  11
</TABLE>




                                      -i-


<PAGE>   3




                       FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

        This FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT [NW 1996 B], dated as of June
___, 1996, between FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in
its individual capacity, except as expressly provided herein, but solely as
Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996
(in such capacity, "LESSOR"), and NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., a corporation
organized and existing pursuant to the laws of the State of Minnesota
("LESSEE"), to a certain Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24,
1996 (the "ORIGINAL LEASE"), between Lessee and Lessor (the Original Lease, as
supplemented by Lease Supplement No. 1 [NW 1996 B] ("LEASE SUPPLEMENT NO. 1")
between Lessor and Lessee, dated April 30, 1996, herein called the "LEASE");

        Except as otherwise defined in this Amendment, the terms used herein in
capitalized form shall have the meanings attributed thereto in the Lease;

                                  WITNESSETH:

        WHEREAS, pursuant to the Lease, Lessee has leased from Lessor the   
Aircraft, which consists of the following components:  (i) Airframe:  FAA
Registration No. N538US; manufacturer's serial No. 26485; and (ii) Engines: two
(2) Pratt & Whitney Model PW2037 engines bearing, respectively, manufacturer's
serial nos. P727166 and P727167;

        WHEREAS, Section 17 of the Participation Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as
of April 24, 1996 (the "PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT"), among Lessee, [_____________]
Funding Corp. (the "OWNER PARTICIPANT"), the loan participants named therein, as
Loan Participants (the "ORIGINAL LOAN PARTICIPANTS"), Lessor and State Street
Bank and Trust Company (the "INDENTURE TRUSTEE"), contemplates that the Secured
Certificates issued by the Owner Trustee under the Trust Indenture and Security
Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996, between Lessor (in its
individual capacity as expressly provided therein and as trustee) and the
Indenture Trustee may be refinanced under certain circumstances;

        WHEREAS, Lessor and Lessee have entered into a Refunding Agreement [NW
1996 B], dated as of [__________], 1996 (the "REFUNDING AGREEMENT"), with State
Street Bank and Trust Company, as Pass Through Trustee under the Pass Through
Trust Agreements (the "PURCHASERS"), State Street Bank and Trust Company of
Connecticut, National Association, as Subordination Agent (the "SUBORDINATION
AGENT"), the Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee and Northwest Airlines
Corporation (the "GUARANTOR");

        WHEREAS, Lessor and Lessee desire to recalculate the Excess Amounts,
Basic Rent, Stipulated Loss Value and Termination Value percentages, the Special
Purchase Price and the Remaining Installments in order to reflect, among other
things, the interest rate of the refinanced Secured Certificates;





<PAGE>   4


        WHEREAS, in connection with the recalculation of the Excess Amounts,
Basic Rent, Stipulated Loss Value and Termination Value percentages, the Special
Purchase Price and the Remaining Installments, Lessor and Lessee desire to amend
the Lease;

        WHEREAS, a counterpart of the Original Lease, to which were attached and
made a part thereof counterparts of Lease Supplement No. 1, the Trust Indenture
and Security Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996, and the Trust
Agreement and Indenture Supplement [NW 1996 B], dated April 30, 1996, was
recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration (the "FAA") on [             ],
1996, and assigned Conveyance No.[  ];

        NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements contained
herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:

        SECTION 1. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF THE LEASE.

        (a) The definitions of "Business Day", "Excess Amount", "Indemnitee",
"Loan Participant", "Net Present Value of Rents", "Operative Documents",
"Stipulated Loss Value", "Supplemental Rent", "Tax Indemnitee", and "Termination
Value" in Section 1 of the Lease are hereby amended to read as follows:

                 "BUSINESS DAY" means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday
        or a day on which commercial banks are required or authorized to close
        in the City of New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; or    
        Minneapolis, Minnesota.

                 "EXCESS AMOUNT" for the Closing Date or the Commencement Date
        means an amount equal to the amount determined by multiplying Lessor's
        Cost by the percentage set forth in Exhibit B hereto under the heading
        "Excess Amount" opposite the Closing Date or the Commencement Date.

                 "INDEMNITEE" means (i) the Owner Trustee, in its individual
        capacity and as trustee under the Trust Agreement, (ii) the Indenture
        Trustee, (iii) the Owner Participant, (iv) the Trust Estate, (v) Loan
        Participants and each other Certificate Holder, (vi) the Subordination
        Agent, (vii) the Liquidity Provider, (viii) the Pass Through Trustees,
        (ix) each Affiliate of the Persons described in clauses (i) through
        (iv), inclusive, (x) each Affiliate of the Persons described in clauses
        (vi), (vii) and (viii), (xi) the respective directors, officers,
        employees, agents and servants of each of the Persons described in
        clauses (i) through (viii), inclusive, (xii) the successors and
        permitted assigns of the Persons described in clauses (i) through (iv),
        inclusive, and (xiii) the successors and permitted assigns of the       
        Persons described in clauses (v), (vi), (vii) and (viii).

                 "LOAN PARTICIPANT" means for any period prior to the Closing,
        the Original Loan Participants and their successors and assigns, and
        from and after the Closing, the Purchasers and their successors and
        registered assigns, including any Certificate Holder.


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                 "NET PRESENT VALUE OF RENTS" means the net present value, as
        of the [Commencement Date], of Basic Rent set forth in Exhibit B hereto,
        Special Purchase Price and Remaining Installments discounted at an
        annual interest rate of [___]% on a semi-annual basis.

                 "OPERATIVE DOCUMENTS" means each of the Participation
        Agreement, the documents referred to in Section 4(a)(v) of the
        Participation Agreement (including any amendments, modifications or
        supplements thereto), the Refunding Agreement, the Trust Indenture
        Amendment and the Refinancing Secured Certificates, collectively, and
        "Operative Document" shall mean each of the Operative Documents,
        individually.

                 "STIPULATED LOSS VALUE" with respect to the Aircraft as of any
        date through and including January 2, 2019, means, but subject always to
        the provisions of Section 3(d)(v) hereof, the amount determined by
        multiplying Lessor's Cost by the percentage specified in Exhibit C
        hereto opposite the Stipulated Loss Value Date with respect to which the
        amount is determined (as such Exhibit C may be adjusted from time to
        time as provided in Section 3(d) hereof and in Section 7 of the Tax
        Indemnity Agreement).  "Stipulated Loss Value" as of any date after
        January 2, 2019 shall be the amount determined as provided in Section 
        19(a) hereof.

                 "SUPPLEMENTAL RENT" means, without duplication, (a) all
        amounts, liabilities, indemnities and obligations (other than Interim
        Rent or Basic Rent) which Lessee assumes or agrees to pay under any
        Lessee Document to or on behalf of Lessor or any other Person, (b)
        amounts payable by Lessor pursuant to clause (b) of the third paragraph
        of Section 2.02 of the Trust Indenture in respect of amounts owed to the
        Liquidity Provider, (c) Lessor's pro rata share of all compensation and
        reimbursement of expenses, disbursements and advances payable by Lessee
        under the Pass Through Trust Agreements and the Other Pass Through Trust
        Agreement, and (d) Lessor's pro rata share of all compensation and
        reimbursement of expenses and disbursements payable to the Subordination
        Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement except with respect to any
        income or franchise taxes incurred by the Subordination Agent in
        connection with the transactions contemplated by the Intercreditor
        Agreement.  As used herein, "Lessor's pro rata share" means as of any
        time a fraction, the numerator of which is the principal balance then
        outstanding of Secured Certificates and the denominator of which is the
        aggregate principal balance then outstanding of all "Equipment
        Notes" (as such term is defined in the Intercreditor Agreement).

                 "TAX INDEMNITEE" means the Owner Participant, the Owner
        Trustee, in its individual capacity and as trustee under the Trust
        Agreement, the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee, and each of their
        respective Affiliates, successors

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        and permitted assigns and, in the case of the Owner Participant,
        directors, officers, employees, servants and agents of the Owner        
        Participant.

                 "TERMINATION VALUE" with respect to the Aircraft as of any
        date through and including January 2, 2019, means, but subject always to
        the provisions of Section 3(d)(v), the amount determined by multiplying
        Lessor's Cost by the percentage specified in Exhibit D hereto opposite
        the Termination Date with respect to which the amount is determined (as
        such Exhibit D may be adjusted from time to time as provided in Section
        3(d) hereof and in Section 7 of the Tax Indemnity Agreement).

                 (b) The following definitions are hereby inserted in Section 1
        of the Lease in alphabetical order:

                 "CLOSING" means the consummation of the refinancing operation
        contemplated by Section 1 of the Refunding Agreement.

                 "CLOSING DATE" means the date on which the Closing shall
        occur.

                 "INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT" means that certain Intercreditor
        Agreement among the Pass Through Trustees, the Liquidity Provider       
        and the Subordination Agent.

                 "LIQUIDITY FACILITIES" means the three Revolving Credit
        Agreements between the Subordination Agent, as borrower, and the
        Liquidity Provider, and any replacement thereof, in each case as        
        the same may be amended, modified or supplemented.

                 "LIQUIDITY PROVIDER" means Westdeutsche Landesbank
        Girozentrale, acting through its New York branch, as Class A Liquidity
        Provider, Class B Liquidity Provider and Class C Liquidity Provider
        under the Liquidity Facilities, or any successor thereto.

                 "MAKE-WHOLE AMOUNT" has the meaning assigned to that term in
        the Trust Indenture.

                 "ORIGINAL LOAN PARTICIPANTS" means each institution executing
        the Participation Agreement as a Loan Participant.

                 "ORIGINAL TRUST INDENTURE" means the Trust Indenture and
        Security Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996, between the
        Owner Trustee and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as amended,
        modified and supplemented prior to the Closing Date.


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                 "OTHER PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENT" means the pass through
        trust agreement and supplement pursuant to which the Class D pass       
        through trust certificates are issued.

                 "PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES" means the pass through
        certificates to be issued by the Pass Through Trustee in connection     
        with the Refinancing Transaction.

                 "PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENT" means the pass through trust
        agreement and each of the three separate pass through trust supplements
        referred to on Schedule I to the Refunding Agreement to be entered into
        by and between Lessee and the Pass Through Trustee in connection with
        the Refinancing Transaction.

                 "PASS THROUGH TRUSTEE" means State Street Bank and Trust
        Company, a Massachusetts trust company, in its capacity as trustee under
        each Pass Through Trust Agreement, and each other person that may from
        time to time be acting as successor trustee under any such Pass
        Through Trust Agreement.

                 "PURCHASERS" means the Pass Through Trustees under each Pass
        Through Trust Agreement.

                 "REFINANCING CERTIFICATE" means a certificate of an authorized
        representative of the Owner Participant delivered pursuant to Section
        17(a)(1) of the Participation Agreement, setting forth, among other
        things, the Refinancing Date, the principal amount of debt to be issued
        by the Owner Trustee on the Refinancing Date, and the proposed revised
        schedules of Excess Amount, Basic Rent, Special Purchase Price, Initial
        Installment, Remaining Installments, Stipulated Loss Value and
        Termination Value percentages, and the proposed Amortization Schedules.

                 "REFINANCING DATE" means the proposed date on which the
        outstanding Secured Certificates will be redeemed and refinanced
        pursuant to Section 17 of the Participation Agreement.

                 "REFINANCING EXPENSES" means the costs, fees, commissions and
        other expenses payable by the Owner Participant pursuant to Section 
        11(a) of the Refunding Agreement.

                 "REFINANCING SECURED CERTIFICATES" means the Secured
        Certificates to be issued by Lessor to the Purchasers pursuant to the
        Trust Indenture Amendment and the Refunding Agreement on the    Closing
        Date.

                 "REFINANCING TRANSACTION" means a refinancing transaction
        pursuant to Section 17 of the Participation Agreement involving, among
        other things, (i) the redemption of the Secured Certificates issued
        on the Refinancing Date and the

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        concurrent issuance and sale of the Refinancing Secured Certificates to
        the Pass Through Trustees (or their designee) and (ii) the issuance and
        sale of the Pass Through Certificates by the    Pass Through Trustees.

                 "REFUNDING AGREEMENT" means that certain Refunding Agreement
        [NW 1996 B], dated as of [_________], 1996, among Lessor, Lessee, the
        Owner Participant, the Purchasers, the Indenture Trustee, the
        Subordination Agent and the Guarantor, as the same may from time to time
        be supplemented or amended, or the terms thereof waived or modified, to
        the extent permitted by, and in accordance with, the    terms thereof.


                 "SUBORDINATION AGENT" means State Street Bank and Trust
        Company of Connecticut, National Association, as subordination  agent
        under the Intercreditor Agreement, or any successor thereto.

                 "TRUST INDENTURE AMENDMENT" means the Amended and 
        Restated Trust Indenture and Security Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of
        the Refinancing Date, between Lessor and State Street Bank and Trust
        Company, as Indenture Trustee.
        
        (c) The definitions of "Administrative Agent", "Assumed Interest Rate",
"Commitment", "Debt Rate", "Documentation Agent", "Funding Loss Amount",
"Interest Period", "Rent Differential Amount" and "Transition Date" in Section 1
of the Lease are hereby deleted.

        SECTION 2. AMENDMENT OF SECTIONS 3(B), 3(C), 3(D), 3(E) AND 3(G) OF THE
LEASE.

        (a) Section 3(b) of the Lease is hereby amended by deleting the second
paragraph thereof.

        (b) Section 3(c) of the Lease is hereby amended by deleting the second
paragraph thereof.

        (c) Section 3(d)(i) of the Lease is hereby amended to read in its
entirety as follows:

                 (i) In the event that (A) the Closing Date occurs other than
        on [_______], 1996, (B) Transaction Expenses paid by Lessor pursuant to
        Section 16 of the Participation Agreement are determined to be other
        than 1.0% of Lessor's Cost, or (C) Refinancing Expenses paid by Lessor
        or the Owner Participant pursuant to Section 11(a) of the Refunding
        Agreement are determined to be other than [0.__]% of Lessor's Cost, then
        in each case, the Basic Rent percentages set forth in Exhibit B and the
        Stipulated Loss Value percentages set forth in Exhibit C, the
        Termination Value percentages set forth in Exhibit D, the Special 
        Purchase Price and the Remaining Installments shall

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        be recalculated by the Owner Participant, on or prior to November
        15, 1996 using the same methods and assumptions used to calculate
        original Basic Rent, Stipulated Loss Value and Termination Value
        percentages, the Special Purchase Price, the Initial Installment and the
        Remaining Installments, in order to: (1) maintain the Owner
        Participant's Net Economic Return and (2) minimize the Net Present Value
        of Rents to Lessee to the extent possible consistent with clause (1)
        hereof.  In such recalculation there will be no change in the
        amortization of the Secured Certificates.

        (d) Section 3(d)(iii) of the Lease is hereby amended by deleting the
second sentence thereof.

        (e) The second sentence of Section 3(e) of the Lease is hereby amended
to read in its entirety as follows:

                 "Lessee shall pay as Supplemental Rent the Make-Whole Amount, 
        if any, due pursuant to Section 2.10(b) or Section 2.11 of the Trust 
        Indenture in connection with a prepayment of the Secured Certificates 
        upon redemption of such Secured Certificates in accordance with such
        Section 2.10(b) or Section 2.11."

        (f) Section 3(g) of the Lease is hereby amended to read in its entirety
as follows:

                 (g) Prepayment of Certain Rent Payments.  To the extent, if
        any, that there shall not have been received by the Indenture Trustee to
        its account and in funds of the type specified in Section 3(f) hereof by
        10:30 A.M., New York time, on the Commencement Date from Lessor an
        amount equal to the Excess Amount for such date, Lessee shall, on the
        Commencement Date, prepay on the Commencement Date a portion of Basic
        Rent equal to the Excess Amount not so paid (the amount of such Basic
        Rent to be prepaid by Lessee being herein called "PREPAID RENT");
        provided, that Lessee will also pay to the Indenture Trustee, on demand,
        as Supplemental Rent, to the extent permitted by applicable law,
        interest at the Past Due Rate in effect from time to time on any part of
        any Prepaid Rent not paid when due for any period for which the same
        shall be overdue.  Lessor agrees to reimburse Lessee in the manner
        provided in the following sentence for (x) the Prepaid Rent so paid by
        Lessee, plus (y) any Supplemental Rent paid with respect to Prepaid Rent
        by Lessee pursuant to this Section 3(g), plus (z) accrued interest on
        the unreimbursed portion thereof at a rate per annum equal to the Base
        Rate as in effect from time to time plus 5% per annum from the date such
        amount is paid by Lessee to but not including the date of each such
        reimbursement (such amounts to be reimbursed being herein called the
        "REIMBURSEMENT AMOUNT").  Lessor shall pay to Lessee, in funds of the
        type specified in Section 3(f)  hereof, within five days after Lessor,
        the Owner Participant and the Indenture Trustee shall have received 
        written notice

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        from Lessee demanding payment, the Reimbursement Amount.  In
        addition, if, for any reason, Lessor shall fail to pay to Lessee the
        Reimbursement Amount as above provided, Lessee shall be entitled to
        offsets (without duplication) against each succeeding payment (other
        than as limited by the proviso to this sentence) due from Lessee to
        Persons other than the Loan Participants, the Indenture Trustee and the
        Owner Trustee in its individual capacity (including, without limitation,
        Basic Rent, payments due under Section 9, 10, 15 and 19 hereof, payments
        due under the Tax Indemnity Agreement and payments due to Persons other
        than the Loan Participants, the Indenture Trustee and Lessor in its
        individual capacity under Section 7 of the Participation Agreement),
        until Lessee has been fully reimbursed for the Reimbursement Amount;
        provided, however, that in the case of any payment due from Lessee which
        is distributable under the terms of the Trust Indenture, Lessee's right
        to offset shall be limited to amounts distributable to Lessor
        thereunder.  No such offset or aggregate combined effect of separate
        offsets shall reduce the amount of any installment of Interim Rent or
        Basic Rent to an amount insufficient, together with the Excess Amount
        and all other amounts payable simultaneously by Lessee, to pay in full
        the payments then required to be made on account of the principal of and
        interest on (and Make-Whole Amount, if any, due with respect to) the
        Secured Certificates then outstanding.

        SECTION 3. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 7 OF THE LEASE.

        Section 7(b)(x)(2) of the Lease is hereby amended by (i) deleting the
words "the Owner Participant and the Indenture Trustee" and substituting
therefor the word "Lessor" and (ii) deleting the word "their" and substituting
therefor the word "its".

        SECTION 4. AMENDMENT OF SECTIONS 9(A)(3) AND 9(C) OF THE LEASE.

        (a) Section 9(a)(3) of the Lease is hereby amended by deleting the word,
punctuation  and number "ten (10)" in the second sentence thereof and
substituting therefor the word, punctuation and number "fifteen (15)".

        (b) Section 9(c) of the Lease is hereby amended by deleting the word
"premium" each time it appears therein and substituting therefor the words
"Make-Whole Amount" and by deleting the words "and Funding Loss Amount" and ",
Funding Loss Amount" each time such words and such words and punctuation appear.

        SECTION 5. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 10(A) OF THE LEASE.

        Section 10(a) of the Lease is hereby amended by deleting the words "the
third Business Day following the receipt of insurance proceeds in respect of
such occurrence (but not earlier than thirty (30) days after such occurrence)"
in clause (i)(y) thereof and substituting therefor the words "an earlier 
Business Day irrevocably specified fifteen days in advance by notice from Lessee
to Lessor and the Indenture Trustee".                                      

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        SECTION 6. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 14(D) OF THE LEASE.

        Section 14(d) of the Lease is hereby amended by (i) adding the words and
punctuation ", the Refunding Agreement" after the words "Participation
Agreement" and (ii) adding the words "and except for representations or
warranties contained in the Pass Through Trust Agreement or the Underwriting
Agreement (as defined in the Refunding Agreement) or any document or instrument
furnished pursuant to either thereof" after the word "Agreement" at the end of
the first parenthetical phrase therein.

        SECTION 7. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 15(C) OF THE LEASE.
        
        Section 15(c) of the Lease is hereby amended by (i) deleting the word
"the" from the fourth line thereof and substituting therefor the word "a" and
(ii) inserting the words "or prior to" after the word "on" in the tenth line
thereof.

        SECTION 8. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 17 OF THE LEASE.

        Section 17 of the Lease is hereby amended to read in its entirety as
follows:

                 "Section 17.  Notices.  All notices required under the terms
        and provisions hereof shall be by telecopier or other telecommunication
        means (with such telecopy or other telecommunication means to be
        confirmed in writing), or if such notice is impracticable by registered,
        first-class airmail, with postage prepaid, or by personal delivery of
        written notice and any such notice shall become effective when
        received, addressed:

                  (i)  if to Lessee, for U.S. Mail at 5101 Northwest Drive
                       (A4010), St. Paul, Minnesota 55111-3034, and for
                       overnight courier at 2700 Lone Oak Parkway (A4010),
                       Eagan, Minnesota 55121, Attention:  Senior Vice President
                       - Finance and Treasurer, (Telecopy No. (612) 726-0665),
                       or to such other address, telex number or telecopy number
                       as Lessee shall from time to time designate in writing 
                       to Lessor,

                  (ii) if to Lessor, at 79 South Main Street, Salt Lake City,
                       Utah 84111, Attention: Corporate Trust Department
                       (Telecopy No. (801) 246-5053), or to such other address
                       or telecopy number as Lessor shall from time to time
                       designate in writing to Lessee, and


                 (iii) if to a Loan Participant, the Indenture Trustee or the
                       Owner Participant, addressed to such Loan Participant,
                       the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant at such
                       address or telecopy number as such Loan Participant, the
                       Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant shall have
                       furnished by notice to Lessor and to Lessee, and, until
                       an address is so furnished, addressed to such Loan
                       Participant, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
                       Participant 


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                 at its address or telecopy number set forth on the signature 
                 pages of the Refunding Agreement."

        SECTION 9. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 19 OF THE LEASE.

        (a) Section 19(a)(2) of the Lease is hereby amended by deleting the word
"third" in the first sentence thereof and substituting the words and punctuation
"Basic Term, any" therefor.

        (b) The third sentence of Section 19(d) of the Lease is hereby amended
to read in its entirety as follows:

        In addition, if on such date Lessee has otherwise elected to pay
        the Special Purchase Price and there shall be any Secured Certificates
        outstanding, Lessee shall have the option to assume, pursuant to Section
        8(x) of the Participation Agreement and Section 2.13 of the Trust
        Indenture, all of the obligations of Lessor under       the Trust
        Indenture.

        SECTION 10. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 26 OF THE LEASE.  Section 26 of the
Lease is hereby amended by (i) deleting the word "or" between the words "Trust
Agreement" and the words "the Trust Indenture" and substituting a comma therefor
and (ii) inserting the words "or the Refunding Agreement" after the words "Trust
Indenture".

        SECTION 11. AMENDMENT OF EXHIBITS.

        (a) Exhibits B, C and D to the Lease are hereby deleted in their
entirety and replaced with Exhibits B, C and D, respectively, attached hereto.

        (b) The parties hereto agree that Exhibits B, C and D attached hereto
reflect the recalculation of Basic Rent, Excess Amounts, Stipulated Loss Value
and Termination Value percentages and the Special Purchase Price and the
Remaining Installments to take into account the interest rates borne by the
Secured Certificates as of the Closing Date.

        SECTION 12. EFFECTIVENESS OF AMENDMENTS.

        The amendments to the Lease set forth in Sections 1 through 11 hereof
shall be effective as of, and subject to the consummation of, the Closing, which
shall be evidenced by the filing of this Amendment with the FAA.

        SECTION 13. RATIFICATION.

        Except as amended hereby, the Lease as heretofore supplemented continues
and shall remain in full force and effect in all respects.



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        SECTION 14. MISCELLANEOUS.

        Any provision of this Amendment which is prohibited or unenforceable in
any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any
other jurisdiction.  No term or provision of this Amendment may be changed,
waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an instrument in writing
signed by Lessor, Lessee and any assignee of Lessor's rights hereunder. Nothing
contained herein shall be construed as conveying to Lessee any right, title or
interest in the Aircraft except as a lessee.  The section and paragraph headings
in this Amendment and the table of contents are for convenience of reference
only and shall not modify, define, expand or limit any of the terms or
provisions hereof and all references herein to numbered sections, unless
otherwise indicated, are to sections of this Amendment.  THIS AMENDMENT HAS BEEN
DELIVERED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING ALL
MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE.  This Amendment may be
executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be an original, but all of such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.  To the extent, if any,
that this Amendment constitutes chattel paper (as such term is defined in the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction), no
security interest in this Amendment may be created through the transfer or
possession of any counterpart other than the original counterpart, which shall
be identified as the counterpart containing the receipt therefor executed by the
Indenture Trustee as mortgagee under the Trust Indenture on the signature page
thereof. 

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        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Lessor and Lessee have each caused this Amendment to
be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

                                    FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION
                                    not in its individual capacity, except as
                                    expressly provided herein, but solely as
                                    Owner Trustee,
                                         Lessor



                                    By:____________________________________
                                         Title:

                                    NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.
                                         Lessee



                                    By:____________________________________
                                         Title:

        (1)Receipt of this original counterpart of the foregoing Amendment is
hereby acknowledged this _____ day of ______________, 1996.

                                    STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST 
                                    COMPANY,
                                        Indenture Trustee



                                    By:____________________________________
                                         Title:

_____________________

(1)This language contained in the original counterpart only.



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                                                                 Exhibit 4(f)(5)

================================================================================
                                   GUARANTEE
                                  [NW 1996 B]

                           DATED AS OF APRIL 24, 1996

                                      FROM

                         NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION






                          ONE BOEING 757-251 AIRCRAFT


================================================================================


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                         TABLE OF CONTENTS TO GUARANTEE
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

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<S>  <C>                                                               <C>
1.   Guarantee...........................................................1

2.   No Implied Third Party Beneficiaries................................4

3.   Waiver; No Set-off; Reinstatement; Subrogation......................4

4.   Amendments, Etc.....................................................5

5.   Payments............................................................5

6.   Assignment of Guarantee.............................................5

7.   Representations and Warranties......................................5

8.   Jurisdictional Matters..............................................6

9.   Integration; Counterparts; Successors and Assigns; Headings.........6

10.  Notices.............................................................7

11.  No Waivers..........................................................7

12.  Survival............................................................7

13.  Severability........................................................7

14.  Governing Law.......................................................7

15.  Enforcement Expenses................................................8

16.  Termination.........................................................8

17.  No Guarantee of Secured Certificates................................8
</TABLE>







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                                   GUARANTEE
                                  [NW 1996 B]

     This GUARANTEE [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996 (as amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time, this "GUARANTEE"), from NORTHWEST
AIRLINES CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (together with its permitted
successors and assigns, the "GUARANTOR"), to the parties listed in Schedule I
hereto (collectively, together with their successors and permitted assigns, the
"PARTIES", and, individually, a "PARTY").

     WHEREAS, Northwest Airlines, Inc., a Minnesota corporation (the "LESSEE"),
an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Guarantor, wishes to enter into a
Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof (as amended, modified
or supplemented from time to time, the "LEASE"), between the Lessee and First
Security Bank of Utah, National Association, not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner Trustee (as defined therein), except as expressly provided
therein (the "LESSOR"), initially relating to one (1) Boeing 757-251 aircraft,
together with two (2) Pratt & Whitney Model PW2037 engines (such aircraft and
engines, and any substitute Airframe and Engines under the Lease, being
collectively referred to herein as the "AIRCRAFT"), pursuant to a Participation
Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof (as amended, modified or
supplemented from time to time, the "PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT"), among the
Lessee and the Parties; and

     WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the obligations of the Parties to
consummate the transactions contemplated by the Participation Agreement that
the Guarantor execute and deliver this Guarantee; and

     WHEREAS, the Lessor will assign by way of collateral security certain of
its right, title and interest in and to this Guarantee to the Indenture Trustee
(as defined in the Lease), pursuant to a Trust Indenture and Security Agreement
[NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof, between the Lessor and the Indenture
Trustee (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the "TRUST
INDENTURE"), as security for the obligations of the Lessor referred to therein;
and

     WHEREAS, the capitalized terms used herein that are not defined herein are
used herein as defined in the Lease;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in order to induce the Lessor to enter into the Lease and
to induce the other Parties referred to above to enter into the Participation
Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

     1. GUARANTEE.

     (a) The Guarantor does hereby acknowledge that it is fully aware of the
terms and conditions of the Lease, the Participation Agreement and the other
Operative





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Documents and the transactions and the other documents contemplated thereby,
and does hereby irrevocably and fully and unconditionally guarantee, as primary
obligor and not as surety merely, to the Parties, as their respective interests
may appear, the payment by the Lessee of all payment obligations when due under
the Lease (including, without limitation, Basic Rent and Supplemental Rent),
the Participation Agreement, the Tax Indemnity Agreement and the other
Operative Documents to which the Lessee is a party (such obligations of the
Lessee guaranteed hereby being hereafter referred to, individually, as a
"FINANCIAL OBLIGATION" and, collectively, as the "FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS") in
accordance with the terms of the Operative Documents, and the timely
performance of all other obligations of the Lessee thereunder (individually, a
"NONFINANCIAL OBLIGATION" and, collectively, the "NONFINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS" or,
collectively with the Financial Obligations, the "OBLIGATIONS").  The Guarantor
does hereby agree that in the event that the Lessee fails to pay any Financial
Obligation when due for any reason (including, without limitation, the
liquidation, dissolution, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for
the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or
readjustment of, or other similar proceedings affecting the status, existence,
assets or obligations of, the Lessee, or the disaffirmance with respect to the
Lessee of the Lease or the Operative Documents to which the Lessee is a party
in any such proceeding) within five days after the date on which such Financial
Obligation became due and payable and the applicable grace period has expired,
the Guarantor shall pay or cause to be paid forthwith, upon the receipt of
notice from any Party (such notice to be sent to the Lessee (to the extent such
Party is not stayed or prevented from doing so by operation of law) and the
Guarantor) stating that such Financial Obligation was not paid when due and for
five days after the applicable grace period has expired, the amount of such
Financial Obligation.  The Guarantor hereby agrees that in the event the Lessee
fails to perform any Nonfinancial Obligation for any reason (including, without
limitation, the liquidation, dissolution, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy,
assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement,
composition or readjustment of, or other similar proceedings affecting the
status, existence, assets or obligations of, the Lessee, or the disaffirmance
with respect to the Lessee of the Lease or the Operative Documents to which the
Lessee is a party in any such proceeding) within 10 Business Days after the
date on which such Nonfinancial Obligation is required to be performed (for
avoidance of doubt, to include any applicable grace period), the Guarantor
shall cause such Nonfinancial Obligation to be performed within 10 Business
Days following the receipt of notice from any Party (such notice to be sent to
the Lessee (to the extent such Party is not stayed or prevented from doing so
by operation of law) and the Guarantor) stating that such Nonfinancial
Obligation was not performed when so required and that any applicable grace
period has expired.

     (b) The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall not be, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, affected by:  the genuineness, validity,
regularity or enforceability (or lack thereof) of any of the Lessee's
obligations under the Lease or any other Operative Document to which the Lessee
is a party, any amendment, waiver or other modification of the Lease or such
other Operative Document (except that any such amendment or other modification
shall be given effect in determining the obligations of the Guarantor
hereunder), or by any substitution, release or exchange of collateral for or
other guaranty of any of the Obligations (except to the extent that such
substitution, release or exchange is undertaken in

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accordance with the terms of the Operative Documents) without the consent of
the Guarantor, or by any priority or preference to which any other obligations
of the Lessee may be entitled over the Lessee's obligations under the Lease and
the other Operative Documents to which the Lessee is a party, or by any other
circumstance that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable defense to or
discharge of the obligations of a surety or guarantor including, without
limitation, any defense arising out of any laws of the United States of America
or any State thereof which would excuse, discharge, exempt, modify or delay the
due or punctual payment and performance of the obligations of the Guarantor
hereunder.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is agreed that
the occurrence of any one or more of the following shall not, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, affect the liability of the Guarantor hereunder:  (a)
the extension of the time for or waiver of, at any time or from time to time,
without notice to the Guarantor, the Lessee's performance of or compliance with
any of its obligations under the Operative Documents (except that such
extension or waiver shall be given effect in determining the obligations of the
Guarantor hereunder)), (b) any assignment, transfer, sublease or other
arrangement by which the Lessee transfers possession or loses control of the
use of the Aircraft, (c) any defect in the title, condition, design, operation
or fitness for use of, or damage to or loss or destruction of, the Aircraft,
whether or not due to the fault of the Lessee, (d) any merger or consolidation
of the Lessee or the Guarantor into or with any other Person, or any sale,
transfer, lease or disposal of any of its assets or (e) any change in the
ownership of any shares of capital stock of the Lessee.

     (c) This Guarantee is an absolute, present and continuing guaranty of
payment and performance and not of collectability and is in no way conditional
or contingent upon any attempt to collect from the Lessee any unpaid amounts
due or otherwise to enforce performance by the Lessee.  The Guarantor
specifically agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that it shall not
be necessary or required, and that the Guarantor shall not be entitled to
require, that any Party (i) file suit or proceed to obtain or assert a claim
for personal judgment against the Lessee for the Obligations, or (ii) make any
effort at collection of the Obligations from the Lessee, or (iii) foreclose
against or seek to realize upon any security now or hereafter existing for the
Obligations, including the Trust Estate or the Trust Indenture Estate (as such
term is defined in the Trust Indenture), or (iv) file suit or proceed to obtain
or assert a claim for personal judgment against any other Person liable for the
Obligations, or make any effort at collection of the Obligations from any such
other Person, or exercise or assert any other right or remedy to which any
Party is or may be entitled in connection with the Obligations or any security
or other guaranty therefor, or (v) assert or file any claim against the assets
of the Lessee or any other guarantor or other Person liable for the
Obligations, or any part thereof, before or as a condition of enforcing the
liability of the Guarantor under this Guarantee or requiring payment of said
Obligations by the Guarantor hereunder, or at any time thereafter.

     (d) The Guarantor agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that,
without limiting the generality of this Guarantee, if an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing and the Lessor (or any assignee thereof
including, without limitation, the Indenture Trustee) shall be prevented by
applicable law from exercising its remedies (or any of them) under Section 15
of the Lease, the Lessor (or any assignee thereof, including, without

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limitation, the Indenture Trustee) shall be, nevertheless, entitled to receive
hereunder from the Guarantor, upon demand therefor the sums that would
otherwise have been due from the Lessee under the Lease had such remedies been
able to be exercised.  The Guarantor hereby unconditionally waives, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, any requirement that, as a condition precedent
to the enforcement of the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder, the Lessee or
all or any one or more of any other guarantors of any of the Obligations be
joined as parties to any proceedings for the enforcement of any provision of
this Guarantee.

     2. NO IMPLIED THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES.  This Guarantee shall not be
deemed to create any right in any Person except a Party and shall not be
construed in any respect to be a contract in whole or in part for the benefit
of any other Person.

     3. WAIVER; NO SET-OFF; REINSTATEMENT; SUBROGATION.  The Guarantor waives
notice of the acceptance of this Guarantee and of the performance or
nonperformance by the Lessee, demand for payment from the Lessee or any other
Person, notice of nonpayment or failure to perform on the part of the Lessee,
diligence, presentment, protest, dishonor and, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, all other demands or notices whatsoever, other than the request for
payment hereunder and notice provided for in Section 1 hereof.  The obligations
of the Guarantor shall be absolute and unconditional and shall remain in full
force and effect until satisfaction of all Obligations hereunder and, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, to the extent not prohibited by
applicable law, shall not be released, discharged or otherwise affected by the
existence of any claims, set-off, defense or other rights that the Guarantor
may have at any time and from time to time against any Party, whether in
connection herewith or any unrelated transactions.  This Guarantee shall
continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time
any payment of any Financial Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be
returned by any Party upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, readjustment of debt, dissolution, liquidation or similar
proceeding with respect to the Lessee or otherwise, all as though such payment
had not been made.  The Guarantor, by virtue of any payment or performance
hereunder to a Party, shall be subrogated to such Party's claim against the
Lessee or any other Person relating thereto; provided, however, that the
Guarantor shall not be entitled to receive payment from the Lessee in respect
of any claim against the Lessee arising from a payment by the Guarantor:

           (a) while an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
      in which case no such payment in respect of such a claim by the Guarantor
      may be made by the Lessee; or

           (b) in the event of any insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation,
      reorganization or other similar proceedings relating to the Lessee, or in
      the event of any proceedings for voluntary liquidation, dissolution or
      other winding-up of the Lessee, whether or not involving insolvency or
      bankruptcy proceedings, in which case the Obligations shall be paid and
      performed in full before any payment in respect of a claim by the
      Guarantor shall be made by or on behalf of the Lessee.


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     4. AMENDMENTS, ETC.  No amendment of or supplement to this Guarantee, or
waiver or modification of, or consent under, the terms hereof, shall be
effective unless evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by the Guarantor
and each Party against whom such amendment, supplement, waiver, modification or
consent is to be enforced.

     5. PAYMENTS.  All payments by the Guarantor hereunder in respect of any
Obligation shall be made in Dollars and otherwise as provided in the Lease, the
Participation Agreement or any other Operative Document in which such
Obligation is contained; provided that the Guarantor consents to all the terms
of the Trust Indenture and agrees to make all payments hereunder directly to
the Indenture Trustee until such time as the Indenture Trustee shall give
notice to the Guarantor that the Lien of the Trust Indenture has been fully
discharged and thereafter to the Owner Trustee; provided, further, that the
Guarantor shall pay directly to the Lessor, in its individual capacity, or to
the Owner Participant or another Party, as the case may be, any amount owing to
such Person as Supplemental Rent for indemnities provided in Section 7 of the
Participation Agreement or the Tax Indemnity Agreement or otherwise not
constituting part of the Trust Indenture Estate (as such term is defined in the
Trust Indenture).

     6. ASSIGNMENT OF GUARANTEE.  As and to the extent provided in the Trust
Indenture, the Lessor will assign, and create a security interest in, certain
of its rights hereunder to and for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee.  From
and after the execution and delivery of the Trust Indenture, and until receipt
by the Guarantor of a written notice from the Indenture Trustee to the effect
that the Trust Indenture has been fully satisfied and discharged, no remedy or
election hereunder may be exercised by the Lessor or consent given by the
Lessor, except by or with the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee,
and the Guarantor will make payment of all amounts hereunder that are assigned
to the Indenture Trustee directly to the Indenture Trustee, and such payments
shall discharge the obligations of the Guarantor to the Lessor to the extent of
such payments.

     7. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.  The Guarantor hereby represents and
warrants to the Parties as follows:

           (a) It is a corporation duly organized and validly existing in good
      standing pursuant to the laws of the State of Delaware.  It has all
      requisite corporate power and authority to own and operate its
      properties, to carry on its business as presently conducted and to enter
      into and perform its obligations under this Guarantee.

           (b) No order, license, consent, authorization or approval of, or
      exemption by, or the giving of notice to, or the registration with or the
      taking of any other action in respect of, any Federal, state, municipal
      or other governmental department, bureau, agency or instrumentality, and
      no filing, recording, publication or registration in any public office or
      any other place, is now, or under existing law in the future will be,
      required or necessary on its behalf to authorize the execution, delivery
      and performance (other than as contemplated by the Operative Documents in
      the case of the 
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      performance of the Non-Financial Obligations) by it of this Guarantee, or
      for the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability hereof.

           (c) Neither the execution and delivery of this Guarantee, the
      performance of its obligations hereunder, nor its consummation of the
      transactions contemplated hereby, will conflict with or result in any
      breach of, or constitute a default under, or result in any creation or
      imposition of any Lien upon any of its property or assets under, any
      applicable laws or any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other
      instrument or agreement to which it is a party or by which it may be
      bound or to which any of its property or assets may be subject, or its
      Articles of Incorporation or by-laws.

           (d) The execution, delivery and performance by it of this Guarantee
      have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action.  This
      Guarantee has been duly executed and delivered by it and constitutes its
      legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with its
      terms except as enforceability thereof may be limited by applicable
      bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium
      or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally
      and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by
      proceedings in equity or at law).

        8. JURISDICTIONAL MATTERS.  The Guarantor (a) hereby irrevocably
submits itself to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the United States District
Court for the Southern District of New York and to the non-exclusive
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County,
for the purposes of any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of this
Guarantee brought by any party, and (b) hereby waives, and agrees not to
assert, by way of motion, as a defense, or otherwise, in any such suit, action
or proceeding, to the extent permitted by applicable law, that the suit, action
or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, that the venue of the suit,
action or proceeding is improper, or that this Guarantee may not be enforced in
or by such courts.  The Guarantor hereby generally consents to service of
process at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, 100 Maiden Lane, New York, New York 
10038, Attention:  Managing Attorney, or such office of the Guarantor in New
York City as from time to time may be designated by the Guarantor in writing to
the Parties.

        9. INTEGRATION; COUNTERPARTS; SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS; HEADINGS.  This
Guarantee (a) constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all prior
agreements and understandings, both written and oral, among the Guarantor and
the Parties, with respect to the subject matter hereof, (b) may be executed in
several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of
which together shall constitute one and the same instrument, and (c) shall be
binding upon the successors and assigns of the Guarantor and shall inure to the
benefit of, and shall be enforceable by, each of the Parties to the fullest
extent permitted by applicable laws.  The headings in this Guarantee are for
purposes of reference only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect the
meanings hereof.             

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     10. NOTICES.  All requests, notices or other communications hereunder
shall be in writing, addressed as follows:

     If to the Guarantor:

                        Northwest Airlines Corporation
                        for U.S. Mail:  5101 Northwest Drive (A4010)
                                        St. Paul, Minnesota  55111-3034

                        for Overnight courier:
                                        2700 Lone Oak Parkway (A4010)
                                        Eagan, Minnesota  55121

                        Attention:  Senior Vice President -- Finance and
                                        Treasurer

                        Telecopy No.:  (612) 726-0665

     If to a Party:

                        to the address or telecopy number set forth in the
                        Participation Agreement

All requests, notices or other communications shall be given in the manner, and
shall be effective at the times and under the terms, set forth in Section 13(b)
of the Participation Agreement.

     11. NO WAIVERS.  No failure on the part of any Party to exercise, no delay
in exercising, and no course of dealing with respect to, any right or remedy
hereunder will operate as a waiver thereof; nor will any single or partial
exercise of any right or remedy hereunder preclude any other or further
exercise of such right or remedy or the exercise of any other right or remedy.

     12. SURVIVAL.  All representations and warranties contained herein or made
in writing by the Guarantor in connection herewith shall survive the execution
and delivery of this Guarantee regardless of any investigation made by any
Party or any other Person.

     13. SEVERABILITY.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any
provision of this Guarantee that is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof or any provision in any other Operative Document, and any
such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate
or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

     14. GOVERNING LAW.  THIS GUARANTEE IS DELIVERED IN, AND SHALL (AND THE
RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE GUARANTOR AND THE PARTIES SHALL) IN ALL RESPECTS BE
GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
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ALL MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE.  THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE
DEEMED MADE WHEN DELIVERED IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK. 

     15. ENFORCEMENT EXPENSES.  The Guarantor agrees to pay to any Party any
and all reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and
expenses) incurred by such Party in enforcing, or collecting under, this
Guarantee.

     16. TERMINATION.  Subject to the provisions of Section 3 hereof, this
Guarantee shall terminate upon the indefeasible payment and performance in full
of all of the Obligations.

     17. NO GUARANTEE OF SECURED CERTIFICATES.  This Guarantee relates only to
the Obligations described in Section 1 and nothing in this Guarantee shall be
deemed to constitute a guarantee of payment of any of the Secured Certificates
or shall give rise to any inference that the Lessee or the Guarantor has so
guaranteed such payment.


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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Guarantee to be
duly executed as of the date first hereinabove set forth.

                                      NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION



                                      By: ____________________________________

                                          Name:
                                          Title:


Accepted as of the above date:

FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
     in its individual capacity
     and as Owner Trustee

By:  _____________________________________
     Name:
     Title:

STATE STREET BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY
     in its individual capacity
     and as Indenture Trustee

By:
     _____________________________________
     Name:
     Title:

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                                   SCHEDULE I

                                  TO GUARANTEE

                                  [NW 1996 B]

                                    PARTIES

First Security Bank of Utah, National Association,
     in its individual capacity and as Owner Trustee

State Street Bank and Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee


[Insert Owner Participant and Bridge Lenders]


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                                                                 Exhibit 4(f)(6)

                                                                  EXECUTION COPY

================================================================================

                            PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]


                                  DATED AS OF
                                 APRIL 24, 1996

                                     AMONG


                           NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.,
                                                     Lessee,

                           [                      ],
                                                     Owner Participant,

                        LOAN PARTICIPANTS NAMED HEREIN,
                                                     Loan Participants,

               FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
          Not in its Individual Capacity, except as expressly provided
                      herein, but solely as Owner Trustee,

                                      AND

                      STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
              In its Individual Capacity and as Indenture Trustee

                             _____________________

                          ONE BOEING 757-251 AIRCRAFT


================================================================================

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                        INDEX TO PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                 Page
                                                                                 ----
<S>          <C>                                                                 <C>   
SECTION 1.   Participations in Lessor's Cost of the Aircraft..................      2
SECTION 2.   Lessee's Notice of Delivery Date.................................      3
SECTION 3.   Instructions to the Owner Trustee................................      4
SECTION 4.   Conditions.......................................................      4
             (a)Conditions Precedent to the Participations in the Aircraft....      4
             (b)Conditions Precedent to the Obligations of Lessee.............     23
SECTION 5.   [Reserved].......................................................     25
SECTION 6.   Extent of Interest of Certificate Holders........................     25
SECTION 7.   Lessee's Representations, Warranties and Indemnities.............     25
             (a)In General ...................................................     25
             (b)General Tax Indemnity.........................................     28
             (c)General Indemnity.............................................     38
             (d)Income Tax....................................................     42
SECTION 8.   Representations, Warranties and Covenants........................     42
SECTION 9.   Certain Covenants of Owner Participant, Loan Participants and
             Owner Trustee Concerning Reoptimization..........................     58
SECTION 10.  Other Documents..................................................     59
SECTION 11.  Certain Covenants of Lessee......................................     59
SECTION 12.  Owner for Federal Tax Purposes...................................     60
SECTION 13.  Certain Definitions; Notices; Consent to Jurisdiction............     60
SECTION 14.  Change of Situs of Owner Trust...................................     61
SECTION 15.  Miscellaneous....................................................     62
SECTION 16.  Expenses.........................................................     64
SECTION 17.  Refinancings.....................................................     64
SECTION 18.  Agents...........................................................     67
</TABLE>


                                      (i)


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                                   SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE I   -    Names and Addresses
SCHEDULE II  -    Commitments


                                    EXHIBITS

Exhibit A    -    Schedule of Countries Authorized for Reregistration
Exhibit B    -    Schedule of Domiciles of Permitted Sublessees
Exhibit C    -    Form of Guaranty
Exhibit D    -    ERISA Considerations





                                      (ii)


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                            PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

     THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT [NW 1996 B] dated as of April 24, 1996, among
(i) Northwest Airlines, Inc., a corporation existing pursuant to the laws of
the State of Minnesota (herein called "LESSEE"), (ii) the institution listed on
Schedule I hereto and identified therein as the "OWNER PARTICIPANT" which
executes and delivers a counterpart of this Agreement and of the Trust
Agreement (as hereinafter defined) on or prior to the Delivery Date referred to
below, (iii) the institutions listed on Schedule I and identified therein as
"LOAN PARTICIPANTS", (iv) First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, a
national banking association, not in its individual capacity, except as
expressly provided herein, but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement (herein, in such latter capacity, together with any successor owner
trustee, called the "OWNER TRUSTEE"), and (v) State Street Bank and Trust
Company, a Massachusetts trust company, in its individual capacity and as
Indenture Trustee under the Trust Indenture (as hereinafter defined) (herein,
in such latter capacity together with any successor indenture trustee, called
the "INDENTURE TRUSTEE");

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

     WHEREAS, pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (as such term is defined in
the Lease hereinafter referred to) between Lessee and the Manufacturer, the
Manufacturer has agreed to sell to Lessee, among other things, certain Boeing
757-251 aircraft, including the Aircraft which has been delivered by the
Manufacturer to Lessee and is the subject of this Agreement;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement,

           (i) Lessee and the Owner Trustee are entering into a Purchase
      Agreement Assignment [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof (herein
      called the "PURCHASE AGREEMENT ASSIGNMENT"), whereby Lessee assigns to
      the Owner Trustee certain rights and interests of Lessee under the
      Purchase Agreement with respect to the Aircraft; and

           (ii) the Manufacturer has executed the Consent and Agreement [NW
      1996 B] (herein called the "CONSENT AND AGREEMENT"), substantially in the
      form attached to the Purchase Agreement Assignment (herein called the
      "CONSENT AND AGREEMENT");

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement,
the Owner Participant is entering into a Trust Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as
of the date hereof (said Trust Agreement, as the same may be amended or
supplemented from time to time, being herein called the "TRUST AGREEMENT", such
term to include, unless the context otherwise requires, any Trust Supplement
referred to below), with the Owner Trustee, pursuant to which Trust Agreement
the Owner Trustee agrees, among other things, to hold the




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Trust Estate defined in Section 1.01 thereof (herein called the "TRUST ESTATE")
for the use and benefit of the Owner Participant;

     WHEREAS, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee concurrently with the
execution and delivery of this Agreement are entering into the Trust Indenture
and Security Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof (said Trust
Indenture and Security Agreement, as the same may be amended or supplemented
from time to time, being herein called the "TRUST INDENTURE", such term to
include, unless the context otherwise requires, the Trust Supplement referred
to below) pursuant to which the Owner Trustee issues to each of the Loan
Participants one or more secured certificates (herein called collectively, the
"SECURED CERTIFICATES", and individually, a "SECURED CERTIFICATE") as evidence
of the Owner Trustee's indebtedness to the Loan Participants arising from the
Loan Participants' making secured loans to the Owner Trustee to finance a
portion of the Owner Trustee's purchase of the Aircraft, which Secured
Certificates are to be secured by the mortgage and security interests created
by the Owner Trustee in favor of the Indenture Trustee, and the Owner Trustee
shall execute and deliver a Trust and Indenture Supplement substantially in the
form of Exhibit A to the Trust Indenture (the "TRUST SUPPLEMENT") covering the
Aircraft, supplementing the Trust Agreement and the Trust Indenture;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement,
the Owner Trustee and Lessee have entered into the Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B],
dated as of the date hereof (such Lease Agreement, as the same may be amended
or supplemented from time to time to the extent permitted by the terms thereof
and this Agreement, herein called the "LEASE", such term to include, unless the
context otherwise requires, the Lease Supplement referred to below), whereby,
subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, the Owner Trustee agrees
to lease to Lessee, and Lessee agrees to lease from the Owner Trustee the
Aircraft on the date (the "DELIVERY DATE") that the Aircraft is sold and
delivered by Lessee to the Owner Trustee under the Bill of Sale, and accepted
by the Owner Trustee for all purposes of the Lease, such acceptance to be
evidenced by the execution of the Trust Supplement covering the Aircraft, and
such lease to be evidenced by the execution and delivery of a Lease Supplement
covering the Aircraft;

     WHEREAS, certain terms are used herein as defined in Section 13(a) hereof;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein
contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

     SECTION 1. PARTICIPATIONS IN LESSOR'S COST OF THE AIRCRAFT.  (a)
Participation by Loan Participants.  Subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, each Loan Participant agrees to finance, in part, the Owner
Trustee's payment of Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft by making a secured loan to
the Owner Trustee (herein called a "LOAN") in the amount set forth on Schedule
II opposite the name of such Loan Participant.  Each Loan Participant shall
make such Loan to the Owner Trustee on a date to be designated pursuant to
Section 2 hereof, but in no event later than April 30, 1996, by transferring to
the account of the Owner Trustee at Bankers Trust Company, New York, New
York, Acct. No. 01014789, 

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ABA No. 02-100-1033, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the
Delivery Date in immediately available funds in Dollars, the amount set forth
opposite such Loan Participant's name in Schedule II hereto.

     Upon the occurrence of the above transfers by the Loan Participants to the
Owner Trustee, to evidence the obligation of the Owner Trustee to repay the
Loans together with interest thereon, the Owner Trustee shall issue and the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate Secured Certificates which shall be
delivered simultaneously to the Loan Participants under the Trust Indenture to
evidence the obligation of the Owner Trustee to repay the Loans together with
interest thereon.  The Owner Trustee agrees to pay the Secured Certificates in
installments in the amounts and on the dates provided in the Trust Indenture
together with interest thereon and all other amounts payable with respect
thereto, all as more fully provided in the Trust Indenture.

     (b) Participation by Owner Participant.  Subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, the Owner Participant hereby agrees to
participate in the payment of Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft by making an
equity investment in the beneficial ownership of the Aircraft on a date to be
designated pursuant to Section 2 hereof, but in no event later than April 30,
1996, by transferring to the account of the Owner Trustee at Bankers Trust
Company, New York, New York, Acct. No. 01014789, ABA No. 02-100-1033, not later
than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the Delivery Date in immediately
available funds in Dollars, the amount set forth opposite the Owner
Participant's name in Schedule II hereto.

     (c) General Provisions.  The amount of the participation of each of the
Loan Participants and the Owner Participant to be made as provided above in the
payment of Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft is hereinafter called such party's
"COMMITMENT" for the Aircraft.  In case any of the Loan Participants or the
Owner Participant shall default in its obligation under the provisions of this
Section 1, no other such party shall have any obligation to make any portion of
such defaulted amount available or to increase the amount of its Commitment and
the obligation of such nondefaulting party shall remain subject to the terms
and conditions set forth in this Agreement.  Upon receipt by the Owner Trustee
of all amounts to be furnished to it on the Delivery Date pursuant to this
Section 1 and the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 4 hereof,
Lessee shall transfer title to and deliver the Aircraft to the Owner Trustee,
and the Owner Trustee shall purchase and take title to and accept delivery of
the Aircraft.  In consideration of the transfer of title to and delivery of the
Aircraft to the Owner Trustee, the Owner Trustee shall, simultaneously with
such transfer of title and delivery, pay to Lessee from the amounts so
furnished it by the Participants, the Lessor's Cost of the Aircraft.

     (d) Determination of Interest Period.  The length of each Interest Period
shall be determined by Lessee on behalf of the Owner Trustee in accordance with
Section 2.02 of the Trust Indenture.


     SECTION 2. LESSEE'S NOTICE OF DELIVERY DATE.  Lessee agrees to give each
Participant, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at least two Business
Days' telecopy 
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or other written notice of the Delivery Date for the Aircraft, which Delivery
Date shall be a Business Day, which notice shall specify the amount of
Lessor's Cost and the amount of each Participant's Commitment for the Aircraft. 
As to each Participant, the making of its Commitment for the Aircraft available
in the manner required by Section 1 shall constitute a waiver of such notice.

     SECTION 3. INSTRUCTIONS TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE.  The Owner Participant
agrees that its releasing the amount of its Commitment for the Aircraft to the
account of the Owner Trustee in accordance with the terms of Section 1 shall
constitute, subject to satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in
Section 4(a), without further act, authorization and direction by the Owner
Participant to the Owner Trustee:

           (i) to pay to Lessee the Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft;

           (ii) to the extent not previously accomplished by a prior
      authorization, to authorize a representative or representatives of the
      Owner Trustee (who shall be an employee or employees, or an agent or
      agents, of Lessee designated by Lessee) to accept delivery of the
      Aircraft on the Delivery Date pursuant to the Acceptance Certificate;

           (iii) to accept from Lessee the Bill of Sale and the FAA Bill of
      Sale for the Aircraft referred to in Section 4(a)(v)(8) and 4(a)(v)(9);

           (iv) to execute an Aircraft Registration Application, the Lease
      Supplement and the Trust Supplement, in each case covering the Aircraft;

           (v) to borrow from the Loan Participants to finance a portion of the
      Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft and to issue to the Loan Participants
      Secured Certificates in aggregate principal amount equal to the amount
      borrowed, pursuant hereto and to the Trust Indenture; and

           (vi) to take such other action as may be required to be taken by the
      Owner Trustee on the Delivery Date by the terms of any Operative
      Document.

     SECTION 4. CONDITIONS.  (a)  Conditions Precedent to the Participations in
the Aircraft.  It is agreed that the obligations of each of the Loan
Participants and the Owner Participant to participate in the payment of
Lessor's Cost and to make available the amount of its respective Commitment are
subject to the satisfaction prior to or on the Delivery Date of the following
conditions precedent, except that paragraphs (iii), (v)(5), (x) (insofar as it
relates to representations and warranties only contained in the Tax Indemnity
Agreement), (xx), (xxv) (insofar as it relates to the Loan Participants),
(xxvi) and (xxvii) shall not be a condition precedent to the obligations of the
Loan Participants, and paragraphs (iv), (x) (insofar as it relates to the Owner
Participant), (xiv), (xvii) and (xxix) shall not be a condition precedent to the
obligation of the Owner Participant:

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           (i) The Loan Participants and the Owner Participant shall have
      received due notice with respect to such participation pursuant to
      Section 2 hereof (or shall have waived such notice either in writing or
      as provided in Section 2).

           (ii) No applicable law or regulations or guidelines or
      interpretations thereof by appropriate regulatory authorities shall be in
      effect which, in the opinion of such Loan Participant or the Owner
      Participant, as the case may be, or their respective counsel, would make
      it a violation of law or regulations or guidelines for such Loan
      Participant or the Owner Participant to make its Commitment available in
      accordance with Section 1 hereof or, in the case of such Loan
      Participant, to acquire a Secured Certificate or to realize the benefits
      of the security afforded by the Trust Indenture.

           (iii) In the case of the Owner Participant, the Loan Participants
      shall have made available the amount of their Commitments for the
      Aircraft in accordance with Section 1 hereof.

           (iv) In the case of the Loan Participants, the Owner Participant
      shall have made available the amount of its Commitment for the Aircraft
      in accordance with Section 1 hereof.

           (v) The following documents shall have been duly authorized,
      executed and delivered by the respective party or parties thereto, shall
      each be satisfactory in form and substance to the Documentation Agent and
      the Owner Participant and shall be in full force and effect and executed
      counterparts shall have been delivered to the Loan Participants and the
      Owner Participant, or their respective counsel, provided that only each
      Loan Participant shall receive an executed original of its respective
      Secured Certificate and provided, further, that an excerpted copy of the
      Purchase Agreement shall only be delivered to and retained by the Owner
      Trustee and the Owner Participant (but the Indenture Trustee shall also
      retain an excerpted copy of the Purchase Agreement which may be inspected
      by the Documentation Agent and its counsel before the Delivery Date and
      subsequent to the Delivery Date may be inspected and reviewed by the
      Indenture Trustee, any Loan Participant and their respective counsel if
      and only if there shall occur and be continuing an Event of Default), the
      chattel paper counterpart of the Lease and the Lease Supplement covering
      the Aircraft dated the Delivery Date shall be delivered to the Indenture
      Trustee, and the Tax Indemnity Agreement shall only be delivered to
      Lessee and the Owner Participant and their respective counsel:

                 (1) an excerpted copy of the Purchase Agreement (insofar as it
            relates to the Aircraft);

                 (2) the Purchase Agreement Assignment;

                 (3) the Lease;

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                 (4) a Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft dated the
            Delivery Date;

                 (5) the Tax Indemnity Agreement;

                 (6) the Trust Agreement;

                 (7) a Trust Supplement covering the Aircraft dated the
            Delivery Date;

                 (8) the Bill of Sale;

                 (9) the FAA Bill of Sale;

                 (10) an acceptance certificate covering the Aircraft in the
            form agreed to by the Documentation Agent, the Owner Participant
            and Lessee (herein called the "ACCEPTANCE CERTIFICATE") duly
            completed and executed by the Owner Trustee or its agent, which may
            be a representative of Lessee, and by such representative on behalf
            of Lessee;

                 (11) the Trust Indenture;

                 (12) the Secured Certificates;

                 (13) the Consent and Agreement; and

                 (14) the Guarantee.

      All of the foregoing documents, together with this Agreement, are
      sometimes referred to herein, collectively, as the "OPERATIVE DOCUMENTS"
      and, individually, as an "OPERATIVE DOCUMENT".

           (vi) A Uniform Commercial Code financing statement or statements
      covering all the security interests created by or pursuant to the
      Granting Clause of the Trust Indenture that are not covered by the
      recording system established by the Federal Aviation Act shall have been
      executed and delivered by the Owner Trustee, and such financing statement
      or statements shall have been duly filed in all places necessary or
      advisable, and any additional Uniform Commercial Code financing
      statements deemed advisable by the Owner Participant or the Documentation
      Agent shall have been executed and delivered by Lessee or the Owner
      Trustee and duly filed.

           (vii) The Loan Participants and the Owner Participant shall have
      received the following, in each case in form and substance satisfactory
      to the Documentation Agent and the Owner Participant:

                 (1) a certified copy of the Certificate of Incorporation and
            By-Laws of Lessee and a copy of resolutions of the board of
            directors of Lessee, certified 

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            by a Vice President, the Secretary  or an Assistant Secretary of
            Lessee, duly authorizing the sale of the Aircraft and the lease by
            Lessee of the Aircraft under the Lease and the execution, delivery
            and performance by Lessee of this Agreement, the Bill of Sale, the
            FAA Bill of Sale, the Lease, the Lease Supplement covering the
            Aircraft, the Purchase Agreement Assignment, the Tax Indemnity
            Agreement and each other document required to be executed and
            delivered by Lessee on or before the Delivery Date in accordance
            with the provisions hereof and thereof, and a certified copy of the
            Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Guarantor and a copy
            of resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Guarantor, certified
            by a Vice President, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
            Guarantor, duly authorizing the execution, delivery and performance
            by the Guarantor of the Guarantee;

                 (2) such other documents and evidence with respect to Lessee,
            the Guarantor, the Manufacturer, the Owner Trustee, the Owner
            Participant, the Owner Participant Guarantor, the Indenture
            Trustee, and the Loan Participants as the Loan Participants or the
            Owner Participant, or the respective counsel for the Loan
            Participants or the Owner Participant, may reasonably request in
            order to establish the authority of such parties to consummate the
            transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the taking of all
            corporate proceedings in connection therewith; and

                 (3) a certificate of Lessee as to the person or persons
            authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Purchase
            Agreement Assignment, the Lease, the Lease Supplement covering the
            Aircraft and any other documents to be executed on behalf of Lessee
            in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and as to
            the signatures of such person or persons, and a certificate of the
            Guarantor as to the person or persons authorized to execute and
            deliver the Guarantee and as to the signatures of such person or
            persons.

           (viii) All appropriate action required to have been taken prior to
      the Delivery Date in connection with the transactions contemplated by
      this Agreement shall have been taken by the Federal Aviation
      Administration, or any governmental or political agency, subdivision or
      instrumentality of the United States, and all orders, permits, waivers,
      authorizations, exemptions and approvals of such entities required to be
      in effect on the Delivery Date in connection with the transactions
      contemplated by this Agreement shall have been issued, and all such
      orders, permits, waivers, authorizations, exemptions and approvals shall
      be in full force and effect on the Delivery Date.

           (ix) On the Delivery Date the following statements shall be true,
      and the Documentation Agent and the Owner Participant shall have received
      evidence satisfactory to it to the effect that:

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                 (1) the Owner Trustee has good title (subject to filing and
            recording the FAA Bill of Sale with the Federal Aviation
            Administration) to the Aircraft on such Delivery Date, free and
            clear of Liens other than the rights of Lessee under the Lease and
            Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft, the mortgage and security
            interests created by the Trust Indenture, the rights of the Owner
            Participant under the Trust Agreement and the Trust Supplement, and
            Liens permitted by clause (v) of Section 6 of the Lease;

                 (2) the Aircraft has been duly certified by the Federal
            Aviation Administration (or there shall have been received adequate
            assurances from the Federal Aviation Administration that the
            certification will be issued as soon as the registration of the
            Aircraft is complete) as to type and airworthiness in accordance
            with the terms of the Lease;

                 (3) the FAA Bill of Sale, the Lease, the Lease Supplement, the
            Trust Indenture and the Trust Supplement covering the Aircraft
            shall have been duly filed for recordation (or shall be in the
            process of being so duly filed for recordation) with the Federal
            Aviation Administration, and the Trust Agreement shall have been
            filed (or shall be in the process of being so filed) with the
            Federal Aviation Administration; and

                 (4) application for registration of the Aircraft in the name
            of the Owner Trustee has been duly made with the Federal Aviation
            Administration.

           (x) On the Delivery Date, (A) the representations and warranties of
      Lessee, the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee contained in Sections
      7 and 8 of this Agreement and in the Tax Indemnity Agreement shall be
      true and accurate as though made on and as of such date except to the
      extent that such representations and warranties relate solely to an
      earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall be
      true and accurate on and as of such earlier date),  and (B) no event
      shall have occurred and be continuing, or would result from the purchase,
      sale, lease or mortgage of the Aircraft, which constitutes (or would,
      with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both, constitute) an
      Event of Default.

           (xi) The Loan Participants and the Owner Participant shall have
      received a favorable opinion addressed to the Loan Participants, the
      Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee, and
      reasonably satisfactory as to scope and substance to the Documentation
      Agent and the Owner Participant, from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft,
      special counsel for Lessee and the Guarantor, as to New York and certain
      federal law matters, and Lessee's and the Guarantor's in-house or other
      counsel, as to Minnesota and certain federal law matters and the Delaware
      General Corporation Law, to the collective effect that:

                 (1) Lessee is a corporation duly organized and validly
            existing pursuant to the laws of the State of Minnesota and has the
            corporate power and authority to carry on its business as now
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            perform its obligations under the Lessee Documents.  Lessee is a
            Certificated Air Carrier.  The Guarantor is a corporation duly
            organized and validly existing pursuant to the laws of the State of
            Delaware and has the corporate power and authority to enter into and
            perform its obligations under the Guarantee;

                 (2) the execution, delivery and performance of the Lessee
            Documents by Lessee and of the Guarantee by the Guarantor have been
            duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of
            Lessee and the Guarantor, as the case may be, do not require any
            approval of stockholders of Lessee or the Guarantor, as the case
            may be, or, to the knowledge of such counsel, any approval or
            consent of any trustee or holders of any indebtedness or
            obligations of Lessee or the Guarantor, as the case may be (or that
            any such approval or consent as is required has been obtained), and
            neither the execution and delivery of any thereof by Lessee or the
            Guarantor, as the case may be, nor the performance by Lessee or the
            Guarantor, as the case may be, of its respective obligations
            thereunder (A) contravenes any law, governmental rule or regulation
            or, to the knowledge of such counsel, judgment or order applicable
            to or binding on Lessee or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or
            (B) to the knowledge of such counsel, contravenes or results in any
            breach of, or constitutes any default under, or results in the
            creation of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon any property
            of Lessee or the Guarantor, as the case may be, under, any
            indenture, mortgage, chattel mortgage, deed of trust, conditional
            sales contract, bank loan or credit agreement, or any other
            agreement or instrument, corporate charter, by-law or permit issued
            by any Minnesota or United States governmental authority to which
            Lessee or the Guarantor, as the case may be, is a party or by which
            Lessee or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or its properties may
            be bound or affected;

                 (3) neither the execution and delivery by Lessee of the Lessee
            Documents or by the Guarantor of the Guarantee nor the performance
            by Lessee or the Guarantor of their respective obligations
            thereunder requires the consent or approval of, or the giving of
            notice to, or the registration with, or the taking of any other
            action in respect of, any Federal or state governmental authority
            in the United States, except for (A) the registration of the
            Aircraft (including the placement on board of the owner's copy of
            the application for registration of the Aircraft and, if necessary,
            a flying time wire), recordations and other actions referred to in
            paragraph 5 below and (B) such consents, approvals, notices,
            registrations and other actions required by the terms of the Lessee
            Documents or the Guarantee after the Delivery Date;

                 (4) the Guarantee has been duly entered into and delivered by
            the Guarantor, the Purchase Agreement (insofar as it relates to the
            Aircraft) has been duly entered into and delivered by Lessee,
            and each of the other Lessee Documents has been duly entered into
            and delivered by Lessee and each of such other Lessee Documents and
            the Guarantee constitutes the legal, valid and  

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            binding obligations of Lessee or the Guarantor, as the case may
            be, enforceable against Lessee or the Guarantor, as the case may be,
            in accordance with its respective terms, except as limited by (A)
            general principles of equity, (B) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
            fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws
            affecting the rights of creditors or lessors generally, (C)
            applicable laws which may affect the remedies provided in the Lease,
            which laws, however, do not in the opinion of such counsel make the
            remedies provided in the Lease inadequate for the practical
            realization of the benefits provided thereby, but no opinion is
            expressed as to the amount or priority of any recovery under any
            particular circumstances and, in particular, no opinion is expressed
            as to the effect on such remedies of Section 1-201(37) of the
            Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in any jurisdiction, and (D)
            in the case of indemnity provisions contained in such documents, as
            limited by public policy considerations;

                 (5) subject to the registration of the Aircraft with the
            Federal Aviation Administration in the name of the Owner Trustee,
            and assuming the due and timely filing for recordation in
            accordance with the provisions of the Federal Aviation Act of (A)
            the FAA Bill of Sale, (B) the Lease with the Lease Supplement
            covering the Aircraft, the Trust Indenture and the Trust Supplement
            attached thereto and made a part thereof and (C) the Trust
            Indenture with the Trust Supplement  attached thereto and made a
            part thereof, with respect to such portion of the Aircraft as is
            covered by the recording system established by the Federal Aviation
            Administration pursuant to Section 44107 of Title 49 of the United
            States Code by virtue of the same constituting an "aircraft" or an
            "aircraft engine" as defined in the Federal Aviation Act, no
            further filing or recording of any document (including any
            financing statement with respect to the Lease under Article 9 of
            the Uniform Commercial Code of Minnesota or Utah), is necessary in
            any applicable jurisdiction within the United States in order (x)
            to establish the Owner Trustee's title to such portion of the
            Aircraft as against Lessee or any third parties or (y) to create
            and perfect the Indenture Trustee's security interest in such
            portion of the Aircraft as against the Owner Trustee or any third
            parties.  With respect to such portion of the Aircraft, if any, as
            may not be deemed to constitute an "aircraft" or "aircraft engine"
            as defined in the Federal Aviation Act, except for the filing of
            financing statements in appropriate filing offices in the States of
            Minnesota and Utah and such other states as may be specified in
            such counsel's opinion, and for the filings of periodic
            continuation statements with respect to such filings as and when
            required, (x) under the federal laws of the United States and the
            laws of the State of New York no filing or recording of any
            document (including any financing statement) is necessary  under
            Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code in order to establish the
            Owner Trustee's title to such portion of the Aircraft as
            against Lessee and any third parties in any applicable jurisdiction
            within the United States, and (y) under the federal laws of the
            United States and the laws of the State of New York no filing or
            recording of any document 

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            (including any financing statement) is necessary or advisable under
            Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code in order to create or
            perfect the Indenture Trustee's security interest in such portion of
            the Aircraft as against the Owner Trustee and any third parties in
            any applicable jurisdiction within the United States; and

                 (6) there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or,
            to the best knowledge of such in-house counsel, threatened to which
            Lessee or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the
            properties of Lessee or any of its subsidiaries is subject other
            than those proceedings summarized in the Guarantor's publicly filed
            annual, quarterly and other reports filed with the Securities and
            Exchange Commission, and proceedings which such in-house counsel
            believes would not reasonably be expected to have a material
            adverse effect on Lessee and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or
            on the power or ability of Lessee to perform its obligations under
            the Lessee Documents.

      The opinion contemplated by this paragraph (xi) shall be to such further
      effect with respect to such other matters as the Documentation Agent or
      the Owner Participant may reasonably request.  Such opinion with respect
      to the matters specified in this paragraph (xi) may rely exclusively (A)
      upon the opinion of special counsel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, referred
      to in paragraph (xv) of this Section 4(a) with respect to the matters
      stated therein, and (B) upon the opinion of Ray, Quinney & Nebeker with
      respect to the opinion in paragraph (5) above insofar as it relates to
      the laws of the State of Utah and (C) upon the representations and
      warranties set forth herein, including, without limitation, in Section 8
      hereof, with respect to matters of fact, and may state that no opinion is
      expressed as to laws other than laws of the State of New York (in the
      case of such special counsel's opinion), the State of Minnesota and the
      Delaware General Corporation Law (in the case of Lessee's in-house or
      other counsel's opinion) and the Federal laws of the United States.  Such
      counsel may assume that, except for the filings and recordations
      contemplated herein, there are no filings or recordations with respect to
      the Aircraft, the Lease, the Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft, the
      Trust Agreement, the Trust Supplement or the Trust Indenture with the
      Federal Aviation Administration, or of Uniform Commercial Code financing
      statements naming the Owner Trustee as a debtor in the filing offices of
      the Secretary of State of Minnesota, the Secretary of State of Utah or in
      any other filing office in the States of Minnesota or Utah, or in such
      other filing offices in such other jurisdictions as shall be identified
      in such counsel's opinion.

           (xii) The Loan Participants and the Owner Participant shall have
      received a favorable opinion addressed to the Loan Participants, the
      Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee and Lessee
      and reasonably satisfactory as to scope and substance to the
      Documentation Agent, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant,
      the Owner Trustee and Lessee, from a counsel to the Manufacturer, with
      respect to the Manufacturer Documents and such other matters as such
      parties may reasonably request.

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           (xiii) The Loan Participants and the Owner Participant shall have
      received a favorable opinion addressed to the Loan Participants, the
      Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee and Lessee,
      and reasonably satisfactory as to scope and substance to the
      Documentation Agent, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant, the
      Owner Trustee and Lessee, from Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, special counsel
      for the Owner Trustee, to the effect that:

                 (1) First Security Bank of Utah, National Association is a
            national banking association duly organized, validly existing and
            in good standing under the laws of the United States, is a Citizen
            of the United States and has under the laws of the State of Utah
            and federal banking law the power, authority and legal right to
            execute, deliver and carry out in its capacity as Owner Trustee or
            in its individual capacity, as the case may be, the terms of the
            Owner Trustee Documents, including the Secured Certificates;

                 (2) First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, is the
            duly appointed Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement;

                 (3) each of the Owner Trustee Documents has been duly
            authorized, executed and delivered by First Security Bank of Utah,
            National Association, in its individual capacity, as Owner Trustee,
            or both, as the case may be, and each of the Owner Trustee
            Documents constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of
            First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its
            individual capacity, as Owner Trustee, or both, as the case may be,
            enforceable against First Security Bank of Utah, National
            Association, in its individual capacity, as Owner Trustee, or both,
            as the case may be, in accordance with its respective terms, except
            as enforcement thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
            insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting
            the rights of creditors generally and general principles of equity
            (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a
            proceeding in equity or at law) and, in the case of indemnity
            provisions contained herein and therein, as limited by public
            policy considerations, and except that certain of the remedial
            provisions in the Lease and the Trust Indenture may be limited or
            rendered unenforceable by applicable laws, which laws, however, do
            not in the opinion of such counsel make the remedies provided in
            such document inadequate for the practical realization of the
            benefits provided thereby;

                 (4) the execution, delivery and performance by the Owner
            Trustee and by First Security Bank of Utah, National Association,
            in its individual capacity, or both, as the case may be, of the
            Owner Trustee Documents and the consummation of the transactions by
            the Owner Trustee and by First Security Bank of Utah, National
            Association in its individual capacity contemplated thereby are
            not and will not be in violation of the articles of association or
            By-Laws of First Security Bank of Utah, National Association or of
            any indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other
            agreement or instrument known to  

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            such counsel after due inquiry to which First Security Bank of Utah,
            National Association in its individual capacity or as the Owner
            Trustee is a party or by which it is bound, or of any Federal or
            Utah law, governmental rule or regulation applicable to First
            Security Bank of Utah, National Association in its individual
            capacity or as the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order
            applicable to it and known to such counsel after due inquiry;

                 (5) neither the execution and delivery by the Owner Trustee
            and, where appropriate, by First Security Bank of Utah, National
            Association in its individual capacity, or both, as the case may
            be, of the Owner Trustee's Documents nor the consummation of any of
            the transactions by the Owner Trustee, by First Security Bank of
            Utah, National Association in its individual capacity, or both, as
            the case may be, contemplated thereby requires the consent or
            approval of, the giving of notice to, or the registration with, or
            the taking of any other action with respect to, any governmental
            authority or agency under any existing Federal law governing the
            banking and trust powers of First Security Bank of Utah, National
            Association or Utah law (except for filings pursuant to the Uniform
            Commercial Code, and except for compliance with requirements of the
            Federal Aviation Act as to which such counsel may express no
            opinion);

                 (6) the Trust Agreement, as supplemented by the Trust
            Supplement, duly creates for the benefit of the Owner Participant
            the trust interest in the Trust Estate which the Trust Agreement by
            its terms purports to create;

                 (7) assuming that Utah law were to govern the perfection of
            the security interests in the Trust Indenture Estate under the
            Trust Indenture, except for (i) the Indenture Trustee's taking of
            possession of the original counterparts of the Lease and the Lease
            Supplement covering the Aircraft (insofar as the Lease and the
            Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft may constitute chattel paper
            (as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in
            effect in Utah)) and all monies and securities (including
            instruments) required to be deposited with the Indenture Trustee,
            and (ii) the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements
            with the office of the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code
            of the State of Utah with respect to the security interests created
            in the Trust Indenture Estate under the Trust Indenture, naming the
            Owner Trustee as debtor and the Indenture Trustee as secured party,
            which filing has been duly effected, no other filing or recording
            or refiling or rerecording is necessary in the State of Utah to
            create, perfect or maintain the perfected status of such security
            interest (except for the timely filing of continuation statements
            in respect of such financing statements);

                 (8) assuming that the Operative Documents were negotiated to a
            substantial degree in the State of New York and that the closing of
            a substantial portion of the transactions contemplated by the
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            in the State of New York, the choice of New York law to
            govern the Participation Agreement, the Lease, and each other
            Operative Document (other than the Trust Agreement) to which the
            Owner Trustee or First Security Bank of Utah, National Association
            in its individual capacity, or both, is a party is, under the laws
            of the State of Utah, a valid choice of law and should, in a
            properly presented case, be honored by the courts of the State of
            Utah;

                 (9) the Owner Trustee has received from Lessee such title to
            the Aircraft as Lessee had immediately prior to the conveyance to
            the Owner Trustee, subject to the rights of the Owner Trustee and
            Lessee under the Lease and the security interest created pursuant
            to the Trust Indenture and the Trust Supplement;

                 (10) no taxes, fees or other charges, except taxes imposed on
            fees payable to the Owner Trustee, will be imposed by Salt Lake
            City or the State of Utah or any political subdivision or taxing
            authority thereof on or with respect to the execution, delivery or
            performance of any of the Operative Documents and the trust created
            pursuant to the Trust Agreement will not be subject to any such
            taxes, fees or other charges on, based on or measured by the net
            income of the Trust Estate (as distinguished from the net income of
            the Owner Participant) solely by reason of the Owner Trustee's
            location in Salt Lake City or the State of Utah (assuming for
            purposes of this opinion that the Owner Participant, the Owner
            Trustee and the Trust Estate would not be subject to any such tax,
            fee or other charge if the Owner Trustee performed its duties under
            the Trust Agreement and the Trust Indenture from an office located
            outside Utah); and

                 (11) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of such
            counsel, threatened proceedings against or affecting the Owner
            Trustee before any court or administrative agency, individually or
            in the aggregate, which, if determined adversely to it, would
            materially adversely affect the power or ability of the Owner
            Trustee to perform its obligations under the Owner Trustee
            Documents.

      Such opinion shall be to such further effect with respect to such other
      matters incident to the matters covered thereby as the Documentation
      Agent, the Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee or Lessee may
      reasonably request.  Such opinion may state that (A) no opinion is
      expressed as to laws other than the laws of the State of  Utah, the
      Federal laws of the United States governing the banking and trust powers
      of First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, and the Federal
      Aviation Act as it relates to paragraph (1) and (B) no opinion is
      expressed as to the priority of security interests or as to title to any
      part of the Trust Estate.  Such opinion may assume (M) the due
      authentication of the Secured Certificates by the Indenture Trustee, (N)
      that the Operative Documents (other than the Trust Agreement) are legal,
      valid and binding under the laws of the State of New York and (O) the 
      due authorization, execution and delivery of the Trust Agreement by the 
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      Documents by each of the parties thereto other than First Security Bank
      of Utah, National Association in its individual capacity and as the Owner
      Trustee.

           (xiv) The Loan Participants shall have received a favorable opinion
      addressed to the Loan Participants, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
      Trustee and Lessee, and reasonably satisfactory as to scope and substance
      to the Documentation Agent, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and
      Lessee, from Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., special counsel for the Owner
      Participant, to the effect that:

                 (1) the Owner Participant is a duly incorporated and validly
            existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State
            of New York and has the corporate power and authority to execute,
            deliver and carry out the terms of the Owner Participant Documents;

                 (2) the Owner Participant Documents have been duly authorized,
            executed and delivered by the Owner Participant and, assuming the
            due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the other
            parties thereto, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of
            the Owner Participant, enforceable against the Owner Participant in
            accordance with their respective terms, except as limited by
            general equitable principles (regardless of whether such
            enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law)
            and by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance,
            reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the rights of
            creditors generally and, in the case of indemnity provisions
            contained herein and therein, as limited by public policy
            considerations;

                 (3) neither the execution and delivery by the Owner
            Participant of the Owner Participant Documents nor the consummation
            of any of the transactions by the Owner Participant contemplated
            thereby requires the consent or approval of, the giving of notice
            to, or the registration with, or the taking of any other action
            with respect to, any governmental authority or agency of the United
            States or the State of New York or any governmental subdivision of
            either thereof) (except as shall have been duly obtained or given,
            specifying the same);

                 (4) assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery
            thereof by the Owner Trustee and the other parties, if any, thereto
            (other than the Owner Participant in the case of this Agreement),
            and the due authentication of the Secured Certificates by the
            Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee Documents (other than the
            Trust Agreement) constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of
            the Owner Trustee, enforceable against the Owner Trustee in
            accordance with their respective terms, except as limited by
            general equitable principles (regardless of whether such
            enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at
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            conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws      
            affecting the rights of creditors generally;

                 (5) assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery
            thereof by the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee as
            aforesaid, the Trust Indenture duly creates for the benefit of the
            Indenture Trustee the security interests which the Trust Indenture
            purports to create and the Indenture Trustee is entitled to the
            benefits and security afforded by the Trust Indenture;

                 (6) the execution, delivery and performance of the Owner
            Participant Documents by the Owner Participant does not require any
            approval of stockholders of the Owner Participant, or, to the
            knowledge of such counsel, any approval or consent of any trustee
            or holders of any indebtedness or obligations of the Owner
            Participant (or that any such approval or consent as is required
            has been obtained), and neither the execution and delivery of the
            Owner Participant Documents by the Owner Participant nor the
            performance by the Owner Participant of its obligations thereunder
            (A) contravenes any law, governmental rule or regulation or, to the
            knowledge of such counsel, judgment or order applicable to or
            binding on the Owner Participant or (B) to the knowledge of such
            counsel, contravenes or results in any breach of, or constitutes
            any default under, or results in the creation of any Lien (other
            than Liens provided for in the Operative Documents) upon any
            property of the Owner Participant under, any indenture, mortgage,
            chattel mortgage, deed of trust, conditional sales contract, bank
            loan or credit agreement, or any other agreement or instrument,
            corporate charter or by-law or permit issued by any New York or
            United States governmental authority to which the Owner Participant
            is a party or by which it or its properties may be bound or
            affected; and

                 (7) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of such counsel,
            threatened actions or proceedings against or affecting the Owner
            Participant before any court or administrative agency individually
            or in the aggregate which, if determined adversely to the Owner
            Participant, would have a material adverse effect on the Owner
            Participant or the ability of the Owner Participant to perform its
            obligations under the Owner Participant Documents;

      and to such further effect with respect to such other matters or
      documents relating to the Owner Participant's obligations in connection
      with this Agreement as the Documentation Agent, the Indenture Trustee,
      the Owner Trustee or Lessee may reasonably request.  Such opinion may
      rely upon the representations and warranties set forth herein, including,
      without limitation, in Section 8 hereof, as to matters of fact.  Such
      opinion may state that (M) no opinion is expressed as to laws other than
      the laws of the State of New York, and the Federal laws of the United
      States, and (N) no opinion is expressed as to the perfection or priority
      of security interests or as to title to any part of the Trust
      Estate.

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           (xv) The Loan Participants and the Owner Participant shall have
      received a favorable opinion addressed to the Loan Participants, the
      Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee and Lessee,
      and reasonably satisfactory as to scope and substance to the
      Documentation Agent, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant, the
      Owner Trustee and Lessee, from Crowe & Dunlevy, P.C., special counsel in
      Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to the effect that:

                 (1) the FAA Bill of Sale, the Lease with the Lease Supplement
            covering the Aircraft, the Trust Indenture and the Trust Supplement
            attached thereto and the Trust Indenture with the Trust Supplement
            attached thereto are in due form for recording by and have been
            duly filed for recordation with the Federal Aviation Administration
            in accordance with the provisions of Section 44107 of Title 49 of
            the United States Code;

                 (2) proper application for registration of the Aircraft in the
            name of the Owner Trustee together with the affidavits of the Owner
            Trustee and the Owner Participant required by Section
            47.7(c)(2)(ii) of Part 47 of the Federal Aviation Regulations and
            the Trust Agreement have been duly filed with the Federal Aviation
            Administration in accordance with the Federal Aviation Act, and
            such counsel is of the opinion that the Federal Aviation
            Administration will issue a Certificate of Aircraft Registration
            (AC Form 8050-3) in response to said application;

                 (3) the Owner Trustee is the owner of the legal title to the
            Aircraft, and the Aircraft is free and clear of all Liens, except
            the security interests created by the Trust Indenture and such
            other Liens as are permitted by the Lease or this Agreement;

                 (4) the Aircraft is eligible for registration in the name of
            the Owner Trustee and will be duly registered in due course in the
            name of the Owner Trustee pursuant to and in accordance with the
            provisions of Sections 44102 and 44103 of Title 49 of the United
            States Code;

                 (5) the Trust Indenture as supplemented by the Trust
            Supplement creates a duly and validly perfected first priority
            security interest in the Aircraft and a duly perfected assignment
            of all the right, title and interest of the Owner Trustee in, to
            and under the Lease as supplemented by the Lease Supplement
            (insofar as such security interest affects an interest covered by
            the recording system established by the Federal Aviation
            Administration pursuant to Section 44107 of Title 49 of the United
            States Code), subject only to the Lease and to Liens permitted by
            the Lease and the Trust Indenture, it being understood that no
            opinion need be expressed as to the validity or enforceability of
            such security interest under local law or as against third
            parties in respect of the Aircraft when the same is outside the
            United States;

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                 (6) none of the Trust Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the
            Trust Supplement, the Lease or the Lease Supplement is required to
            be filed or recorded in any other place within the United States in
            order to perfect the security interest in the Aircraft and the
            Lease as supplemented by the Lease Supplement (insofar as such
            security interest affects an interest covered by the recording
            system established by the Federal Aviation Administration pursuant
            to Section 44107 of Title 49 of the United States Code), under the
            applicable laws of any jurisdiction within the United States; and

                 (7) no authorization, approval, consent, license or order of,
            or registration with, or giving of notice to, the FAA Aircraft
            Registry is required for the valid authorization, delivery or
            performance of the Lease, the Lease Supplement, the Trust
            Agreement, the Trust Indenture and the Trust Supplement or to
            evidence the Owner Trustee's title to the Aircraft except for such
            authorizations, approvals, consents, licenses, orders,
            registrations, and notices as have been effected.

      Such opinion may state that no opinion is expressed as to laws other than
      the Federal laws of the United States.  Said opinion may also contain a
      statement to the effect that such opinion is limited to the records
      maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration Aircraft Registry and
      does not cover liens that are perfected without the filing of notice
      thereof with the Federal Aviation Administration, such as Federal tax
      liens, liens arising under Section 1368(a) of Title 29 of the United
      States Code and possessory artisans' liens, and is subject to the
      accuracy of FAA personnel in the filing, indexing and recording of
      instruments filed with the FAA and in the search for encumbrance
      cross-reference index cards for the Engines.  Said opinion may also rely
      on the opinion obtained by such counsel from counsel for the Aeronautical
      Center of the FAA, satisfactory in form and scope to such counsel, and on
      past practice of the FAA which is consistent with such Aeronautical
      Center counsel's opinion.

           (xvi) The Loan Participants and the Owner Participant shall have
      received a favorable opinion addressed to the Loan Participants, the
      Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee and Lessee, and reasonably
      satisfactory as to scope and substance to the Documentation Agent, the
      Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee and Lessee, from Bingham, Dana &
      Gould, special counsel for the Indenture Trustee, to the effect that:

                 (1) State Street Bank and Trust Company is a Massachusetts
            trust company, duly organized and validly existing in good standing
            under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has the
            full corporate power, authority and legal right to enter into and
            perform its obligations under the Indenture Trustee Documents and,
            in its capacity as Indenture Trustee, to authenticate the Secured
            Certificates to be delivered on the Delivery Date;

                 (2) the execution, delivery and performance by State Street
            Bank and Trust Company, in its individual capacity or as Indenture
            Trustee, as the case 
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            may be, of the Indenture Trustee Documents and the consummation
            by State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its individual capacity
            or as Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, of the transactions
            contemplated thereby and compliance by State Street Bank and Trust
            Company, in its individual capacity or as Indenture Trustee, as the
            case may be, with the terms thereof including, without limitation,
            the authentication of the Secured Certificates to be delivered on
            the Delivery Date, have been duly authorized by all necessary
            corporate action on the part of State Street Bank and Trust Company,
            and neither the execution and delivery thereof nor the consummation
            by State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its individual capacity
            or as Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, of the transactions
            contemplated thereby nor compliance by State Street Bank and Trust
            Company, in its individual capacity or as Indenture Trustee, as the
            case may be, with any of the terms and provisions thereof (i) does
            or will contravene any law or governmental rule or regulation of the
            United States governing the banking or trust powers of State Street
            Bank and Trust Company or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any
            order or judgment known to such counsel and applicable to or binding
            on State Street Bank and Trust Company, or (ii) does or will
            contravene or result in any breach of, or constitute any default
            under, the charter documents or by-laws of State Street Bank and
            Trust Company or the provisions of any indenture, mortgage, contract
            or other agreement, in each case known to such counsel, to which
            State Street Bank and Trust Company is a party or by which it or any
            of its properties is or may be bound or affected;

                 (3) neither the execution and delivery by State Street Bank
            and Trust Company, in its individual capacity or as Indenture
            Trustee, of the Indenture Trustee Documents or the certificates of
            authentication on the Secured Certificates to be delivered on the
            Delivery Date, nor the performance by State Street Bank and Trust
            Company, in its individual capacity or as Indenture Trustee, as the
            case may be, of any of the transactions contemplated thereby
            requires or required the consent or approval of, the giving of
            notice to, the registration with, the recording or filing of any
            document with, or the taking of any other action in respect of, any
            Federal or Massachusetts governmental authority or agency governing
            the banking or trust powers of State Street Bank and Trust Company
            or under any Massachusetts law;

                 (4) each of the Indenture Trustee Documents has been duly
            executed and delivered by State Street Bank and Trust Company, in
            its individual capacity or as Indenture Trustee, as the case may
            be, and, assuming that each such agreement is the legal, valid and
            binding obligation of each other party thereto, is the legal, valid
            and binding obligation of State Street Bank and Trust Company, in
            its individual capacity or as Indenture Trustee, as the case may
            be, enforceable against State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its
            individual capacity or as Indenture Trustee, in accordance with its
            terms, except as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization
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            principles of general application to or affecting the enforcement
            of creditors' rights;

                 (5) the Secured Certificates to be issued and dated the
            Delivery Date have been duly authenticated and delivered by the
            Indenture Trustee pursuant to the terms of the Indenture Trustee
            Documents;

                 (6) to the knowledge of such counsel, there are no pending or
            threatened actions or proceedings against or affecting State Street
            Bank and Trust Company before any court or administrative agency or
            arbitration board or tribunal which individually or in the
            aggregate, if determined adversely to it, would materially
            adversely affect the ability of State Street Bank and Trust Company
            to perform its obligations under the Indenture Trustee Documents;
            and

                 (7) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges
            ("TAXES") payable under the laws of the Commonwealth of
            Massachusetts with respect to the execution of and delivery by
            State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its individual capacity or
            as Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, of any of the Indenture
            Trustee Documents (except for taxes on any fees payable to State
            Street Bank and Trust Company in its individual capacity) which
            would not have been imposed if State Street Bank and Trust Company
            did not have its principal place of business in Massachusetts or
            did not perform its administrative duties under the Indenture
            Trustee Documents in Massachusetts. Neither State Street Bank and
            Trust Company, in its individual capacity or as Indenture Trustee,
            as the case may be, the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee, nor
            the trust created by the Trust Agreement will, as a result of the
            transactions contemplated thereby, be subject to any taxes under
            the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any political
            subdivision thereof (except for taxes on any fees payable to State
            Street Bank and Trust Company in its individual capacity) which
            would have not been imposed if State Street Bank and Trust Company
            did not have its principal place of business in Massachusetts or
            did not perform its administrative duties under the Indenture
            Trustee Documents in Massachusetts, and there are no taxes under
            the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any political
            subdivision thereof (except for taxes on any fees payable to State
            Street Bank and Trust Company in its individual capacity) upon or
            with respect to the Aircraft or any Engine or any part of any
            interest therein, or the purchase, ownership, delivery, lease,
            sublease, possession, presence, use, operation, condition, storage,
            maintenance, modification, alteration, repair, sale, return,
            transfer or other disposition of the Aircraft or any Engine which
            would not have been imposed if State Street Bank and Trust Company
            did not have its principal place of business in Massachusetts
            or did not perform its administrative duties under the Indenture
            Trustee Documents in Massachusetts;

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      and to such further effect with respect to such other matters incident to
      the matters covered thereby as the Documentation Agent, the Owner
      Participant, the Owner Trustee and Lessee may reasonably request.  Such
      opinion may state that no opinion is expressed as to laws other than the
      internal substantive laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the
      Federal laws of the United States.  Such opinion may further state that
      with respect to paragraph (4) in connection with the opinion relating to
      legality, validity and binding effect of the documents there referred to,
      such counsel has assumed that the laws of the jurisdictions whose laws
      govern such documents are not materially different from the internal
      substantive laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

           (xvii) The Loan Participants shall have received from Vedder, Price,
      Kaufman & Kammholz, special counsel for the Loan Participants, a
      favorable opinion satisfactory in substance and form to the Documentation
      Agent, as to such matters incident to the transactions contemplated
      hereby as the Documentation Agent may reasonably request.

           (xviii) The Loan Participants and the Owner Participant shall have
      received a certificate signed by the President, any Executive Vice
      President, any Senior Vice President or any Vice President of Lessee,
      dated the Delivery Date, addressed to the Loan Participants and the Owner
      Participant and certifying as to the matters stated in paragraphs (viii),
      (x) (A) (insofar as it relates to Lessee) and (xxii) of this Section
      4(a).  Copies of the orders, permits, waivers, authorizations, exemptions
      and approvals referred to in Section 4(a)(viii) shall have been furnished
      to the Loan Participants and the Owner Participant.

           (xix) The Owner Participant shall, by making its Commitment
      available as provided in Section 1(b) of this Agreement, be deemed to
      have reaffirmed the representations and warranties made by it in Section
      8 of this Agreement.

           (xx) The Owner Participant shall have received an appraisal report,
      in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Participant, from BK
      Associates, Inc., independent aircraft appraisers, or such other
      recognized aircraft appraiser agreed upon by the Owner Participant and
      Lessee.

           (xxi) The Loan Participants and Owner Participant shall have
      received an independent insurance broker's report, in form and substance
      satisfactory to the Documentation Agent and the Owner Participant, as to
      the due compliance with the terms of Section 11 of the Lease relating to
      insurance with respect to the Aircraft.

           (xxii) On the Delivery Date it shall be true that no Event of Loss
      (or event which with the passage of time would become an Event of Loss)
      with respect to the Airframe or any Engine has occurred.

           (xxiii) Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft shall be $50,000,000.

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           (xxiv) No action or proceeding shall have been instituted nor shall
      governmental action be threatened before any court or governmental
      agency, nor shall any order, judgment or decree have been issued or
      proposed to be issued by any court or governmental agency at the time of
      the Delivery Date to set aside, restrain, enjoin or prevent the
      completion and consummation of this Agreement or the transactions
      contemplated hereby.

           (xxv) The representations and warranties of the Indenture Trustee
      and the Loan Participants contained in Section 8 shall be true and
      accurate as of the Delivery Date as though made on and as of such date
      except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate
      solely to an earlier date (in which event such representations and
      warranties shall have been true and accurate on and as of such earlier
      date) and each Participant shall have received a certificate signed by
      the Chairman of the Board, the President, any Vice President or any
      Assistant Vice President of the Indenture Trustee addressed to such
      Participant and certifying as to the foregoing matters with respect to
      the Indenture Trustee.

           (xxvi) The Owner Participant shall have received from Fulbright &
      Jaworski L.L.P., special counsel to the Owner Participant, a favorable
      opinion, in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Participant,
      with respect to certain Federal income tax aspects of the transaction
      contemplated by the Operative Documents.

           (xxvii) In the opinion of the Owner Participant and its special
      counsel, there shall have been, since the date hereof, no amendment,
      modification, addition, or change in or to the provisions of the Internal
      Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through the date hereof, and the
      regulations promulgated under the Code (including temporary regulations),
      Internal Revenue Service Revenue Procedures or Revenue Rulings, or other
      administrative interpretations, applicable judicial precedents or
      Executive Orders of the President of the United States, all as in effect
      on the date hereof, the effect of which might preclude the Owner
      Participant from obtaining any of the income tax benefits and
      consequences assumed to be available to the Owner Participant as set
      forth in Section 2 of the Tax Indemnity Agreement.

           (xxviii)  The Loan Participants and the Owner Participant shall have
      received a favorable opinion addressed to the Loan Participants and the
      Owner Participant, and reasonably satisfactory as to scope and substance
      to the Documentation Agent and the Owner Participant, from Cadwalader,
      Wickersham & Taft, special counsel for Lessee, which opinion shall state
      (with customary assumptions and qualifications) that the Owner Trustee,
      as lessor under the Lease, and the Indenture Trustee, as assignee of the
      Owner Trustee's rights under the Lease pursuant to the Trust Indenture,
      would be entitled to the benefits of 11 U.S.C. Section 1110 with respect
      to the Aircraft.

           (xxix)  The Loan Participants shall have received an opinion
      addressed thereto, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
      Documentation Agent, from BK

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      Associates, Inc., independent aircraft appraisers, to the effect that the
      fair market value of the Aircraft on the Delivery Date is equal to
      Lessor's Cost.

     Promptly upon the registration of the Aircraft and the recording of the
Trust Indenture, the Lease, the Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft and the
Trust Supplement covering the Aircraft pursuant to the Federal Aviation Act,
Lessee will cause Crowe & Dunlevy, P.C., special counsel in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, to deliver to the Loan Participants, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Participant, the Owner Trustee and Lessee an opinion as to the due and valid
registration of the Aircraft in the name of the Owner Trustee, the due
recording of the FAA Bill of Sale, the Trust Indenture, such Lease Supplement,
such Trust Supplement, the Lease and the Trust Agreement and the lack of filing
of any intervening documents with respect to the Aircraft.

     (b) Conditions Precedent to the Obligations of Lessee.  It is agreed that
the obligations of Lessee (A) to sell the Aircraft to the Owner Trustee and (B)
to accept delivery of the Aircraft under the Lease, are all subject to the
fulfillment to the satisfaction of Lessee prior to or on the Delivery Date of
the following conditions precedent:

           (i) All appropriate action required to have been taken on or prior
      to the Delivery Date in connection with the transactions contemplated by
      this Agreement shall have been taken by the Federal Aviation
      Administration, or any governmental or political agency, subdivision or
      instrumentality of the United States, and all orders, permits, waivers,
      exemptions, authorizations and approvals of such entities required to be
      in effect on the Delivery Date in connection with the transactions
      contemplated by this Agreement shall have been issued, and all such
      orders, permits, waivers, exemptions, authorizations and approvals shall
      be in full force and effect on the Delivery Date.

           (ii) The conditions specified in Sections 4(a)(ii), 4(a)(iii) and
      4(a)(iv) hereof shall have been satisfied.

           (iii) Those documents described in Section 4(a)(v) shall have been
      duly authorized, executed and delivered by the respective party or
      parties thereto (other than Lessee and the Guarantor) in the manner
      specified in Section 4(a)(v), shall each be satisfactory in form and
      substance to Lessee, shall be in full force and effect on the Delivery
      Date, and an executed counterpart of each thereof (other than the Secured
      Certificates) shall have been delivered to Lessee or its special counsel.

           (iv) Lessee shall have received a copy of the resolutions or other
      instruments satisfactory to Lessee of the Board of Directors of the Owner
      Participant, or other evidence of authority satisfactory to Lessee,
      certified as of the Delivery Date by the Secretary or an Assistant
      Secretary of the Owner Participant, duly authorizing or evidencing
      authority for the execution, delivery and performance by the Owner
      Participant of all of the Owner Participant Documents, a copy of the
      resolutions or other instruments satisfactory to Lessee of the Board of
      Directors of the Owner  

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      Participant Guarantor, certified as of the Delivery Date by the Secretary
      or an Assistant Secretary of the Owner Participant Guarantor, duly
      authorizing the execution, delivery and performance by the Owner
      Participant Guarantor of the Owner Participant Guaranty, and a copy of the
      general authorizing resolutions of the boards of directors of the
      Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee, certified as of the Delivery Date
      by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Indenture Trustee and
      the Owner Trustee, respectively, which authorize the execution, delivery
      and performance by the Indenture Trustee of the Indenture Trustee
      Documents and the Secured Certificates and by the Owner Trustee of the
      Owner Trustee Documents, together with such other documents and evidence
      with respect to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Owner
      Participant Guarantor and the Owner Trustee as Lessee or its special
      counsel may reasonably request in order to establish the consummation of
      the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the taking of all
      corporate proceedings in connection therewith and compliance with the
      conditions herein set forth.

           (v) The representations and warranties of the Loan Participants, the
      Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee, contained
      in Section 8 hereof shall be true and accurate as of the Delivery Date as
      though made on and as of such date except to the extent that such
      representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date (in which
      event such representations and warranties shall have been true and
      accurate on and as of such earlier date) and Lessee shall have received a
      certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the President, any Vice
      President or any Assistant Vice President or other authorized
      representative of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant and the
      Owner Trustee, respectively, addressed to Lessee and certifying as to the
      foregoing matters with respect to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
      Participant and the Owner Trustee, respectively.

           (vi) Lessee shall have received the opinions set forth in Sections
      4(a)(xii), 4(a)(xiii), 4(a)(xiv), 4(a)(xv) and 4(a)(xvi), in each case
      addressed to Lessee and dated the Delivery Date and in each case in scope
      and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee and Lessee's special
      counsel.

           (vii) No action or proceeding shall have been instituted nor shall
      governmental action be threatened before any court or governmental
      agency, nor shall any order, judgment or decree have been issued or
      proposed to be issued by any court or governmental agency at the time of
      the Delivery Date to set aside, restrain, enjoin or prevent the
      completion and consummation of this Agreement or the transactions
      contemplated hereby.

           (viii) No applicable law or regulations or guidelines or
      interpretations by appropriate regulatory authorities shall be in effect
      which, in the opinion of Lessee or its special counsel, would make it a
      violation of law or regulations or guidelines for Lessee to enter into
      any transaction contemplated by the Operative Documents.


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           (ix) In the opinion of Lessee and its special counsel, there shall
      have been, since the date hereof, no amendment, modification, addition or
      change in or to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended through the
      date hereof, the regulations promulgated under the Code (including
      temporary regulations), Internal Revenue Service Revenue Procedures or
      Revenue Rulings, or other administrative interpretations, applicable
      judicial precedents or Executive Orders of the President of the United
      States which might give rise to an indemnity obligation of Lessee under
      any of the Operative Documents.

           (x) Lessee shall have been paid Lessor's Cost for the Aircraft.

     SECTION 5. [Reserved] .

     SECTION 6. EXTENT OF INTEREST OF CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.  No Certificate
Holder (as defined in the Trust Indenture) shall have any further interest in,
or other right with respect to, the mortgage and security interests created by
the Trust Indenture when and if the principal of and interest on all Secured
Certificates held by such holder and all other sums payable to such holder
hereunder, under the Trust Indenture and under such Secured Certificates shall
have been paid in full.  Each of the Loan Participants and, by its acceptance
of a Secured Certificate, each Certificate Holder agrees that it will look
solely to the income and proceeds from the Trust Indenture Estate to the extent
available for distribution to such Certificate Holder as provided in Article
III of the Trust Indenture and that neither the Owner Participant nor the Owner
Trustee shall be personally liable to the Loan Participants or any Certificate
Holder for any amounts payable under the Secured Certificates, the Trust
Indenture or hereunder, except as expressly provided in the Operative
Documents.

     SECTION 7. LESSEE'S REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND INDEMNITIES.  (a)  In
General.  Lessee represents, warrants and covenants to each of the Loan
Participants, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, and the Owner
Participant that as of the Delivery Date:

           (i) Lessee is a corporation duly organized and validly existing
      pursuant to the laws of the State of Minnesota; is duly qualified to do
      business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which its
      operations or the nature of its business requires, other than failures to
      qualify which would not have a material adverse effect on the
      consolidated business, assets, properties or condition (financial or
      otherwise) of Lessee and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or on the
      ability of Lessee to perform its obligations under the Lessee Documents;
      is a Certificated Air Carrier; has its chief executive office (as such
      term is used in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code) located at
      Eagan, Minnesota; holds all licenses, certificates, permits and
      franchises from the appropriate agencies of the United States and/or all
      other governmental authorities having jurisdiction necessary to authorize
      Lessee to engage in air transport and to carry on scheduled passenger
      service as presently conducted (other than those  licenses, certificates,
      permits and franchises which, if not obtained, would not have a material
      adverse effect on the consolidated business assets, properties or
      condition (financial or otherwise) of Lessee and its subsidiaries taken as
      a whole or on the ability  

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      of Lessee to perform its obligations under the Lessee Documents); and
      has the corporate power and authority to own or hold under lease its
      properties wherever located or used and to enter into and perform its
      obligations under the Lessee Documents;

           (ii) the execution, delivery and performance by Lessee of the Lessee
      Documents will, on the Delivery Date, have been duly authorized by all
      necessary corporate action on the part of Lessee, do not require any
      stockholder approval, or approval or consent of any trustee or holders of
      any indebtedness or obligations of Lessee except such as have been duly
      obtained or by the Delivery Date will have been duly obtained, and
      neither the execution or delivery thereof or the consummation by Lessee
      of the transactions contemplated thereby nor the compliance by Lessee
      with any of the terms and provisions of such agreements contravenes any
      law, judgment, government rule, regulation or order binding on Lessee or
      the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of Lessee or contravenes the
      provisions of, or constitutes a default under, or results in the creation
      of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon the property of Lessee
      under, any indenture, mortgage, contract or other agreement to which
      Lessee is a party or by which it or its properties may be bound or
      affected;

           (iii) neither the execution and delivery by Lessee of the Lessee
      Documents nor the performance by Lessee of its obligations thereunder
      require the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, or the
      registration with, or the taking of any other action in respect of, any
      Federal, State or foreign government authority or agency, except for (A)
      the orders, permits, waivers, exemptions, authorizations and approvals of
      the regulatory authorities having jurisdiction over the operation of the
      Aircraft by Lessee required to be obtained on or prior to the Delivery
      Date, which orders, permits, waivers, exemptions, authorizations and
      approvals have been duly obtained and are, or will on the Delivery Date
      be in full force and effect (other than a flying time wire, all steps to
      obtain the issuance of which will have been, on the Delivery Date, taken
      or caused to be taken by Lessee), (B) the registration of the Aircraft
      referred to in Section 4(a)(ix)(4) and (C) such consents, approvals,
      notices, registrations and other actions required by the terms of the
      Lessee Documents to the extent required to be given or obtained only
      after the Delivery Date;

           (iv) on the Delivery Date the Lessee Documents will each constitute
      legal, valid and binding obligations of Lessee enforceable against Lessee
      in accordance with the terms thereof (subject to the qualifications set
      forth in clause (4) of the form of opinion of counsel to Lessee in
      Section 4(a)(xi));

           (v) there are no pending or, to the best of Lessee's knowledge,
      threatened actions, suits or proceedings before any court, governmental
      body, arbitration board, tribunal or administrative agency which might    
      materially adversely affect the business, condition (financial or
      otherwise), operations or properties of Lessee or Lessee's ability to
      perform its obligations under the Operative Documents;

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           (vi) except for (A) the registration of the Aircraft pursuant to the
      Federal Aviation Act, (B) the filing for recording pursuant to said Act
      of the Lease with the Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft, the Trust
      Indenture and the Trust Supplement attached thereto and made a part
      thereof, the Trust Indenture with the Trust Supplement attached thereto
      and made a part thereof and the FAA Bill of Sale, (C) the filing of
      financing statements (and continuation statements at periodic intervals)
      with respect to the security and other interests created by such
      documents under the Uniform Commercial Code of Minnesota and Utah and
      such other states as may be specified in the opinion furnished pursuant
      to Section 4(a)(xi) hereof, and (D) the taking of possession by the
      Indenture Trustee of the original counterpart of each of the Lease and
      the Lease Supplement covering the Aircraft, no further action, including
      any filing or recording of any document (including any financing
      statement in respect thereof under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial
      Code of any applicable jurisdiction), is necessary in order to establish
      and perfect the Owner Trustee's title to and the Indenture Trustee's
      security interest in the Aircraft as against Lessee and any third parties
      in any applicable jurisdictions in the United States;

           (vii) there has not occurred any event which constitutes an Event of
      Default under the Lease (or any event which with the giving of notice or
      the passage of time or both would constitute an Event of Default under
      the Lease) which is presently continuing;

           (viii) Lessee is solvent and will not be rendered insolvent by the
      sale of the Aircraft; after the sale of the Aircraft the capital of
      Lessee will not be unreasonably small for the conduct of the business in
      which Lessee is engaged or is about to engage; Lessee has no intention or
      belief that it is about to incur debts beyond its ability to pay as they
      mature; and Lessee's sale of the Aircraft is made without any intent to
      hinder, delay or defraud either present or future creditors;

           (ix) The consolidated balance sheets of the Guarantor and its
      consolidated subsidiaries as of December 31, 1995 and the related
      consolidated statements of operations, cash flows and common
      stockholders' equity of the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries
      for the year then ended, which have been audited by independent certified
      public accountants, copies of which have been furnished to the Owner
      Participant and each Loan Participant, fairly present the consolidated
      financial condition of the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries as
      at such date and the results of operations and cash flow of the Guarantor
      and its consolidated subsidiaries for the period ended on such date, all
      in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently
      applied and since December 31, 1995 there has been no material adverse
      change in the consolidated financial condition, cash flow or results of
      operations of the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries;

           (x) on the Delivery Date, the Owner Trustee will receive good title
      to the Aircraft free and clear of all Liens, except Liens permitted by
      clause (v) of Section 6 of the Lease, the rights of Lessee under the
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      Aircraft, the Lien of the Trust Indenture and the beneficial interest of
      the Owner Participant in the Aircraft;

           (xi) none of the proceeds from the issuance of the Secured
      Certificates or from the acquisition by the Owner Participant of its
      beneficial interest in the Trust Estate will be used directly or
      indirectly by Lessee to purchase or carry any "margin security" as such
      term is defined in Regulation G or U of the Board of Governors of the
      Federal Reserve System;

           (xii) Lessee is not in default in the performance of any term or
      condition of the Purchase Agreement which materially adversely impairs
      the transactions contemplated hereby;

           (xiii) On the Delivery Date, all sales or use tax then due and for
      which Lessee is responsible pursuant to Section 7(b)(i) hereof shall have
      been paid, other than such taxes which are being contested by Lessee in
      good faith and by appropriate proceedings so long as such proceedings do
      not involve any material risk of the sale, forfeiture or loss of the
      Aircraft; and

           (xiv) On the Delivery Date, the Aircraft will be duly certified by
      the FAA as to type and airworthiness, will be insured by Lessee in
      accordance with the terms of the Lease and will be in the condition and
      state of repair required under the terms of the Lease.

           (b) General Tax Indemnity. [Reserved]

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     (c)  General Indemnity. [Reserved]


     (d) Income Tax.  For purposes of this Section 7, the term "INCOME TAX"
means any Tax based on or measured by gross or net income or receipts (other
than taxes in the nature of sales, use, license or property Taxes) (including,
without limitation, capital gains taxes, minimum taxes, income taxes collected
by withholding and taxes on tax preference items), and Taxes which are capital,
doing business, excess profits or net worth taxes, estate taxes, inheritance
taxes, succession taxes, medicare, FICA, FUTA and similar taxes and interest,
additions to tax, penalties, or other charges in respect thereof.

     SECTION 8. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS.  (a)  The Owner
Participant represents that it is acquiring its interest in the Trust Estate
for investment and not with a present intent as to any resale or distribution
thereof (subject nonetheless to any requirement of law that the disposition of
its properties shall at all times be and remain within its control) and that
neither it nor anyone acting on its behalf has directly or indirectly offered
any interest in the Trust Estate or any Secured Certificates or any similar
securities for sale to, or solicited any offer to acquire any of the same from,
anyone in a manner which would result in a violation of the Securities Act of
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     (b) Lessee represents and warrants that neither Lessee nor anyone acting
on behalf of Lessee has directly or indirectly offered any interest in the
Trust Estate or any Secured Certificates for sale to, or solicited any offer to
acquire any of the same from, anyone in a manner which would result in a
violation of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

     (c) Each of the Owner Participant and First Security Bank of Utah,
National Association, in its individual capacity, represents and warrants (as
to itself) to the other parties to this Agreement that it is, and on the
Delivery Date will be, a Citizen of the United States without making use of any
voting trust, voting powers agreement or similar arrangement.  The Owner
Participant agrees, solely for the benefit of Lessee and the Loan Participants,
that if (i) it shall cease to be a Citizen of the United States and (ii) while
the Aircraft is registered in the United States or at such time as Lessee
desires to reregister the Aircraft in the United States, the Aircraft shall or
would therefore become ineligible for registration in the name of the Owner
Trustee under the Federal Aviation Act and regulations then applicable
thereunder, then the Owner Participant shall (at its own expense and without
any reimbursement or indemnification from Lessee) promptly effect a voting
trust, voting powers agreement or other similar arrangement or take any other
action as may be necessary to prevent any deregistration and to maintain the
United States registration of the Aircraft or to permit reregistration of the
Aircraft in the United States, as the case may be.  It is agreed that:  (A) the
Owner Participant shall be liable to pay on request to each of the other
parties hereto and to each holder of a Secured Certificate for any damages
actually suffered by any such other party or holder as the result of the
representation and warranty of the Owner Participant in the first sentence of
this Section 8(c) proving to be untrue as of the Delivery Date; and (B) the
Owner Participant shall be liable to pay on request to Lessee, any Sublessee
and the Loan Participants for any damages which may actually be incurred by
Lessee, any Sublessee or the Loan Participants as a result of the Owner
Participant's failure to comply with its obligations pursuant to the second
sentence of this Section 8(c).  Each party hereto agrees, upon the request and
at the sole expense of the Owner Participant, to cooperate with the Owner
Participant in complying with its obligations under the provisions of the
second sentence of this Section 8(c).  First Security Bank of Utah, National
Association, in its individual capacity, agrees that if at any time an officer
or responsible employee of the Corporate Trust Department of First Security
Bank of Utah, National Association, shall obtain actual knowledge that First
Security Bank of Utah, National Association, has ceased to be a Citizen of the
United States without making use of a voting trust, voting powers
agreement or similar arrangement, it will promptly resign as Owner Trustee (if  
and so long as such citizenship is necessary under the Federal Aviation Act as
in effect at such time or, if it is not necessary, if and so long as the Owner
Trustee's citizenship would have any material adverse effect on the Loan
Participants, Lessee or the Owner Participant), effective upon the appointment
of a successor Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 9.01 of the Trust
Agreement.  If the Owner Participant or First Security Bank of Utah, National
Association, in its individual capacity, does not comply with the requirements
of this Section 8(c), the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the
Participants hereby agree that an Event of Default (or an event which would
constitute an Event of Default but for lapse of time or the giving of notice or
both) shall not have occurred and be continuing under the Lease due to
non-compliance by Lessee with the registration requirements in the Lease.

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     (d) First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its individual
capacity, represents and warrants that both the principal place of business of
the Owner Trustee and the place where its records concerning the Aircraft and
all of its interest in, to and under the Operative Documents to which it is a
party are kept is Salt Lake City, Utah.  First Security Bank of Utah, National
Association, in its individual capacity, agrees that it will not change the
location of such office to a location outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, without
prior written notice to all parties.  First Security Bank of Utah, National
Association, in its individual capacity, further represents and warrants that
(A) on the Delivery Date the Owner Trustee shall have received whatever title
to the Aircraft as was conveyed to it by Lessee, and (B) the Trust Agreement,
and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery of the Trust Agreement
by the Owner Participant, the other Owner Trustee Documents, when executed and
delivered, shall have been duly executed and delivered by one of its officers
who is duly authorized to execute and deliver such instruments on behalf of the
Owner Trustee.   First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its
individual capacity, represents that it has not offered any interest in the
Trust Estate or any Secured Certificates or any similar securities for sale to,
or solicited any offer to acquire the same from, anyone, and that no officer or
responsible employee of the Corporate Trust Department of First Security Bank
of Utah, National Association, has knowledge of any such offer or solicitation
by anyone other than Lessee.

     (e) Each Loan Participant represents and warrants that neither it nor
anyone acting in its behalf has offered any Secured Certificates for sale to,
or solicited any offer to buy any Secured Certificate from, any person or
entity other than in a manner in compliance with, and which does not require
registration under, the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the rules and
regulations thereunder.

     (f) The Owner Participant and each of the Loan Participants agree that, at
any time after the Depreciation Period, as long as no Event of Default or
Default of the type referred to in Section 14(a), 14(b) or 14(e) of the Lease
shall have occurred and be continuing, Lessee may elect to effect a change in
registration of the Aircraft, at Lessee's cost and expense, so long as (a) the
country of registry of the Aircraft is a country listed on Exhibit A hereto (or
such other country as the Owner Participant, in its sole discretion, approves)
and (b) the following conditions are met:  (i) unless the country of registry
is Taiwan, the United States maintains normal diplomatic relations with the
country of registry of the Aircraft, and if
the country of registry is Taiwan, the United States maintains diplomatic
relations at least as good as those in effect on the Delivery Date; and (ii)
the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received prior to such
reregistration favorable opinions (subject to customary exceptions) addressed
to each such party, from counsel of recognized reputation qualified in the laws
of the relevant jurisdiction and reasonably satisfactory to the Owner
Participant to the effect that:

           (A) the Owner Trustee's ownership interest in the Aircraft shall be
      recognized under the laws of such jurisdiction, (B) the obligations of
      Lessee, and the rights and remedies of the Owner Trustee, under the Lease
      shall remain valid, binding and enforceable under the laws of such
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      which the laws of such jurisdiction would refer as the applicable
      governing law) to substantially the same effect as in the United States,
      (C) after giving effect to such change in registration, the Lien of the
      Trust Indenture on the Owner Trustee's right, title and interest in and to
      the Aircraft and the Lease shall continue as a valid and duly perfected
      first priority security interest and all filing, recording or other action
      necessary to protect the same shall have been accomplished (or, if such
      opinion cannot    be given at the time of such proposed change in
      registration because such change in registration is not yet effective, (1)
      the opinion shall detail what filing, recording or other action is
      necessary and (2) the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have
      received a certificate from Lessee that all possible preparations to
      accomplish such filing, recording and other action shall have been done,
      and such filing, recording and other action shall be accomplished and a
      supplemental opinion to that effect shall be delivered to the Owner
      Trustee and the Indenture Trustee on or prior to the effective date of
      such change in registration), (D) it is not necessary, solely as a
      consequence of such change in registration and without giving effect to
      any other activity of the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant or the
      Indenture Trustee (or any Affiliate thereof), as the case may be, for the
      Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant or the Indenture Trustee to qualify
      to do business in such jurisdiction as a result of such reregistration in
      order to exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Aircraft
      pursuant to the Lease, (E) there is no tort liability of the owner or
      lessor of an aircraft not in possession thereof under the laws of such
      jurisdiction (it being agreed that, in the event such latter opinion
      cannot be given in a form satisfactory to the Owner Participant, such
      opinion shall be waived if insurance reasonably satisfactory to the Owner
      Participant is provided to cover such risk), and (F) (unless Lessee shall
      have agreed to provide insurance covering the risk of requisition of use
      of such Aircraft by the government of such jurisdiction so long as such
      Aircraft is registered under the laws of such jurisdiction) the laws of
      such jurisdiction require fair compensation by the government of such
      jurisdiction payable in currency freely convertible into Dollars for the
      loss of use of such Aircraft in the event of the requisition by such
      government of such use.

In addition, as a condition precedent to any such change in registration, (a)
Lessee shall furnish to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate to the effect that the insurance required by Section 11
of the Lease shall be in full force and effect at the   time of such change in
registration after giving effect to such change in registration and that the new
country of registry imposes aircraft maintenance standards not materially
different from those of the United States, France, Germany, Japan, the
Netherlands or the United Kingdom and (b) the Owner Participant shall have
received assurances reasonably satisfactory to it as to the matters in the
preceding clause (a) and that (i) the original indemnities in favor of it under
this Agreement afford it substantially the same protection as provided prior to
such change in registry, (ii) no Liens shall arise from such reregistration
other than Permitted Liens and (iii) such change will not result in the risk of,
or the imposition of, or increase the amount of, any Tax for which Lessee is not
required to indemnify under the Operative Documents, or is not then willing to
enter into a binding agreement to indemnify in a manner reasonably satisfactory
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expenses, fees, recording and registration taxes, including the reasonable
fees and expenses of counsel to the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant and the
Indenture Trustee, and other charges in connection with any such change in
registration.

     (g) The Owner Participant represents and warrants to Lessee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Loan Participants and the Owner Trustee, in its capacity as such
and in its individual capacity, as follows:

           (i) the Owner Participant is a corporation duly organized and
      validly existing in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of
      organization, and has the corporate power and authority to carry on its
      business as now conducted, to own or hold under lease its properties and
      to enter into and perform its obligations under the Owner Participant
      Documents, and has a tangible net worth (exclusive of goodwill) greater
      than $75,000,000;

           (ii) the Owner Participant Documents have been duly authorized by
      all necessary corporate action on the part of the Owner Participant, do
      not require any approval not already obtained of stockholders of the
      Owner Participant or any approval or consent not already obtained of any
      trustee or holders of any indebtedness or obligations of the Owner
      Participant, and have been duly executed and delivered by the Owner
      Participant, and neither the execution and delivery thereof, nor the
      consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, nor compliance by
      the Owner Participant with any of the terms and provisions thereof will
      contravene any United States Federal or state law, judgment, governmental
      rule, regulation or order applicable to or binding on the Owner
      Participant (it being understood that no representation or warranty is
      made with respect to laws, rules or regulations relating to aviation or
      to the nature of the equipment owned by the Owner Trustee, other than
      such laws, rules or regulations relating to financing or the citizenship
      requirements of the Owner Participant under applicable aviation law) or
      contravene or result in any breach of or constitute any default under, or
      result in the creation of any Lien (other than Liens provided for in the
      Operative Documents) upon any property of the Owner Participant under,
      any indenture, mortgage, chattel mortgage, deed of trust, conditional     
      sales contract, bank loan or credit agreement, corporate charter, by-law
      or other agreement or instrument to which the Owner Participant is a party
      or by which it or its properties may be bound or affected;

           (iii) each of the Owner Participant Documents constitutes a legal,
      valid and binding obligation of the Owner Participant enforceable against
      the Owner Participant in accordance with the terms thereof (subject to
      the qualifications set forth in clause (2) of the opinion of counsel to
      the Owner Participant in Section 4(a)(xiv));

           (iv) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Owner
      Participant, threatened actions or proceedings against the Owner
      Participant before any court or administrative agency which, if
      determined adversely to the Owner Participant, would materially adversely
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      ability of the Owner Participant to perform its obligations under
      the Owner Participant Documents;

           (v) upon the execution and delivery of the Trust Indenture, the
      Trust Indenture Estate will be free and clear of Lessor Liens (including
      for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in
      the definition of Lessor Liens) attributable to the Owner Participant;
      and

           (vi) neither the execution and delivery of the Owner Participant
      Documents nor the performance by the Owner Participant of its obligations
      thereunder require the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to,
      or the registration with, or the taking of any other action in respect of
      any Federal, state or foreign government authority or agency except for
      those exceptions referred to in Section 7(a)(iii) which may be applicable
      to the Owner Participant and the Owner Participant Documents.

     (h) Each of First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its
individual capacity, and the Owner Participant covenants and agrees that it
shall not cause or permit to exist a Lessor Lien attributable to it with
respect to the Aircraft or any other portion of the Trust Estate.  Each of
First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its individual capacity,
and the Owner Participant agrees that it will promptly, at its own expense,
take such action as may be necessary duly to discharge such Lessor Lien
attributable to it.  Each of First Security Bank of Utah, National Association,
in its individual capacity, and the Owner Participant agrees to make
restitution to the Trust Estate for any actual diminution of the assets of the
Trust Estate resulting from Lessor Liens (including for this purpose Liens that
would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens)
attributable to it.

     (i) State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its individual capacity,
covenants and agrees that it shall not cause or permit to exist any Lien,
arising as a result of (A) claims against the Indenture Trustee not related to
its interest in the Aircraft or the administration of the Trust Indenture Estate
pursuant to the Trust Indenture, (B) acts of the Indenture Trustee not permitted
by, or failure of the Indenture Trustee to take any action required by, the
Operative Documents, (C) claims against the Indenture Trustee relating to Taxes
or Expenses which are excluded from the indemnification provided by Section 7
pursuant to said Section 7, or (D) claims against the Indenture Trustee arising
out of the transfer by the Indenture Trustee of all or any portion of its
interest in the Aircraft, the Trust Estate, the Trust Indenture Estate or the
Operative Documents other than a transfer of the Aircraft pursuant to Section 9,
10 or 19 of the Lease or Article IV or V of the Trust Indenture, any borrowing
pursuant to Section 9 hereof or a transfer of the Aircraft pursuant to Section
15 of the Lease while an Event of Default is continuing and prior to the time
that the Indenture Trustee has received all amounts due pursuant to the Trust
Indenture.

     (j) Each Loan Participant represents, warrants, covenants and agrees as to
itself:  (i) that this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by such Loan Participant and this Agreement constitutes a legal,
valid and binding obligation of such Loan Participant enforceable against such
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enforcement thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors
generally and general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); (ii) that
such Loan Participant is duly organized and validly existing under the laws of
its jurisdiction of organization; and  (iii) that such Loan Participant has full
power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and carry out the terms of
this Agreement.

     (k) Each Loan Participant represents and warrants that the Secured
Certificate to be issued to it pursuant to the Trust Indenture is being
acquired by it for investment and not with a view to resale or distribution (it
being understood that such Loan Participant may pledge or assign as security
its interest in each Secured Certificate issued to it), provided that the
disposition of its property shall at all times be and remain within its
control, except that the Loan Participants may sell, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any Secured Certificate or any portion thereof, or grant
participations therein, in a manner which in itself does not require
registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and which is
consistent with the applicable provisions of the Credit Agreement.

     (l) The Indenture Trustee, and by acceptance of the Secured Certificates
the Certificate Holders, hereby (i) agree that for purposes of the application
of Section 1111(b) of Title 11 of the United States Code or any successor
provision or any comparable provisions that the "debtor" in any bankruptcy
proceeding involving the assets held or administered pursuant to the Trust
Agreement shall be strictly limited to the Trust Estate (excluding the Excluded
Payments) and (ii) make (and hereby agree to make), with respect to the Trust
Indenture Estate, the election provided for in Section 1111(b)(2) of Title 11
of the United States Code.  It is hereby agreed by the Indenture Trustee, and
by the acceptance of the Secured Certificates the Certificate Holders hereby
agree, that if (i) all or any part of the Trust Estate becomes the property of,
or the Owner Participant becomes, a debtor subject to the reorganization
provisions of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 or any successor provision or
any comparable proceeding, (ii) pursuant to such reorganization provisions the
Owner Trustee (in its individual capacity) or the Owner Participant is
required, by reason of the Owner Trustee (in its individual capacity) or the
Owner Participant being held to have recourse liability to the holder(s) of the
Secured Certificates or to the Indenture Trustee, directly or indirectly (other
than the recourse liability of the Owner Participant under this Participation
Agreement), to make payment on account of any amount payable as
principal or interest on the Secured Certificates and (iii) any holder(s) of the
Secured Certificates or the Indenture Trustee actually receives any Excess
Payment (as hereinafter defined) which reflects any payment by the Owner Trustee
(in its individual capacity) or the Owner Participant on account of (ii) above,
then such holder(s) or the Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, shall promptly
refund to the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant (whichever shall have made
such payment) such Excess Payment.  For purposes of this Section 8(l), "EXCESS
PAYMENT" means the amount by which such payment exceeds the amount which would
have been received by the holder(s) of the Secured Certificates or the Indenture
Trustee if the Owner Trustee (in its individual capacity) or the Owner
Participant had not become subject to the recourse liability referred to in (ii)
above.  Nothing contained in this Section 8(l) shall prevent the holder of a
Secured Certificate or the Indenture Trustee from enforcing any personal
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retaining the proceeds thereof) of the Owner Trustee (in its individual
capacity) or the Owner Participant under this Agreement or the Trust Indenture
(and any exhibits or annexes thereto) that is expressed as being an obligation
of the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee (in its individual capacity).

     (m) State Street Bank and Trust Company represents and warrants, in its
individual capacity, to Lessee, the Owner Trustee and each Participant as
follows:

           (i) it is a Citizen of the United States without making use of any
      voting trust, voting powers trust agreement or other similar arrangement,
      will notify promptly all parties to this Agreement if in its reasonable
      opinion its status as a Citizen of the United States without making use
      of any voting trust, voting powers trust agreement or other similar
      arrangement, is likely to change and that it will resign as Indenture
      Trustee as provided in Section 8.02 of the Trust Indenture if it should
      cease to be a Citizen of the United States without making use of any
      voting trust, voting powers trust agreement or other similar arrangement;

           (ii) it is a Massachusetts trust company duly organized and validly
      existing in good standing under the laws of the Commonwealth of
      Massachusetts and has the requisite corporate power and authority to
      enter into and perform its obligations under the Trust Indenture and this
      Agreement and to authenticate the Secured Certificates to be delivered on
      the Delivery Date;

           (iii) the Indenture Trustee Documents and the authentication of the
      Secured Certificates to be delivered on the Delivery Date have been duly
      authorized by all necessary corporate action on its part, and neither the
      execution and delivery thereof nor its performance of any of the terms
      and provisions thereof will violate any Federal or state law or
      governmental rule or regulation relating to its banking or trust powers
      or contravene or result in any breach of, or constitute any default under
      its charter or by-laws or the provisions of any indenture, mortgage,
      contract or other agreement to which it is a party or by which it or its
      properties may be bound or affected; and

           (iv) each of the Indenture Trustee Documents has been duly executed
      and delivered by State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its individual
      capacity or as Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, and, assuming
      that each such agreement is the legal, valid and binding obligation of
      each other party thereto, is the legal, valid and binding obligation of
      State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its individual capacity or as
      Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, enforceable against  State Street
      Bank and Trust Company, in its individual capacity or as Indenture
      Trustee, as the case may be, in accordance with its terms except as
      limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws or
      equitable principles of general application to or affecting the
      enforcement of creditors' rights.

     (n) The Owner Participant will not, directly or indirectly, sell, assign,
convey or otherwise transfer any of its right, title or interest in and to this
Agreement, the Trust Estate or the Trust Agreement or any proceeds therefrom to
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(i) the proposed transferee is a "Transferee" (as defined below) and (ii) the
Owner Participant sells, assigns, conveys or    otherwise transfers all of its
right, title and interest in and to this Agreement, the Trust Estate, the Trust
Agreement and the proceeds therefrom to a single entity.  A "TRANSFEREE" shall
mean either (A) a bank, finance company, insurance company, leasing company,
institutional investor or other financial institution with a combined capital,
surplus and undivided profits of at least $75,000,000 or a corporation whose
tangible net worth is at least $75,000,000, exclusive of goodwill, in either
case as of the proposed date of such transfer, as determined in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, or (B) any Affiliate of such a Person
identified in clause (A), provided that such Person furnishes to the Owner
Trustee, the Loan Participants, the Indenture Trustee and Lessee a guaranty with
respect to the Owner Participant's obligations, in the case of the Owner
Trustee, under the Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Loan Participants,
the Indenture Trustee and Lessee, the Owner Participant's obligations hereunder,
including but not limited to, under Section 8(c) and Section 8(h) hereof, in the
form attached as Exhibit C hereto or otherwise in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Lessee, the Owner Trustee and the Majority in Interest of
Certificate Holders; provided, however, that any Transferee shall not be an
airline, a commercial air carrier, an air freight forwarder, an entity engaged
in the business of parcel transport by air or other similar person or a
corporation or other entity controlling, controlled by or under common control
with such an airline, a commercial air carrier, an air freight forwarder, an
entity engaged in the business of parcel transport by air or other similar
person.  Each such transfer to a Transferee shall be subject to the conditions
that (M) upon giving effect to such transfer, the Transferee is a Citizen of the
United States (including by use of a voting trust agreement, voting powers
agreement or other similar arrangement), and has full power and authority to
enter into the transactions contemplated hereby, (N) the Transferee has the
requisite power and authority to enter into and carry out the transactions
contemplated hereby and such Transferee shall have delivered to Lessee, the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Loan Participants an opinion of
counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such persons as to the
due authorization, delivery, legal, valid and binding effect and enforceability
of the agreement or agreements referred to in the next clause with respect to
the Transferee and any guaranty provided pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 8(n) as to guarantor, (O) the Transferee enters into an agreement or
agreements, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Owner
Trustee, the Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders, Lessee and the
Indenture Trustee, whereby the Transferee confirms that it shall be deemed a
party to this Agreement and a party to the Trust Agreement and agrees to be
bound by all the terms of, and to undertake all of the obligations of the
transferor Owner Participant contained in, the Owner Participant Documents (to
the extent of the participation so transferred to it) and makes the
representations and warranties made by the Owner Participant thereunder, (P)
such transfer does not affect registration of the Aircraft under the Federal
Aviation Act, or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder or create a
relationship which would be in violation thereof or violate any provision of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any other applicable Federal or state
law, (Q) the transferor Owner Participant assumes the risk of any loss of its
Interest Deductions, Amortization Deductions and MACRS Deductions and its risk
of any Inclusion Event (each as defined in the Tax Indemnity Agreement) to the
extent resulting from such transfer, (R) the transferor Owner Participant

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pays all of the reasonable costs and expenses (including, without limitation,
reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) incurred in connection with such
transfer, including the reasonable costs and expenses of the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, Lessee and the Loan Participants in connection therewith,
and (S) the terms of the Operative Documents and the Overall Transaction shall
not be altered.  Upon any such transfer by the Owner Participant as above
provided, the Transferee shall be deemed the Owner Participant for all purposes
hereof and of the other Operative Documents and each reference herein to the
transferor Owner Participant shall thereafter be deemed for all purposes to be
to the Transferee and the transferor Owner Participant shall be relieved of all
obligations of the transferor Owner Participant under the Owner Participant
Documents arising after the date of such transfer except to the extent fully
attributable to or arising out of acts or events occurring prior thereto and
not assumed by the Transferee (in each case, to the extent of the participation
so transferred).  If the Owner Participant intends to transfer any of its
interests hereunder, it shall give 20 (10, in the case of a transfer to an
Affiliate of the Owner Participant) days' prior written notice thereof to the
Loan Participants, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and Lessee,
specifying the name and address of the proposed Transferee.  For the avoidance
of doubt, in the event that [                       ] or an Affiliate of    
[                   ] is the Owner Participant, nothing in this Section 8(n)
shall be deemed to restrict the ability of [                       ] or such
Affiliate to merge with, consolidate with, or transfer all or substantially all
of its assets to any Person which is not an Affiliate of [                  ],
provided that such Person agrees to be bound by all of the terms of the
Operative Documents and undertakes all of the obligations of the Owner
Participant thereunder.

     (o) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8(x) hereof, unless waived
by the Loan Participants, Lessee shall not be entitled to assume the Secured
Certificates on the date for purchase of the Aircraft pursuant to Section 19(d)
of the Lease if on such date an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing or any condition or event shall exist which, with the passage of
time or giving of notice or both, would become such an Event of Default.

     (p) First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, and State Street
Bank and Trust Company, each in its individual capacity, agrees for the benefit
of Lessee to comply
with the terms of the Trust Indenture which it is required to comply with in
its individual capacity.

     (q)(A) Each Loan Participant represents and warrants that (i) it is not an
"employee benefit plan" subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), or an individual retirement
account, individual retirement annuity or plan subject to Section 4975 of the
Code (hereafter collectively referred to as an "ERISA Plan"), and (ii) no part
of the funds to be used by it to acquire or hold any Secured Certificate (or
any participation or other interest therein) constitutes assets of an ERISA
Plan, or any trust established under any ERISA Plan, or of a "church plan", as
defined in Section 3(33) of ERISA or Section 414(e) of the Code, or of a
"governmental plan", as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA or Section 414(d) of
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United States having prohibitions on transactions with such church or
governmental plan substantially similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975
of the Code ("Plan Assets").  Each Loan Participant covenants that it will not
grant participations (including, without limitation, "risk participations") in
its Secured Certificate or Secured Certificates to any Person unless such
Person represents, warrants and covenants in accordance with the immediately
preceding sentence, and agrees not to transfer the interest so acquired except
to another Person qualifying under the terms of this sentence.  Other than as
set forth in the immediately preceding sentence, each Loan Participant covenants
that it will not transfer (including, without limitation, by a change in the
capacity in which it holds any Secured Certificates) any interest in any Secured
Certificate to any Person unless such Person represents and warrants (or is
deemed to represent and warrant) in accordance with the first sentence of this
Section 8(q)(A), and unless such Person agrees (or is deemed to agree) not to
transfer any such interest except in compliance with the terms of the
immediately preceding sentence or this sentence.  The Owner Participant
represents and warrants that it is not an ERISA Plan and is not to any extent
acquiring its interest in the Trust Estate or any interests represented thereby
with Plan Assets.  The Owner Participant covenants that it will not transfer any
of its right, title or interest in and to this Agreement, the Trust Estate or
the Trust Agreement or any proceeds therefrom to any Person unless such Person
makes (or is deemed to have made) a representation and warranty as of the date
of transfer that either (i) such Person is not an ERISA Plan and no part of the
funds to be used by it for the purchase of such right, title and interest (or
any part thereof) constitutes Plan Assets, or (ii) that such transfer will not
result in a prohibited transaction (as defined in Section 4975 of the Code and
ERISA).

     (B) Lessee represents and warrants that: none of (i) the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the other Operative Documents, (ii) the initial
purchase by the Loan Participants of the Secured Certificates, and (iii) the
initial acquisition by the Owner Participant of its beneficial interest in the
Trust Estate will involve any non-exempt prohibited transaction within the
meaning of Section 406(a) of ERISA or Section 4975(c)(1)(A) through (D) of the
Code (such representation being made in reliance upon and subject to the
accuracy of the representations contained in subparagraph (A) of this Section
8(q)).

     (r) Each Participant, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee agrees
for the benefit of the Manufacturer and Lessee that it will not disclose or
suffer to be disclosed  the terms of the Purchase Agreement to any third party
except (A) as may be required by any applicable statute, court or administrative
order or decree or governmental ruling or regulation or to any regulatory
authorities having official jurisdiction over them, (B) in connection with the
financing of the Aircraft and the other transactions contemplated by the
Operative Documents (including any transfer of Secured Certificates (including
by way of participation or assignment of an interest, provided such participant
or assignee agrees to hold such terms confidential to the same extent as herein
provided) or the Owner Participant's beneficial interest in the Trust Estate and
any exercise of remedies under the Lease and the Trust Indenture), (C) with the
prior written consent of the Manufacturer and Lessee, (D) to the Owner
Trustee's, the Indenture Trustee's and each Participant's counsel or special
counsel, independent insurance brokers or other agents who agree to hold such
information confidential, or (E) in the case of the Owner Participant and/or the
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disclose so much of the Purchase Agreement as has been assigned to the
Owner Trustee under the Purchase Agreement Assignment and not specifically
reserved to Lessee under Section 1 thereof, to bona fide potential purchasers of
the Aircraft.

     (s) The Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant severally, not jointly,
represent and warrant that none of the funds made available by the Loan
Participants pursuant to Section 1 hereof will be used for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying any "margin security" as defined in Regulation G of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or for the purpose of reducing
or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase or carry
such margin security or for any other purpose which might cause the transaction
contemplated by this Agreement to constitute a "purpose credit" within the
meaning of Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, assuming that the proceeds were and are applied as contemplated by the
provisions of this Agreement.

     (t) Each Loan Participant covenants and agrees that it shall not cause or
permit to exist a Loan Participant Lien attributable to it with respect to the
Aircraft or any other portion of the Trust Estate.  Each Loan Participant
agrees that it will promptly, at its own expense, take such other action as may
be necessary duly to discharge such Loan Participant Lien attributable to it.
Each Loan Participant agrees to make restitution to the Trust Estate for any
actual diminution of the assets of the Trust Estate resulting from such Loan
Participant Lien attributable to it.  Each Loan Participant agrees that Lessee
may, on behalf of the Owner Trustee and upon notice to the affected Certificate
Holder, arrange for another institution (which may be a Certificate Holder) to
purchase the Secured Certificates of the affected Certificate Holder (providing
that such transfer is otherwise in accordance with Section 8(q)(A) hereof) by
paying the affected Certificate Holder an amount equal to the unpaid principal
amount of the Secured Certificates held by the affected Certificate Holder plus
accrued but unpaid interest thereon to the date of payment of such principal
amount plus all other amounts owed to such affected Certificate Holder under
the Operative Documents (including any Funding Loss Amount payable as a result
of the applicable purchase occurring on a day other than the last day of an
Interest Period).  For purposes of this Section 8(t), "AFFECTED CERTIFICATE
HOLDER" shall mean a Certificate Holder which has asserted claims against the
Owner Trustee or Lessee under or sought rights or remedies provided by Section
7(b) hereof or Section 11.01 or 11.02 of the Trust Indenture.

     (u) State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its individual capacity,
covenants and agrees that it shall not cause or permit to exist any Indenture
Trustee's Liens with respect to the Trust Indenture Estate or the Trust Estate.
State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its individual capacity, agrees that
it will promptly, at its own expense, take such action as may be necessary duly
to discharge such Indenture Trustee's Liens.  State Street Bank and Trust
Company, in its individual capacity, agrees to make restitution to the Trust
Estate for any actual diminution of the assets of the Trust Indenture Estate or
the Trust Estate resulting from such Indenture Trustee's Liens.

     (v) First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its individual
capacity, represents and warrants that:

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           (i) the Trust Agreement and, assuming due authorization, execution
      and delivery of the Trust Agreement by the Owner Participant, each of the
      other Owner Trustee Documents has been duly executed and delivered by one
      of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver such
      instruments on behalf of First Security Bank of Utah, National
      Association or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be;

           (ii) the Trust Estate is free and clear of Lessor Liens (including
      for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in
      the definition of Lessor Liens) attributable to First Security Bank of
      Utah, National Association, in its individual capacity, and there are no
      Liens affecting the title of the Owner Trustee to the Aircraft or any
      part of the Trust Estate or the Trust Indenture Estate resulting from any
      act or claim against First Security Bank of Utah, National Association,
      in its individual capacity, arising out of any event or condition not
      related to the ownership, leasing, use or operation of the Aircraft or to
      any other transaction contemplated by this Agreement or any of the
      Operative Documents, including any such Lien resulting from the
      nonpayment by First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its
      individual capacity, of any Taxes imposed or measured by its net income;

           (iii) there has not occurred any event which constitutes (or to the
      best of its knowledge would, with the passage of time or the giving of
      notice or both, constitute) an Event of Default as defined in the Trust
      Indenture which has been caused by or relates to First Security Bank of
      Utah, National Association, in its individual capacity, and which is
      presently continuing;

           (iv) it is a national banking association duly organized, validly
      existing and in good standing under the laws of the United States and has
      the full corporate power, authority and legal right to enter into and
      perform its obligations under each of the Owner Trustee Documents (to the
      extent entered into in its individual capacity) and assuming due
      authorization, execution and delivery of the Trust Agreement by the Owner
      Participant, has all requisite power and authority as Owner Trustee to
      execute, deliver and perform the other Owner Trustee Documents;

           (v) each of the Owner Trustee Documents has been duly authorized by
      all necessary corporate action on its part, and neither the execution and
      delivery thereof, either in its individual capacity or (assuming due
      authorization, execution and delivery of the Trust Agreement by the Owner
      Participant) as Owner Trustee, as the case may be, nor its performance of
      any of the terms and provisions thereof will violate any Federal law
      governing the banking and trust powers of First Security Bank of Utah,
      National Association, or Utah law or regulation or contravene or result in
      any breach of the provisions of its articles of association or By-Laws or
      any indenture, mortgage, contract or other agreement to which it is a
      party or by which it or its properties may be bound or affected;

           (vi) each of the Owner Trustee Documents has been duly executed and
      delivered by First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its
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      capacity, as Owner Trustee, or both and, assuming that each such agreement
      is the legal, valid and binding obligation of each other party thereto,
      each thereof is the legal, valid and binding obligation of        First
      Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its individual capacity,
      as Owner Trustee, or both, as the case may be, enforceable against First
      Security Bank of Utah, National Association, in its individual capacity,
      as Owner Trustee, or both, as the case may be, in accordance with its
      respective terms except as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
      reorganization or other similar laws or equitable principles of general
      application to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights; and

           (vii) there are no Taxes payable by it (either in its individual
      capacity or as Owner Trustee), the Trust Estate, the Owner Participant,
      Lessee, the Indenture Trustee or the Loan Participants to the State of
      Utah in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of the
      Operative Documents solely because First Security Bank of Utah, National
      Association is a national banking association with its principal office
      in the State of Utah and will perform its obligations under the Operative
      Documents in the State of Utah, other than franchise or other taxes based
      on or measured by any fees or compensation received or accrued by First
      Security Bank of Utah, National Association for services rendered in
      connection with the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents.

     (w) The Owner Participant covenants and agrees that if (i) Lessee has
elected pursuant to Section 9(a)(2) of the Lease to terminate the Lease by
causing the Aircraft to be sold pursuant to Section 9(c) of the Lease and (ii)
the Owner Trustee has, pursuant to Section 9(c) of the Lease, given to Lessee
written notice of Lessor's election to retain title to the Aircraft and (iii)
the Owner Trustee has failed to make, on or before the Termination Date, any
payment required to be made by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 9(c) in
connection with its retention of title to the Aircraft, the Owner Participant
will indemnify Lessee for any losses, damages, costs or expenses of any kind
(including any additional rents paid by Lessee and any fees and expenses of
lawyers, appraisers, brokers or accountants) incurred as a consequence of such
failure by the Owner Trustee.  The Owner Participant further covenants and
agrees to pay those costs and expenses specified to be paid by the Owner
Participant pursuant to Exhibit E to the Lease.

     (x) Each of the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, each Loan Participant and Lessee covenants and agrees that if Lessee
elects (a) to purchase the Aircraft pursuant to Section 19(b) of the Lease or
(b) to terminate the Lease and purchase the Aircraft pursuant to Section 19(d)
of the Lease, then each of the parties will, upon compliance by Lessee with all
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appropriate documentation transferring all right, title and interest in the
Aircraft to Lessee (including, without limitation, such bills of sale and other
instruments and documents as Lessee shall reasonably request to evidence (on the
public record or otherwise) such transfer and the vesting of all right, title
and interest in and to the Aircraft in Lessee), and if Lessee, in connection
with such purchase, elects to assume the obligations of the Owner Trustee
pursuant        to the Trust Indenture and the Secured Certificates each of the
parties will execute and deliver appropriate documentation permitting Lessee to
assume such obligations on the basis of full recourse to Lessee, maintaining the
security interest in the Aircraft created by the Trust Indenture, releasing the
Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee from all future obligations in respect
of the Secured Certificates, the Trust Indenture and all other Operative
Documents and all such other actions as are reasonably necessary to permit such
assumption by Lessee.

     (y) (A) Lessee will not consolidate with or merge into any other
corporation or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its assets
as an entirety to any Person unless:

           (i) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
      Lessee is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, transfer or
      lease all or substantially all of the assets of Lessee as an entirety
      shall be a Certificated Air Carrier;

           (ii) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
      Lessee is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, transfer or
      lease all or substantially all of the assets of Lessee as an entirety
      shall execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and
      each Participant an agreement in form and substance reasonably
      satisfactory to such Participant containing an assumption by such
      successor corporation or Person of the due and punctual performance and
      observance of each covenant and condition of this Agreement, the Lease,
      the Purchase Agreement Assignment and the Tax Indemnity Agreement to be
      performed or observed by Lessee;

           (iii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
      Default or Event of Default under the Lease shall have occurred and be
      continuing;

           (iv) Lessee shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
      Trustee and each Participant a certificate signed by the President, any
      Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President or any Vice President
      and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of Lessee, and an opinion
      of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Participants, each stating that
      such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and the
      assumption agreement mentioned in clause (ii) above comply with this
      subparagraph (A) of Section 8(y) and that all conditions precedent herein
      provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with; and

           (v) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
      Lessee is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, transfer or
      lease all or substantially all of the assets of Lessee shall make such
      filings and recordings with the FAA pursuant to the Federal Aviation Act
      as shall be necessary or desirable to evidence such consolidation,
      merger, conveyance, transfer or lease with or to such entity.

     Upon any such consolidation or merger or any such conveyance, transfer or
lease of all or substantially all of the assets of Lessee as an entirety in
accordance with this subparagraph (A) of Section 8(y), the successor
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consolidation or into which Lessee is   merged or to which such conveyance,
transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may
exercise every right and power of, Lessee under this Agreement with the same
effect as if such successor corporation or Person had been named as Lessee
herein.  No such conveyance, transfer or lease of substantially all of the
assets of Lessee as an entirety shall have the effect of releasing Lessee or any
successor corporation or Person which shall theretofore have become such in the
manner prescribed in this subparagraph (A) of Section 8(y) from its liability in
respect of any Operative Document to which it is a party.

          (B) Lessee shall at all times maintain its corporate existence except
as permitted by subparagraph (A) of this Section 8(y).

     (z) Lessee, at its expense, will take, or cause to be taken, such action
with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of the Lease,
the Lease Supplement, the Trust Agreement, the Trust Indenture, the Trust
Supplement and any financing statements or other instruments as are necessary
to maintain (or as are reasonably requested by the Owner Participant), so long
as the Trust Indenture or the Lease is in effect, the perfection of the
security interests created by the Trust Indenture and any security interest
that may be claimed to have been created by the Lease and the interest of the
Owner Trustee in the Aircraft or will furnish to the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee timely notice of the necessity of such action, together with
such instruments, in execution form, and such other information as may be
required to enable them to take such action.  Lessee will notify the Owner
Trustee, the Owner Participant and the Indenture Trustee of any change in the
location of its chief executive office (as such term is used in Article 9 of
the Uniform Commercial Code) promptly after making such change or in any event
within the period of time necessary under applicable law to prevent the lapse
of perfection (absent refiling) of financing statements filed under the
Operative Documents.

     (aa) Section 3 of the Lease contemplates that, under certain
circumstances, the Owner Participant will make certain recalculations of Basic
Rent, Excess Amount, Stipulated Loss Value, Termination Value, Special Purchase
Price, Initial Installment and Remaining Installments, and the Owner    
Participant hereby agrees to make such recalculations as and when contemplated
by the Lease and subject to all the terms and conditions of the Lease and
promptly to take such further actions as may be necessary or desirable to give
effect to and to cause the Owner Trustee to give effect to the provisions of
Section 3 of the Lease.

     (bb) The Owner Participant hereby agrees with Lessee, and only with
Lessee, and not for the benefit of any other party to this Participation
Agreement, that it will promptly pay in full to the Owner Trustee any funds
necessary to enable the Owner Trustee promptly to pay to Lessee the full amount
of any Reimbursement Amount owed to Lessee.

     (cc) The Owner Participant hereby agrees to notify Lessee or cause Lessee
to be notified by telecopier not later than 10:00 a.m. New York time on the
third Business Day prior to the day for which an Excess Amount is indicated in
the event the Owner Participant does not intend to pay such Excess Amount in
full on the due date.
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     (dd) Bankers Trust Company agrees to act as Administrative Agent
hereunder.  The Administrative Agent agrees to notify each of the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant and Lessee of the actual
interest expected to accrue on the Secured Certificates during each Interest
Period promptly after the commencement of such Interest Period and after the
occurrence of any event that would cause such actual interest expected to
accrue during such Interest Period to change from the amount previously
notified.  The Administrative Agent further agrees to perform all of the
functions that are required to be performed by the Administrative Agent
pursuant to the terms of the Trust Indenture.

     (ee) The Owner Participant hereby agrees with Lessee that it will pay, or
cause to be paid, all costs and expenses that are for the account of the Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 5(d) of the Lease.

     (ff) Each Loan Participant hereby represents, warrants and agrees that it
shall not transfer any interest in any Secured Certificate unless and until the
transferee agrees in writing (copies of which shall be provided by the
Indenture Trustee to Lessee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant) to
make the representations contemplated to be made by a Loan Participant in this
Agreement and to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and the Trust
Indenture (including, without limitation, the representations and covenants set
forth in Sections 8(e), 8(j), 8(k), 8(l), 8(q)(A), and 8(t) hereof and this
Section 8(ff) and Sections 2.03, 2.14 and 4.03 of the Trust Indenture).

     (gg) ABN AMRO Bank N.V. agrees to act as Documentation Agent hereunder and
to perform all of the functions that are required to be performed by the
Documentation Agent hereunder.

     (hh) ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Bankers Trust Company and Chemical Bank each
agrees to furnish to the Administrative Agent timely information for the
purpose of determining each Eurodollar Rate (as defined in the Trust
Indenture).

     SECTION 9. CERTAIN COVENANTS OF OWNER PARTICIPANT, LOAN PARTICIPANTS AND
OWNER TRUSTEE CONCERNING REOPTIMIZATION .  (a)  In the event of an adjustment to
Basic Rent pursuant to Section 3(d) of the Lease, the Owner Participant shall,
pursuant to this Section 9 and in accordance with the requirements of Section
3(d) of the Lease and Section 2.13 of the Trust Indenture, reoptimize the debt
payment structures.  Within forty-five Business Days after the need for an
adjustment to Rent has been established pursuant to Section 3 of the Lease, the
Owner Participant shall deliver to Lessee a certificate of an authorized
representative of the Owner Participant (the "REOPTIMIZATION CERTIFICATE")
setting forth the proposed revised schedules of debt amortization and Basic
Rent, Excess Amounts, Special Purchase Price, Initial Installment, Remaining
Installments, Stipulated Loss Value and Termination Value percentages.  Within
forty-five days of its receipt of the Reoptimization Certificate, Lessee may
demand a verification, pursuant to Exhibit E of the Lease, of the information
set forth in the Reoptimization Certificate.  Upon the acceptance by Lessee of
the accuracy of the information set forth in the Reoptimization Certificate or
the determination pursuant to such verification procedures of such information,
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the Owner Trustee (M) to execute a Lease Supplement setting forth the
reoptimized Basic Rent, Excess Amounts, Special Purchase Price, Initial
Installment, Remaining Installments, Stipulated  Loss Value  and Termination
Value percentages, and (N) to exchange new Secured Certificates containing
reoptimized amortization schedules for the Secured Certificates outstanding
immediately prior to such reoptimization.

     (b) In connection with reoptimization adjustments of Basic Rent,
Stipulated Loss Value and Termination Value percentages pursuant to this
Section 9 and Section 3(d) of the Lease, (M) each Loan Participant will agree
to changes in the amortization schedule of the Secured Certificates, and (N)
each Loan Participant will exchange the Secured Certificates held by it
immediately prior to such reoptimization for new Secured Certificates
containing reoptimized amortization schedules; provided that such changes do
not (X) extend the final maturity of the Secured Certificates or (Y) increase
the weighted average lives of the Secured Certificates as of the Delivery Date
to more than 15 years or, without the consent of the Owner Participant,
increase the weighted average lives of the Secured Certificates by more than
six (6) months.

     SECTION 10. OTHER DOCUMENTS.  Each of the Owner Participant and the Owner
Trustee hereby (A) agrees with Lessee, the Loan Participants and the Indenture
Trustee not to amend, supplement or otherwise modify any provision of the Trust
Agreement in a manner adversely affecting such party without the prior written
consent of such party and (B) agrees with Lessee and the Loan Participants not
to revoke the Trust Agreement without the prior written consent of Lessee and
the Loan Participants so long as the Lease or the Lien of the Trust Indenture
remains in effect.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the Lease has not
been terminated, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee hereby agree for
the benefit of Lessee that without the consent of Lessee they will not (i)
amend or modify Article III or IX of the Trust Indenture, (ii) make any
amendment which will affect the stated principal amount or interest on the
Secured Certificates or (iii) amend or modify the provisions of Sections 2.05   
or 10.05 of the Trust Indenture.  The Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee
agree to promptly furnish to Lessee copies of any supplement, amendment, waiver
or modification of any of the Operative Documents to which Lessee is not a
party. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the Trust
Agreement or in any other Operative Document, the Owner Participant will not
consent to or direct a change in the situs of the Trust Estate without the prior
written consent of Lessee (which will not be unreasonably withheld) unless Owner
Participant indemnifies Lessee in form and substance satisfactory to Lessee, in
its sole discretion, for any adverse consequence resulting from such change. 
Each Loan Participant agrees that it will not take any action in respect of the
Trust Indenture Estate except through the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the
Trust Indenture or as otherwise permitted by the Trust Indenture.

     SECTION 11. CERTAIN COVENANTS OF LESSEE.  Lessee covenants and agrees with
each of the Loan Participants, the Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee and
the Owner Trustee, in its capacity as such and in its individual capacity as
follows:

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     (a) Lessee will, at its own cost and expense, cause to be done, executed,
acknowledged and delivered all and every such further acts, conveyances and
assurances as the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant
shall reasonably require for accomplishing the purposes of this Agreement and
the other Operative Documents; provided that any instrument or other document
so executed by Lessee will not expand any obligations or limit any rights of
Lessee in respect of the transactions contemplated by any Operative Documents.
Lessee, forthwith upon delivery of the Aircraft under the Lease, shall cause
the Aircraft to be duly registered, and at all times thereafter to remain duly
registered, in the name of the Owner Trustee, except as otherwise required or
permitted hereunder or under the Lease, under the Federal Aviation Act, or
shall furnish to the Owner Trustee such information as may be required to
enable the Owner Trustee to make application for such registration, and shall
promptly furnish to the Owner Trustee such information as may be required (or
reasonably requested by the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee) to enable
the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant to timely file any reports required
to be filed by it as the lessor under the Lease or as the owner of the Aircraft
with any governmental authority.

     (b) Lessee will, at its own cost and expense, cause the Lease, all Lease
Supplements, all amendments to the Lease, the Trust Indenture, all supplements
and amendments to the Trust Indenture and this Agreement to be promptly filed
and recorded, or filed for recording, to the extent permitted under the Federal
Aviation Act, or required under any other applicable law.  Upon the execution
and delivery of the FAA Bill of Sale, the Lease, the Lease Supplement covering
the Aircraft, the Trust Supplement and the Trust Indenture shall be filed for
recording with the Federal Aviation Administration in the following order of
priority; first, the FAA Bill of Sale, second, the Lease, with the Lease
Supplement covering the Aircraft, the Trust Indenture and the Trust Supplement
attached, and third, the Trust Indenture, with the Trust Supplement attached.

     SECTION 12. OWNER FOR FEDERAL TAX PURPOSES.  It is hereby agreed among
Lessee, the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee that for Federal
income tax purposes the Owner Participant will be the owner of the Aircraft to
be delivered under the Lease and Lessee will be the lessee thereof, and each
party hereto agrees to characterize the Lease as a lease for Federal income tax
purposes.

     SECTION 13. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS; NOTICES; CONSENT TO JURISDICTION.  (a)
Except as otherwise defined in this Agreement, terms used herein in capitalized
form shall have the meanings attributed thereto in the Lease.  The term "TRUST
OFFICE" shall have the meaning set forth in the Trust Agreement and the term
"TRUST INDENTURE ESTATE" shall have the meaning set forth in the Trust
Indenture.  Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference herein to any
of the Operative Documents refers to such document as it may be amended from
time to time.

     (b) All notices, demands, instructions and other communications required
or permitted to be given to or made upon any party hereto or to the Guarantor
shall be in writing and shall be personally delivered or sent by registered or
certified mail, postage prepaid, or by telecopier, or by prepaid courier
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Agreement on the day that such writing is delivered or sent to the intended 
recipient thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Section 13(b).  
Unless otherwise specified in a notice sent or delivered in accordance
with the foregoing provisions of this Section 13(b), notices, demands,
instructions and other communications in writing shall be given to or made upon
the respective parties hereto at their respective addresses (or to their
respective telecopier numbers) as follows:  (A)  if to Lessee, the Owner
Trustee, the Loan Participants, the Administrative Agent, the Documentation
Agent, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Participant, to the respective
addresses set forth below the signatures of such parties at the foot of this
Agreement, or (B) if to a subsequent Owner Participant, addressed to such
subsequent Owner Participant at such address as such subsequent Owner
Participant shall have furnished by notice to the parties hereto, or (C) if to
any subsequent Certificate Holder, addressed to such Certificate Holder at its
address set forth in the Secured Certificate register maintained pursuant to
Section 2.07 of the Trust Indenture, or (D) if to the Guarantor, addressed to
the Guarantor at such address as the Guarantor shall have furnished by notice to
the parties hereto.

     (c) Each of the parties hereto (A) hereby irrevocably submits itself to
the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York and to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the
Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, for the purposes of
any suit, action or other proceeding arising out of this Agreement, the Lease,
the Tax Indemnity Agreement or any other Operative Document, the subject matter
of any thereof or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby
brought by any party or parties thereto, or their successors or assigns, and
(B) hereby waives, and agrees not to assert, by way of motion, as a defense, or
otherwise, in any such suit, action or proceeding, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, that the suit, action or proceeding is brought in an
inconvenient forum, that the venue of the suit, action or proceeding is 
improper, or that this Agreement, the Lease, the Tax Indemnity Agreement or any
other Operative Document or the subject matter of any thereof or any of the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby may not be enforced in or by such
courts.  Lessee hereby generally consents to service of process at Cadwalader,
Wickersham & Taft, 100 Maiden Lane, New York, New York 10038, Attention: 
Managing Attorney, or such office of Lessee in New York City as from time to
time may be designated by Lessee in writing to the Owner Participant, the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.

     SECTION 14. CHANGE OF SITUS OF OWNER TRUST.  The Owner Participant agrees
that if, at any time, the Trust Estate becomes subject to any Taxes for which
it is indemnified pursuant to Section 7(b) hereof and if, as a consequence
thereof, Lessee should request that the situs of the trust be moved to another
state in the United States from the state in which it is then located, the
situs of the trust may be moved with the written consent of the Owner
Participant (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) and the Owner
Participant will take whatever action may be reasonably necessary to accomplish
such removal; provided that (A) Lessee shall provide such additional tax
indemnification as the Owner Participant and the Loan Participants may
reasonably request, (B) the rights and obligations under the Operative
Documents of the Owner Participant and the Loan Participants shall not be
altered as a result of the taking of such action, (C) the lien of the Trust
Indenture on the Trust Indenture Estate shall not be adversely affected by such
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Owner Participant and the Loan Participants shall have received an opinion or
opinions of counsel (satisfactory to the Owner  Participant and the Loan
Participants), in scope, form and substance satisfactory to the Owner
Participant and the Loan Participants to the effect that (I) the trust, as thus
removed, shall remain a validly established trust, (II) any amendments to the
Trust Agreement necessitated by such removal shall have been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the parties thereto and shall constitute the valid and
binding obligations of such parties, enforceable in accordance with their terms,
(III) such removal will not result in the imposition of, or increase in the
amount of, any Tax for which Lessee is not required to indemnify the Owner
Participant, the Loan Participants, the Owner Trustee or the Trust Estate
pursuant to Section 7(b) hereof (taking into account any additional
indemnification provided by Lessee pursuant to clause (A) of this sentence),
(IV) such removal will not result in any loss of Interest Deductions or MACRS
Deductions or an Inclusion Event (as defined in the Tax Indemnity Agreement)
with respect to which Lessee is not required to indemnify the Owner Participant
pursuant to Section 4 of the Tax Indemnity Agreement (taking into account any
additional indemnification provided by Lessee pursuant to clause (A) of this
sentence) and (V) if such removal involves the replacement of the Owner Trustee,
an opinion of counsel to such successor Owner Trustee in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Loan Participants and to the Owner Participant
covering the matters described in Section 4(a)(xiii) hereof and such other
matters as the Loan Participants and the Owner Participant may reasonably
request, and (E) Lessee shall indemnify and hold harmless the Owner Participant,
the Indenture Trustee and the Loan Participants on a net after-tax basis against
any and all reasonable and actual costs and expenses including reasonable
counsel fees and disbursements, registration fees, recording or filing fees and
taxes incurred by the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Indenture
Trustee and the Loan Participants in connection with such change of situs.

     SECTION 15. MISCELLANEOUS.  (a)  Each of the Loan Participants and the
Owner Participant covenants and agrees that it shall not unreasonably withhold
its consent to any consent requested of the Owner Trustee, as Lessor, or the
Indenture Trustee under the terms of the Lease which by its terms is not to be
unreasonably withheld by the Owner Trustee, as Lessor, or the Indenture
Trustee.

     (b) The representations, warranties, indemnities and agreements of Lessee,
the Owner Trustee, the Loan Participants, the Indenture Trustee, the
Administrative Agent, the Documentation Agent and the Owner Participant
provided for in this Agreement, and Lessee's, the Owner Trustee's, the Loan
Participants', the Indenture Trustee's, the Administrative Agent's, the
Documentation Agent's and the Owner Participant's obligations under any and all
thereof, shall survive the making available of the respective Commitments by
the Loan Participants and the Owner Participant, the delivery or return of the
Aircraft, the transfer of any interest of the Owner Participant in the Trust
Estate or the Aircraft or any Engine or the transfer of any interest by any
Loan Participant in any Secured Certificate or the Trust Indenture Estate and
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     (c) This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto in separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.  Neither this Agreement nor any of the terms hereof may be
terminated, amended, supplemented, waived or modified, except by an instrument
in writing signed by the party against which the enforcement of the
termination, amendment, supplement, waiver or modification is sought; and no
such termination, amendment, supplement, waiver or modification shall be
effective unless a signed copy thereof shall have been delivered to the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee.  The terms of this Agreement shall be
binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, Lessee and its successors and
assigns, each Loan Participant and its successors and assigns, the Owner
Participant and its successors and assigns, each Certificate Holder and its
successors and registered assigns, the Indenture Trustee and its successors as
Indenture Trustee under the Trust Indenture, the Owner Trustee and its
successors as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, the Administrative Agent
and the Documentation Agent.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS BE GOVERNED
BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
INCLUDING ALL MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE.  THIS
AGREEMENT IS BEING DELIVERED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

     (d) The parties hereto agree that all of the statements, representations,
covenants and agreements made by the Owner Trustee (when made in such capacity)
contained in this Agreement and any agreement referred to herein other than the
Trust Agreement, unless expressly otherwise stated, are made and intended only
for the purpose of binding the Trust Estate and establishing the existence of
rights and remedies which can be exercised and enforced against the Trust
Estate.  Therefore, anything contained in this Agreement or such other  
agreements to the contrary notwithstanding (except for any express provisions
that the Owner Trustee is responsible for in its individual capacity), no
recourse shall be had with respect to this Agreement or such other agreements
against the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity or against any institution
or person which becomes a successor trustee or co-trustee or any officer,
director, trustee, servant or direct or indirect parent or controlling person or
persons of any of them; provided, however, that this Section 15(d) shall not be
construed to prohibit any action or proceeding against any party hereto for its
own willful misconduct or grossly negligent conduct for which it would otherwise
be liable; and provided, further, that nothing contained in this Section 15(d)
shall be construed to limit the exercise and enforcement in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement or such other agreements of rights and remedies against
the Trust Estate.  The foregoing provisions of this Section 15(d) shall survive
the termination of this Agreement and the other Operative Documents.

     (e) It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Owner Trustee, as
Lessor under the Lease, and the Indenture Trustee, as assignee of such Owner
Trustee's rights under the Lease pursuant to the Trust Indenture, will be
entitled to the benefits of 11 U.S.C. Section  1110 (or any successor statute
containing the material terms of 11 U.S.C. Section 1110) in the event of any
reorganization of Lessee under such Section.

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     SECTION 16. EXPENSES.  (a)  Invoices and Payment.  Each of the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant, Lessee and the Loan
Participants shall promptly submit to Lessee for its prompt approval (which
shall not be unreasonably withheld) copies of invoices in reasonable detail of
the Transaction Expenses for which it is responsible for providing information
as they are received (but in no event later than July 15, 1996).  If so
submitted and approved, the Owner Participant agrees promptly, but in any event
no later than July 31, 1996, to pay (but not in excess of 2% of Lessor's Cost)
Transaction Expenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that
Transaction Expenses exceed 1% of Lessor's Cost, Lessee at its sole option
shall have the right to pay directly its special counsel fees and disbursements
and the fee and disbursements of Babcock and Brown Financial Corporation, and
Lessee shall be obligated to pay directly any and all Transaction Expenses
which are in excess of 2% of Lessor's Cost.

     (b) Payment of Other Expenses.  In the event that the transaction
contemplated by this Participation Agreement fails to close as a result of the
Owner Participant's failure to negotiate in good faith or to comply with the
terms and conditions upon which its participation in the transaction was
predicated, the Owner Participant will be responsible for all of its fees and
expenses, including but not limited to the fees, expenses and disbursements of
its special counsel and the fees of the appraiser referred to in Section
4(a)(xx).

     SECTION 17. REFINANCINGS.

     (a) So long as no Event of Default or Default of the type referred to in
Section 14(a), 14(b) or 14(e) of the Lease shall have occurred and be
continuing, Lessee shall have the right to refinance all (but not less than     
all) of the Secured Certificates no more than three times by giving written
notice to the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee that there be effected a
voluntary redemption of the Secured Certificates by the Owner Trustee, whereupon
the Owner Participant agrees to negotiate promptly in good faith to conclude an
agreement with Lessee as to the terms of such refinancing (including the terms
of any debt to be issued in connection with such refinancing); provided that (1)
no such refinancing shall subject the Owner Participant to any adverse, or the
risk of any adverse, tax consequence unless Lessee agrees to indemnify the Owner
Participant for such unindemnified adverse tax consequence (any such indemnity
to be satisfactory in form and substance to the Owner Participant) and (2) the
other terms and conditions of this Section 17 are met.

     The Owner Participant understands and agrees that the debt to be issued in
connection with such refinancing may be issued in several classes, each of
which may have a different interest rate, final maturity date and priority of
payment.  The Owner Participant further understands and agrees that one or more
of such classes may be entitled to the benefit of a liquidity facility, which
will entitle the Indenture Trustee (or a collateral agent therefor) to make
drawings thereunder to pay interest on a current basis on the enhanced classes
of debt for up to three semi-annual interest payments following a payment
default with respect to such enhanced classes.  In such a structure the Owner
Participant agrees that drawings of the entire amount available under the
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thereof into a cash collateral account) will be required in the event of a
ratings decline with respect to the related liquidity provider or in the event
that the liquidity facility is not extended or replaced prior to its scheduled
expiration.  Amounts owed to the liquidity facility provider for both drawings
and interest thereon will generally be senior to all Loan Participant claims.
The Owner Participant understands and agrees that in any refinancing operation
it will agree to these and any other conditions which do not impair the
customary rights of an owner participant in a leveraged lease transaction.

     Upon such agreement:

     (1) within ten Business Days after the reaching of such agreement, the
Owner Participant will deliver to Lessee a certificate of an authorized
representative of the Owner Participant (the "REFINANCING CERTIFICATE") setting
forth (i) the proposed date on which the outstanding Secured Certificates will
be redeemed, any new debt will be issued and the other aspects of such
refinancing will be consummated (such date, the "REFINANCING DATE") and (ii)
the following information calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph
(6) of this Section 17(a):  (A) subject to the limitations set forth in this
Section 17, the proposed adjusted debt/equity ratio, (B) the principal amount
of debt to be issued by the Owner Trustee on the Refinancing Date and (C) the
proposed revised schedules of Basic Rent percentages, debt amortization,
Special Purchase Price, Initial Installment, Remaining Installments, Stipulated
Loss Value percentages and Termination Value percentages (calculated in
accordance with Section 3(d) of the Lease).  Within fourteen days of its
receipt of the Refinancing Certificate, Lessee may demand a verification
pursuant to Exhibit E to the Lease of the information set forth in the
Refinancing Certificate.  Upon the acceptance by Lessee of the accuracy of the
information set forth in the Refinancing Certificate (or the determination      
pursuant to such verification procedures), as to the debt/equity ratio, the
principal amount of debt to be issued by the Owner Trustee on the Refinancing
Date and the revised Basic Rent percentages, debt amortization, Special Purchase
Price, Initial Installment, Remaining Installments, Stipulated Loss Value
percentages and Termination Value percentages (such information, whether as set
forth or as so determined, the "REFINANCING INFORMATION") the appropriate
parties will take the actions specified in paragraphs (2) through (5) below;

     (2) the appropriate parties will enter into appropriate documentation
(which may involve an underwriting agreement in connection with such sale) with
the institution or institutions to be named therein providing for (i) the
issuance and sale by the Owner Trustee to such institution or institutions on
the Refinancing Date of debt securities in an aggregate principal amount equal
to the then outstanding principal amount of the Secured Certificates (such debt
securities, the "NEW DEBT");

     (3) Lessee shall give the notice to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 2.11 of the Trust Indenture, and Lessee and the Owner Trustee will
amend the Lease to provide that (i) Basic Rent payable in respect of the period
from and after the Refinancing Date shall be as provided in the Refinancing
Information and (ii) amounts payable in respect of Stipulated Loss Value and
Termination Value from and after the Refinancing Date shall be as provided in
the Refinancing Information;

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     (4) the Owner Trustee will enter into an agreement to provide for the
securing thereunder of the New Debt in like manner as the Secured Certificates
and will enter into such amendments and supplements to the Trust Indenture (or
such new indenture or other security agreement) and the other Operative
Documents as may be necessary to effect such refinancing;

     (5) the Owner Participant shall pay all of the expenses of the first
refinancing (so long as the same takes place in 1996) (including, but not
limited to, the fees, expenses and disbursements of counsel and any placement
or underwriting fees) and such expenses shall be treated as Transaction
Expenses (subject to a cap of 2.8% of Lessor's Cost, inclusive of any
Transaction Expenses paid by the Owner Participant pursuant to Section 16(a))
and, unless otherwise agreed to by the Owner Participant, Lessee shall pay all
other expenses of the first financing and all of the expenses (including, but
not limited to, the fees, expenses and disbursements of counsel and any
placement or underwriting fees) of any such refinancing after the first
refinancing; and

     (6) when calculating any of the information required to be set forth in a
Refinancing Certificate, the Owner Participant shall make such calculations in
a manner which (A) maintains the Owner Participant's Net Economic Return
(except to the extent the assumptions referred to in the definition of "Net
Economic Return" have been altered since the Delivery Date in connection with
an adjustment to Rents pursuant to Section 3(d) of the Lease or such
assumptions are the subject of the recalculations being conducted by the Owner
Participant), and (B) minimizes the Net Present Value of Rents to Lessee to the
extent possible consistent with clause (A). All adjustments to Basic Rent shall
be (I) in compliance with the tax law as then in effect, including, without
limitation, Rev. Proc. 75-28 as amended and then in effect (or any successor
thereto) and no such adjustment shall cause the Lease to constitute a
"disqualified leaseback or long-term agreement" within the meaning of Section
467 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any regulations
thereunder, except to the extent that on the Delivery Date the Lease
constituted a "disqualified leaseback or long-term agreement" under Section 467
of the Code on the Delivery Date or was not in compliance with Rev. Proc. 75-28
and without regard to any adjustments to Basic Rent occurring after such date
and (II) subject to verification pursuant to Exhibit E to the Lease.

     (b)  Lessee and the Owner Participant agree that none of the Owner
Participant's rights against all other parties hereto (including the new Loan
Participants) or its obligations to any such parties and none of its interests
in the Trust Estate or under the Operative Documents shall be materially
adversely affected in the good faith judgment of the Owner Participant compared
to such rights and interests as in effect under the Operative Documents prior
to the changes contemplated by this Section 17.  For purposes of ERISA, except
in the case of any refinancing with public debt or pursuant to Rule 144A
promulgated under Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the new lenders shall be
required to make the representation for a Loan Participant set forth in Section
8(q)(A) and agree to be bound by the provision of such Section 8(q)(A)
applicable to a Loan Participant.  The Owner Participant agrees that in
connection with any refinancing with public debt or pursuant to Rule 144A
promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the provisions set
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D hereto are acceptable to the Owner Participant and Lessee agrees that in
connection with any such refinancing the Owner Participant will not be obligated
to agree to any other ERISA provisions.

     (c) In connection with any such refinancing utilizing public debt or
pursuant to Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
the Owner Participant shall have a right to review and comment on all offering
materials to be used in connection therewith and no such offering materials
shall disclose the identity of the Owner Participant.

     (d) The Secured Certificates shall not be subject to voluntary redemption
by the Owner Trustee without the consent of Lessee except as set forth in
Section 2.14 of the Trust Indenture.

     SECTION 18. AGENTS.

     (a) Each Loan Participant hereby appoints and authorizes each of the
Administrative Agent and the Documentation Agent (each, an "AGENT") to take
such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion
under this Agreement and the other Operative Documents as are delegated to such
Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion
as are reasonably incidental thereto.  Each Agent shall have no duties or
responsibilities except those expressly set forth in the Operative Documents.
As to any matters not expressly provided for hereby or by the Trust Indenture,
each Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action,
but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully
protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the
Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders (as defined
in the Trust Indenture), and such instructions shall be binding upon all Loan
Participants and all Certificate Holders; provided, however, that such Agent
shall not be required to take any action that exposes such Agent to personal
liability or that is contrary to the Operative Documents or applicable law.
Each Agent agrees to give to each Loan Participant prompt notice of each notice
given to it by the Owner Trustee pursuant to the terms of the Operative
Documents with respect to which such Loan Participant has not otherwise
received such notice.

     (b) No Agent nor such Agent's directors, officers, agents or employees
shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under
or in connection with this Agreement or the Trust Indenture, except for its or
their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.  Without limitation of the
generality of the foregoing, each Agent:  (i) may consult with legal counsel,
independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not
be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it in
accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts; (ii) makes
no warranty or representation to any Loan Participant and shall not be
responsible to any Loan Participant for any statements, warranties or
representations (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with the
Operative Documents; (iii) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire
as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or
conditions of the 
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Operative Documents on the part of any party thereto or to inspect the property
(including the books and records) of any such party; (iv)       shall not be
responsible to any Loan Participant for the due execution, legality, validity,
enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or
priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created
under or in connection with, the Operative Documents or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant thereto; and (v) shall incur no liability under or
in respect of the Operative Documents by acting upon any notice, consent,
certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by telecopier, telegram
or telex) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or
parties.

     (c) With respect to their Loans and any Secured Certificates issued to
them, ABN AMRO Bank N.V. ("AAB") and Bankers Trust Company ("BTCO") shall have
the same rights and powers under the Operative Documents as any other Loan
Participant and may exercise the same as though they were not Agents and the
term "Loan Participant" or "Certificate Holder" shall, unless otherwise
expressly indicated, include AAB and BTCo in their individual capacity.  AAB
and its Affiliates and BTCo and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend
money to, act as trustee under indentures of, accept investment banking
engagements from and generally engage in any kind of business with, the Owner
Trustee, the Owner Participant, Lessee, any of Lessee's Subsidiaries and any
Person who may do business with or own securities of any of such Persons, all
as if AAB and BTCo were not Agents and without any duty to account therefor to
the Loan Participants.

     (d) Each Loan Participant acknowledges that it has, independently and
without reliance upon the Agents or any other Loan Participant and based on the
financial statements referred to in Section 7(a)(ix) of this Agreement and such
other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own      
credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement.  Each Loan
Participant also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance
upon the Agents or any other Loan Participant and based on such documents and
information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own
credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement.

     (e) Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor agent as
provided below, any Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Loan Participants, the Owner Trustee and Lessee and may be
removed at any time with or without cause by the Majority in Interest of
Certificate Holders (as defined in the Trust Indenture).  Upon any such
resignation or removal, the Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders shall
have the right to appoint a successor Agent.  If no successor Agent shall have
been so appointed by the Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders, and shall
have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring Agent's
giving of notice of resignation or removal of the retiring Agent by the
Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders, then the retiring Agent may, on
behalf of the Loan Participants, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a
commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or of
any State thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000.  Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a
successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become
vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, 

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privileges and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be
discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the Trust
Indenture.  After any retiring Agent's resignation or removal hereunder as
Agent, the provisions of this Section 18 shall inure to its benefit as to any
actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Agent under this
Agreement and the Trust Indenture. Notwithstanding anything contrary herein, the
Administrative Agent and the Documentation Agent hereunder and under the Trust
Indenture shall be the same institution, respectively, as the Administrative
Agent and the Documentation Agent under (and as defined in) the Credit
Agreement.

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        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the
day and year first above written.

                                    NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.,
                                      Lessee




                                   By:
                                      ---------------------------------------
                                   Title:
                                   Address:  U.S. Mail
                                             5101 Northwest Drive (A4010)
                                             St. Paul, Minnesota  55111-3034
        
                                             Overnight Courier
                                             2700 Lone Oak Parkway (A4010)
                                             Eagan, Minnesota  55121
                                   Attn:     Senior Vice President-Finance
                                              and Treasurer
                                   Telecopy No.:  (612) 726-0665

                                   [                      ],
                                     Owner Participant



        
                                     By:
                                        -----------------------------------
                                     Title:
                                     Address:                                 



                                     Attn:                            
                                     Telecopy No.:                






                             - Signature Page -


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                                        STATE STREET BANK AND
                                        TRUST COMPANY,
                                          Indenture Trustee


                                        By:                                    
                                           ------------------------------------
                                        Title:                                 
                                        Address:  Two International Place      
                                                  4th Floor                    
                                                  Boston, Massachusetts  02110 
                                        Attn:     Corporate Trust Department   
                                        Telecopy No.:  (617) 664-5371          
                                                                               
                                        FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, 
                                        NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,          
                                        not in its individual capacity,        
                                        except as expressly provided herein,   
                                        but solely as Owner Trustee,           
                                          Owner Trustee                        
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                        By:                                    
                                           ----------------------------------- 
                                        Title:                                 
                                        Address:  79 South Main Street         
                                                  Salt Lake City, Utah  84111  
                                        Attn:     Corporate Trust Department   
                                        Telecopy No.:  (801) 246-5053          
                                                                               
                             - Signature Page -
                                                                               

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                                    [INSERT BRIDGE LENDERS]







                                    By:
                                       --------------------------------------
                                    Title:









                             - Signature Page -


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                                  SCHEDULE I
                             NAMES AND ADDRESSES

Lessee:                    Northwest Airlines, Inc.


                           U.S. Mail
                           5101 Northwest Drive (A4010)
                           St. Paul, Minnesota 55111-3034


                           Overnight Courier


                           2700 Lone Oak Parkway (A4010)
                           Eagan, Minnesota  55121


                           Attn:  Senior Vice President-Finance and Treasurer


                           Telecopy No.:  (612) 726-0665


                           Wire Transfer


                           First Bank, N.A., Minneapolis
                           ABA No. 091000022
                           Acct. No. 150250099440





                              - Signature Page -


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Owner Participant:              Payments made to the Owner Participant as
                                provided in Section 3.06 of the Trust Indenture
                                shall be made to:  










                                       SCHEDULE I - PAGE 2


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Indenture Trustee:            State Street Bank and Trust Company     
                              Two International Place                 
                              4th Floor                               
                              Boston, Massachusetts  02110            
                              Attn:  Corporate Trust Department       
                              Telecopy No.:  (617) 664-5371           
                                                                      
                                                                      
                              Wire Transfer                           
                                                                      
                              State Street Bank and Trust Company     
                              ABA No. 011-00-0028                     
                              for credit to State Street Bank and Trust Company
                              Acct. No. 9903-943-0                             
                              Attn:  Corporate Trust Department                
                              Reference:  Northwest/NW 1996 B                  
  
  
  Owner Trustee:              First Security Bank of Utah, National Association
                              79 South Main Street
                              Salt Lake City, Utah  84111
                              Attn:  Corporate Trust Department
                              Telecopy No.:  (801) 246-5053

                              Payments made to the Owner Trustee as provided    
                              in Section 3(f) of the Lease shall be made to:


                              First Security Bank of Utah, National Association
                              ABA No. 124-0000-12
                              Acct. No. 051-0922115
                              Attn:  Corporate Trust Department
                              Credit:  Northwest/NW 1996 B


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Loan Participants: 




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                                  SCHEDULE II
                                  COMMITMENTS

                                                            Percentage of
       Loan Participants:                                   Lessor's Cost
       -----------------                                    ------------ 
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Owner Participant:
- -----------------
                                                            ------------ 

Total Commitments:                                              100%



                              SCHEDULE II - PAGE 2


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                                                                    EXHIBIT A
                                                                        TO
                                                                  PARTICIPATION
                                                                    AGREEMENT
                                                                   [NW 1996 B]


                    SCHEDULE OF COUNTRIES FOR REREGISTRATION



Argentina                               Japan                  
Australia                               Luxembourg             
Austria                                 Malaysia               
Bahamas                                 Mexico                 
Belgium                                 Netherlands            
Canada                                  New Zealand            
Chile                                   Norway                 
Denmark                                 Philippines            
Finland                                 Portugal               
France                                  Singapore              
Germany                                 South Africa           
Hungary                                 South Korea            
Iceland                                 Sweden                 
India                                   Switzerland            
Indonesia                               Thailand               
Ireland                                 United Kingdom         
Italy                                                          
                                                               





















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                                                                   EXHIBIT B
                                                                       TO
                                                                 PARTICIPATION 
                                                                   AGREEMENT
                                                                  [NW 1996 B]

                 SCHEDULE OF DOMICILES OF PERMITTED SUBLESSEES


Argentina                                       Mexico         
Australia                                       Netherlands    
Austria                                         New Zealand    
Bahamas                                         Norway         
Belgium                                         Philippines    
Canada                                          Portugal       
Chile                                           Singapore      
Denmark                                         South Africa   
Finland                                         South Korea    
France                                          Sweden         
Germany                                         Switzerland    
Hungary                                         Thailand       
Iceland                                         United Kingdom 
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Malaysia







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                                                                    EXHIBIT C
                                                                       TO
                                                                 PARTICIPATION  
                                                                   AGREEMENT
                                                                  [NW 1996 B]

                               FORM OF GUARANTY

                          [LETTERHEAD OF GUARANTOR]

                               PARENT GUARANTY

                                           Dated as of ____________ ____, ______

[Lessee]
[Trust Company]
[Indenture Trustee]
[Loan Participants]

                      One Boeing Model 757-251 Aircraft
                   Manufacturer's Serial Number [         ]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

        Reference is hereby made to the Participation Agreement [NW 1996 B] (as 
from time to time amended or supplemented, the "Participation Agreement"), dated
as of April 24, 1996, among Northwest Airlines, Inc. ("Lessee"), [_____________]
(the "Owner Participant"), First Security Bank of Utah, National Association,
not in its individual capacity, except as expressly provided therein, but solely
as trustee (the "Owner Trustee" and "Lessor") under the Trust Agreement, dated
as of April 24, 1996, between the Trustee and the Owner Participant (the "Trust
Agreement"), State Street Bank and Trust Company (the "Indenture Trustee") and
the Loan Participants listed on Schedule I thereto. Capitalized terms used
herein without definition have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the
Participation Agreement.

        Pursuant to Section 8 of the Participation Agreement and in connection
with the transfer of the Interest (as defined in the Assignment Assumption
Agreement dated as of the date hereof between [Transferor], a ____________
corporation ("Transferor") and [Transferee], a ____________ corporation
("Transferee") (the "Assumption Agreement")) to be consummated as of the date
hereof from Transferor to Transferee, the wholly-owned subsidiary of
_________________________ ("Guarantor"), and the execution by Guarantor of the
guaranty of Transferee's obligations as contemplated by the Assumption Agreement
(this "Guaranty"), Guarantor represents and warrants to, and covenants with,
Lessee, First Security




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Bank of Utah, National Association, in its individual capacity ("Trust
Company"), Indenture Trustee and Loan Participants, as follows:

        1. Ownership of Transferee.  Guarantor directly or indirectly owns and
holds all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Transferee.

        2. Additional Representations and Warranties.

        (i) Guarantor is a corporation duly organized and validly existing
pursuant to the laws of ___________________, and has the corporate power and
authority to enter into and perform this Guaranty.

        (ii) The execution, delivery and performance by Guarantor of this
Guaranty has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part
of Guarantor, does not require any stockholder approval, or approval or consent
of any trustee or holders of any indebtedness or obligations of Guarantor except
such as have been duly obtained, and this Guaranty will not contravene any
applicable law or corporate charter or by-law, or contravene the provisions of,
or constitute a default under, or result in the creation of any Lien upon the
property of Guarantor under, any indenture, mortgage, contract or other
agreement to which Guarantor is a party or by which it may be bound or affected.

        (iii) Neither the execution and delivery by Guarantor of this Guaranty,
nor the consummation of the transactions by Guarantor contemplated hereby, nor
the performance of the obligations hereunder or under any other documents
contemplated hereby or thereby by Guarantor requires the consent or approval of,
the giving of notice to, or the registration with, or the taking of any other
action in respect of, United States Federal, state, or foreign governmental
authority or agency.

        (iv) This Guaranty has been duly executed and validly delivered by
Guarantor and constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of Guarantor
enforceable against Guarantor in accordance with its terms except as the
enforcement of this Guaranty may be affected by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights
generally.

        (v) There are no pending or, to Guarantor's knowledge, threatened
actions or proceedings before any court or administrative agency which might
materially adversely affect the consolidated financial condition, business or
operations of Guarantor, or the ability of Guarantor to perform its obligations
under this Guaranty.

        (vi) No broker's or finder's fees or commissions or advisory fees are or
may become payable in connection with this Guaranty or the Assumption Agreement
or, if any such fee is payable, such fee will be the responsibility of
Guarantor.

        (vii) On the date hereof the Trust Estate will be free of Lessor Liens
(including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso
in the definition of Lessor Liens) attributable to Guarantor.





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        (viii) Guarantor is a bank, insurance company, financial institution or
domestic corporation the tangible net worth (exclusive of goodwill) of which is
at least $75,000,000.

        3. Guaranty.  (a) Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
guarantees, not merely as surety but as obligor:

                 (i) the due and punctual payment of any and all sums which are
        payable by Transferee pursuant to any provision of the Assumption
        Agreement and the Participation Agreement, the Tax Indemnity Agreement
        and any other Operative Document assumed by Transferee pursuant to the
        Assumption Agreement (collectively, the "Guaranteed Agreements"), and

                 (ii) the due and punctual performance of and compliance with
        and observance of all other obligations, covenants, warranties and
        undertakings of or conditions contained in or arising under the
        Guaranteed Agreements binding upon or made by Transferor and assumed by
        Transferee under the Assumption Agreement,

in each case, whether or not Guarantor shall have contributed funds to Lessor
or Transferee, as the case may be, for such payment or performance by Lessor or
Transferee (such payments and other obligations guaranteed hereunder
hereinafter referred to as the "Obligations").

        (b) Guarantor agrees that this Guaranty is an unconditional and absolute
guaranty of payment and performance (not merely enforceability) and that its
undertakings hereunder are not contingent upon your bringing any action against
Transferee or resorting to any security and hereby expressly waives any claim
that its undertakings hereunder are so contingent.

        (c) Guarantor hereby waives promptness, diligence, demand and all
notices whatsoever as to the obligations and covenants guaranteed hereby and
acceptance of this Guaranty, and waives any other circumstance which might
otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the undersigned,
and agrees that it shall not be required to consent to, or receive any notice
of, any amendment or modification of, or waiver, consent or extension with
respect to, the Guaranteed Agreements that may be made or given as provided
therein.

        (d) Guarantor agrees to pay any costs and expenses (including reasonable
fees and disbursements of counsel) that may be paid or incurred by the
beneficiaries hereof in enforcing any rights with respect to, or collecting, any
or all of the Obligations and/or enforcing any rights with respect to, or
collecting against, Guarantor under this Guaranty.

        (e) Guarantor understands and agrees that its obligations hereunder
shall be construed as continuing, absolute and unconditional without regard to
(i) the validity, regularity or enforceability of any Operative Document, any of
the Obligations or any collateral security therefor or guaranty or right of
offset with respect thereto at any time or




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from time to time held by any beneficiary hereof, (ii) any defense, set-off or
counterclaim (other than a defense of payment or performance) that may at any
time be available to or be asserted by Transferee against any beneficiary
hereof or (iii) any other circumstances whatsoever (with or without notice to
or knowledge of Transferee or Guarantor) that constitutes, or might be
construed to constitute, an equitable or legal discharge of Transferee for the
Obligations, or of Guarantor under this Guaranty, in bankruptcy or in any other
instance.

        4. Quiet Enjoyment.  So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, Guarantor will not permit Transferee or Lessor to take or
cause to be taken any action contrary to Lessee's rights under the Lease,
including, without limitation, Lessee's rights to possession and use of the
Aircraft.

        5. No Discharge.  The obligations of Guarantor hereunder are absolute,
unconditional and irrevocable and will not be discharged by, and this Guaranty
shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding: (a) the assignment,
conveyance or other transfer by Guarantor of any or all of its interest in or
capital stock of Transferee, unless such assignment, conveyance or transfer of
all of its interest is to a transferee meeting the requirements set forth in
Section 8(n) of the Participation Agreement and otherwise complies with the
requirements for a transfer as set forth in Section 8(n) of the Participation
Agreement, in which event Guarantor shall be discharged from any and all
liabilities arising hereunder (to the extent such liabilities arise after such
transfer); (b) the assignment, conveyance or other transfer by Transferee of any
or all of its interest in the Trust Estate (as defined in the Trust Agreement),
unless such assignment, conveyance or transfer of all of its interest is to a
transferee meeting the requirements set forth in Section 8(n) of the
Participation Agreement and otherwise complies with the requirements for a
transfer as set forth in Section 8(n) of the Participation Agreement, in which
event Guarantor shall be discharged from any and all liabilities arising
hereunder (to the extent such liabilities arise after such transfer) unless
Guarantor guarantees the obligations of the transferee under Section 8(n) of the
Participation Agreement; (c) the assignment, conveyance or other transfer by
Lessor of any or all of its interest in the Aircraft; (d) any extension or
renewal with respect to any obligation of Transferee or Lessor under the
Guaranteed Agreements; (e) any modification of, or amendment or supplement to,
any of the Guaranteed Agreements; (f) any furnishing or acceptance of additional
security or any release of any security; (g) any waiver, consent or other action
or inaction or any exercise or non-exercise of any right, remedy or power with
respect to Transferee or Lessor, or any change in the structure of Transferee or
Lessor; or (h) any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
composition, liquidation, dissolution, or similar proceedings with respect to
the Trustee or Transferee; or any other occurrence whatsoever, except payment in
full of all amounts payable by Transferee under the Guaranteed Agreements and
performance in full of all Obligations of Transferee in accordance with the
terms and conditions of the Guaranteed Agreements.

        6. Reinstatement.  Guarantor agrees that this Guaranty shall be
automatically reinstated with respect to any payment made prior to any
termination of the Guaranty by or on behalf of Transferee pursuant to the
Participation Agreement or the other




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Operative Documents to which Transferee is a party if and to the extent that
such payment is rescinded or must be otherwise restored, whether as a result of
any proceedings in bankruptcy or reorganization or otherwise.

        7. No Subrogation.  Notwithstanding any payment or payments made by
Guarantor hereunder or any set-off or application of funds of Guarantor by any
beneficiary hereof, Guarantor shall not be entitled to be subrogated to any of
the rights of any beneficiary hereof against Transferee or any collateral,
security or guarantee or right of set-off held by any beneficiary hereof for the
payment of the Obligations, nor shall Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any
reimbursement from Transferee in respect of payment made by Guarantor hereunder,
until all amounts and performance owing to the beneficiaries hereof by
Transferee on account of the Obligations are paid and performed in full.

        8. Severability.  Any provision of this Guaranty Agreement that is 
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

        9. Miscellaneous.  This Guaranty shall: (a) be binding upon Guarantor,
its successors and assigns; (b) inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by,
Lessee, Trust Company, Indenture Trustee, and Loan Participants, and their
respective successors and assigns and each other holder from time to time of any
interest in the Aircraft or the Operative Documents, but shall not, and is not
intended to, create rights in any other third parties; (c) not be waived,
amended or modified without the written consent of Lessee, Trust Company,
Indenture Trustee, and Loan Participants; (d) BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; and (e) subject to Section 6
hereof, remain in full force and effect until, and shall be terminated upon (1)
the payment in full of all sums payable by Transferee, as the case may be, under
the Guaranteed Agreements, and by Guarantor hereunder, and performance in full
of Transferee, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Guaranteed
Agreements and Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Guaranty or (2)
the date on which Transferee shall meet the requirements set forth in Section 8
of the Participation Agreement without benefit of this Guaranty; provided that
Guarantor hereby covenants and agrees that if Transferee shall at any time
thereafter (while Transferee shall be Owner Participant under the Participation
Agreement) fail to meet such requirements, Guarantor shall immediately reinstate
this Guaranty or execute and deliver to the addressees of this Guaranty a
guaranty substantially identical hereto.  All notices to, or requests of,
demands on and other communications with Guarantor shall be made as set forth in
the Participation Agreement.

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                                           Very truly yours,


                                           [GUARANTOR]


                                           By:  
                                              ------------------------------
                                           Name:
                                           Title:


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                                                                   EXHIBIT D
                                                                      TO
                                                                 PARTICIPATION 
                                                                   AGREEMENT
                                                                  [NW 1996 B]

                             ERISA CONSIDERATIONS

IN GENERAL

        Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended ("ERISA") imposes certain requirements on employee benefit plans subject
to ERISA ("ERISA PLANS"), and on those persons who are fiduciaries with respect
to ERISA Plans.  Investments by ERISA Plans are subject to ERISA's general
fiduciary requirements, including the requirement of investment prudence and
diversification and the requirement that an ERISA Plan's investment be made in
accordance with the documents governing the ERISA Plan.

        Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended (the "CODE") prohibit certain transactions involving the assets
of an ERISA Plan (as well as those plans that are not subject to ERISA but which
are subject to Section 4975 of the Code, such as individual retirement accounts
(together with ERISA Plans, "PLANS")) and certain persons (referred to as
"PARTIES IN INTEREST" or "DISQUALIFIED PERSONS") having certain relationships to
such Plans, unless a statutory or administrative exemption is applicable to the
transaction.  [A party in interest or disqualified person who engages in a
prohibited transaction may be subject to excise taxes and other penalties and
liabilities under ERISA and the Code.]

        The Department of Labor has promulgated a regulation, 29 CFR Section
2510.3-101 (the "PLAN ASSET REGULATION"), describing what the assets of a Plan
with respect to the Plan's investment in an entity for purposes of ERISA and
Section 4975 of the Code.  Under the Plan Asset Regulation, if a Plan invests in
a Certificate, the Plan's assets would include both the Certificate and an
undivided interest in each of the underlying assets of the corresponding Trust,
including the Equipment Notes held by such Trust, unless it is established that
equity participation in the Trust by employee benefit plans (including Plans and
entities whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of an employee
benefit plan's investment in the entity) is not "significant" within the meaning
of the Plan Asset Regulation.  No assurance can be given and no monitoring or
other measures will be taken to ensure that this exception will be met at any
particular time.  If the assets of a Trust were deemed to constitute the assets
of a Plan, transactions involving the assets of such Trust could be subject to
the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code
unless a statutory or administrative exemption were applicable to the
transaction.

        The fiduciary of a Plan that proposes to purchase and hold any
Certificates should consider whether such purchase and holding may involve the
indirect extension of credit to a party in interest or a disqualified person. In
addition, whether or not the assets of a Trust are deemed to be Plan Assets
under the Plan Asset Regulation, if Certificates are




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purchased by a Plan and Certificates of a subordinate Class are held by a party
in interest or a disqualified person with respect to such Plan, the exercise by
the holder of the subordinate Class of Certificates of its right to purchase
the senior Classes of Certificates upon the occurrence and during the
continuation of a Triggering Event could be considered to constitute a
prohibited transaction unless a statutory or administrative exemption were
applicable.  Depending on the identity of the Plan fiduciary making the
decision to acquire or hold Certificates on behalf of a Plan, Prohibited
Transaction Class Exemption ("PTCE") 91-38 (relating to investments by bank
collective investment funds), PTCE 84-14 (relating to transactions effected by
a "qualified professional asset manager"), PTCE 95-60 (relating to investment
by an insurance company general account) or PTCE 90-1 (relating to investments
by insurance company pooled separate accounts) [(collectively, the "CLASS
EXEMPTIONS")] could provide an exemption from the prohibited transaction
provisions of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code.  There can be no assurance
that any of these class exemptions or any other exemption will be available
with respect to any particular transaction involving the Certificates.  If a
prohibited transaction occurs for which no exemption is available, each
fiduciary and other party in interest or disqualified person that has engaged
in the transaction could be required (i) to restore to the Plan any profit
realized on the transaction and (ii) to reimburse the Plan for any losses
suffered by such Plan as a result of the investment.  In addition, each party
in interest or disqualified person involved could be subject to an excise tax
equal to 5% of the amount involved in the prohibited transaction for each year
the transaction continues and, unless the transaction is corrected within
statutorily required periods, to an additional tax of 100% of the amount
involved in the transaction.

        Governmental plans and certain church plans, while not subject to the
fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA or the provisions of Section 4975
of the Code, may nevertheless be subject to state or other federal laws that are
substantially similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA and the Code.
Fiduciaries of any such plans should consult with their counsel before
purchasing any Certificates.

        Any Plan fiduciary which proposes to cause a Plan to purchase any
Certificates should consult with its counsel regarding the applicability of the
fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA and
Section 4975 of the Code to such an investment, and to confirm that such
purchase and holding will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited
transaction or any other violation of an applicable requirement of ERISA.

CLASS A CERTIFICATES

        In addition to the Class Exemptions, an individual exemption may apply
to the purchase, holding and secondary market sale of Class A Certificates by
Plans, provided that certain specified conditions are met.  In particular, the
Department of Labor has issued individual administrative exemptions to certain
of the Underwriters which are substantially the same as the administrative
exemption issued to Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Prohibited Transaction
Exemption 90-24 (55 Fed. Reg. 20,548 (1990) (the "UNDERWRITER EXEMPTION"), which
generally exempts from the application of certain, but not all, of the

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prohibited transaction provisions of Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of
the Code certain transaction relating to the initial purchase, holding and
subsequent secondary market sale of pass-through certificates which represent
an interest in a trust, the assets of which include equipment notes secured by
leases, provided that certain conditions set forth in the Underwriter Exemption
are satisfied.

        The Underwriter Exemption sets a number of general and specific
conditions which must be satisfied for a transaction involving the initial
purchase, holding or secondary market sale of Class A Certificates to be
eligible for exemptive relief thereunder.  In particular, the acquisition of
Class A Certificates by a Plan must be on terms that are at least as favorable
to the Plan as they would be in an arm's length transaction with an unrelated
party; the rights and interests evidenced by the Certificates must not be
subordinated to the rights and interests evidenced by other Certificates of the
same trust estate; the Certificates at the time of acquisition by the Plan must
be rated in one of the three highest generic rating categories by the Moody's
Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, Duff & Phelps, Inc. or
Fitch Investors Service, Inc.; and the investing Plan must be an accredited
investor as defined in Rule 501(a)(1) or Regulation D of the Commission under
the Securities Act.

        The Underwriter Exemption does not apply to the Class B Certificates,
the Class C Certificates or the Class D Certificates.  Even if all of the
conditions of the Underwriter Exemption are satisfied with respect to the Class
A Certificates, no assurance can be given that the Underwriter Exemption would
apply with respect to all transactions involving the Class A Certificates or the
assets of the Class A Trust.  In particular, it appears that the Underwriter
Exemption would not apply to the purchase by Class B Certificateholders, Class C
Certificateholders or Class D Certificateholders of Class A Certificates in
connection with the exercise of their rights upon the occurrence and during the
continuance of a Triggering Event.  Therefore, the fiduciary of a Plan
considering the purchase of a Class A Certificate should consider the
availability of the exemptive relief provided by the Underwriter Exemption, as
well as the availability of any other exemptions with respect to transactions to
which the Underwriter Exemption may not apply.

CLASS B, CLASS C AND CLASS D CERTIFICATES

        The Class B Certificates, Class C Certificates and Class D Certificates
may not be acquired with the assets of a Plan, provided, however, that such
Certificates may be acquired with the assets of an insurance company general
account that may be deemed to constitute Plan assets if the conditions of
Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 have been satisfied.  By the
acceptance of a Class B, C or D Certificate, each Certificateholder will be
deemed to have represented and warranted that either (i) no Plan assets have
been used to purchase such Certificate or (ii) the conditions of PTCE 95-60 have
been satisfied and that such purchase or holding is exempt from the prohibited
transaction restrictions of ERISA and the Code pursuant to PTCE 95-60.


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        Each Plan fiduciary (and each fiduciary for a governmental or church
plan subject to rules similar to those imposed on Plans under ERISA) should
consult with its legal advisor concerning an investment in any of the
Certificates.


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                                                                 Exhibit 4(f)(7)

                                                                   DRAFT 5/21/96

================================================================================
                   FIRST AMENDMENT TO PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

                                  DATED AS OF

                                 JUNE __, 1996

                                     AMONG

                            NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.
                                                     AS LESSEE

               FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

              NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY

                  PROVIDED HEREIN, BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE

                      STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,

                   AS PASS THROUGH TRUSTEE UNDER EACH OF THE

                         PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENTS

                           [________________________],
                                                     AS OWNER PARTICIPANT

                      STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY

                     OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                                                     AS SUBORDINATION AGENT

                                      AND

                      STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,

              IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE

                         ---------------------------

                          ONE BOEING 757-251 AIRCRAFT

                                     N538US

                       LEASED TO NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.
================================================================================




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                              TABLE OF CONTENTS TO

                   FIRST AMENDMENT TO PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

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SECTION 1.   Amendment of Section 1(d) of the Original Participation Agreement.......  4
SECTION 2.   Amendment of Section 7(b)(i) of the Original Participation Agreement....  4
SECTION 3.   Amendment of Section 7(b)(ii) of the Original Participation Agreement...  4
SECTION 4.   Amendment of Section 7(b)(iii) of the Original Participation Agreement..  4
SECTION 5.   Amendment of Section 7(b)(x) of the Original Participation Agreement....  4
SECTION 6.   Amendment of Section 7(b)(xii) of the Original Participation Agreement..  4
SECTION 7.   Amendment of Section 7(c) of the Original Participation Agreement.......  4
SECTION 8.   Amendment of Section 8(f) of the Original Participation Agreement.......  5
SECTION 9.   Amendment of Section 8(n) of the Original Participation Agreement.......  5
SECTION 10.  Amendment of Section 8(q)(A) of the Original Participation Agreement....  5
SECTION 11.  Amendment of Section 8(t) of the Original Participation Agreement.......  5
SECTION 12.  Amendment of Section 8(x) of the Original Participation Agreement.......  5
SECTION 13.  Amendment of Section 8(y)(A) of the Original Participation Agreement....  6
SECTION 14.  Amendment of Section 8(dd) of the Original Participation Agreement......  6
SECTION 15.  Amendment of Section 8(gg) of the Original Participation Agreement......  6
SECTION 16.  Amendment of Section 8(hh) of the Original Participation Agreement......  6
SECTION 17.  Amendment of Section 9 of the Original Participation Agreement..........  6
SECTION 18.  Amendment of Section 10 of the Original Participation Agreement.........  6
SECTION 19.  Amendment of Section 13(b) of the Original Participation Agreement......  7
SECTION 20.  Amendment of Section 14 of the Original Participation Agreement.........  7
SECTION 21.  Amendment of Section 15(a) of the Original Participation Agreement......  7
SECTION 22.  Amendment of Section 18 of the Original Participation Agreement.........  7

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SECTION 23.  Ratification..........................................................    7
SECTION 24.  Miscellaneous.........................................................    7
SCHEDULE I   Pass Through Trust Agreements
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                   FIRST AMENDMENT TO PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

     This FIRST AMENDMENT TO PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT [NW 1996 B], dated as of
June __, 1996, among (i) NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., a Minnesota corporation (the
"LESSEE"), (ii) [                      ], a [                      ] 
corporation (the "OWNER PARTICIPANT"), (iii) FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, but solely as trustee (the "OWNER TRUSTEE") under the
Trust Agreement (as defined below), (iv) STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
but solely as trustee (in such capacity, the "PASS THROUGH TRUSTEE") under each
of the three separate Pass Through Trust Agreements (as defined below), (v)
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in
its individual capacity, but solely as subordination agent and trustee (in such
capacity, the "SUBORDINATION AGENT") under the Intercreditor Agreement (as
defined below), and (vii) STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, in its individual
capacity and as Indenture Trustee (the "INDENTURE TRUSTEE") under the Original
Indenture and the Indenture (as defined below).

     Except as otherwise defined in this Amendment, the terms used herein in
capitalized form shall have the meanings attributed thereto in the Lease;

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

     WHEREAS, Lessee, the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee, [Insert Bridge
Lenders], as the loan participants (collectively, the "ORIGINAL LOAN
PARTICIPANTS") and the Indenture Trustee entered into the Participation
Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996 (the "ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT"), providing for the sale and lease of one Boeing 757-251 aircraft
(the "AIRCRAFT");

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee entered
into the Trust Indenture and Security Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April
24, 1996, as supplemented by Trust Agreement and Indenture Supplement [NW 1996
B], dated April 30, 1996




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(collectively, the "ORIGINAL INDENTURE"), pursuant to which the Owner Trustee
issued to the Loan Participants secured certificates substantially in the form
set forth in Article II thereof (the "ORIGINAL SECURED CERTIFICATES") as
evidence of the loan then being made by the Loan Participants in participating
in the payment of Lessor's Cost;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Owner Trustee and Lessee entered into the Lease
Agreement [NW 1996 B] relating to the Aircraft, dated as of April 24, 1996, as
supplemented by Lease Supplement No. 1 [NW 1996 B] dated April 30, 1996 (the
"ORIGINAL LEASE"), whereby, subject to the terms and conditions set forth
therein, the Owner Trustee agreed to lease to Lessee, and Lessee agreed to
lease from such Owner Trustee, the Aircraft commencing on the Delivery Date;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee entered
into the Trust Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996 (the "TRUST
AGREEMENT"), pursuant to which the Owner Trustee agreed, among other things, to
hold the Trust Estate defined in Section 1.01 thereof for the benefit of the
Owner Participant thereunder;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Owner Participant entered into a Tax Indemnity
Agreement [NW 1996 B] relating to the Aircraft, dated as of April 24, 1996 (the
"ORIGINAL TAX INDEMNITY AGREEMENT"), with Lessee;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Guarantor entered into the Guarantee [NW 1996 B]
dated as of April 24, 1996 (the "GUARANTEE"), pursuant to which the Guarantor
guaranteed certain obligations of Lessee;

     WHEREAS, Section 17 of the Original Participation Agreement contemplates
the redemption of the Original Secured Certificates pursuant to Section 2.10 of
the Original Indenture as part of a refinancing operation, Section 3(d) of the
Original Lease contemplates the adjustment of Rent in the event of such a
refinancing operation, and Lessee has given its written notice to the Owner
Participant and Owner Trustee pursuant to such Section 17 of its desire to
implement such a refinancing operation;

     WHEREAS, Lessee, the Guarantor, the Owner Trustee, the Pass Through
Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee and the Subordination
Agent have entered into the Refunding Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of
[_______], 1996 (the "REFUNDING AGREEMENT");

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Amendment,
the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee have amended and restated the
Original Indenture as the Amended and Restated Trust Indenture and Security
Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof (the "INDENTURE"), under
which Indenture the Owner Trustee shall issue

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new secured certificates substantially in the form set forth in Section 2.01
thereof (the "REFINANCING SECURED CERTIFICATES ") in three series;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Amendment,
the Owner Trustee and Lessee have entered into the First Amendment to Lease
Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the date hereof (the "LEASE AMENDMENT NO.
1"; the Original Lease, as amended by the Lease Amendment No. 1, the "LEASE"),
containing amendments, modifications and additions necessary to give effect to
the transactions described herein;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Amendment,
the Owner Participant and Lessee have entered into the First Amendment to Tax
Indemnity Agreement [NW 1996 B] dated as of the date hereof (the "TIA AMENDMENT
NO. 1"; the Original Tax Indemnity Agreement, as amended by the TIA Amendment
No. 1, the "TAX INDEMNITY AGREEMENT");

     WHEREAS, pursuant to the Pass Through Trust Agreement and each of the Pass
Through Trust Supplements set forth in Schedule I hereto (collectively, the
"PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENTS"), on the Refinancing Date (as defined in
Section 1 of the Refunding Agreement), three separate grantor trusts
(collectively, the "PASS THROUGH TRUSTS" and, individually, a "PASS THROUGH
TRUST") will be created to facilitate certain of the transactions contemplated
hereby, including, without limitation, the issuance and sale by each Pass
Through Trust of pass through certificates pursuant thereto (collectively, the
"CERTIFICATES");

     WHEREAS, the proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Certificates by
each Pass Through Trust will be applied in part by the Pass Through Trustee at
the Closing to purchase from the Owner Trustee, on behalf of each Pass Through
Trust, all of the Refinancing Secured Certificates bearing the same interest
rate as the Certificates issued by such Pass Through Trust;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Amendment,
(i) Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, acting through its New York branch
(the "LIQUIDITY PROVIDER") entered into three revolving credit agreements
(each, a "LIQUIDITY FACILITY"), one for the benefit of the holders of
Certificates of each Pass Through Trust, with the Subordination Agent, as agent
for the Pass Through Trustee on behalf of each such Pass Through Trust; and
(ii) the Pass Through Trustee, the Liquidity Provider and the Subordination
Agent entered into the Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the date hereof
(the "INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT"); and

     WHEREAS, the Refinancing Secured Certificates will be held by the
Subordination Agent pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement on behalf of the
Pass Through Trusts;


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     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements contained
herein, the parties hereto agree that the Original Participation Agreement is
amended as follows:

     SECTION 1. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1(D) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 1(d) of the Original Participation Agreement and all
references thereto in the Original Participation Agreement are hereby deleted.

     SECTION 2. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 7(B) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  [RESERVED]

     SECTION 3. [RESERVED]

     SECTION 4. [RESERVED]

     SECTION 5. [RESERVED]

     SECTION 6. [RESERVED]

     SECTION 7. [RESERVED]

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<PAGE>   8




     SECTION 8. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8(F) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 8(f) of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended by (i) deleting the words "each of the Loan Participants" and
substituting therefor the words "the Indenture Trustee" in the first line
thereof and (ii) inserting the word "or" after the phrase "result of such
reregistration" in clause (D) thereof.

     SECTION 9. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8(N) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 8(n) of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended by (i) deleting the words and punctuation "the Loan Participants," each
time they appear in the second sentence thereof, (ii) deleting the words "the
Majority in Interest of the Certificate Holders" from the first proviso of the
second sentence thereof and substituting therefor the words "Indenture
Trustee"; (iii) deleting the "," between the words "Owner Trustee" and "the
Indenture Trustee" from clause (N) of the third sentence thereof and
substituting therefor "and", (iv) deleting the words "and the Loan
Participants" from clause (N) of the third sentence thereof, (v) deleting the
words "to such persons" in clause (N) of the third sentence thereof and
inserting in lieu thereof the words "to the Owner Trustee and the Lessee", (vi)
deleting the words and punctuation "the Majority in Interest of the Certificate
Holders," and "and the Indenture Trustee" from clause (O) of the third sentence
thereof, and (vii) deleting the words and punctuation "the Loan Participants,"
from the fifth sentence thereof.

     SECTION 10. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8(Q)(A) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 8(q)(A) of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended by (i) deleting the words "Each Loan" in the first sentence thereof and
substituting therefor the words "The Owner", (ii) deleting the fourth sentence
thereof in its entirety, and (iii) adding a new sentence to the end thereof
to read as follows: "The Pass Through Trustee agrees that it will not agree to
any amendment, modification or waiver of Section 1.01(e)(i) of each supplement
(other than the supplement related to the Northwest Airlines 1996-1A Pass
Trhough Trust) to the Pass Through Trust Agreement without the prior written
consent of the Owner Participant.".

     SECTION 11. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8(T) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 8(t) of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended by deleting the fourth and fifth sentences thereof.

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     SECTION 12. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8(X) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 8(x) of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended by (i) deleting the words "each Loan Participant" therefrom and (ii)
adding a new second paragraph thereto at the end thereof:

                 Notwithstanding the foregoing, Lessee shall not be entitled to
            assume the obligations of the Owner Trustee in respect of the
            Secured Certificates unless Lessee causes to be delivered to the
            Indenture Trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that (i) the
            Lien of the Trust Indenture continues to be a valid and duly
            perfected first priority security interest in and to the Aircraft
            and (ii) the Indenture Trustee should be entitled to the benefits
            of 11 U.S.C. Section 1110; provided that the opinion required by
            subclause (ii) need only be given if immediately prior to such
            assumption the Owner Trustee should have been entitled to the
            benefits of 11 U.S.C. Section 1110.

     SECTION 13. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8(Y)(A) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 8(y)(A) of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended by (i) deleting the words "each" the first time it appears in Section
8(y)(A)(ii) and substituting therefor the words "the Owner", (ii) deleting the
words "such" the first time it appears in Section 8(y)(A)(ii) and substituting
therefor the words "the Indenture Trustee and the Owner", (iii) inserting in
Section 8(y)(A)(ii) after the words "Purchase Agreement Assignment", the words
and punctuation ", the Refunding Agreement", (iv) deleting the word "each" the
first time it appears in Section 8(y)(A)(iv) and substituting therefor the
words "the Owner", and (v) deleting the word "Participants" the first time it
appears in Section 8(y)(A)(iv) and substituting therefor the words "the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Participant".

     SECTION 14. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8(DD) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 8(dd) of the Original Participation Agreement and all
references thereto in the Original Participation Agreement are hereby deleted.

     SECTION 15. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8(GG) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 8(gg) of the Original Participation Agreement and all
references thereto in the Original Participation Agreement are hereby deleted.

     SECTION 16. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8(HH) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 8(hh) of the Original Participation Agreement and all
references thereto in the Original Participation Agreement are hereby deleted.

     SECTION 17. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 9 OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 9 of the Original Participation Agreement and all
references thereto in the Original Participation Agreement are hereby deleted.

     SECTION 18. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 10 OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 10 of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended by (i) deleting the words and punctuation ", the Loan Participants"
from clause (A) thereof, (ii) deleting the words "Loan Participants" the second
time they appear in clause (B) thereof and 

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substituting therefor the words "Indenture Trustee", and (iii) deleting the
words "or 10.05" from clause (iii) of the second sentence thereof.

     SECTION 19. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 13(B) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 13(b) of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended by deleting the words "at the foot of this Agreement" in clause (A) of
the second sentence thereof and substituting therefor the words "on the
signature pages to the Refunding Agreement".

     SECTION 20. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 14 OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 14 of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended by (i) deleting the words "Loan Participants" each time they appear in
clauses (A), (B), and (D) thereof and substituting therefor the words
"Indenture Trustee", (ii) deleting the "," both times it appears between the
words "Owner Participant" and "the Indenture Trustee" in clause (E) thereof and
substituting therefor "and", and (iii) deleting the words "and the Loan
Participants" both times they appear in clause (E) thereof.

     SECTION 21. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 15(A) OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 15(a) of the Original Participation Agreement is hereby
amended to read in its entirety as follows:

                 Section 15. Miscellaneous.  (a)  The Owner Participant
            covenants and agrees that it shall not unreasonably withhold its
            consent to any consent requested of the Owner Trustee, as Lessor,
            under the terms of the Lease which by its terms is not to be
            unreasonably withheld by the Owner Trustee, as Lessor.

     SECTION 22. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 18 OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENT.  Section 18 of the Original Participation Agreement and all
references thereto in the Original Participation Agreement are hereby deleted.

     SECTION 23. RATIFICATION.  Except as hereby modified, the Original
Participation Agreement shall continue in full force and effect as originally
executed.  From and after the date of this Amendment, each and every reference
in the Participation Agreement, as amended hereby, to "this Agreement",
"herein", "hereof" or similar words or phrases referring to the Participation
Agreement or any word or phrase referring to a section or provision of the
Participation Agreement is deemed for all purposes to be a reference to the
Participation Agreement or such section or provision as amended pursuant to
this Amendment.

     SECTION 24. MISCELLANEOUS.  (a)  Each of the parties hereto agrees that
the transactions contemplated hereby shall constitute one of the three
refinancing operations permitted in Section 17 of the Participation Agreement.

     (b) Each party hereto acknowledges and agrees that the Purchaser is a Loan
Participant under the Participation Agreement, the Lease and the other
Operative Documents, and is entitled to the benefits of the covenants and other
provisions therein running in favor of the Loan Participants, and to the
security purported to be afforded by the Trust Indenture, but 

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that (i) the Purchaser has no liability arising out of any actions or inactions
of the Original Loan Participants or any prior Certificate Holder or any event
or condition which occurred or existed prior to the Closing, (ii) the Purchaser
is making no representations or warranties other than those set forth in the
Refunding Agreement, and (iii) the Purchaser has no liability or obligation
under any covenant in any of such agreements for any period prior to the
Closing.

     (c) This Amendment may be executed by the parties hereto in separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.  Neither this Amendment nor any of the terms hereof may be
terminated, amended, supplemented, waived or modified, except by an instrument
in writing signed by the party against which the enforcement of the
termination, amendment, supplement, waiver or modification is sought; and no
such termination, amendment, supplement, waiver or modification shall be
effective unless a signed copy thereof shall have been delivered to the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee.  The terms of this Amendment shall be
binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, Lessee and its successors and        
assigns, each Loan Participant and its successors and assigns, the Owner
Participant and its successors and assigns, each Certificate Holder and its
successors and registered assigns, the Indenture Trustee and its successors as
Indenture Trustee under the Trust Indenture and the Owner Trustee and its
successors as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement.  THIS AMENDMENT SHALL IN
ALL RESPECTS BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING ALL MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND
PERFORMANCE.  THIS AMENDMENT IS BEING DELIVERED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
     
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be
duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the
day and year first above written.

                                    NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.,

                                         Lessee



                                    By:___________________________________
                                         Name:
                                         Title:

                                    FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION,
                                         not in its individual capacity, except
                                         as expressly provided herein, but 
                                         solely as Owner Trustee



                                    By:___________________________________
                                         Name:
                                         Title:

                                    STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
                                         as Pass Through Trustee under each of
                                         the Pass Through Trust Agreements



                                    By:___________________________________
                                         Name:
                                         Title:

                                    [                       ],
                                         as Owner Participant



                                    By:___________________________________
                                         Name:
                                         Title:


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                                    STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF
                                    CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

                                          as Subordination Agent



                                    By:_____________________________________
                                         Name:
                                         Title:

                                    STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
                                         in its individual capacity and as
                                         Indenture Trustee



                                    By:_____________________________________
                                         Name:
                                         Title


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                                                                   SCHEDULE I TO
                                                         PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

                         PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENTS

1.   Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trust Agreement, supplemented by
     Trust Supplement No. ____ dated __________, 1996.

2.   Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trust Agreement, supplemented by
     Trust Supplement No. ____ dated __________, 1996.

3.   Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trust Agreement, supplemented by
     Trust Supplement No. ____ dated __________, 1996.



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                                                                 Exhibit 4(f)(8)

                                                                   DRAFT 5/21/96

================================================================================

                              REFUNDING AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

                          DATED AS OF [________], 1996

                                     Among

                           NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.,

                                   as Lessee

                        NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION,

                                  as Guarantor

               FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

                                as Owner Trustee

                      STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,

                   as Pass Through Trustee under each of the

                         Pass Through Trust Agreements

                           [________________________],

                              as Owner Participant

                      STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY

                     OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

                             as Subordination Agent

                                      and

                      STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,

                              as Indenture Trustee

                               __________________

                          ONE BOEING 757-251 AIRCRAFT

                                     N538US

                       LEASED TO NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.

================================================================================

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                    INDEX TO REFUNDING AGREEMENT [NW 1996 B]

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SECTION 1.   Purchase of Refinancing Secured Certificates; Refunding               4
SECTION 2.   Refinancing Secured Certificates                                      5
SECTION 3.   Conditions Precedent                                                  6
SECTION 4.   Certain Conditions Precedent to the Obligations of the Lessee and    11
             the Guarantor; Conditions Precedent with Respect to the Pass
             Through Trustee
SECTION 5.   Amendment and Restatement of the Original Indenture                  11
SECTION 6.   Amendment of the Original Lease                                      11  
SECTION 7.   Amendment of the Original Participation Agreement                    12
SECTION 8.   Representations and Warranties of the Lessee and the Guarantor       12
SECTION 9.   Representations, Warranties and Covenants                            15
SECTION 10.  Notices                                                              25
SECTION 11.  Expenses                                                             25
SECTION 12.  Reliance of Liquidity Provider                                       26
SECTION 13.  Miscellaneous                                                        26
SECTION 14.  Governing Law                                                        27
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                                   SCHEDULES

Schedule I   Pass Through Trust Agreements
Schedule II  Refinancing Secured Certificates, Purchasers and Purchase Price


                                    EXHIBIT

Exhibit A    Draft First Amendment to Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B]

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                              REFUNDING AGREEMENT

                                  [NW 1996 B]

     This REFUNDING AGREEMENT [NW 1996 B], dated as of [__________], 1996,
among (i) NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., a Minnesota corporation (the "LESSEE"),
(ii) NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the "GUARANTOR"),
(iii) [_______________________], a [_____________] corporation (the "OWNER
PARTICIPANT"), (iv) FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in
its individual capacity except as otherwise expressly provided herein, but
solely as trustee (the "OWNER TRUSTEE") under the Trust Agreement (as defined
below), (v) STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity
except as otherwise expressly provided herein, but solely as trustee (in such
capacity, the "PASS THROUGH TRUSTEE") under each of the three separate Pass
Through Trust Agreements (as defined below), (vi) STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity,
but solely as subordination agent and trustee (in such capacity, the
"SUBORDINATION AGENT") under the Intercreditor Agreement (as defined below),
and (vii) STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity,
but solely as Indenture Trustee (the "INDENTURE TRUSTEE") under the Original
Indenture and the Indenture (as defined below).

     Except as otherwise defined in this Agreement, the terms used herein in
capitalized form shall have the meanings attributed thereto in the
Participation Agreement (as defined below); provided, however, if this
Agreement is executed prior to the Closing (as defined below), capitalized
terms defined in the Participation Agreement with reference to the Lease (as
defined in the Participation Agreement) shall be deemed to have the meanings
attributed to them in such Lease as proposed to be amended by the First
Amendment to Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B], a draft of which is attached hereto
as Exhibit A.  After the Closing, such terms shall have the meanings attributed
to them in the Lease (as defined below).

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

     WHEREAS, the Lessee, the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee, [insert 
bridge lenders], as the loan participants (collectively, the "ORIGINAL LOAN 
PARTICIPANTS") and the Indenture Trustee entered into the Participation 
Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April




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24, 1996 (the "ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT"), providing for the sale and
lease of one Boeing 757-251 aircraft (the "AIRCRAFT");

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee entered
into the Trust Indenture and Security Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April
24, 1996, as supplemented by Trust Agreement and Indenture Supplement [NW 1996
B], dated April 30, 1996 (collectively, the "ORIGINAL INDENTURE"), pursuant to
which the Owner Trustee issued to the Original Loan Participants secured
certificates substantially in the form set forth in Article II thereof (the
"ORIGINAL SECURED CERTIFICATES") as evidence of the loan then being made by the
Original Loan Participants in participating in the payment of Lessor's Cost;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Owner Trustee and the Lessee entered into the
Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B] relating to the Aircraft, dated as of April 24,
1996, as supplemented by Lease Supplement No. 1 [NW 1996 B] dated April 30,
1996 (the "ORIGINAL LEASE"), whereby, subject to the terms and conditions set
forth therein, the Owner Trustee agreed to lease to the Lessee, and the Lessee
agreed to lease from such Owner Trustee, the Aircraft commencing on the
Delivery Date;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee entered
into the Trust Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of April 24, 1996 (the "TRUST
AGREEMENT"), pursuant to which the Owner Trustee agreed, among other things, to
hold the Trust Estate defined in Section 1.01 thereof for the benefit of the
Owner Participant thereunder;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Owner Participant entered into a Tax Indemnity
Agreement [NW 1996 B] relating to the Aircraft, dated as of April 24, 1996 (the
"ORIGINAL TAX INDEMNITY AGREEMENT"), with the Lessee;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Original
Participation Agreement, the Guarantor executed and delivered the Guarantee [NW
1996 B] dated as of April 24, 1996 (the "GUARANTEE") pursuant to which the
Guarantor guaranteed certain obligations of the Lessee under the Operative
Documents;

     WHEREAS, Section 17 of the Original Participation Agreement contemplates
the redemption of the Original Secured Certificates pursuant to Section 2.10 of
the Original Indenture as part of a refinancing operation, Section 3(d) of the
Original Lease contemplates the adjustment of Rent in the event of such a
refinancing operation, and the Lessee has given its written notice to the Owner
Participant and the Owner Trustee pursuant to such Section 17 of its desire to
implement such a refinancing operation;

     WHEREAS, at the Closing (as defined below), the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee will amend and restate the Original Indenture as the Amended
and Restated Trust Indenture and Security Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of
the Refinancing Date (the

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"INDENTURE"), under which Indenture the Owner Trustee will issue new secured
certificates substantially in the form set forth in Section 2.01 thereof (the
"REFINANCING SECURED CERTIFICATES ") in three series;

     WHEREAS, at the Closing, the Owner Trustee and the Lessee will enter into
the First Amendment to Lease Agreement [NW 1996 B], dated as of the Refinancing
Date (the "LEASE AMENDMENT NO. 1"; the Original Lease, as amended by the Lease
Amendment No. 1, the "LEASE"), containing amendments, modifications and
additions necessary to give effect to the transactions described herein;

     WHEREAS, at the Closing, the Lessee, the Owner Trustee, the Pass Through
Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee and the Subordination
Agent will enter into the First Amendment to Participation Agreement [NW 1996
B], dated as of the Refinancing Date (the "PA AMENDMENT NO. 1"; the Original
Participation Agreement, as amended by the PA Amendment No. 1, the
"PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT");

     WHEREAS, at the Closing, the Owner Participant and Lessee will enter into
the First Amendment to Tax Indemnity Agreement [NW 1996 B] dated as of the date
hereof (the "TIA AMENDMENT NO. 1"; the Original Tax Indemnity Agreement, as
amended by the TIA Amendment No. 1, the "TAX INDEMNITY AGREEMENT");

     WHEREAS, pursuant to the Pass Through Trust Agreement and each of the Pass
Through Trust Supplements set forth in Schedule I hereto (collectively, the
"PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENTS"), on the Refinancing Date, three separate
grantor trusts (collectively, the "PASS THROUGH TRUSTS" and, individually, a
"PASS THROUGH TRUST") will be created to facilitate certain of the transactions
contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, the issuance and sale by
each Pass Through Trust of pass through certificates pursuant thereto
(collectively, the "CERTIFICATES");

     WHEREAS, the proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Certificates by
each Pass Through Trust will be applied in part by the Pass Through Trustee at
the Closing to purchase from the Owner Trustee, on behalf of each Pass Through
Trust, all of the Refinancing Secured Certificates bearing the same interest
rate as the Certificates issued by such Pass Through Trust;

     WHEREAS, at the Closing, (i) Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, acting
through its New York branch (the "LIQUIDITY PROVIDER") will enter into three
revolving credit agreements (each, a "LIQUIDITY FACILITY"), one for the benefit
of the holders of Certificates of each Pass Through Trust, with the
Subordination Agent, as agent for the Pass Through Trustee on behalf of each
such Pass Through Trust; and (ii) the Pass Through Trustee, the Liquidity
Provider and the Subordination Agent will enter into the Intercreditor
Agreement, dated as of the Refinancing Date (the "INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT");
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     WHEREAS, the Refinancing Secured Certificates will be held by the
Subordination Agent pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement on behalf of the
Pass Through Trusts;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual
agreements herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree
as follows:

     SECTION 1. PURCHASE OF REFINANCING SECURED CERTIFICATES; REFUNDING.  (a)
Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth herein, on
June __, 1996 or on such other date agreed to by the parties hereto (the
"REFINANCING DATE"):

                 (i) immediately prior to the Closing, the Owner Participant
            shall pay to the Owner Trustee an amount equal to the unpaid
            interest on the Original Secured Certificates accrued up to but not
            including the Refinancing Date;

                 (ii) the Pass Through Trustee for each Pass Through Trust
            shall pay to the Owner Trustee the aggregate purchase price of the
            Refinancing Secured Certificates being issued to such Pass Through
            Trustee as set forth in clause (vii) below;

                 (iii) the Owner Trustee shall pay to the Indenture Trustee for
            the benefit of the holders of the Original Secured Certificates an
            amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Original Secured
            Certificates outstanding on the Refinancing Date, together with
            accrued and unpaid interest on the Original Secured Certificates up
            to but not including the Refinancing Date, and all other amounts
            payable to such holders under the Original Indenture and the
            Original Participation Agreement;

                 (iv) pursuant to the Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall
            disburse to the holders of the Original Secured Certificates the
            amounts of principal and interest, and other amounts, if any,
            described in clause (iii) above, owing to them on the Refinancing
            Date with respect to the Original Secured Certificates as a
            prepayment of the Original Secured Certificates;

                 (v) simultaneously with the disbursement by the Indenture
            Trustee of amounts described in clause (iv) above to the holders of
            the Original Secured Certificates, the Indenture Trustee shall
            receive the Original Secured Certificates for cancellation;

                 (vi) the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall enter
            into the Indenture; and

                 (vii) the Owner Trustee shall issue, pursuant to Article II of
            the Indenture, to the Subordination Agent on behalf of the Pass     
            Through Trustee for each of the Pass Through Trusts, Refinancing
            Secured Certificates of the 

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            maturity and aggregate principal amount, bearing the interest
            rate and for the purchase price set forth on Schedule II hereto
            opposite the name of such Pass Through Trust.

     (b) The Owner Participant, by its execution and delivery hereof, requests
and directs the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver this Agreement and,
subject to the terms hereof, to take the actions contemplated herein.

     (c) In case any Pass Through Trustee shall for any reason fail to purchase
the Refinancing Secured Certificates pursuant to Section 1(a) above on or prior
to [________], 1996, the written notice given by the Lessee pursuant to Section
17 of the Original Participation Agreement shall be deemed never to have been
given, none of the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee nor the Lessee shall
have any obligation to pay to the holders of the Original Secured Certificates
any amount in respect of the prepayment of the Original Secured Certificates,
the Original Secured Certificates shall remain outstanding and in full force
and effect, and the actions contemplated by Sections 1(a), 5, 6 and 7 hereof
shall not take place.

     (d) The closing (the "CLOSING") of the transactions described in this
Agreement shall take place at the offices of
[____________________________________ ______________________________], on the
Refinancing Date, or at such other place as the parties hereto may agree.

     (e) All payments pursuant to this Section 1 shall be made in immediately
available funds to such accounts and at such banks as the parties hereto shall
designate in writing not less than one Business Day prior to the Refinancing
Date.

     (f) In order to facilitate the transactions contemplated hereby, the
Lessee and the Guarantor have entered into the Underwriting Agreement, dated as
of [_______], 1996, among the Lessee, the Guarantor and the several
underwriters (the "UNDERWRITERS") named therein (the "UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT"),
and, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Lessee and the Guarantor
will enter into each of the Pass Through Trust Agreements and will undertake to
perform certain administrative and ministerial duties under such Pass Through
Trust Agreements.

     SECTION 2. REFINANCING SECURED CERTIFICATES. The Refinancing Secured
Certificates shall be payable as to principal in accordance with the terms of
the Indenture, and the Refinancing Secured Certificates shall provide for a
fixed rate of interest per annum and shall contain the terms and provisions
provided for the Refinancing Secured Certificates in the Indenture.  The Owner
Trustee shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver
to the Pass Through Trustee for each Pass Through Trust, a principal amount of
Refinancing Secured Certificates bearing the interest rate set forth opposite
the name of such Pass Through Trust on Schedule II hereto, which Refinancing    
Secured Certificates in the aggregate shall be in the principal amounts set
forth on Schedule II hereto. Subject to the terms hereof, of the Pass Through
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Refinancing Secured Certificates shall be dated and authenticated as of
the Refinancing Date and shall bear interest therefrom, shall be registered in
such names as shall be specified by the Subordination Agent and shall be paid
in the manner and at such places as are set forth in the Indenture.

     SECTION 3. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. The obligation of the Pass Through
Trustee to make the payments described in Section l(a)(ii) and the obligations
of the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant to make the payments and
participate in the transactions contemplated by this Agreement on the
Refinancing Date are subject to the fulfillment, prior to or on the Refinancing
Date, of the following conditions precedent (except that paragraphs (a), (f)
and (j) shall not be conditions precedent to the obligations of the Owner
Trustee hereunder, paragraphs (g) and (l) shall not be conditions precedent to
the obligations of the Owner Participant hereunder, and paragraph (r) shall not
be a condition precedent to the obligations of the Pass Through Trustee
hereunder):

     (a) The Owner Trustee shall have tendered the Refinancing Secured
Certificates to the Indenture Trustee for authentication, and the Indenture
Trustee shall have authenticated such Refinancing Secured Certificates and
shall have tendered the Refinancing Secured Certificates to the Subordination
Agent on behalf of the Pass Through Trustee in accordance with Section 1.

     (b) The Pass Through Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant
each shall have received executed counterparts or conformed copies of the
following documents:

                  (1)  this Agreement;

                  (2)  the Lease Amendment No. 1;

                  (3)  the Indenture;

                  (4)  the PA Amendment No. l;

                  (5)  each of the Pass Through Trust
                       Agreements;

                  (6)  the Intercreditor Agreement; and

                  (7)  the Liquidity Facility for each of
                       the Class A, Class B and Class C Trusts.

     (c) The Pass Through Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant
each shall have received the following:


                       (1) an incumbency certificate of the Lessee and the
                  Guarantor (as the case may be) as to the person or persons
                  authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Lease
                  Amendment No. 1, the PA


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                  Amendment No. 1, the Pass Through Trust Agreements, the
                  TIA Amendment No. 1 and any other documents to be executed on
                  behalf of the Lessee or the Guarantor (as the case may be) in
                  connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the
                  signatures of such person or persons;

                       (2) a copy of the resolutions of the board of directors
                  of the Lessee and the Guarantor or the executive committee
                  thereof, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
                  of the Lessee and the Guarantor (as the case may be), duly
                  authorizing the transactions contemplated hereby and the
                  execution and delivery of each of the documents required to
                  be executed and delivered on behalf of the Lessee or the
                  Guarantor (as the case may be) in connection with the
                  transactions contemplated hereby; and

                       (3) a copy of the certificate of incorporation of the
                  Lessee and the Guarantor, certified by the Secretary of State
                  of the State of Minnesota in the case of the Lessee and
                  certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware
                  in the case of the Guarantor, a copy of the by-laws of the
                  Lessee and the Guarantor, certified by the Secretary or
                  Assistant Secretary of the Lessee and the Guarantor (as the
                  case may be), and a certificate or other evidence from the
                  Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota in the case of
                  the Lessee and from the Secretary of State of the State of
                  Delaware in the case of the Guarantor, dated as of a date
                  reasonably near the Refinancing Date, as to the due
                  incorporation and good standing of the Lessee or the
                  Guarantor (as the case may be) in such state.

     (d) The Pass Through Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant
each shall have received a certificate signed by an authorized officer of the
Lessee (and, with respect to the matters set forth in clauses (4) and (5)
below, of the Guarantor), dated the Refinancing Date, certifying that:

                       (1) the Aircraft has been duly certified by the FAA as
                  to type and airworthiness in accordance with the terms of the
                  Original Lease and has a current, valid certificate of
                  airworthiness;

                       (2) the FAA Bill of Sale, the Original Lease and the
                  Original Indenture have been duly recorded, and the Trust
                  Agreement has been duly filed, with the FAA pursuant to the
                  sections of Title 49, United States Code, relating to
                  aviation (the "FEDERAL AVIATION ACT");


                       (3) the Aircraft has been registered with the FAA in the
                  name of the Owner Trustee, and the Lessee has authority to
                  operate the Aircraft;


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                       (4) the representations and warranties contained herein
                  of the Lessee and the Guarantor are correct as though made on
                  and as of the Refinancing Date, except to the extent that
                  such representations and warranties (other than those
                  contained in clause (v) of Section 8(d)) relate solely to an
                  earlier date (in which case such representations and
                  warranties were correct on and as of such earlier date); and

                       (5) there has been no material adverse change in the
                  financial condition of the Guarantor and its subsidiaries,
                  taken as a whole, since December 31, 1995.

     (e) The Pass Through Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant
each shall have received the following:

                       (1) an incumbency certificate of the Indenture Trustee
                  as to the person or persons authorized to execute and deliver
                  this Agreement, the Indenture, the PA Amendment No. 1, the
                  Pass Through Trust Agreements and any other documents to be
                  executed on behalf of the Indenture Trustee in connection
                  with the transactions contemplated hereby and the signatures
                  of such person or persons;

                       (2) a copy of the resolutions of the board of directors
                  of the Indenture Trustee, certified by the Secretary or an
                  Assistant Secretary of the Indenture Trustee, duly
                  authorizing the transactions contemplated hereby and the
                  execution and delivery of each of the documents required to
                  be executed and delivered on behalf of the Indenture Trustee
                  in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby;

                       (3) a copy of the articles of association and by-laws of
                  the Indenture Trustee, each certified by the Secretary or an
                  Assistant Secretary of the Indenture Trustee; and

                       (4) a certificate signed by an authorized officer of the
                  Indenture Trustee, dated the Refinancing Date, certifying
                  that the representations and warranties contained herein of
                  the Indenture Trustee are correct as though made on and as of
                  the Refinancing Date, except to the extent that such
                  representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier
                  date (in which case such representations and warranties are
                  correct on and as of such earlier date).

     (f) The Pass Through Trustee and the Owner Participant each shall have
received the following:

                       (1) an incumbency certificate of the Owner Trustee as to
                  the person or persons authorized to execute and deliver this
                  Agreement, the PA Amendment No. 1, and any other documents to
                  be executed on 



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                  behalf of the Owner Trustee in connection with the
                  transactions contemplated hereby and the signatures of such
                  person or persons;

                       (2) a copy of the resolutions of the board of directors
                  of the Owner Trustee, certified by the Secretary or an
                  Assistant Secretary of the Owner Trustee, duly authorizing
                  the transactions contemplated hereby and the execution and
                  delivery of each of the documents required to be executed and
                  delivered on behalf of the Owner Trustee in connection with
                  the transactions contemplated hereby;

                       (3) a copy of the articles of association and by-laws of
                  the Owner Trustee, each certified by the Secretary or an
                  Assistant Secretary of the Owner Trustee;  and

                       (4) a certificate signed by an authorized officer of the
                  Owner Trustee, dated the Refinancing Date, certifying that
                  the representations and warranties contained herein of the
                  Owner Trustee are correct as though made on and as of the
                  Refinancing Date, except to the extent that such
                  representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier
                  date (in which case such representations and warranties are
                  correct on and as of such earlier date).

     (g) The Pass Through Trustee and the Owner Trustee each shall have
received a certificate signed by an authorized officer of the Owner
Participant, dated the Refinancing Date, certifying that the representations
and warranties contained herein of the Owner Participant are correct as though
made on and as of the Refinancing Date, except to the extent that such
representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date (in which case
such representations and warranties are correct on and as of such earlier
date).

     (h) The Pass Through Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant
each shall have received an independent insurance broker's report as to the due
compliance with the terms of Section 11 of the Lease relating to insurance with
respect to the Aircraft.

     (i) The Pass Through Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant
each shall have received an opinion addressed to it from Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett, special counsel for the Lessee and the Guarantor, an opinion
addressed to it from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, special counsel for the
Lessee and the Guarantor, and an opinion addressed to it from the Lessee's
legal department, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to each of
them.

     (j) The Pass Through Trustee and the Owner Participant each shall have
received an opinion addressed to it from Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, special
counsel for the Owner Trustee, in form and substance satisfactory to each of
them.

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     (k) The Pass Through Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant
each shall have received an opinion addressed to it from Bingham, Dana & Gould
LLP, special counsel for the Indenture Trustee, in form and substance
satisfactory to each of them.

     (l) The Pass Through Trustee and the Owner Trustee each shall have
received an opinion addressed to it from Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., special
counsel for the Owner Participant, and an opinion addressed to it from
corporate counsel to the Owner Participant, in each case in form and substance
satisfactory to each of them.

     (m) The Pass Through Trustee shall have received an opinion of White &
Case, special counsel for the Liquidity Provider, and _____________, German
counsel for the Liquidity Provider, each in form and substance satisfactory to
the Pass Through Trustee.

     (n) The Pass Through Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant
each shall have received an opinion addressed to it from Crowe & Dunlevy, P.C.,
special counsel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in form and substance satisfactory
to each of them.

     (o) The Lessee and the Guarantor shall have entered into the Underwriting
Agreement and each of the Pass Through Trust Agreements, the Certificates shall
have been issued and sold pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and the Pass
Through Trust Agreements, and the Underwriters shall have transferred to the
Pass Through Trustees in immediately available funds an amount equal to the
aggregate purchase price of the Refinancing Secured Certificates to be
purchased from the Owner Trustee.

     (p) No change shall have occurred after the date of this Agreement in
applicable law or regulations thereunder or interpretations thereof by
appropriate regulatory authorities or any court that would make it illegal for
the Pass Through Trustees to make the payments described in Section l(a)(ii) or
for the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant to participate in the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement on the Refinancing Date.

     (q) All approvals and consents of any trustee or holder of any
indebtedness or obligations of the Lessee or the Guarantor which are required
in connection with the Pass Through Trustee's making of the payments described
in Section l(a)(ii) or the Owner Trustee's or the Owner Participant's
participation in the transactions contemplated by this Agreement on the
Refinancing Date shall have been duly obtained.

     (r) The Lessee and the Owner Participant shall each have executed and
delivered to the other the TIA Amendment No. 1.

     Promptly following the recording of the Lease Amendment No. 1 and the
Indenture pursuant to the Federal Aviation Act, the Lessee will cause Crowe &
Dunlevy, P.C., special counsel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to deliver to the
Pass Through Trustee, the Lessee, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant
and the Owner Trustee an opinion as to the due recording of the Lease Amendment
No. 1 and the Indenture.

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     SECTION 4. CERTAIN CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE LESSEE
AND THE GUARANTOR; CONDITIONS PRECEDENT WITH RESPECT TO THE PASS THROUGH
TRUSTEE.  (a)  The obligations of the Lessee and the Guarantor to participate
in the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and to execute and deliver
the Lease Amendment No. 1, each of the Pass Through Trust Agreements and the PA
Amendment No. 1 are subject to the receipt by the Lessee and the Guarantor of
(i) each opinion referred to in subsections (j) through (n) of Section 3,
addressed to the Lessee and the Guarantor or accompanied by a letter from
counsel rendering such opinion authorizing the Lessee and the Guarantor to rely
on such opinion as if it were addressed to the Lessee and the Guarantor, (ii)
each certificate referred to in subsections (e) through (g) of Section 3, (iii)
executed counterparts or conformed copies of the TIA Amendment No. 1 and the
Trust Agreement Amendment No. 1, and (iv) such other documents and evidence
with respect to each other party hereto as the Lessee, the Guarantor or their
counsel may reasonably request in order to establish the due consummation of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the taking of all necessary
action in connection therewith and compliance with the conditions herein set
forth.

     (b) The respective obligations of each of the Lessee, the Guarantor, the
Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee to participate
in the transactions contemplated hereby is subject to the receipt by each of
them of (i) a certificate signed by an authorized officer of the Pass Through
Trustee, dated the Refinancing Date, certifying that the representations and
warranties contained herein of the Pass Through Trustee are correct as though
made on and as of the Refinancing Date, except to the extent that such
representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date (in which case
such representations and warranties are correct on and as of such earlier
date), (ii) an opinion addressed to each of them of Bingham, Dana & Gould LLP,
special counsel for the Pass Through Trustee, in form and substance
satisfactory to each of them, and (iii) such other documents and evidence with
respect to the Pass Through Trustee as it may reasonably request in order to
establish the due consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, the taking of all necessary corporate action in connection therewith
and compliance with the conditions herein set forth.

     SECTION 5. AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT OF THE ORIGINAL INDENTURE.  Subject
to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent set forth herein, the
Owner Participant, by execution and delivery hereof, requests, authorizes and
directs the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver the Indenture, and the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, by execution and delivery hereof, agree to
execute and deliver the Indenture.  The Lessee and the Guarantor, by execution
and delivery hereof, consent to such execution and delivery of the Indenture. 
The Indenture shall be effective as of the Refinancing Date.

     SECTION 6. AMENDMENT OF THE ORIGINAL LEASE. Subject to the satisfaction or
waiver of the conditions precedent set forth herein, the Indenture Trustee, the
Pass Through Trustee and the Owner Participant, by execution and delivery
hereof, request and instruct the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver the Lease
Amendment No. 1, and the Owner Trustee and the Lessee agree, by execution and
delivery hereof, to execute and deliver the Lease 






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Amendment No. 1.  The Lease Amendment No. 1 shall be effective as of the
Refinancing Date.

     SECTION 7. AMENDMENT OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT. Subject to
the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent set forth herein, the
Owner Participant, by execution and delivery hereof, requests, authorizes and
directs the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver the PA Amendment No. 1, and
the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, by execution and delivery hereof,
agree to execute and deliver the PA Amendment No. 1. Upon the execution and
delivery of the PA Amendment No. 1 by each of the parties thereto, the Original
Participation Agreement shall be amended as set forth in the PA Amendment No.
1, and the Subordination Agent and each Pass Through Trustee shall be a party
thereto from and after the Refinancing Date to the extent set forth in such PA
Amendment No. 1. The PA Amendment No. 1 shall be effective as of the
Refinancing Date.

     SECTION 8. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE LESSEE AND THE GUARANTOR.
The Lessee and the Guarantor represent and warrant to the Pass Through Trustee,
the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee, the Liquidity Provider and the
Indenture Trustee that:

                 (a) each of the Lessee and the Guarantor is a corporation duly
            organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
            the state of its incorporation, has the corporate power and
            authority to own or hold under lease its properties, has, or had on
            the respective dates of execution thereof, the corporate power and
            authority to enter into and perform its obligations under (i) in
            the case of the Lessee, this Agreement, the Lease Amendment No. 1,
            the PA Amendment No. 1, the Pass Through Trust Agreements, the
            Underwriting Agreement, the TIA Amendment No. 1 and the other
            Operative Documents to which it is a party and (ii) in the case of
            the Guarantor, this Agreement, the Pass Through Trust Agreements,
            the Underwriting Agreement and the other Operative Documents to
            which it is a party, and is duly qualified to do business as a
            foreign corporation in each state in which its operations or the
            nature of its business requires other than failures to so qualify
            which would not have a material adverse effect on the condition
            (financial or otherwise), consolidated business or properties of it
            and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise;

                 (b) the Lessee is a Certificated Air Carrier, and its chief
            executive office (as such term is used in Article 9 of the Uniform
            Commercial Code in effect in the State of Minnesota) is located at
            Eagan, Minnesota;

                 (c) the execution and delivery by the Lessee or the Guarantor
            (as the case may be) of this Agreement, the Lease Amendment No. 1,
            the PA Amendment No. 1, the Pass Through Trust Agreements, the
            Underwriting Agreement, the TIA Amendment No. 1 and each other
            Operative Document to which the Lessee or the Guarantor (as the
            case may be) is a party, and the performance of the obligations of
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            be) under this Agreement, the Participation Agreement, the Tax
            Indemnity Agreement, the Lease, the Pass Through Trust Agreements,
            the Underwriting Agreement and each other Operative Document to
            which the Lessee or the Guarantor (as the case may be) is a party,
            have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the
            part of the Lessee or the Guarantor, do not require any stockholder
            approval, or approval or consent of any trustee or holder of any
            material indebtedness or material obligations of the Lessee or the
            Guarantor, except such as have been duly obtained and are in full
            force and effect, and do not contravene any law, governmental rule,
            regulation or order binding on the Lessee or the Guarantor (as the
            case may be) or the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the
            Lessee or the Guarantor (as the case may be), or contravene the
            provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the
            creation of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon the property
            of the Lessee or the Guarantor (as the case may be) under, any
            indenture, mortgage, contract or other agreement to which the Lessee
            or the Guarantor (as the case may be) is a party or by which it may
            be bound or affected which contravention, default or Lien,
            individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have
            a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise),
            business or properties of the Guarantor and its subsidiaries
            considered as one enterprise;

                (d) neither the execution and delivery by the Lessee or the
            Guarantor (as the case may be) of this Agreement, the Lease
            Amendment No. 1, the PA Amendment No. 1, the Pass Through Trust
            Agreements, the Underwriting Agreement, the TIA Amendment No. 1 or
            any other Operative Document to which the Lessee or the Guarantor
            (as the case may be) is a party, nor the performance of the
            obligations of the Lessee or the Guarantor (as the case may be)
            hereunder or under the Participation Agreement, the Tax Indemnity
            Agreement, the Lease, the Pass Through Trust Agreements, the
            Underwriting Agreement or the other Operative Documents to which the
            Lessee or the Guarantor (as the case may be) is a party, nor the
            consummation by the Lessee or the Guarantor (as the case may be) of
            any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, requires the
            consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration
            with, or the taking of any other action in respect of, the
            Department of Transportation, the FAA, or any other federal,        
            state or foreign governmental authority having jurisdiction, other
            than (i) the registration of the Certificates under the Securities
            Act of 1933, as amended, and under the securities laws of any state
            in which the Certificates may be offered for sale if the laws of
            such state require such action, (ii) the qualification of the Pass
            Through Trust Agreements under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
            amended, pursuant to an order of the Securities and Exchange
            Commission, (iii) the consents, approvals, notices, registrations
            and other actions referred to in Sections 7(a)(iii) and 7(a)(vi) of
            the Participation Agreement, (iv) the registrations and filings
            referred to in Section 8(f), and (v) authorizations, consents,
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            given or made either only after the date hereof or the failure
            of which to obtain, take, give or make would not be reasonably
            likely to have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial
            or otherwise), business or properties of the Guarantor and its
            subsidiaries considered as one enterprise;

                (e) this Agreement constitutes, and each of the Participation
            Agreement, the Pass Through Trust Agreements, the Tax Indemnity
            Agreement and the Lease, when the PA Amendment No. 1, the TIA
            Amendment No. 1 and the Lease Amendment No. 1 shall have been
            executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto, will
            constitute, the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Lessee
            or the Guarantor (as the case may be) enforceable against the
            Lessee or the Guarantor (as the case may be) in accordance with
            their respective terms, except as the same may be limited by
            applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance,
            reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the rights of
            creditors or lessors generally and by general principles of equity,
            whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity, and except,
            in the case of the Lease, as limited by applicable laws which may
            affect the remedies provided in the Lease, which laws, however, do
            not make the remedies provided in the Lease inadequate for
            practical realization of the benefits intended to be afforded
            thereby;

                (f) except for the filings and registrations referred to in
            Section 7(a)(vi) of the Participation Agreement, such filings and
            registrations as shall have been made or effected subsequent
            thereto and the filing for recording pursuant to the Federal
            Aviation Act of the Indenture and the Lease Amendment No. 1, no
            further filing or recording of any document (including any
            financing statement in respect thereof under Article 9 of the
            Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction) is
            necessary under the laws of the United States of America or any
            State thereof in order to perfect the Owner Trustee's interest in
            the Aircraft as against the Lessee and any third parties, or to
            perfect the security interest in favor of the Indenture Trustee in
            the Owner Trustee's interest in the Aircraft (with respect to such
            portion of the Aircraft as is covered by the recording system
            established by the FAA pursuant to 49 U.S.C. Section 44107) and in
            the Lease in any applicable jurisdiction in the United States other
            than the taking of possession by the Indenture Trustee of the
            original counterparts of the Original Lease and the Lease Amendment
            No. 1 (to the extent the Lease constitutes chattel paper), and the
            filing of continuation statements at periodic intervals with
            respect to the Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in
            effect on the Refinancing Date covering the security interests
            created by the Original Indenture or describing the Lease as a
            lease;

                (g) neither the Lessee, the Guarantor nor any of their
            affiliates has directly or indirectly offered the Certificates for
            sale to any Person other than in a manner permitted by the
            Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and by the rules and
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                 (h) neither the Lessee nor the Guarantor is an "investment
            company" within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
            as amended;

                 (i) no event has occurred and is continuing which constitutes
            an Event of Default or would constitute an Event of Default but for
            the requirement that notice be given or time lapse or both; and

                 (j) no event has occurred and is continuing which constitutes
            an Event of Loss or would constitute an Event of Loss with the
            lapse of time.

     SECTION 9. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS. Each of the parties
below represents, warrants and covenants to each of the other parties to this
Agreement and to the Liquidity Provider as follows:

     (a) The Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity represents, warrants
and covenants that:

                 (1) the Indenture Trustee is a Massachusetts trust company
            duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the
            laws of Massachusetts, is a Citizen of the United States (without
            making use of any voting trust, voting powers agreement or similar
            arrangement), will notify promptly all parties to this Agreement if
            in its reasonable opinion its status as a Citizen of the United
            States (without making use of any voting trust, voting powers
            agreement or similar arrangement) is likely to change and will
            resign as Indenture Trustee as provided in Section 8.02 of the
            Indenture promptly after it obtains actual knowledge that it has
            ceased to be such a Citizen of the United States (without making
            use of a voting trust, voting powers agreement or similar
            arrangement), and has the full corporate power, authority and legal
            right under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the
            United States pertaining to its banking, trust and fiduciary powers
            to execute and deliver each of this Agreement, the PA Amendment No.
            1, the Indenture and each other Operative Document to which it is a
            party and to carry out its obligations under this Agreement, the
            Participation Agreement, the Indenture and each other Operative
            Document to which it is a party;

                 (2) the execution and delivery by the Indenture Trustee of
            this Agreement, the Indenture, the PA Amendment No. 1 and each
            other Operative Document to which it is a party and the performance
            by the Indenture Trustee of its obligations under this Agreement,
            the Participation Agreement, the Indenture and each other Operative
            Document to which it is a party have been duly authorized by the
            Indenture Trustee and will not violate its articles of association
            or by-laws or the provisions of any indenture, mortgage, contract
            or other agreement to which it is a party or by which it is bound;

                 (3) this Agreement constitutes, and the Participation
            Agreement, when the PA Amendment No. 1 has been executed and
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            Indenture Trustee, and the Indenture, when  executed and delivered
            by the Indenture Trustee, will constitute, the legal, valid and
            binding obligations of the Indenture Trustee enforceable against it
            in accordance with their respective terms, except as the same may be
            limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
            moratorium or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors
            generally and by general principles of equity, whether considered in
            a proceeding at law or in equity;

                 (4) there are no pending or, to its knowledge, threatened
            actions or proceedings against the Indenture Trustee, either in its
            individual capacity or as Indenture Trustee, before any court or
            administrative agency which, if determined adversely to it, would
            materially adversely affect the ability of the Indenture Trustee,
            in its individual capacity or as Indenture Trustee as the case may
            be, to perform its obligations under the Operative Documents to
            which it is a party; and

                 (5) there are no Indenture Trustee Liens on the Aircraft or
            any portion of the Trust Estate.

     (b) The Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity (except as provided in
clauses (3) and (7) below) and (but only as provided in clauses (3) and (7)
and, to the extent that it relates to the Owner Trustee, clauses (2), (9) and
(11) below) as Owner Trustee, represents and warrants that:

                 (1) the Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity, is a
            national banking association duly organized and validly existing in
            good standing under the laws of the United States, has full 
            corporate power and authority to carry on its business as now
            conducted, has, or had on the respective dates of execution thereof,
            the corporate power and authority to execute and deliver the Trust
            Agreement, has the corporate power and authority to carry out the
            terms of the Trust Agreement, and has, or had on the respective
            dates of execution thereof (assuming the authorization, execution
            and delivery of the Trust Agreement by the Owner Participant), as
            Owner Trustee, and to the extent expressly provided herein or
            therein, in its individual capacity, the corporate power and
            authority to execute and deliver and to carry out the terms of this
            Agreement, the Indenture, the Refinancing Secured Certificates, the
            Lease, the PA Amendment No. 1 and each other Operative Document
            (other than the Trust Agreement) to which it is a party;

                 (2) the Owner Trustee in its trust capacity and, to the extent
            expressly provided herein, in its individual capacity, has duly
            authorized, executed and delivered this Agreement and (assuming the
            due authorization, execution and delivery of the Trust Agreement by
            the Owner Participant) this Agreement constitutes, and each of the
            Participation Agreement, when the PA Amendment No. 1 shall have
            been entered into, the Indenture, when entered 


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            into, and the Lease, when the Lease Amendment No. 1 shall have been
            entered into, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation
            of the Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity or as Owner
            Trustee, as the case may be, enforceable against it in its
            individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, as the case may be, in
            accordance with its terms, except as the same may be limited by
            applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
            similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and by
            general principles of equity, whether considered in a proceeding at
            law or in equity;

                 (3) assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of
            the Trust Agreement by the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee has
            duly authorized, and on the Refinancing Date shall have duly
            issued, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
            authentication, the Refinancing Secured Certificates pursuant to
            the terms and provisions hereof and of the Indenture, and each
            Refinancing Secured Certificate on the Refinancing Date will
            constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Owner Trustee
            and will be entitled to the benefits and security afforded by the
            Indenture in accordance with the terms of such Refinancing Secured
            Certificate and the Indenture;

                 (4) neither the execution and delivery by the Owner Trustee,
            in its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, as the case may be,
            of this Agreement, the Original Participation Agreement, the PA
            Amendment No. 1, the Trust Agreement, the Original Indenture, the
            Indenture, the Original Lease, the Lease Amendment No. 1, the
            Refinancing Secured Certificates or any other Operative Document to
            which it is a party, nor the consummation by the Owner Trustee, in
            its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, as the case may be, of
            any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, nor the
            compliance by the Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity or as
            Owner Trustee, as the case may be, with any of the terms and
            provisions hereof and thereof, (A) requires or will require any
            approval of its stockholders, or approval or consent of any
            trustees or holders of any indebtedness or obligations of it, or
            (B) violates or will violate its articles of association or
            by-laws, or contravenes or will contravene any provision of, or
            constitutes or will constitute a default under, or results or will
            result in any breach of, or results or will result in the creation
            of any Lien (other than as permitted under the Operative Documents)
            upon its property under, any indenture, mortgage, chattel mortgage,
            deed of trust, conditional sale contract, bank loan or credit
            agreement, license or other agreement or instrument to which it is a
            party or by which it is bound, or contravenes or will contravene any
            law, governmental rule or regulation of the United States of America
            or the State of Utah governing the trust powers of the Owner
            Trustee, or any judgment or order applicable to or binding on it;

                 (5) no consent, approval, order or authorization of, giving of
            notice to, or registration with, or taking of any other action in
            respect of, any Utah state or local governmental authority or
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            governmental authority or agency regulating the trust powers of the
            Owner Trustee in its individual capacity is required for the
            execution and delivery of, or the carrying out by, the Owner
            Trustee, in its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, as the case
            may be, of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or by
            the Trust Agreement, the Participation Agreement, the Indenture, the
            Lease or the Refinancing Secured Certificates, or any other
            Operative Document to which it is a party or by which it is bound,
            other than any such consent, approval, order, authorization,
            registration, notice or action as has been duly obtained, given or
            taken or which is described in Section 8(d);

                 (6) there exists no Lessor Lien (including for this purpose
            Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the
            definition of Lessor Liens) attributable to the Owner Trustee, in
            its individual capacity, other than any Lessor Liens (including for
            this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso
            in the definition of Lessor Liens) (A) the existence of which poses
            no material risk of the sale, forfeiture or loss of the Aircraft,
            Airframe or any Engine or any interest therein, (B) the existence
            of which does not interfere in any way with the use or operation of
            the Aircraft by the Lessee (or any Sublessee), (C) the existence of
            which does not affect the priority or perfection of, or otherwise
            jeopardize, the Lien of the Indenture, (D) which the Owner Trustee
            is diligently contesting by appropriate proceedings and (E) the
            existence of which does not result in actual interruption in the
            receipt and distribution by the Indenture Trustee in accordance
            with the Indenture of Rent assigned to the Indenture Trustee for
            the benefit of the Certificate Holders;

                 (7) there exists no Lessor Lien (including for this purpose
            Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso in the
            definition of Lessor Liens) attributable to the Owner Trustee, as
            lessor under the Lease, other than any Lessor Liens (including for
            this purpose Liens that would be Lessor Liens but for the proviso
            in the definition of Lessor Liens) (A) the existence of which poses
            no material risk of the sale, forfeiture or loss of the Aircraft,
            Airframe or any Engine or any interest therein, (B) the existence
            of which does not interfere in any way with the use or operation of
            the Aircraft by the Lessee (or any Sublessee), (C) the existence of
            which does not affect the priority or perfection of, or 
            otherwise jeopardize, the Lien of the Indenture, (D) which
            the Owner Trustee is diligently contesting by appropriate
            proceedings and (E) the existence of which does not result in
            actual interruption in the receipt and distribution by the
            Indenture Trustee in accordance with the Indenture of Rent assigned
            to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Certificate
            Holders;

                 (8) there are no Taxes payable by the Owner Trustee, either in
            its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, imposed by the State
            of Utah or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the
            redemption of the Original Secured Certificates or the issuance of
            the Refinancing Secured Certificates, or the execution and delivery
            in its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, as the 




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            case may be, of any of the instruments referred to in clauses (1),
            (2), (3) and (4) above, that, in each case, would not have
            been imposed if the Trust Estate were not located in the State of
            Utah and First Security Bank of Utah, National Association had not
            (a) had its principal place of business in, (b) performed (in its
            individual capacity or as Owner Trustee) any or all of its duties
            under the Operative Documents in, and (c) engaged in any activities
            unrelated to the transactions contemplated by the Operative
            Documents in, the State of Utah;

                 (9) there are no pending or, to its knowledge, threatened
            actions or proceedings against the Owner Trustee, either in its
            individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, before any court or
            administrative agency which, if determined adversely to it, would
            materially adversely affect the ability of the Owner Trustee, in
            its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, as the case may be, to
            perform its obligations under any of the instruments referred to in
            clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) above;

                 (10) both its chief executive office, and the place where its
            records concerning the Aircraft and all its interests in, to and
            under all documents relating to the Trust Estate, are located in
            Salt Lake City, Utah;

                 (11) the Owner Trustee has not, in its individual capacity or
            as Owner Trustee, directly or indirectly offered any Refinancing
            Secured Certificate or Certificate or any interest in or to the
            Trust Estate, the Trust Agreement or any similar interest for sale
            to, or solicited any offer to acquire any of the same from, anyone
            other than the Pass Through Trustee, the Original Loan Participants
            and the Owner Participant; and the Owner Trustee has not authorized
            anyone to act on its behalf (it being understood that in arranging
            and proposing the refinancing contemplated hereby and agreed to
            herein by the Owner Trustee, the Lessee has not acted as agent of
            the Owner Trustee) to offer directly or indirectly any Refinancing
            Secured Certificate, any Certificate or any interest in and to the
            Trust Estate, the Trust Agreement or any similar interest for sale
            to, or to solicit any offer to acquire any of the same from, any
            person; and

                 (12) it is a Citizen of the United States (without making use
            of a voting trust agreement, voting powers agreement or similar
            arrangements).

     (c) The Owner Participant represents and warrants that:

                 (1) it is duly incorporated, validly existing and in good
            standing under the laws of the State of [___________] and has the
            corporate power and authority to carry on its present business and
            operations and to own or lease its properties, has, or had on the
            respective dates of execution thereof, as the case may be, the
            corporate power and authority to enter into and to perform its
            obligations under this Agreement, the Original Participation
            Agreement, the Tax Indemnity Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the
            TIA Amendment No. 1 


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            and the PA Amendment No. 1; this Agreement has been duly authorized,
            executed and delivered by it; and each of   this Agreement, the Tax
            Indemnity Agreement and the Trust Agreement constitutes, and the
            Participation Agreement when the PA Amendment No. 1 shall have been
            entered into, and the Tax Indemnity Agreement when the TIA Amendment
            No. 1 shall have been entered into, will constitute, the legal,
            valid and binding obligations of the Owner Participant enforceable
            against it in accordance with their respective terms, except as such
            enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
            reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the
            rights of creditors generally and by general principles of equity,
            whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity;

                 (2) neither (A) the execution and delivery by the Owner
            Participant of this Agreement, the PA Amendment No. 1, the TIA
            Amendment No. 1 or any other Operative Document to which it is a
            party nor (B) compliance by it with all of the provisions hereof or
            thereof, (x) will contravene any law or order of any court or
            governmental authority or agency applicable to or binding on the
            Owner Participant (it being understood that no representation or
            warranty is made with respect to laws, rules or regulations
            relating to aviation or to the nature of the equipment owned by the
            Owner Trustee other than such laws, rules or regulations relating
            to the citizenship requirements of the Owner Participant under
            applicable law), or (y) will contravene the provisions of, or
            constitutes or has constituted or will constitute a default under,
            its certificate of incorporation or by-laws or any indenture,
            mortgage, contract or other agreement or instrument to which the
            Owner Participant is a party or by which it or any of its property
            may be bound or affected;

                 (3) no authorization or approval or other action by, and no
            notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory
            body (other than as required by the Federal Aviation Act or the
            regulations promulgated thereunder) is or was required, as the case
            may be, for the due execution, delivery or performance by it of
            this Agreement, the TIA Amendment No. 1 and the PA Amendment No. 1;

                 (4) there are no pending or, to its knowledge, threatened
            actions or proceedings before any court or administrative agency or
            arbitrator which would materially adversely affect the Owner
            Participant's ability to perform its obligations under this
            Agreement, the Participation Agreement, the Tax Indemnity Agreement
            and the Trust Agreement;

                 (5) neither the Owner Participant nor anyone authorized by it
            to act on its behalf (it being understood that in proposing,
            facilitating and otherwise taking any action in connection with the
            refinancing contemplated hereby and agreed to herein by the Owner
            Participant, the Lessee has not acted as agent of the Owner
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            Secured Certificate or Certificate or any interest in and to the
            Trust Estate, the Trust Agreement or any similar interest for sale
            to, or solicited any offer to acquire any of the same from, any
            Person; the Owner Participant's interest in the Trust Estate and
            the Trust Agreement was acquired for its own account and was
            purchased for investment and not with a view to any resale or
            distribution thereof;

                 (6) on the Refinancing Date, the Trust Estate shall be free of
            Lessor Liens attributable to the Owner Participant other than any
            Lessor Liens (including for this purpose Liens that would be Lessor
            Liens but for the proviso in the definition of Lessor Liens) (A)
            the existence of which poses no material risk of the sale,
            forfeiture or loss of the Aircraft, Airframe or any Engine or any
            interest therein, (B) the existence of which does not interfere in
            any way with the use or operation of the Aircraft by the Lessee (or
            any Sublessee), (C) the existence of which does not affect the
            priority or perfection of, or otherwise jeopardize, the Lien of the
            Indenture, (D) which the Owner Participant is diligently contesting
            by appropriate proceedings and (E) the existence of which does not
            result in actual interruption in the receipt and distribution by
            the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the Indenture of Rent
            assigned to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the
            Certificate Holders; and

                 (7) it is a Citizen of the United States (without making use
            of a voting trust agreement, voting powers agreement or similar
            arrangement).

     (d) The Pass Through Trustee represents, warrants and covenants that:

                 (1) the Pass Through Trustee is duly incorporated, validly
            existing and in good standing under the laws of the Commonwealth of
            Massachusetts, and has the full corporate power, authority and
            legal right under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and
            the United States pertaining to its banking, trust and fiduciary
            powers to execute and deliver each of the Pass Through Trust
            Agreements, the Intercreditor Agreement, the PA Amendment No. 1 and
            this Agreement and to perform its obligations under this Agreement,
            the Pass Through Trust Agreements, the Intercreditor Agreement and
            the Participation Agreement;

                 (2) this Agreement has been, and when executed and delivered
            by the Pass Through Trustee, each of the Pass Through Trust
            Agreements, the Intercreditor Agreement and the PA Amendment No. 1
            will have been, duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Pass
            Through Trustee; this Agreement constitutes, and when executed and
            delivered by the Pass Through Trustee, each of the Pass Through
            Trust Agreements, the Intercreditor Agreement, the PA Amendment No.
            1, and (upon execution and delivery of the PA Amendment No. 1), the
            Participation Agreement, will constitute, the legal, valid and
            binding obligations of the Pass Through Trustee enforceable against
            it


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            in accordance with their respective terms, except as the same may be
            limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
            moratorium or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors
            generally and by general principles of equity, whether considered in
            a proceeding at law or in equity;

                 (3) none of the execution, delivery and performance by the
            Pass Through Trustee of any of the Pass Through Trust Agreements,
            the Intercreditor Agreement, this Agreement or the PA Amendment No.
            1, the performance by the Pass Through Trustee of the Participation
            Agreement, the purchase by the Pass Through Trustee of the
            Refinancing Secured Certificates pursuant to this Agreement, or the
            issuance of the Certificates pursuant to the Pass Through Trust
            Agreements, contravenes any law, rule or regulation of the
            Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any United States governmental
            authority or agency regulating the Pass Through Trustee's banking,
            trust or fiduciary powers or any judgment or order applicable to or
            binding on the Pass Through Trustee and does not contravene or
            result in any breach of, or constitute a default under, the Pass
            Through Trustee's articles of association or by-laws or any
            agreement or instrument to which the Pass Through Trustee is a
            party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound;

                 (4) neither the execution and delivery by the Pass Through
            Trustee of any of the Pass Through Trust Agreements, the
            Intercreditor Agreement, the PA Amendment No. 1 or this Agreement,
            nor the consummation by the Pass Through Trustee of any of the
            transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or by the Participation
            Agreement, requires the consent or approval of, the giving of
            notice to, the registration with, or the taking of any other action
            with respect to, any Massachusetts governmental authority or agency
            or any federal governmental authority or agency regulating the Pass
            Through Trustee's banking, trust or fiduciary powers;

                 (5) there are no Taxes payable by the Pass Through Trustee
            imposed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any political
            subdivision or taxing authority thereof in connection with the
            execution, delivery and performance by the Pass Through Trustee
            of this Agreement, any of the Pass Through Trust Agreements, the
            Intercreditor Agreement or the Participation Agreement (other than
            franchise or other taxes based on or measured by any fees or
            compensation received by the Pass Through Trustee for services
            rendered in connection with the transactions contemplated by any of
            the Pass Through Trust Agreements), and there are no Taxes payable
            by the Pass Through Trustee imposed by the Commonwealth of
            Massachusetts or any political subdivision thereof in connection
            with the acquisition, possession or ownership by the Pass Through
            Trustee of any of the Refinancing Secured Certificates (other than
            franchise or other taxes based on or measured by any fees or
            compensation received by the Pass Through Trustee for services
            rendered in connection with the transactions contemplated by any of
            the Pass Through Trust Agreements), and, assuming



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            that the trusts created by the Pass Through Trust   Agreements will
            not be taxable as corporations, but, rather, each will be
            characterized as a grantor trust under subpart E, Part I of
            Subchapter J of the Code, such trusts will not be subject to any
            Taxes imposed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any political
            subdivision thereof;

                 (6) there are no pending or threatened actions or proceedings
            against the Pass Through Trustee before any court or administrative
            agency which individually or in the aggregate, if determined
            adversely to it, would materially adversely affect the ability of
            the Pass Through Trustee to perform its obligations under this
            Agreement, the Participation Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement
            or any Pass Through Trust Agreement;

                 (7) except for the issue and sale of the Certificates
            contemplated hereby, the Pass Through Trustee has not directly or
            indirectly offered any Refinancing Secured Certificate for sale to
            any Person or solicited any offer to acquire any Refinancing
            Secured Certificates from any Person, nor has the Pass Through
            Trustee authorized anyone to act on its behalf to offer directly or
            indirectly any Refinancing Secured Certificate for sale to any
            Person, or to solicit any offer to acquire any Refinancing Secured
            Certificate from any Person; and the Pass Through Trustee is not in
            default under any Pass Through Trust Agreement; and

                 (8) the Pass Through Trustee is not directly or indirectly
            controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Owner
            Participant, the Owner Trustee, any Underwriter, the Lessee or the
            Guarantor.

     (e) The Subordination Agent represents, warrants and covenants that:

                 (1) the Subordination Agent is a duly organized national
            banking association, validly existing and in good standing with the
            Comptroller of the Currency under the laws of the United States and
            has the full corporate power, authority and legal right under the
            laws of the United States pertaining to its banking, trust
            and fiduciary powers to execute and deliver each of the Liquidity
            Facilities, the Intercreditor Agreement, the PA Amendment No. 1 and
            this Agreement and to perform its obligations under this Agreement,
            the Liquidity Facilities and the Intercreditor Agreement and, when
            the PA Amendment No. 1 has been executed and delivered by each of
            the parties thereto, the Participation Agreement;

                 (2) this Agreement has been, and when executed and delivered
            by the Subordination Agent, each of the Liquidity Facilities, the
            Intercreditor Agreement and the PA Amendment No. 1 will have been,
            duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Subordination Agent;
            this Agreement constitutes, and when executed and delivered by the
            Subordination Agent each of the Liquidity Facilities, the
            Intercreditor Agreement, the PA Amendment No. 1 and



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            (upon execution and delivery by the Subordination Agent of the PA
            Amendment No. 1), the Participation Agreement, will constitute,
            the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Subordination Agent
            enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms,
            except as the same may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
            insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the
            rights of creditors generally and by general principles of equity,
            whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity;

                 (3) none of the execution, delivery and performance by the
            Subordination Agent of each of the Liquidity Facilities, the
            Intercreditor Agreement, this Agreement, the PA Amendment No. 1 or
            the Participation Agreement, or the performance by the
            Subordination Agent of the Participation Agreement, contravenes any
            law, rule or regulation of the State of Connecticut or any United
            States governmental authority or agency regulating the
            Subordination Agent's banking, trust or fiduciary powers or any
            judgment or order applicable to or binding on the Subordination
            Agent and do not contravene or result in any breach of, or
            constitute a default under, the Subordination Agent's articles of
            association or by-laws or any agreement or instrument to which the
            Subordination Agent is a party or by which it or any of its
            properties may be bound;

                 (4) neither the execution and delivery by the Subordination
            Agent of any of the Liquidity Facilities, the Intercreditor
            Agreement, the PA Amendment No. 1 or this Agreement nor the
            consummation by the Subordination Agent of any of the transactions
            contemplated hereby or thereby or by the Participation Agreement
            requires the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the
            registration with, or the taking of any other action with respect
            to, any Connecticut governmental authority or agency or any federal
            governmental authority or agency regulating the Subordination
            Agent's banking, trust or fiduciary powers;

                 (5) there are no Taxes payable by the Subordination Agent
            imposed by the State of Connecticut or any political subdivision or
            taxing authority thereof in connection with the execution, delivery
            and performance by the Subordination Agent of this Agreement, any
            of the Liquidity Facilities, the Intercreditor Agreement, the PA
            Amendment No. 1 or the Participation Agreement (other than
            franchise or other taxes based on or measured by any fees or
            compensation received by the Subordination Agent for services
            rendered in connection with the transactions contemplated by the
            Intercreditor Agreement or any of the Liquidity Facilities), and
            there are no Taxes payable by the Subordination Agent imposed by
            the State of Connecticut or any political subdivision thereof in
            connection with the acquisition, possession or ownership by the
            Subordination Agent of any of the Refinancing Secured Certificates
            (other than franchise or other taxes based on or measured by any
            fees or compensation received by the Subordination Agent for
            services rendered in 


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<PAGE>   27



            connection with the transactions contemplated by the
            Intercreditor Agreement or any of the Liquidity Facilities);

                 (6) there are no pending or threatened actions or proceedings
            against the Subordination Agent before any court or administrative
            agency which individually or in the aggregate, if determined
            adversely to it, would materially adversely affect the ability of
            the Subordination Agent to perform its obligations under this
            Agreement, the PA Amendment No. 1, the Participation Agreement, the
            Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility;

                 (7) the Subordination Agent has not directly or indirectly
            offered any Refinancing Secured Certificate for sale to any Person
            or solicited any offer to acquire any Refinancing Secured
            Certificates from any Person, nor has the Subordination Agent
            authorized anyone to act on its behalf to offer directly or
            indirectly any Refinancing Secured Certificate for sale to any
            Person, or to solicit any offer to acquire any Refinancing Secured
            Certificate from any Person; and the Subordination Agent is not in
            default under any Liquidity Facility; and

                 (8) the Subordination Agent is not directly or indirectly
            controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Owner
            Participant, the Owner Trustee, any Underwriter, the Lessee or the
            Guarantor.

            SECTION 10. NOTICES. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein,
all notices required or permitted by the terms of this Agreement shall be in
English and in writing, and any such notice shall become effective upon being
deposited in the United States mail, with proper postage for first-class
registered or certified mail prepaid, or when delivered personally or, if
promptly confirmed by mail as provided above, when dispatched by facsimile or
other written telecommunication, addressed, if to the Lessee, the Guarantor, the
Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee, the Pass Through
Trustee, the Subordination Agent or the Indenture Trustee, at their respective
addresses or facsimile numbers set forth below the signatures of such parties
at the foot of this Agreement.

     SECTION 11. EXPENSES.  (a)  Except as provided in paragraph (b) below and
subject to the cap set forth in Section 17(a)(5) of the Participation
Agreement, all of the reasonable out-of-pocket costs, fees and expenses
incurred by the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Pass Through Trustee,
the Subordination Agent, the Indenture Trustee and the Original Loan
Participants in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, the other Operative Documents, the Pass Through Trust Agreements,
the Intercreditor Agreement, the Liquidity Facilities and the Underwriting
Agreement (except, in each case, as otherwise provided therein) shall be paid
promptly by the Owner Participant, including, without limitation:

                 (1) the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements allocable
            to the Refinancing Secured Certificates issued under the Indenture
            of (A) Bingham,


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<PAGE>   28




            Dana & Gould LLP, special counsel for the Pass Through Trustee
            and the Indenture Trustee, (B) Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, special
            counsel for the Owner Trustee, (C) Crowe & Dunlevy, P.C., special
            counsel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, (D) Shearman & Sterling, special
            counsel for the Underwriters, and (E) Vedder, Price, Kaufman &
            Kammholz, special counsel for the Original Loan Participants;

                 (2) the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of
            Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., special counsel for the Owner
            Participant;

                 (3) the fees, expenses and disbursements of Simpson Thacher &
            Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, special counsel for the
            Lessee;

                 (4) underwriting fees and commissions;

                 (5) the costs of filing and recording documents with the FAA
            and filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in the
            United States; and

                 (6) the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of White &
            Case, special counsel for the Liquidity Provider, and
            ________________, German counsel for the Liquidity Provider.

     (b) In the event that the total amount of Transaction Expenses paid by the
Owner Participant pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Participation Agreement and
Refinancing Expenses exceed 2.8% of Lessor's Cost, the Lessee shall pay
directly any and all Refinancing Expenses to the extent of such excess.  In the
event that the transactions contemplated by this Section 11 and the agreements
referred to herein are not consummated, the Lessee shall bear and pay all
costs, expenses and fees referred to in this Section 11; provided that if the
transactions fail to be consummated as a result of the failure of the Owner
Participant to act in good faith in consummating the transactions, or to
otherwise comply with the terms hereof, the Owner Participant shall bear and    
pay its own fees, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, the fees
and expenses of its special counsel) and the Lessee shall pay all other
reasonable fees, costs and expenses as aforesaid.

     SECTION 12. RELIANCE OF LIQUIDITY PROVIDER. Each of the parties hereto
agrees and acknowledges that the Liquidity Provider shall be a third party
beneficiary of each of the representations and warranties made herein by such
party, and that the Liquidity Provider may rely on such representations and
warranties to the same extent as if such representations and warranties were
made to the Liquidity Provider directly.

     SECTION 13. MISCELLANEOUS. (a)  Provided that the transactions
contemplated hereby have been consummated, and except as otherwise provided for
herein, the representations, warranties and agreements herein of the Lessee,
the Guarantor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant,
the Subordination Agent and the Pass Through Trustee, and the Lessee's, the
Guarantor's, the Owner Trustee's, the Indenture Trustee's, the Owner
Participant's, the Subordination Agent's and the Pass Through Trustee's


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obligations under any and all thereof, shall survive the expiration or other
termination of this Agreement and the other agreements referred to herein.

     (b) This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts (and each
of the parties hereto shall not be required to execute the same counterpart).
Each counterpart of this Agreement, including a signature page executed by each
of the parties hereto, shall be an original counterpart of this Agreement, but
all of such counterparts together shall constitute one instrument. Neither this
Agreement nor any of the terms hereof may be terminated, amended, supplemented,
waived or modified orally, but only by an instrument in writing signed by the
party against which the enforcement of the termination, amendment, supplement,
waiver or modification is sought; and no such termination, amendment,
supplement, waiver or modification shall be effective unless a signed copy
thereof shall have been delivered to each party hereto. The index preceding
this Agreement and the headings of the various Sections of this Agreement are
for convenience of reference only and shall not modify, define, expand or limit
any of the terms or provisions hereof. The terms of this Agreement shall be
binding upon, and shall inure to the benefit of, the Lessee and, subject to the
terms of the Participation Agreement, its successors and permitted assigns, the
Guarantor, the Pass Through Trustee and its successors as Pass Through Trustee
(and any additional trustee appointed) under any of the Pass Through Trust
Agreements, the Indenture Trustee and its successors as Indenture Trustee (and
any additional Indenture Trustee appointed) under the Indenture, the
Subordination Agent and its successors as Subordination Agent under the
Intercreditor Agreement, the Owner Trustee and its successors as Owner Trustee
under the Trust Agreement, and the Owner Participant, and, subject to the
provisions of the Participation Agreement, its successors and permitted
assigns.  The terms of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of the
Liquidity Provider, its successors and permitted assigns.  No purchaser or
holder of any Refinancing Secured Certificates shall be deemed to be a
successor or assign of any holder of the Original Secured Certificates.

     SECTION 14. GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD
TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW. THIS AGREEMENT IS BEING DELIVERED IN THE
STATE OF NEW YORK.




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<PAGE>   30





     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
duly executed by their respective officers there unto duly authorized as of the
day and year first above written.

                                    NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.,

                                         Lessee


                 By: 
                     ------------------------------------------
                      Name:
                      Title:

                      Address:  U.S. Mail
                                -------------------------------

                                5101 Northwest Drive (A4010)
                                St. Paul, Minnesota  55111-3034

                                Overnight Courier
                                -------------------------------


                                2700 Lone Oak Parkway (A4010)
                                Eagan, Minnesota  55121

                    Attention:  Senior Vice President -
                                Finance and Treasurer

                    Facsimile:  (612) 726-0665



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<PAGE>   31




                                 NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION,

                                    Guarantor



                                 By:
                                     Name:
                                     Title:
                                     Address:   U.S. Mail
                                                ------------------------------

                                                5101 Northwest Drive (A4010)
                                                St. Paul, Minnesota  55111-3034

                                                Overnight Courier
                                                ------------------------------


                                                2700 Lone Oak Parkway (A4010)
                                                Eagan, Minnesota  55121

                                     Attention: Senior Vice President -
                                                Finance and Treasurer

                                     Facsimile: f(612) 726-0665



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<PAGE>   32




                                    [________________________],

                                         Owner Participant



                                    By:
                                        ----------------------------------
                                    Title:
                                    Address:                               
                                              
                                              
                                              
                                    Attn:     
                                    Telecopy No.:  


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<PAGE>   33




                                    STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
                                    not in its individual capacity, except as
                                    otherwise provided herein, but solely as
                                    Pass Through Trustee,
                                    Pass Through Trustee


                                    By:
                                        ----------------------------------
                                    Title:
                                    Address:  Two International Place
                                              4th Floor
                                              Boston, Massachusetts  02110
                                    Attn:     Corporate Trust Department
                                    Facsimile:  (617) 664-5371


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<PAGE>   34




                                    STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF
                                    CONNECTICUT,
                                    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                                    not in its individual capacity, except as
                                    otherwise provided herein, but solely as
                                    Subordination Agent,
                                    Subordination Agent

                                    By:
                                        ----------------------------------
                                    Title:
                                    Address:  c/o State Street Bank and
                                              Trust Company
                                              Two International Place
                                              4th Floor
                                              Boston, Massachusetts  02110
                                    Attn:     Corporate Trust Department
                                    Facsimile:  (617) 664-5371


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<PAGE>   35




                                    STATE STREET BANK AND
                                    TRUST COMPANY,
                                    not in its individual capacity, except as
                                    otherwise provided herein, but solely as
                                    Indenture Trustee,
                                         Indenture Trustee

                                    By:
                                        ----------------------------------
                                    Title:
                                    Address:   Two International Place
                                               4th Floor
                                               Boston, Massachusetts  02110
                                    Attn:      Corporate Trust Department
                                    Facsimile: (617) 664-5371


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<PAGE>   36




                                    FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH, NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION,
                                    not in its individual capacity,
                                    except as expressly provided herein,
                                    but solely as Owner Trustee,
                                         Owner Trustee

                                    By:
                                        ----------------------------------
                                    Title:
                                    Address:  79 South Main Street
                                              Salt Lake City, Utah  84111
                                    Attn:     Corporate Trust Department
                                    Facsimile:  (801) 246-5053

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<PAGE>   37




                                                                   SCHEDULE I TO
                                                             REFUNDING AGREEMENT

                         PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENTS

1.   Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trust Agreement, supplemented by
     Trust Supplement No. ____ dated __________, 1996.

2.   Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trust Agreement, supplemented by
     Trust Supplement No. ____ dated __________, 1996.

3.   Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trust Agreement, supplemented by
     Trust Supplement No. ____ dated __________, 1996.


<PAGE>   38


                                                                  SCHEDULE II TO
                                                             REFUNDING AGREEMENT

        REFINANCING SECURED CERTIFICATES, PURCHASERS AND PURCHASE PRICE


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                         Interest Rate
      Purchaser          and Maturity
- ------------------  -----------------------
Northwest Airlines                                          Principal     Purchase
Pass Through Trust                                          Amount        Price
                                                            ------------  --------
     <S>          <C>                                       <C>           <C>
      1996-1A       [ _ ]% Refinancing Secured
                         Certificates due [  ]              $[     ]
      1996-1B       [ _ ]% Refinancing Secured
                         Certificates due [  ]              $[     ]
      1996-1C       [ _ ]% Refinancing Secured
                         Certificates due [  ]              $[     ]




</TABLE>



<PAGE>   1
                                                                Exhibit 4(m)(1)

                  This Trust Supplement No. 1996-1A, dated as of [__________],
1996 (herein called the "Trust Supplement"), among Northwest Airlines
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), Northwest Airlines, Inc.,
a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), and State Street Bank and Trust Company
(the "Trustee"), to the Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as of [__________,
__], among the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee (the "Basic Agreement").


                              W I T N E S S E T H:

                  WHEREAS, the Basic Agreement, unlimited as to the aggregate
principal amount of Certificates (unless otherwise specified herein, capitalized
terms used herein without definition having the respective meanings specified
heretofore in the Basic Agreement) which may be issued thereunder, has
heretofore been executed and delivered;

                  WHEREAS, each Owner Trustee, acting on behalf of its
respective Owner Participant, will issue, on a non-recourse basis, Equipment
Notes, among other things, to refinance the outstanding debt portion of the
purchase price of the aircraft purchased by such Owner Trustee and leased to the
Company pursuant to the related Lease;

                  WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Basic
Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement (the "Agreement"), the
Trustee shall purchase such Equipment Notes issued by each Owner Trustee having
the same interest rate as, and final maturity dates not later than the final
Regular Distribution Date of, the Certificates issued hereunder and shall hold
such Equipment Notes in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders;

                  WHEREAS, the Trustee hereby declares the creation of this
Trust (the "1996-1A Trust") for the benefit of the Certificateholders, and the
initial Certificateholders as the grantors of the 1996-1A Trust, by their
respective acceptances of the Certificates, join in the creation of this 1996-1A
Trust with the Trustee;

                  WHEREAS, all of the conditions and requirements necessary to
make this Trust Supplement, when duly executed and delivered, a valid, binding
and legal instrument in accordance with its terms and for the purposes herein
expressed, have been done, performed and fulfilled, and the execution and
delivery of this Trust Supplement in the form and with the terms hereof have
been in all respects duly authorized;

                  WHEREAS, this Trust Supplement is subject to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and shall, to the extent
applicable, be governed by such provisions;

<PAGE>   2
                                                                              2


                  NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises herein, it is
agreed among the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee as follows:


                                    ARTICLE I
                                THE CERTIFICATES

                  Section 1.01. The Certificates. There is hereby created a
series of Certificates to be issued under the Agreement to be distinguished and
known as "Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1A" (hereinafter defined as the
"Series 1996-1A Certificates"). Each Series 1996-1A Certificate represents a
Fractional Undivided Interest in the 1996-1A Trust created hereby.

                  The terms and conditions applicable to the Series 1996-1A
Certificates are as follows:

                  (a) The aggregate principal amount of the Series 1996-1A
         Certificates that shall be authenticated under the Agreement (except
         for Series 1996-1A Certificates authenticated and delivered pursuant to
         Sections 3.03, 3.04 and 3.05 of the Basic Agreement) upon their initial
         issuance
         is $[_________].

                  (b) The Cut-off Date is [__________], 1996.

                  (c) The Regular Distribution Dates with respect to any payment
         of Scheduled Payments means each January 2 and July 2 commencing
         January 2, 1997, until payment of all of the Scheduled Payments to be
         made under the Equipment Notes has been made.

                  (d) The Special Distribution Dates are as follows: (i) when
         used with respect to the redemption or purchase of any Equipment Notes,
         the day (which shall be a Business Day) on which such redemption or
         purchase is scheduled to occur pursuant to the terms of the applicable
         Indenture and (ii) when used with respect to a Special Payment other
         than as described in clause (i) above, 20 days after the last date on
         which the Trustee must give notice pursuant to Section 4.02(c) of the
         Basic Agreement (or the next Business Day after such 20th day if such
         date is not a Business Day).

                  (e) (i) The Series 1996-1A Certificates shall be in the form
         attached hereto as Exhibit A.

                  (ii) The Series 1996-1A Certificates shall be Book-Entry
         Certificates and shall be subject to the conditions set forth in the
         Letter of Representations among the Guarantor, the Company and the
         Clearing Agency attached hereto as Exhibit B.
<PAGE>   3
                                                                              3


                  (f) The Scheduled Payments of principal shall be as set forth
         in Exhibit C hereto.

                  (g) A portion of the proceeds of the Series 1996-1A
         Certificates shall be used to purchase the Equipment Notes in the
         principal amount specified below and the unused portion of such
         proceeds shall be deposited in the Escrow Account to be applied as set
         forth in the Agreement:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
            Equipment Note              Principal Amount               Maturity
            --------------              ----------------               --------
<S>                                     <C>                            <C>




</TABLE>

                  (h) Each Owner Trustee, acting on behalf of its respective
         Owner Participant, will issue on a non-recourse basis, the Equipment
         Notes, the proceeds of which shall be used, among other things, to
         refinance the outstanding debt portion, or finance the debt portion, as
         the case may be, of the purchase price to such Owner Trustee of the
         following Aircraft:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                          U.S.                   Manufacturer's
               Aircraft            Registration Number           Serial Number
            --------------         -------------------           -------------
<S>                                <C>                           <C>



</TABLE>

                  (i) The related Note Documents are as follows:


                                   ARTICLE II
                                   DEFINITIONS

                  Section 2.01. Definitions. For all purposes of the Basic
Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement, the following capitalized
term has the following meaning:

                  Intercreditor Agreement: Means the Intercreditor Agreement.

                  Other Agreements: Means (i) the Basic Agreement as
         supplemented by Trust Supplement No. 1996-1B dated the date hereof
         relating to Northwest Airlines 1996-1B Pass Through Trust, (ii) the
         Basic Agreement as supplemented by Trust Supplement No. 1996-1C dated
         the date hereof relating to Northwest Airlines 1996-1C Pass Through
         Trust and (iii) the Basic Agreement as supplemented by Trust Supplement
         No.
<PAGE>   4
                                                                              4


         1996-1D dated the date hereof relating to Northwest Airlines 1996-1D
         Pass Through Trust.

                  Other Trustees: Means the trustee under the Other Agreements,
         and any successor or other trustee appointed as provided therein.

                  Trust Property: Means (i) the Equipment Notes held as the
         property of the Trust and all monies at any time paid thereon and all
         monies due and to become due thereunder, (ii) funds from time to time
         deposited in the Escrow Account, the Certificate Account and the
         Special Payments Account, and (iii) all rights of the Trust and the
         Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, under the Intercreditor Agreement and
         the Liquidity Facility, including, without limitation, all rights to
         receive certain payments thereunder, and all monies paid to the Trustee
         on behalf of the Trust pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement or the
         Liquidity Facility.


                                   ARTICLE III
                                   THE TRUSTEE

                  Section 3.01. The Trustee. The Trustee is hereby directed to
execute and deliver the Intercreditor Agreement on or prior to the Issuance Date
in the form delivered to the Trustee by the Company. The Trustee shall not be
responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or
sufficiency of this Trust Supplement or the due execution hereof by the
Guarantor or the Company, or for or in respect of the recitals and statements
contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the
Company.

                  Except as herein otherwise provided, no duties,
responsibilities or liabilities are assumed, or shall be construed to be assumed
by the Trustee by reason of this Trust Supplement other than as set forth in the
Basic Agreement, and this Trust Supplement is executed and accepted on behalf of
the Trustee, subject to all the terms and conditions set forth in the Basic
Agreement, upon the effectiveness thereof, as fully to all intents as if the
same were herein set forth at length.

                  The Trustee represents and warrants that the Intercreditor
Agreement will be duly executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly
authorized to execute and deliver such document on its behalf.
<PAGE>   5
                                                                              5


                                   ARTICLE IV
                            MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

                  Section 4.01. Basic Agreement Ratified. Except and so far as
herein expressly provided, all of the provisions, terms and conditions of the
Basic Agreement are in all respects ratified and confirmed; and the Basic
Agreement and this Trust Supplement shall be taken, read and construed as one
and the same instrument.

                  Section 4.02. GOVERNING LAW. THIS TRUST SUPPLEMENT AND THE
SERIES 1996-1A CERTIFICATES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Section 4.03. Execution in Counterparts. This Trust Supplement
may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument.
<PAGE>   6
                                                                              6


                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee
have caused this Trust Supplement to be duly executed by their respective
officers thereto duly authorized, as of the day and year first written above.

                                            NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION


                                            By:________________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:



                                            NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.


                                            By:________________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:



                                            STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
                                                COMPANY, as Trustee


                                            By:________________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:
<PAGE>   7
                                   EXHIBIT A

                               FORM OF CERTIFICATE


                  [Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"),
to Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and
any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other
name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is
made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch the registered owner hereof,
Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]*


                  NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1A PASS THROUGH TRUST

                                  Pass Through
                           Certificate, Series 1996-1A

                            Issuance Date: __________

                   Final Distribution Date: __________, ______

         Evidencing A Fractional Undivided Interest In the 1996- 1A Trust, The
         Property Of Which Includes Certain Equipment Notes Each Secured By An
         Aircraft Leased To Northwest Airlines, Inc.


Certificate
No. _____                  $________ Fractional Undivided Interest
                           representing 0.__% of the Trust per $1,000 of
                           Reference Principal Amount

                  THIS CERTIFIES THAT _______________, for value received, is
the registered owner of a Fractional Undivided Interest in the amount of
$_______ (the "Reference Principal Amount") in the Northwest Airlines 1996-1A
Pass Through Trust (the "Trust") created by State Street Bank and Trust Company,
as trustee (the "Trustee"), pursuant to a Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as
of [__________, _____] (the "Basic Agreement"), among the Trustee, Northwest
Airlines Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), and Northwest
Airlines, Inc., a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), as supplemented by
Trust Supplement No. 1996-1A thereto, dated as of [__________], 1996
(collectively, the "Agreement"), among the Trustee, the Guarantor and the
Company, a summary of certain of the pertinent

- --------
*        Not necessarily applicable in respect of one Certificate in
         a denomination of less than $1,000.
<PAGE>   8
                                                                              2


provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined
herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in
the Agreement. This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as "Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1A" (herein called the
"Certificates"). This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms,
provisions and conditions of the Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, to
which Agreement the Certificateholder of this Certificate by virtue of the
acceptance hereof assents and by which such Certificateholder is bound. The
property of the Trust includes certain Equipment Notes and all rights of the
Trust to receive payments under the Intercreditor Agreement and the Liquidity
Facility (the "Trust Property"). Each issue of the Equipment Notes is secured by
a security interest in the Aircraft leased to the Company.

                  Each of the Certificates represents a Fractional Undivided
Interest in the Trust and the Trust Property and has no rights, benefits or
interest in respect of any other separate trust established pursuant to the
terms of the Basic Agreement for any other series of certificates issued
pursuant thereto. The undivided percentage interest in the Trust represented by
each of this Certificate (as specified above) and the other Pass Through
Certificates, Series 1996-1A, was determined on the basis of (x) the aggregate
of the Reference Principal Amount of this Certificate (as specified above) and
of the other Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1A and (y) the aggregate
original principal amounts of the Equipment Notes constituting the Trust
Property.

                  Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Agreement
and the Intercreditor Agreement, from funds then available to the Trustee, there
will be distributed on each January 2 and July 2 (a "Regular Distribution Date")
commencing January 2, 1997 to the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the 15th day preceding the Regular
Distribution Date, an amount in respect of the Scheduled Payments on the
Equipment Notes due on such Regular Distribution Date, the receipt of which has
been confirmed by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest
in the Trust evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of
such Scheduled Payments. Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the
Agreement, in the event that Special Payments on the Equipment Notes are
received by the Trustee, from funds then available to the Trustee, there shall
be distributed on the applicable Special Distribution Date, to the Person in
whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the 15th
day preceding the Special Distribution Date, an amount in respect of such
Special Payments on the Equipment Notes, the receipt of which has been confirmed
by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest in the Trust
evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of such Special
Payments so received. If a Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution
Date is not a Business Day, distribution shall be
<PAGE>   9
                                                                              3


made on the immediately following Business Day with the same force and effect as
if made on such Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date and no
interest shall accrue during the intervening period. The Trustee shall mail
notice of each Special Payment and the Special Distribution Date therefor to the
Certificateholder of this Certificate.

                  Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Trustee
by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto, without the presentation or
surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation hereon. Except as
otherwise provided in the Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final
distribution on this Certificate will be made after notice mailed by the Trustee
of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of
this Certificate at the office or agency of the Trustee specified in such
notice.

                  The Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
obligation guaranteed by, or an interest in, the Guarantor, the Company or the
Trustee or any affiliate thereof. The Certificates are limited in right or
payment, all as more specifically set forth herein and in the Agreement. All
payments or distributions made to Certificateholders under the Agreement shall
be made only from the Trust Property and only to the extent that the Trustee
shall have sufficient income or proceeds from the Trust Property to make such
payments in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Each Certificateholder
of this Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that it will look solely
to the income and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent available for
distribution to such Certificateholder as provided in the Agreement. This
Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to
the Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights, benefits,
obligations, proceeds, and duties evidenced hereby. A copy of the Agreement may
be examined during normal business hours at the principal office of the Trustee,
and at such other places, if any, designated by the Trustee, by any
Certificateholder upon request.

                  The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Guarantor or the Company and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the Guarantor, the Company
and the Trustee with the consent of the Certificateholders holding Certificates
evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a majority
in interest in the Trust. Any such consent by the Certificateholder of this
Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Certificateholder and upon
all future Certificateholders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued
upon the transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not
notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also
permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited
<PAGE>   10
                                                                              4


circumstances, without the consent of the Certificateholders of any of the
Certificates.

                  As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain
limitations set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the
Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the
offices or agencies maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Registrar, or
by any successor Registrar, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Registrar duly executed
by the Certificateholder hereof or such Certificateholder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest in the
Trust will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

                  The Certificates (except one Certificate having a denomination
of less than $1,000) are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 Fractional Undivided Interests and
integral multiples thereof. As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the Certificates are exchangeable for new
Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate
Fractional Undivided Interest in the Trust, as requested by the
Certificateholder surrendering the same.

                  No service charge will be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Trustee shall require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  The Trustee, the Registrar, and any agent of the Trustee or
the Registrar may treat the person in whose name this Certificate is registered
as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Trustee, the Registrar,
nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

                  The obligations and responsibilities created by the Agreement
and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the distribution to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed to them pursuant to
the Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Trust
Property.

                  THE AGREEMENT AND THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING
EFFECT TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
<PAGE>   11
                                                                              5


                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to
be duly executed.

                                            NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1A
                                                PASS THROUGH TRUST

                                            By: STATE STREET BANK AND
                                                TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee


                                            By:________________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:
<PAGE>   12
                                                                              6


               FORM OF THE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION


                           This is one of the Certificates referred to in the
                           within-mentioned Agreement.

                           STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
                               COMPANY, as Trustee


                                            By:________________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:
<PAGE>   13
                                    EXHIBIT B

                         [DTC Letter of Representations]
<PAGE>   14
                                    EXHIBIT C

                           REGULAR DISTRIBUTION DATES
                                       AND
                               SCHEDULED PAYMENTS


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         Regular Distribution Date                    Scheduled Payment
         -------------------------                    -----------------
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                                   <C>

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>



<PAGE>   1
                                                                Exhibit 4(m)(2)

                  This Trust Supplement No. 1996-1B, dated as of [__________],
1996 (herein called the "Trust Supplement"), among Northwest Airlines
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), Northwest Airlines, Inc.,
a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), and State Street Bank and Trust Company
(the "Trustee"), to the Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as of [__________,
__], among the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee (the "Basic Agreement").


                              W I T N E S S E T H:

                  WHEREAS, the Basic Agreement, unlimited as to the aggregate
principal amount of Certificates (unless otherwise specified herein, capitalized
terms used herein without definition having the respective meanings specified
heretofore in the Basic Agreement) which may be issued thereunder, has
heretofore been executed and delivered;

                  WHEREAS, each Owner Trustee, acting on behalf of its
respective Owner Participant, will issue, on a non-recourse basis, Equipment
Notes, among other things, to refinance the outstanding debt portion of the
purchase price of the aircraft purchased by such Owner Trustee and leased to the
Company pursuant to the related Lease;

                  WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Basic
Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement (the "Agreement"), the
Trustee shall purchase such Equipment Notes issued by each Owner Trustee having
the same interest rate as, and final maturity dates not later than the final
Regular Distribution Date of, the Certificates issued hereunder and shall hold
such Equipment Notes in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders;

                  WHEREAS, the Trustee hereby declares the creation of this
Trust (the "1996-1B Trust") for the benefit of the Certificateholders, and the
initial Certificateholders as the grantors of the 1996-1B Trust, by their
respective acceptances of the Certificates, join in the creation of this 1996-1B
Trust with the Trustee;

                  WHEREAS, all of the conditions and requirements necessary to
make this Trust Supplement, when duly executed and delivered, a valid, binding
and legal instrument in accordance with its terms and for the purposes herein
expressed, have been done, performed and fulfilled, and the execution and
delivery of this Trust Supplement in the form and with the terms hereof have
been in all respects duly authorized;

                  WHEREAS, this Trust Supplement is subject to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and shall, to the extent
applicable, be governed by such provisions;
<PAGE>   2
                                                                              2


                  NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises herein, it is
agreed among the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee as follows:


                                    ARTICLE I
                                THE CERTIFICATES

                  Section 1.01. The Certificates. There is hereby created a
series of Certificates to be issued under the Agreement to be distinguished and
known as "Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1B" (hereinafter defined as the
"Series 1996-1B Certificates"). Each Series 1996-1B Certificate represents a
Fractional Undivided Interest in the 1996-1B Trust created hereby.

                  The terms and conditions applicable to the Series 1996-1B
Certificates are as follows:

                  (a) The aggregate principal amount of the Series 1996-1B
         Certificates that shall be authenticated under the Agreement (except
         for Series 1996-1B Certificates authenticated and delivered pursuant to
         Sections 3.03, 3.04 and 3.05 of the Basic Agreement) upon their initial
         issuance
         is $[_________].

                  (b) The Cut-off Date is [__________], 1996.

                  (c) The Regular Distribution Dates with respect to any payment
         of Scheduled Payments means each January 2 and July 2 commencing
         January 2, 1997, until payment of all of the Scheduled Payments to be
         made under the Equipment Notes has been made.

                  (d) The Special Distribution Dates are as follows: (i) when
         used with respect to the redemption or purchase of any Equipment Notes,
         the day (which shall be a Business Day) on which such redemption or
         purchase is scheduled to occur pursuant to the terms of the applicable
         Indenture and (ii) when used with respect to a Special Payment other
         than as described in clause (i) above, 20 days after the last date on
         which the Trustee must give notice pursuant to Section 4.02(c) of the
         Basic Agreement (or the next Business Day after such 20th day if such
         date is not a Business Day).

                  (e) (i) The Series 1996-1B Certificates shall be in the form
         attached hereto as Exhibit A. Each purchaser of Series 1996-1B
         Certificates will be deemed to represent that either (i) the assets of
         an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement
         Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), or of a plan subject
         to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
         "Code"), have not been used to purchase Series 1996-1B Certificates or
         (ii) the purchase and holding of Series
<PAGE>   3
                                                                              3


         1996-1B Certificates is exempt from the prohibited transaction
         restrictions of ERISA and the Code pursuant to Prohibited Transaction
         Class Exemption 95-60 (promulgated under ERISA and the Code).

                        (ii) The Series 1996-1B Certificates shall be Book-
         Entry Certificates and shall be subject to the conditions set forth in
         the Letter of Representations among the Guarantor, the Company and the
         Clearing Agency attached hereto as Exhibit B.

                  (f) The Scheduled Payments of principal shall be as set forth
         in Exhibit C hereto.

                  (g) A portion of the proceeds of the Series 1996-1B
         Certificates shall be used to purchase the Equipment Notes in the
         principal amount specified below and the unused portion of such
         proceeds shall be deposited in the Escrow Account to be applied as set
         forth in the Agreement:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
            Equipment Note              Principal Amount               Maturity
            --------------              ----------------               --------
<S>                                     <C>                            <C>




</TABLE>

                  (h) Each Owner Trustee, acting on behalf of its respective
         Owner Participant, will issue on a non-recourse basis, the Equipment
         Notes, the proceeds of which shall be used, among other things, to
         refinance the outstanding debt portion, or finance the debt portion, as
         the case may be, of the purchase price to such Owner Trustee of the
         following Aircraft:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                          U.S.                   Manufacturer's
               Aircraft            Registration Number           Serial Number
            --------------         -------------------           -------------
<S>                                <C>                           <C>



</TABLE>

                  (i) The related Note Documents are as follows:


                                   ARTICLE II
                                   DEFINITIONS

                  Section 2.01. Definitions. For all purposes of the Basic
Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement, the following capitalized
term has the following meaning:
<PAGE>   4
                                                                              4


                  Intercreditor Agreement: Means the Intercreditor Agreement.

                  Other Agreements: Means (i) the Basic Agreement as
         supplemented by Trust Supplement No. 1996-1A dated the date hereof
         relating to Northwest Airlines 1996-1A Pass Through Trust, (ii) the
         Basic Agreement as supplemented by Trust Supplement No. 1996-1C dated
         the date hereof relating to Northwest Airlines 1996-1C Pass Through
         Trust and (iii) the Basic Agreement as supplemented by Trust Supplement
         No. 1996-1D dated the date hereof relating to Northwest Airlines
         1996-1D Pass Through Trust.

                  Other Trustees: Means the trustee under the Other Agreements,
         and any successor or other trustee appointed as provided therein.

                  Trust Property: Means (i) the Equipment Notes held as the
         property of the Trust and all monies at any time paid thereon and all
         monies due and to become due thereunder, (ii) funds from time to time
         deposited in the Escrow Account, the Certificate Account and the
         Special Payments Account, and (iii) all rights of the Trust and the
         Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, under the Intercreditor Agreement and
         the Liquidity Facility, including, without limitation, all rights to
         receive certain payments thereunder, and all monies paid to the Trustee
         on behalf of the Trust pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement or the
         Liquidity Facility.


                                   ARTICLE III
                                   THE TRUSTEE

                  Section 3.01. The Trustee. The Trustee is hereby directed to
execute and deliver the Intercreditor Agreement on or prior to the Issuance Date
in the form delivered to the Trustee by the Company. The Trustee shall not be
responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or
sufficiency of this Trust Supplement or the due execution hereof by the
Guarantor or the Company, or for or in respect of the recitals and statements
contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the
Company.

                  Except as herein otherwise provided, no duties,
responsibilities or liabilities are assumed, or shall be construed to be assumed
by the Trustee by reason of this Trust Supplement other than as set forth in the
Basic Agreement, and this Trust Supplement is executed and accepted on behalf of
the Trustee, subject to all the terms and conditions set forth in the Basic
Agreement, upon the effectiveness thereof, as fully to all intents as if the
same were herein set forth at length.

                  The Trustee represents and warrants that the Intercreditor
Agreement will be duly executed and delivered by
<PAGE>   5
                                                                              5


one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver such document
on its behalf.


                                   ARTICLE IV
                            MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

                  Section 4.01. Basic Agreement Ratified. Except and so far as
herein expressly provided, all of the provisions, terms and conditions of the
Basic Agreement are in all respects ratified and confirmed; and the Basic
Agreement and this Trust Supplement shall be taken, read and construed as one
and the same instrument.

                  Section 4.02. GOVERNING LAW. THIS TRUST SUPPLEMENT AND THE
SERIES 1996-1B CERTIFICATES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Section 4.03. Execution in Counterparts. This Trust Supplement
may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument.
<PAGE>   6
                                                                              6


                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee
have caused this Trust Supplement to be duly executed by their respective
officers thereto duly authorized, as of the day and year first written above.

                                            NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION


                                            By:________________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:



                                            NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.


                                            By:________________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:



                                            STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
                                                COMPANY, as Trustee


                                            By:________________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:
<PAGE>   7
                                    EXHIBIT A

                               FORM OF CERTIFICATE


                  [Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"),
to Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and
any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other
name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is
made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch the registered owner hereof,
Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]*


                  NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1B PASS THROUGH TRUST

                                  Pass Through
                           Certificate, Series 1996-1B

                            Issuance Date: __________

                   Final Distribution Date: __________, ______

         Evidencing A Fractional Undivided Interest In the 1996- 1B Trust, The
         Property Of Which Includes Certain Equipment Notes Each Secured By An
         Aircraft Leased To Northwest Airlines, Inc.


Certificate
No. _____                  $________ Fractional Undivided Interest
                           representing 0.__% of the Trust per $1,000 of
                           Reference Principal Amount

                  THIS CERTIFIES THAT _______________, for value received, is
the registered owner of a Fractional Undivided Interest in the amount of
$_______ (the "Reference Principal Amount") in the Northwest Airlines 1996-1B
Pass Through Trust (the "Trust") created by State Street Bank and Trust Company,
as trustee (the "Trustee"), pursuant to a Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as
of [__________, _____] (the "Basic Agreement"), among the Trustee, Northwest
Airlines Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), and Northwest
Airlines, Inc., a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), as supplemented by
Trust Supplement No. 1996-1B thereto, dated as of [__________], 1996
(collectively, the "Agreement"), among the Trustee, the Guarantor and the
Company, a summary of certain of the pertinent

- --------
*        Not necessarily applicable in respect of one Certificate in
         a denomination of less than $1,000.
<PAGE>   8
                                                                              2


provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined
herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in
the Agreement. This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as "Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1B" (herein called the
"Certificates"). This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms,
provisions and conditions of the Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, to
which Agreement the Certificateholder of this Certificate by virtue of the
acceptance hereof assents and by which such Certificateholder is bound. The
property of the Trust includes certain Equipment Notes and all rights of the
Trust to receive payments under the Intercreditor Agreement and the Liquidity
Facility (the "Trust Property"). Each issue of the Equipment Notes is secured by
a security interest in the Aircraft leased to the Company.

                  Each of the Certificates represents a Fractional Undivided
Interest in the Trust and the Trust Property and has no rights, benefits or
interest in respect of any other separate trust established pursuant to the
terms of the Basic Agreement for any other series of certificates issued
pursuant thereto. The undivided percentage interest in the Trust represented by
each of this Certificate (as specified above) and the other Pass Through
Certificates, Series 1996-1B, was determined on the basis of (x) the aggregate
of the Reference Principal Amount of this Certificate (as specified above) and
of the other Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1B and (y) the aggregate
original principal amounts of the Equipment Notes constituting the Trust
Property.

                  Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Agreement
and the Intercreditor Agreement, from funds then available to the Trustee, there
will be distributed on each January 2 and July 2 (a "Regular Distribution Date")
commencing January 2, 1997 to the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the 15th day preceding the Regular
Distribution Date, an amount in respect of the Scheduled Payments on the
Equipment Notes due on such Regular Distribution Date, the receipt of which has
been confirmed by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest
in the Trust evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of
such Scheduled Payments. Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the
Agreement, in the event that Special Payments on the Equipment Notes are
received by the Trustee, from funds then available to the Trustee, there shall
be distributed on the applicable Special Distribution Date, to the Person in
whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the 15th
day preceding the Special Distribution Date, an amount in respect of such
Special Payments on the Equipment Notes, the receipt of which has been confirmed
by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest in the Trust
evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of such Special
Payments so received. If a Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution
Date is not a Business Day, distribution shall be
<PAGE>   9
                                                                              3


made on the immediately following Business Day with the same force and effect as
if made on such Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date and no
interest shall accrue during the intervening period. The Trustee shall mail
notice of each Special Payment and the Special Distribution Date therefor to the
Certificateholder of this Certificate.

                  Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Trustee
by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto, without the presentation or
surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation hereon. Except as
otherwise provided in the Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final
distribution on this Certificate will be made after notice mailed by the Trustee
of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of
this Certificate at the office or agency of the Trustee specified in such
notice.

                  The Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
obligation guaranteed by, or an interest in, the Guarantor, the Company or the
Trustee or any affiliate thereof. The Certificates are limited in right or
payment, all as more specifically set forth herein and in the Agreement. All
payments or distributions made to Certificateholders under the Agreement shall
be made only from the Trust Property and only to the extent that the Trustee
shall have sufficient income or proceeds from the Trust Property to make such
payments in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Each Certificateholder
of this Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that it will look solely
to the income and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent available for
distribution to such Certificateholder as provided in the Agreement. This
Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to
the Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights, benefits,
obligations, proceeds, and duties evidenced hereby. A copy of the Agreement may
be examined during normal business hours at the principal office of the Trustee,
and at such other places, if any, designated by the Trustee, by any
Certificateholder upon request.

                  The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Guarantor or the Company and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the Guarantor, the Company
and the Trustee with the consent of the Certificateholders holding Certificates
evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a majority
in interest in the Trust. Any such consent by the Certificateholder of this
Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Certificateholder and upon
all future Certificateholders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued
upon the transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not
notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also
permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited
<PAGE>   10
                                                                              4


circumstances, without the consent of the Certificateholders of any of the
Certificates.

                  As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain
limitations set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the
Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the
offices or agencies maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Registrar, or
by any successor Registrar, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Registrar duly executed
by the Certificateholder hereof or such Certificateholder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest in the
Trust will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

                  The Certificates (except one Certificate having a denomination
of less than $1,000) are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 Fractional Undivided Interests and
integral multiples thereof. As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the Certificates are exchangeable for new
Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate
Fractional Undivided Interest in the Trust, as requested by the
Certificateholder surrendering the same.

                  No service charge will be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Trustee shall require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  The Trustee, the Registrar, and any agent of the Trustee or
the Registrar may treat the person in whose name this Certificate is registered
as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Trustee, the Registrar,
nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

                  The obligations and responsibilities created by the Agreement
and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the distribution to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed to them pursuant to
the Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Trust
Property.

                  THE AGREEMENT AND THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING
EFFECT TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
<PAGE>   11
                                                                              5


                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to
be duly executed.

                                            NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1B
                                                PASS THROUGH TRUST

                                            By: STATE STREET BANK AND
                                                TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee


                                            By:________________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:
<PAGE>   12
                                                                              6


               FORM OF THE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION


                           This is one of the Certificates referred to in the
                           within-mentioned Agreement.

                           STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
                                    COMPANY, as Trustee


                           By:______________________________
                              Name:
                              Title:
<PAGE>   13
                                    EXHIBIT B

                         [DTC Letter of Representations]
<PAGE>   14
                                    EXHIBIT C

                           REGULAR DISTRIBUTION DATES
                                       AND
                               SCHEDULED PAYMENTS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         Regular Distribution Date                    Scheduled Payment
         -------------------------                    -----------------
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                                   <C>

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>



<PAGE>   1
                                                                Exhibit 4(m)(3)


                  This Trust Supplement No. 1996-1C, dated as of [__________],
1996 (herein called the "Trust Supplement"), among Northwest Airlines
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), Northwest Airlines, Inc.,
a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), and State Street Bank and Trust Company
(the "Trustee"), to the Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as of [__________,
__], among the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee (the "Basic Agreement").

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

                  WHEREAS, the Basic Agreement, unlimited as to the aggregate
principal amount of Certificates (unless otherwise specified herein, capitalized
terms used herein without definition having the respective meanings specified
heretofore in the Basic Agreement) which may be issued thereunder, has
heretofore been executed and delivered;

                  WHEREAS, each Owner Trustee, acting on behalf of its
respective Owner Participant, will issue, on a non-recourse basis, Equipment
Notes, among other things, to refinance the outstanding debt portion of the
purchase price of the aircraft purchased by such Owner Trustee and leased to the
Company pursuant to the related Lease;

                  WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Basic
Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement (the "Agreement"), the
Trustee shall purchase such Equipment Notes issued by each Owner Trustee having
the same interest rate as, and final maturity dates not later than the final
Regular Distribution Date of, the Certificates issued hereunder and shall hold
such Equipment Notes in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders;

                  WHEREAS, the Trustee hereby declares the creation of this
Trust (the "1996-1C Trust") for the benefit of the Certificateholders, and the
initial Certificateholders as the grantors of the 1996-1C Trust, by their
respective acceptances of the Certificates, join in the creation of this 1996-1C
Trust with the Trustee;

                  WHEREAS, all of the conditions and requirements necessary to
make this Trust Supplement, when duly executed and delivered, a valid, binding
and legal instrument in accordance with its terms and for the purposes herein
expressed, have been done, performed and fulfilled, and the execution and
delivery of this Trust Supplement in the form and with the terms hereof have
been in all respects duly authorized;

                  WHEREAS, this Trust Supplement is subject to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and shall, to the extent
applicable, be governed by such provisions;

                                                                     


<PAGE>   2


                                                                               2

                  NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises herein, it is
agreed among the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee as follows:

                                    ARTICLE I
                                THE CERTIFICATES

                  Section 1.01. The Certificates. There is hereby created a
series of Certificates to be issued under the Agreement to be distinguished and
known as "Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1C" (hereinafter defined as the
"Series 1996-1C Certificates"). Each Series 1996-1C Certificate represents a
Fractional Undivided Interest in the 1996-1C Trust created hereby.

                  The terms and conditions applicable to the Series 1996- 1C
Certificates are as follows:

                  (a) The aggregate principal amount of the Series 1996- 1C
         Certificates that shall be authenticated under the Agreement (except
         for Series 1996-1C Certificates authenticated and delivered pursuant to
         Sections 3.03, 3.04 and 3.05 of the Basic Agreement) upon their initial
         issuance is $[_________].

                  (b) The Cut-off Date is [__________], 1996.

                  (c) The Regular Distribution Dates with respect to any payment
         of Scheduled Payments means each January 2 and July 2 commencing
         January 2, 1997, until payment of all of the Scheduled Payments to be
         made under the Equipment Notes has been made.

                  (d) The Special Distribution Dates are as follows: (i) when
         used with respect to the redemption or purchase of any Equipment Notes,
         the day (which shall be a Business Day) on which such redemption or
         purchase is scheduled to occur pursuant to the terms of the applicable
         Indenture and (ii) when used with respect to a Special Payment other
         than as described in clause (i) above, 20 days after the last date on
         which the Trustee must give notice pursuant to Section 4.02(c) of the
         Basic Agreement (or the next Business Day after such 20th day if such
         date is not a Business Day).

                  (e) (i) The Series 1996-1C Certificates shall be in the form
         attached hereto as Exhibit A. Each purchaser of Series 1996-1C
         Certificates will be deemed to represent that either (i) the assets of
         an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement
         Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), or of a plan subject
         to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
         "Code"), have not been used to purchase Series 1996-1C Certificates or
         (ii) the purchase and holding of Series

                                                                     


<PAGE>   3


                                                                               3

         1996-1C Certificates is exempt from the prohibited transaction
         restrictions of ERISA and the Code pursuant to Prohibited Transaction
         Class Exemption 95-60 (promulgated under ERISA and the Code).

                        (ii) The Series 1996-1C Certificates shall be Book-Entry
         Certificates and shall be subject to the conditions set forth in the
         Letter of Representations among the Guarantor, the Company and the
         Clearing Agency attached hereto as Exhibit B.

                  (f) The Scheduled Payments of principal shall be as set forth
         in Exhibit C hereto.

                  (g) A portion of the proceeds of the Series 1996-1C
         Certificates shall be used to purchase the Equipment Notes in the
         principal amount specified below and the unused portion of such
         proceeds shall be deposited in the Escrow Account to be applied as set
         forth in the Agreement:

            Equipment Note        Principal Amount         Maturity
            --------------        ----------------         --------

                  (h) Each Owner Trustee, acting on behalf of its respective
         Owner Participant, will issue on a non-recourse basis, the Equipment
         Notes, the proceeds of which shall be used, among other things, to
         refinance the outstanding debt portion, or finance the debt portion, as
         the case may be, of the purchase price to such Owner Trustee of the
         following Aircraft:

                                       U.S.                 Manufacturer's
               Aircraft          Registration Number         Serial Number
               --------          -------------------         -------------

                  (i)      The related Note Documents are as follows:

                                   ARTICLE II

                                   DEFINITIONS

                  Section 2.01.  Definitions.  For all purposes of the
Basic Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement, the
following capitalized term has the following meaning:

                                                                     


<PAGE>   4


                                                                               4

                  Intercreditor Agreement:  Means the Intercreditor
         Agreement.

                  Other Agreements: Means (i) the Basic Agreement as
         supplemented by Trust Supplement No. 1996-1A dated the date hereof
         relating to Northwest Airlines 1996-1A Pass Through Trust, (ii) the
         Basic Agreement as supplemented by Trust Supplement No. 1996-1B dated
         the date hereof relating to Northwest Airlines 1996-1B Pass Through
         Trust and (iii) the Basic Agreement as supplemented by Trust Supplement
         No. 1996-1D dated the date hereof relating to Northwest Airlines
         1996-1D Pass Through Trust.

                  Other Trustees:  Means the trustee under the Other
         Agreements, and any successor or other trustee appointed as

         provided therein.

                  Trust Property: Means (i) the Equipment Notes held as the
         property of the Trust and all monies at any time paid thereon and all
         monies due and to become due thereunder, (ii) funds from time to time
         deposited in the Escrow Account, the Certificate Account and the
         Special Payments Account, and (iii) all rights of the Trust and the
         Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, under the Intercreditor Agreement and
         the Liquidity Facility, including, without limitation, all rights to
         receive certain payments thereunder, and all monies paid to the Trustee
         on behalf of the Trust pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement or the
         Liquidity Facility.

                                   ARTICLE III
                                   THE TRUSTEE

                  Section 3.01. The Trustee. The Trustee is hereby directed to
execute and deliver the Intercreditor Agreement on or prior to the Issuance Date
in the form delivered to the Trustee by the Company. The Trustee shall not be
responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or
sufficiency of this Trust Supplement or the due execution hereof by the
Guarantor or the Company, or for or in respect of the recitals and statements
contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the
Company.

                  Except as herein otherwise provided, no duties,
responsibilities or liabilities are assumed, or shall be construed to be assumed
by the Trustee by reason of this Trust Supplement other than as set forth in the
Basic Agreement, and this Trust Supplement is executed and accepted on behalf of
the Trustee, subject to all the terms and conditions set forth in the Basic
Agreement, upon the effectiveness thereof, as fully to all intents as if the
same were herein set forth at length.

                  The Trustee represents and warrants that the Intercreditor
Agreement will be duly executed and delivered by

                                                                     


<PAGE>   5


                                                                               5

one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver
such document on its behalf.

                                   ARTICLE IV
                            MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

                  Section 4.01. Basic Agreement Ratified. Except and so far as
herein expressly provided, all of the provisions, terms and conditions of the
Basic Agreement are in all respects ratified and confirmed; and the Basic
Agreement and this Trust Supplement shall be taken, read and construed as one
and the same instrument.

                  Section 4.02. GOVERNING LAW. THIS TRUST SUPPLEMENT AND THE
SERIES 1996-1C CERTIFICATES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Section 4.03. Execution in Counterparts. This Trust Supplement
may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument.

                                                                     


<PAGE>   6


                                                                               6

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee
have caused this Trust Supplement to be duly executed by their respective
officers thereto duly authorized, as of the day and year first written above.

                                         NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION         
                                         
                                         By:______________________________
                                            Name:
                                            Title:
                                         
                                         NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.
                                         
                                         By:______________________________
                                            Name:
                                            Title:
                                         
                                                  STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
                                         
                                                  COMPANY, as Trustee
                                         
                                         By:______________________________
                                            Name:
                                            Title:
                                         
                                                                     


<PAGE>   7
                                    EXHIBIT A

                               FORM OF CERTIFICATE

                  [Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"),
to Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and
any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other
name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is
made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch the registered owner hereof,
Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]*

                  NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1C PASS THROUGH TRUST

                                  Pass Through
                           Certificate, Series 1996-1C

                            Issuance Date: __________

                   Final Distribution Date: __________, ______

         Evidencing A Fractional Undivided Interest In the 1996- 1C Trust, The
         Property Of Which Includes Certain Equipment Notes Each Secured By An
         Aircraft Leased To Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Certificate

No. _____                  $________ Fractional Undivided Interest
                           representing 0.__% of the Trust per $1,000 of
                           Reference Principal Amount

                  THIS CERTIFIES THAT _______________, for value received, is
the registered owner of a Fractional Undivided Interest in the amount of
$_______ (the "Reference Principal Amount") in the Northwest Airlines 1996-1C
Pass Through Trust (the "Trust") created by State Street Bank and Trust Company,
as trustee (the "Trustee"), pursuant to a Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as
of [__________, _____] (the "Basic Agreement"), among the Trustee, Northwest
Airlines Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), and Northwest
Airlines, Inc., a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), as supplemented by
Trust Supplement No. 1996-1C thereto, dated as of [__________], 1996
(collectively, the "Agreement"), among the Trustee, the Guarantor and the
Company, a summary of certain of the pertinent

- --------
*        Not necessarily applicable in respect of one Certificate in a
         denomination of less than $1,000.

                                                                     


<PAGE>   8


                                                                               2

provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined
herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in
the Agreement. This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as "Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1C" (herein called the
"Certificates"). This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms,
provisions and conditions of the Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, to
which Agreement the Certificateholder of this Certificate by virtue of the
acceptance hereof assents and by which such Certificateholder is bound. The
property of the Trust includes certain Equipment Notes and all rights of the
Trust to receive payments under the Intercreditor Agreement and the Liquidity
Facility (the "Trust Property"). Each issue of the Equipment Notes is secured by
a security interest in the Aircraft leased to the Company.

                  Each of the Certificates represents a Fractional Undivided
Interest in the Trust and the Trust Property and has no rights, benefits or
interest in respect of any other separate trust established pursuant to the
terms of the Basic Agreement for any other series of certificates issued
pursuant thereto. The undivided percentage interest in the Trust represented by
each of this Certificate (as specified above) and the other Pass Through
Certificates, Series 1996-1C, was determined on the basis of (x) the aggregate
of the Reference Principal Amount of this Certificate (as specified above) and
of the other Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1C and (y) the aggregate
original principal amounts of the Equipment Notes constituting the Trust
Property.

                  Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Agreement
and the Intercreditor Agreement, from funds then available to the Trustee, there
will be distributed on each January 2 and July 2 (a "Regular Distribution Date")
commencing January 2, 1997 to the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the 15th day preceding the Regular
Distribution Date, an amount in respect of the Scheduled Payments on the
Equipment Notes due on such Regular Distribution Date, the receipt of which has
been confirmed by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest
in the Trust evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of
such Scheduled Payments. Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the
Agreement, in the event that Special Payments on the Equipment Notes are
received by the Trustee, from funds then available to the Trustee, there shall
be distributed on the applicable Special Distribution Date, to the Person in
whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the 15th
day preceding the Special Distribution Date, an amount in respect of such
Special Payments on the Equipment Notes, the receipt of which has been confirmed
by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest in the Trust
evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of such Special
Payments so received. If a Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution
Date is not a Business Day, distribution shall be

                                                                     


<PAGE>   9


                                                                               3

made on the immediately following Business Day with the same force and effect as
if made on such Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date and no
interest shall accrue during the intervening period. The Trustee shall mail
notice of each Special Payment and the Special Distribution Date therefor to the
Certificateholder of this Certificate.

                  Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Trustee
by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto, without the presentation or
surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation hereon. Except as
otherwise provided in the Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final
distribution on this Certificate will be made after notice mailed by the Trustee
of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of
this Certificate at the office or agency of the Trustee specified in such
notice.

                  The Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
obligation guaranteed by, or an interest in, the Guarantor, the Company or the
Trustee or any affiliate thereof. The Certificates are limited in right or
payment, all as more specifically set forth herein and in the Agreement. All
payments or distributions made to Certificateholders under the Agreement shall
be made only from the Trust Property and only to the extent that the Trustee
shall have sufficient income or proceeds from the Trust Property to make such
payments in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Each Certificateholder
of this Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that it will look solely
to the income and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent available for
distribution to such Certificateholder as provided in the Agreement. This
Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to
the Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights, benefits,
obligations, proceeds, and duties evidenced hereby. A copy of the Agreement may
be examined during normal business hours at the principal office of the Trustee,
and at such other places, if any, designated by the Trustee, by any
Certificateholder upon request.

                  The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Guarantor or the Company and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the Guarantor, the Company
and the Trustee with the consent of the Certificateholders holding Certificates
evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a majority
in interest in the Trust. Any such consent by the Certificateholder of this
Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Certificateholder and upon
all future Certificateholders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued
upon the transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not
notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also
permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited

                                                                     


<PAGE>   10


                                                                               4

circumstances, without the consent of the Certificateholders of any of the
Certificates.

                  As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain
limitations set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the
Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the
offices or agencies maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Registrar, or
by any successor Registrar, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Registrar duly executed
by the Certificateholder hereof or such Certificateholder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest in the
Trust will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

                  The Certificates (except one Certificate having a denomination
of less than $1,000) are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 Fractional Undivided Interests and
integral multiples thereof. As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the Certificates are exchangeable for new
Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate
Fractional Undivided Interest in the Trust, as requested by the
Certificateholder surrendering the same.

                  No service charge will be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Trustee shall require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  The Trustee, the Registrar, and any agent of the Trustee or
the Registrar may treat the person in whose name this Certificate is registered
as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Trustee, the Registrar,
nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

                  The obligations and responsibilities created by the Agreement
and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the distribution to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed to them pursuant to
the Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Trust
Property.

                  THE AGREEMENT AND THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING
EFFECT TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.

                                                                     


<PAGE>   11


                                                                               5

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to
be duly executed.

                                     NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1C                 
                                       PASS THROUGH TRUST
                                     
                                     By:     STATE STREET BANK AND
                                             TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee
                                     
                                             By:______________________________
                                                Name:
                                                Title:
                                     
                                                                     


<PAGE>   12


                                                                               6

               FORM OF THE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                           This is one of the Certificates referred to in the
                           within-mentioned Agreement.

                           STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
                               COMPANY, as Trustee

                           By:__________________________
                              Name:
                              Title:

                                                                     


<PAGE>   13










                                    EXHIBIT B

                         [DTC Letter of Representations]

                                                                     


<PAGE>   14









                                    EXHIBIT C
                           REGULAR DISTRIBUTION DATES
                                       AND
                               SCHEDULED PAYMENTS

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Regular Distribution Date               Scheduled Payment
              -------------------------               -----------------
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------


<PAGE>   1
                                                                Exhibit 4(m)(4)


                  This Trust Supplement No. 1996-1D, dated as of [__________],
1996 (herein called the "Trust Supplement"), among Northwest Airlines
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), Northwest Airlines, Inc.,
a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), and State Street Bank and Trust Company
(the "Trustee"), to the Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as of [__________,
__], among the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee (the "Basic Agreement").

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

                  WHEREAS, the Basic Agreement, unlimited as to the aggregate
principal amount of Certificates (unless otherwise specified herein, capitalized
terms used herein without definition having the respective meanings specified
heretofore in the Basic Agreement) which may be issued thereunder, has
heretofore been executed and delivered;

                  WHEREAS, each Owner Trustee, acting on behalf of its
respective Owner Participant, will issue, on a non-recourse basis, Equipment
Notes, among other things, to refinance the outstanding debt portion of the
purchase price of the aircraft purchased by such Owner Trustee and leased to the
Company pursuant to the related Lease;

                  WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Basic
Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement (the "Agreement"), the
Trustee shall purchase such Equipment Notes issued by each Owner Trustee having
the same interest rate as, and final maturity dates not later than the final
Regular Distribution Date of, the Certificates issued hereunder and shall hold
such Equipment Notes in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders;

                  WHEREAS, the Trustee hereby declares the creation of this
Trust (the "1996-1D Trust") for the benefit of the Certificateholders, and the
initial Certificateholders as the grantors of the 1996-1D Trust, by their
respective acceptances of the Certificates, join in the creation of this 1996-1D
Trust with the Trustee;

                  WHEREAS, all of the conditions and requirements necessary to
make this Trust Supplement, when duly executed and delivered, a valid, binding
and legal instrument in accordance with its terms and for the purposes herein
expressed, have been done, performed and fulfilled, and the execution and
delivery of this Trust Supplement in the form and with the terms hereof have
been in all respects duly authorized;

                  WHEREAS, this Trust Supplement is subject to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and shall, to the extent
applicable, be governed by such provisions;

                                                                      


<PAGE>   2


                                                                               2

                  NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises herein, it is
agreed among the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee as follows:

                                    ARTICLE I
                                THE CERTIFICATES

                  Section 1.01. The Certificates. There is hereby created a
series of Certificates to be issued under the Agreement to be distinguished and
known as "Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1D" (hereinafter defined as the
"Series 1996-1D Certificates"). Each Series 1996-1D Certificate represents a
Fractional Undivided Interest in the 1996-1D Trust created hereby.

                  The terms and conditions applicable to the Series 1996-1D
Certificates are as follows:

                  (a) The aggregate principal amount of the Series 1996-1D
         Certificates that shall be authenticated under the Agreement (except
         for Series 1996-1D Certificates authenticated and delivered pursuant to
         Sections 3.03, 3.04 and 3.05 of the Basic Agreement) upon their initial
         issuance is $[_________].

                  (b) The Cut-off Date is [__________], 1996.

                  (c) The Regular Distribution Dates with respect to any payment
         of Scheduled Payments means each January 2 and July 2 commencing
         January 2, 1997, until payment of all of the Scheduled Payments to be
         made under the Equipment Notes has been made.

                  (d) The Special Distribution Dates are as follows: (i) when
         used with respect to the redemption or purchase of any Equipment Notes,
         the day (which shall be a Business Day) on which such redemption or
         purchase is scheduled to occur pursuant to the terms of the applicable
         Indenture and (ii) when used with respect to a Special Payment other
         than as described in clause (i) above, 20 days after the last date on
         which the Trustee must give notice pursuant to Section 4.02(c) of the
         Basic Agreement (or the next Business Day after such 20th day if such
         date is not a Business Day).

                  (e) (i) The Series 1996-1D Certificates shall be in the form
         attached hereto as Exhibit A. Each purchaser of Series 1996-1D
         Certificates will be deemed to represent that either (i) the assets of
         an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement
         Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), or of a plan subject
         to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
         "Code"), have not been used to purchase Series 1996-1D Certificates or
         (ii) the purchase and holding of Series

                                                                      


<PAGE>   3


                                                                               3

         1996-1D Certificates is exempt from the prohibited transaction
         restrictions of ERISA and the Code pursuant to Prohibited Transaction
         Class Exemption 95-60 (promulgated under ERISA and the Code).

                        (ii) The Series 1996-1D Certificates shall be Book-Entry
         Certificates and shall be subject to the conditions set forth in the
         Letter of Representations among the Guarantor, the Company and the
         Clearing Agency attached hereto as Exhibit B.

                  (f) The Scheduled Payments of principal shall be as set forth
         in Exhibit C hereto.

                  (g) A portion of the proceeds of the Series 1996-1D
         Certificates shall be used to purchase the Equipment Notes in the
         principal amount specified below and the unused portion of such
         proceeds shall be deposited in the Escrow Account to be applied as set
         forth in the Agreement:

            Equipment Note          Principal Amount            Maturity
            --------------          ----------------            --------

                  (h) Each Owner Trustee, acting on behalf of its respective
         Owner Participant, will issue on a non-recourse basis, the Equipment
         Notes, the proceeds of which shall be used, among other things, to
         refinance the outstanding debt portion, or finance the debt portion, as
         the case may be, of the purchase price to such Owner Trustee of the
         following Aircraft:

                                        U.S.                Manufacturer's
               Aircraft          Registration Number        Serial Number
               --------          -------------------        -------------

                  (i) The related Note Documents are as follows:

                                   ARTICLE II
                                   DEFINITIONS

                  Section 2.01. Definitions. For all purposes of the Basic
Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement, the following capitalized
term has the following meaning:

                                                                      


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                                                                               4

                  Intercreditor Agreement:  Means the Intercreditor
         Agreement.

                  Other Agreements: Means (i) the Basic Agreement as
         supplemented by Trust Supplement No. 1996-1A dated the date hereof
         relating to Northwest Airlines 1996-1A Pass Through Trust, (ii) the
         Basic Agreement as supplemented by Trust Supplement No. 1996-1B dated
         the date hereof relating to Northwest Airlines 1996-1B Pass Through
         Trust and (iii) the Basic Agreement as supplemented by Trust Supplement
         No. 1996-1C dated the date hereof relating to Northwest Airlines
         1996-1C Pass Through Trust.

                  Other Trustees: Means the trustee under the Other Agreements,
         and any successor or other trustee appointed as provided therein.

                  Trust Property: Means (i) the Equipment Notes held as the
         property of the Trust and all monies at any time paid thereon and all
         monies due and to become due thereunder, (ii) funds from time to time
         deposited in the Escrow Account, the Certificate Account and the
         Special Payments Account, and (iii) all rights of the Trust and the
         Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, under the Intercreditor Agreement and
         the Liquidity Facility, including, without limitation, all rights to
         receive certain payments thereunder, and all monies paid to the Trustee
         on behalf of the Trust pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement or the
         Liquidity Facility.

                                   ARTICLE III
                                   THE TRUSTEE

                  Section 3.01. The Trustee. The Trustee is hereby directed to
execute and deliver the Intercreditor Agreement on or prior to the Issuance Date
in the form delivered to the Trustee by the Company. The Trustee shall not be
responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or
sufficiency of this Trust Supplement or the due execution hereof by the
Guarantor or the Company, or for or in respect of the recitals and statements
contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the
Company.

                  Except as herein otherwise provided, no duties,
responsibilities or liabilities are assumed, or shall be construed to be assumed
by the Trustee by reason of this Trust Supplement other than as set forth in the
Basic Agreement, and this Trust Supplement is executed and accepted on behalf of
the Trustee, subject to all the terms and conditions set forth in the Basic
Agreement, upon the effectiveness thereof, as fully to all intents as if the
same were herein set forth at length.

                  The Trustee represents and warrants that the Intercreditor
Agreement will be duly executed and delivered by

                                                                      


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                                                                               5

one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver
such document on its behalf.

                                   ARTICLE IV
                            MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

                  Section 4.01. Basic Agreement Ratified. Except and so far as
herein expressly provided, all of the provisions, terms and conditions of the
Basic Agreement are in all respects ratified and confirmed; and the Basic
Agreement and this Trust Supplement shall be taken, read and construed as one
and the same instrument.

                  Section 4.02.  GOVERNING LAW.  THIS TRUST SUPPLEMENT
AND THE SERIES 1996-1D CERTIFICATES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Section 4.03. Execution in Counterparts. This Trust Supplement
may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument.

                                                                      


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                                                                               6

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee
have caused this Trust Supplement to be duly executed by their respective
officers thereto duly authorized, as of the day and year first written above.

NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION

                                        By:____________________________________ 
                                           Name:
                                           Title:
                                        
                                        NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.
                                        
                                        By:____________________________________
                                           Name:
                                           Title:
                                        
                                                 STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
                                        
                                                 COMPANY, as Trustee
                                        
                                        By:____________________________________
                                           Name:
                                           Title:
                                        
                                                                      


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                                    EXHIBIT A

                               FORM OF CERTIFICATE

                  [Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"),
to Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and
any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other
name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is
made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch the registered owner hereof,
Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]*

                  NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1D PASS THROUGH TRUST

                                  Pass Through
                           Certificate, Series 1996-1D

                            Issuance Date: __________

                   Final Distribution Date: __________, ______

         Evidencing A Fractional Undivided Interest In the 1996- 1D Trust, The
         Property Of Which Includes Certain Equipment Notes Each Secured By An
         Aircraft Leased To Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Certificate
No. _____                  $________ Fractional Undivided Interest
                           representing 0.__% of the Trust per $1,000 of
                           Reference Principal Amount

                  THIS CERTIFIES THAT _______________, for value received, is
the registered owner of a Fractional Undivided Interest in the amount of
$_______ (the "Reference Principal Amount") in the Northwest Airlines 1996-1D
Pass Through Trust (the "Trust") created by State Street Bank and Trust Company,
as trustee (the "Trustee"), pursuant to a Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as
of [__________, _____] (the "Basic Agreement"), among the Trustee, Northwest
Airlines Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), and Northwest
Airlines, Inc., a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), as supplemented by
Trust Supplement No. 1996-1D thereto, dated as of [__________], 1996
(collectively, the "Agreement"), among the Trustee, the Guarantor and the
Company, a summary of certain of the pertinent

- --------
*        Not necessarily applicable in respect of one Certificate in a
         denomination of less than $1,000.

                                                                      


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                                                                               2

provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined
herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in
the Agreement. This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as "Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1D" (herein called the
"Certificates"). This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms,
provisions and conditions of the Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, to
which Agreement the Certificateholder of this Certificate by virtue of the
acceptance hereof assents and by which such Certificateholder is bound. The
property of the Trust includes certain Equipment Notes and all rights of the
Trust to receive payments under the Intercreditor Agreement and the Liquidity
Facility (the "Trust Property"). Each issue of the Equipment Notes is secured by
a security interest in the Aircraft leased to the Company.

                  Each of the Certificates represents a Fractional Undivided
Interest in the Trust and the Trust Property and has no rights, benefits or
interest in respect of any other separate trust established pursuant to the
terms of the Basic Agreement for any other series of certificates issued
pursuant thereto. The undivided percentage interest in the Trust represented by
each of this Certificate (as specified above) and the other Pass Through
Certificates, Series 1996-1D, was determined on the basis of (x) the aggregate
of the Reference Principal Amount of this Certificate (as specified above) and
of the other Pass Through Certificates, Series 1996-1D and (y) the aggregate
original principal amounts of the Equipment Notes constituting the Trust
Property.

                  Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Agreement
and the Intercreditor Agreement, from funds then available to the Trustee, there
will be distributed on each January 2 and July 2 (a "Regular Distribution Date")
commencing January 2, 1997 to the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the 15th day preceding the Regular
Distribution Date, an amount in respect of the Scheduled Payments on the
Equipment Notes due on such Regular Distribution Date, the receipt of which has
been confirmed by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest
in the Trust evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of
such Scheduled Payments. Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the
Agreement, in the event that Special Payments on the Equipment Notes are
received by the Trustee, from funds then available to the Trustee, there shall
be distributed on the applicable Special Distribution Date, to the Person in
whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the 15th
day preceding the Special Distribution Date, an amount in respect of such
Special Payments on the Equipment Notes, the receipt of which has been confirmed
by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest in the Trust
evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of such Special
Payments so received. If a Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution
Date is not a Business Day, distribution shall be

                                                                      


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made on the immediately following Business Day with the same force and effect as
if made on such Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date and no
interest shall accrue during the intervening period. The Trustee shall mail
notice of each Special Payment and the Special Distribution Date therefor to the
Certificateholder of this Certificate.

                  Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Trustee
by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto, without the presentation or
surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation hereon. Except as
otherwise provided in the Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final
distribution on this Certificate will be made after notice mailed by the Trustee
of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of
this Certificate at the office or agency of the Trustee specified in such
notice.

                  The Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
obligation guaranteed by, or an interest in, the Guarantor, the Company or the
Trustee or any affiliate thereof. The Certificates are limited in right or
payment, all as more specifically set forth herein and in the Agreement. All
payments or distributions made to Certificateholders under the Agreement shall
be made only from the Trust Property and only to the extent that the Trustee
shall have sufficient income or proceeds from the Trust Property to make such
payments in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Each Certificateholder
of this Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that it will look solely
to the income and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent available for
distribution to such Certificateholder as provided in the Agreement. This
Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to
the Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights, benefits,
obligations, proceeds, and duties evidenced hereby. A copy of the Agreement may
be examined during normal business hours at the principal office of the Trustee,
and at such other places, if any, designated by the Trustee, by any
Certificateholder upon request.

                  The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Guarantor or the Company and the rights of the
Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the Guarantor, the Company
and the Trustee with the consent of the Certificateholders holding Certificates
evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a majority
in interest in the Trust. Any such consent by the Certificateholder of this
Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Certificateholder and upon
all future Certificateholders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued
upon the transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not
notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also
permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited

                                                                      


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circumstances, without the consent of the Certificateholders of any of the
Certificates.

                  As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain
limitations set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the
Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the
offices or agencies maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Registrar, or
by any successor Registrar, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Registrar duly executed
by the Certificateholder hereof or such Certificateholder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest in the
Trust will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

                  The Certificates (except one Certificate having a denomination
of less than $1,000) are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 Fractional Undivided Interests and
integral multiples thereof. As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the Certificates are exchangeable for new
Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate
Fractional Undivided Interest in the Trust, as requested by the
Certificateholder surrendering the same.

                  No service charge will be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Trustee shall require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

                  The Trustee, the Registrar, and any agent of the Trustee or
the Registrar may treat the person in whose name this Certificate is registered
as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Trustee, the Registrar,
nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

                  The obligations and responsibilities created by the Agreement
and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the distribution to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed to them pursuant to
the Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Trust
Property.

                  THE AGREEMENT AND THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING
EFFECT TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.

                                                                      


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                                                                               5

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to
be duly executed.

                                     NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1D
                                       PASS THROUGH TRUST

                                     By:     STATE STREET BANK AND              
                                             TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee
                                     
                                             By:______________________________
                                                Name:
                                                Title:
                                     
                                                                      


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                                                                               6

               FORM OF THE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                           This is one of the Certificates referred to in the
                           within-mentioned Agreement.

                           STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
                               COMPANY, as Trustee

                           By:________________________
                              Name:
                              Title:

                                                                      


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                                    EXHIBIT B

                         [DTC Letter of Representations]

                                                                      


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                                    EXHIBIT C

                           REGULAR DISTRIBUTION DATES
                                       AND
                               SCHEDULED PAYMENTS

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Regular Distribution Date                                Scheduled Payment
     -------------------------                                -----------------
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------




                                                                      



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                                                                 Exhibit 4(n)(i)



                                                                    DRAFT 6/3/96





                     IRREVOCABLE REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
                              CLASS A CERTIFICATES



                           DATED AS OF JUNE 12, 1996


                                    BETWEEN


               STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT,
                             NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

                            AS SUBORDINATION AGENT,
                          AS AGENT AND TRUSTEE FOR THE
                 NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1A PASS THROUGH TRUST,

                                  AS BORROWER


                                      AND


                     WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK GIROZENTRALE,
                                NEW YORK BRANCH,

                             AS LIQUIDITY PROVIDER





                                  RELATING TO
                 NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1996-1A PASS THROUGH TRUST
               ___% NORTHWEST AIRLINES PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES,
                                 SERIES 1996-1
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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS

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                                                           ARTICLE I

                                                          DEFINITIONS

         Section 1.1  Certain Defined Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1

                                                           ARTICLE II

                                               AMOUNT AND TERMS OF THE COMMITMENT

         Section 2.1  The Advances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
         Section 2.2  Making the Advances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
         Section 2.3  Fees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
         Section 2.4  Reduction or Termination of the
                        Commitment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
         Section 2.5  Repayments of Interest Advances or the
                        Final Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
         Section 2.6  Repayments of Downgrade Advances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
         Section 2.7  Payments to the Liquidity Provider Under
                        the Intercreditor Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
         Section 2.8  Book Entries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
         Section 2.9  Payments from Available Funds Only  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

                                                          ARTICLE III

                                                  OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWER

         Section 3.1  Increased Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
         Section 3.2  Capital Adequacy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
         Section 3.3  Payments Free of Deductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
         Section 3.4  Payments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
         Section 3.5  Computations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
         Section 3.6  Payment on Non-Business Days  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
         Section 3.7  Interest  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
         Section 3.8  Replacement of Borrower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
         Section 3.9  Funding Loss Indemnification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
         Section 3.10  Illegality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15

                                                           ARTICLE IV

                                                      CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

         Section 4.1  Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of
                        Section 2.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
         Section 4.2  Conditions Precedent to Borrowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18

                                                           ARTICLE V

                                                           COVENANTS
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         Section 5.1  Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
         Section 5.2  Negative Covenants of the Borrower  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19

                                                           ARTICLE VI

                                                         FINAL ADVANCE

         Section 6.1  Final Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19

                                                          ARTICLE VII

                                                         MISCELLANEOUS

         Section 7.1  Amendments, Etc.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
         Section 7.2  Notices, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
         Section 7.3  No Waiver; Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
         Section 7.4  Further Assurances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
         Section 7.5  Indemnification; Survival of Certain
                          Provisions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
         Section 7.6  Liability of the Liquidity Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
         Section 7.7  Costs, Expenses and Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
         Section 7.8  Binding Effect; Participations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
         Section 7.9  Severability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
         Section 7.10  GOVERNING LAW  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
         Section 7.11  Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of
                        Jury Trial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
         Section 7.12  Execution in Counterparts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
         Section 7.13  Entirety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
         Section 7.14  Headings; Section References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
         Section 7.15  LIQUIDITY PROVIDER'S OBLIGATION TO MAKE
                        ADVANCES  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
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ANNEX I   --  Interest Advance Notice of Borrowing
ANNEX II  --  Downgrade Advance Notice of Borrowing
ANNEX III --  Notice of Replacement Borrower
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                     IRREVOCABLE REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
                              CLASS A CERTIFICATES

                 IRREVOCABLE REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT, CLASS A CERTIFICATES
dated as of June 12, 1996 between STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF
CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a Connecticut trust company, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor
Agreement (each as defined below), as agent and trustee for the Class A Trust
(as defined below) (the "Borrower"), and WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK GIROZENTRALE,
NEW YORK BRANCH (the "Liquidity Provider").


                             W I T N E S S E T H :

                 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Class A Trust Agreement (such term
and all other capitalized terms used in these recitals having the meanings set
forth or referred to in Section 1.1), the Class A Trust is issuing the Class A
Certificates; and

                 WHEREAS, the Borrower, in order to support the timely payment
of a portion of the interest on the Class A Certificates in accordance with
their terms, has requested the Liquidity Provider to enter into this Agreement,
providing in part for the Borrower to request in specified circumstances that
Advances be made hereunder.

                 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the parties
hereto agree as follows:

                                   ARTICLE I

                                  DEFINITIONS

                 Section 1.1  Certain Defined Terms.  (a)  Definitions.  As
used in this Agreement and unless otherwise expressly indicated, or unless the
context clearly requires otherwise, the following capitalized terms shall have
the following respective meanings for all purposes of this Agreement:

                 "Additional Cost" has the meaning assigned to such term in
         Section 3.1.

                 "Advance" means an Interest Advance, a Final Advance, a
         Downgrade Advance, an Applied Downgrade Advance or an Unpaid Advance,
         as the case may be.

                 "Applicable Liquidity Rate" means the rates of interest
         specified in Section 3.7 with respect to any Advance or other amount
         referred to in this Agreement.

                 "Applicable Margin" means (x) with respect to any Unpaid
         Advance (including an Applied Downgrade Advance) that






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         is a LIBOR Advance, 2% and (y) with respect to any Unpaid Advance
         (including an Applied Downgrade Advance) that is a Base Rate Advance,
         1%.

                 "Applied Downgrade Advance" has the meaning assigned to such
         term in Section 2.6(a).

                 "Available Commitment" means, at any time of determination, an
         amount equal to (i) the Commitment at such time less (ii) subject to
         the proviso contained in the third sentence of Section 2.2(a), the
         aggregate amount of each Advance outstanding at such time; provided
         that following a Downgrade Advance or a Final Advance, the Available
         Commitment shall be zero.

                 "Base Rate" means a fluctuating interest rate per annum in
         effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall at all times be
         equal to the higher of (i) the base commercial lending rate announced
         from time to time by the Liquidity Provider, or (ii) the rate quoted
         by the Liquidity Provider, at approximately 11:00 A.M., New York City
         time, to dealers in the New York Federal funds market for overnight
         offering of dollars by the Liquidity Provider, for deposit plus .75 of
         1 percent (.75%).

                 "Base Rate Advance" means an Advance that bears interest at a
         rate based upon the Base Rate.

                 "Borrower" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
         recital of parties to this Agreement.

                 "Borrowing" means the making of Advances requested by delivery
         of a Notice of Borrowing or pursuant to Section 6.1.

                 "Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday
         or a day on which commercial banks are required or authorized to close
         in Minneapolis, Minnesota, New York, New York or, so long as any Class
         A Certificate is outstanding, the city and state in which the Class A
         Trustee maintains its Corporate Trust Office or receives or disburses
         funds, and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any Advance or
         other amount bearing interest based on the LIBOR Rate, on which
         dealings are carried on in the London interbank market.

                 "Commitment" means, initially, $__________, as the same may be
         reduced from time to time in accordance with Section 2.4(a).

                 "Downgrade Advance" means an Advance made pursuant to Section
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                 "Effective Date" has the meaning specified in Section 4.1.
         The delivery of the certificate of the Liquidity Provider contemplated
         by Section 4.1(e) shall be conclusive evidence that the Effective Date
         has occurred.

                 "Expenses" means liabilities, obligations, damages,
         settlements, penalties, claims, actions, suits, costs, expenses and
         disbursements (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and
         disbursements of legal counsel and costs of investigation), provided
         that Expenses shall not include any Taxes.

                 "Expiry Date" means July 17, 2016.

                 "Final Advance" means an Advance made pursuant to Section
         2.2(c) and 6.1.

                 "Intercreditor Agreement" means the Intercreditor Agreement
         dated the date hereof, among the Trustees, the Liquidity Provider, the
         liquidity provider under each Liquidity Facility (other than this
         Agreement) and the Subordination Agent, as the same may be amended,
         supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance
         with its terms.

                 "Interest Advance" means an Advance made pursuant to Section
         2.2(a).

                 "Interest Period" means, with respect to any LIBOR Advance,
         each of the following periods:

                             (i)  the period beginning on the date such LIBOR
                 Advance is made and ending on the next Regular Distribution
                 Date; and

                            (ii)  each subsequent period commencing on the last
                 day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on
                 the next Regular Distribution Date.

                 "Lending Office" means the lending office of the Liquidity
         Provider, presently located at __________, __________, or such other
         lending office as the Liquidity Provider from time to time shall
         notify the Borrower as its lending office hereunder.

                 "LIBOR Advance" means an Advance bearing interest at a rate
         based upon the LIBOR Rate.

                 "LIBOR Rate" means, with respect to any Interest Period, the
         rate per annum at which deposits in dollars are offered for the
         relevant Interest Period by the Liquidity Provider to prime banks in
         the  London interbank market at approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time)
         three Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period in
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         principal amount of the Advance to which such Interest Period is to
         apply and for a period of time comparable to such Interest Period, as
         quoted by the Liquidity Provider to the Subordination Agent.

                 "Liquidity Event of Default" means the occurrence of the
         following:  all of the Equipment Notes shall have been either declared
         to be immediately due and payable or shall not have been paid at their
         final maturity.  A Liquidity Event of Default shall not occur upon an
         automatic acceleration of the Equipment Notes as a result of a
         Northwest Bankruptcy Event.

                 "Liquidity Indemnitee" means (i) the Liquidity Provider, (ii)
         each affiliate of the Liquidity Provider, (iii) the respective
         directors, officers, employees, agents and servants of the Liquidity
         Provider and its affiliates, and (iv) the successors and permitted
         assigns of the persons described in clauses (i) through (iii),
         inclusive.

                 "Liquidity Provider" has the meaning assigned to such term in
         the recital of parties to this Agreement.

                 "Non-Excluded Tax" has the meaning specified in Section 3.3.

                 "Notice of Borrowing" has the meaning specified in Section
         2.2(d).

                 "Notice of Replacement Borrower" has the meaning specified in
         Section 3.8.

                 "Participant" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
         7.8(b).

                 "Performing Note Deficiency" means any time that less than 65%
         of the then aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Equipment
         Notes are Performing Equipment Notes.

                 "Prospectus" means the basic prospectus included in the
         registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-2516) filed by
         Northwest and NWA Corp. relating to certain pass through certificates,
         as supplemented by the prospectus supplement dated June __, 1996
         reflecting the terms of the Certificates, as such Prospectus may be
         amended or supplemented.

                 "Related Indemnitee" means, with respect to any Liquidity
         Indemnitee, its director, officer, employee, agent, affiliate or
         employer.

                 "Replenishment Amount" has the meaning assigned to such term
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                 "Required Amount" means, for any day, the sum of the aggregate
         amount of interest, calculated at the rate per annum equal to the
         Stated Interest Rate for the Class A Certificates, that would be
         payable on the Class A Certificates on each of the three successive
         semiannual Regular Distribution Dates immediately following such day
         or, if such day is a Regular Distribution Date, on such day and the
         succeeding two semiannual Regular Distribution Dates, in each case
         calculated on the basis of the Pool Balance of the Class A
         Certificates on such day and without regard to expected future
         payments of principal on the Class A Certificates.

                 "Termination Date" means the earliest to occur of the
         following: (i) the Expiry Date; (ii) the date on which the Borrower
         delivers to the Liquidity Provider a certificate, signed by a
         Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying that all of the Class
         A Certificates have been paid in full (or provision has been made for
         such payment in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement and the
         Trust Agreements) or are otherwise no longer entitled to the benefits
         of this Agreement; (iii) the date on which the Borrower delivers to
         the Liquidity Provider a certificate, signed by a Responsible Officer
         of the Borrower, certifying that a Replacement Liquidity Facility has
         been substituted for this Agreement in full pursuant to Section 3.6(e)
         of the Intercreditor Agreement; the date on which the Liquidity
         Provider makes the Final Advance; and (v) the date on which no Advance
         is or may (including by reason of reinstatement as herein provided)
         become available for a Borrowing hereunder.

                 "Unpaid Advance" has the meaning assigned to such term in
         Section 2.5.

                 (b)  Terms Defined in the Intercreditor Agreement.  For all
purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective
meanings assigned to such terms in the Intercreditor Agreement:

         "Certificates", "Class A Certificates", "Class A Certificateholders",
         "Class A Cash Collateral Account", "Class A Trust", "Class A Trust
         Agreement", "Class A Trustee", "Class B Certificates", "Class C
         Certificates", "Class D Certificates", "Controlling Party", "Corporate
         Trust Office", "Distribution Date", "Equipment Notes", "Fitch",
         "Indenture", "Investment Earnings", "Liquidity Facility", "Moody's",
         "NWA Corp.", "Northwest", "Northwest Bankruptcy Event", "Operative
         Agreements", "Participation Agreements", "Performing Equipment Note",
         "Person", "Pool Balance", "Rating Agency", "Refunding Agreement",
         "Regular Distribution Date", "Replacement Liquidity Facility",
         "Responsible Officer", "Scheduled Payment", "Special Payment",
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         "Subordination Agent", "Taxes", "Threshold Rating", "Triggering
         Event", "Trust Agreements", "Trustee", "Underwriters", "Underwriting
         Agreement" and "Written Notice".

                                   ARTICLE II

                       AMOUNT AND TERMS OF THE COMMITMENT

                 Section 2.1  The Advances.  The Liquidity Provider hereby
irrevocably agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make
Advances to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the
period from the Effective Date until 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the
Expiry Date (unless the obligations of the Liquidity Provider shall be earlier
terminated in accordance with the terms of Section 2.4(b)) in an aggregate
amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the Commitment.

                 Section 2.2  Making the Advances.  (a)  Interest Advances
shall be made in one or more Borrowings by delivery to the Liquidity Provider
of one or more written and completed Notices of Borrowing in substantially the
form of Annex I attached hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the
Borrower, in an amount not exceeding the Available Commitment at such time and
shall be used solely for the payment when due of interest on the Class A
Certificates at the Stated Interest Rate therefor in accordance with Section
3.6(a) of the Intercreditor Agreement.  Each Interest Advance made hereunder
shall automatically reduce the Available Commitment and the amount available to
be borrowed hereunder by subsequent Advances by the amount of such Interest
Advance (subject to reinstatement as provided in the next sentence).  Upon
repayment to the Liquidity Provider in full of the amount of any Interest
Advance made pursuant to this Section 2.2(a), together with accrued interest
thereon (as provided herein), the Available Commitment shall be reinstated by
the amount of such repaid Interest Advance; provided, however, that the
Available Commitment shall not be so reinstated at any time if (i) (x) a
Triggering Event shall have occurred and be continuing and (y) there is a
Performing Note Deficiency or (ii) a Liquidity Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing.

                 (b)  A Downgrade Advance shall be made in a single Borrowing
upon a downgrading of the Liquidity Provider's short-term unsecured debt rating
issued by either Rating Agency below the Threshold Rating (as provided for in
Section 3.6(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement) unless a Replacement Liquidity
Facility shall have been delivered to the Borrower in accordance with said
Section 3.6(c), by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and
completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex II attached
hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount not
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Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral
Account in accordance with said Section 3.6(c).

                 (c)  A Final Advance shall be made by the Liquidity Provider
without the necessity for a Notice of Borrowing at the option of the Liquidity
Provider on the occurrence of an event described in Section 6.1(a) or 6.1(b) in
an amount equal to the Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to
fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account.

                 (d)  Each Borrowing shall be made on notice in writing (a
"Notice of Borrowing") in substantially the form required by Section 2.2(a) or
2.2(b), as the case may be, given not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City
time) on the Business Day prior to the day of the proposed Borrowing by the
Borrower to the Liquidity Provider.  Upon satisfaction of the conditions
precedent set forth in Section 4.2 with respect to a requested Borrowing, the
Liquidity Provider shall, before 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the date of
such Borrowing or on such later Business Day specified by the Borrower in such
Notice of Borrowing, make available to the Borrower, in U.S. dollars and in
immediately available funds, the amount of such Borrowing to be paid to the
Borrower in accordance with its payment instructions.  If a Notice of Borrowing
is delivered by the Borrower in respect of any Borrowing after 12:00 Noon (New
York City time) on a Business Day, the Liquidity Provider shall, before 12:00
Noon (New York City time) on the second Business Day next following the day of
receipt of such Notice of Borrowing or on such later Business Day specified by
the Borrower in such Notice of Borrowing, make available to the Borrower, in
U.S. dollars and in immediately available funds, the amount of such Borrowing
to be paid to the Borrower in accordance with its payment instructions.
Payments of proceeds of a Borrowing shall be made by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to the Borrower in accordance with such wire
transfer instructions as the Borrower shall furnish from time to time to the
Liquidity Provider for such purpose.  Each Notice of Borrowing shall be
irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.

                 (e)  Upon the making of any Advance requested pursuant to a
Notice of Borrowing, in accordance with the Borrower's payment instructions,
the Liquidity Provider shall be fully discharged of its obligation hereunder
with respect to such Notice of Borrowing, and the Liquidity Provider shall not
thereafter be obligated to make any further Advances hereunder in respect of
such Notice of Borrowing to the Borrower or to any other person (including the
holder of any Class A Certificate or the Class A Trustee) who makes to the
Class A Trustee or the Borrower a demand for payment with respect to any Class
A Certificate.  By paying to the Borrower proceeds of Advances requested by the
Borrower in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Liquidity
Provider makes no representation as to, and assumes no responsibility for, the
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sufficiency for any purpose of the amount of the Advances so made and
requested.

                 Section 2.3  Fees.  (a)  The Borrower agrees to pay to the
Liquidity Provider a fee equal to 0.375% of the Commitment (as in effect on the
Effective Date).  Such fee shall be payable on the Effective Date.

                 (b)  The Borrower shall pay, or shall cause to be paid, to the
Liquidity Provider, a fee equal to 0.475% per annum on the average Available
Commitment from the Effective Date to the earlier of the date on which a
Downgrade Advance is made and the date on which the Commitment terminates.
Such fee shall be payable in arrears on each Regular Distribution Date.  In
addition, the Borrower shall pay, or shall cause to be paid, to the Liquidity
Provider, a fee equal to 0.475% per annum on the unpaid principal amount of
each Downgrade Advance (other than an Applied Downgrade Advance) from and
including the date of such Downgrade Advance to but excluding the date such
principal amount shall be paid in full.  Such fee shall be payable in arrears
on each Regular Distribution Date and, in the event of the payment of principal
of such Downgrade Advance on a day other than a Regular Distribution Date, on
the date of such payment (to the extent of the foregoing fee accrued on the
amount of principal repaid).  Nothing contained in this Section 2.3(b) shall
require the Borrower to pay any amount under this Section 2.3(b) other than to
the extent the Borrower shall have funds available therefor.

                 Section 2.4  Reduction or Termination of the Commitment.  (a)
Automatic Reductions.  Promptly following each date on which the Required
Amount is reduced as a result of a reduction in the Pool Balance of the Class A
Certificates or otherwise, the Commitment shall automatically be reduced to an
amount equal to such reduced Required Amount (as calculated by the Borrower).
The Borrower shall give notice of any such automatic reduction of the
Commitment to the Liquidity Provider within two Business Days thereof.  The
failure by the Borrower to furnish any such notice shall not affect such
automatic reduction of the Commitment.

                 (b)  Termination.  Upon the making of any Downgrade Advance or
Final Advance hereunder or the occurrence of the Termination Date, the
obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make further Advances hereunder shall
automatically and irrevocably terminate, and the Borrower shall not be entitled
to request any further Borrowing hereunder.

                 Section 2.5  Repayments of Interest Advances or the Final
Advance.  Subject to Sections 2.7 and 2.9, the Borrower hereby agrees to pay,
or to cause to be paid, to the Liquidity Provider on each date on which the
Liquidity Provider shall make an Interest Advance or the Final Advance, an
amount equal to (a) the amount of such Interest Advance or the Final Advance
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such Interest Advance or the Final Advance, until repaid, is referred to herein
as an "Unpaid Advance"), plus (b) interest on the amount of each such Unpaid
Advance as provided in Section 3.7.  Subject to Sections 2.6, 2.7 and 2.9,
unless otherwise waived by the Liquidity Provider, the Borrower shall be
obligated, without notice of an Advance or demand for repayment from the
Liquidity Provider (which notice and demand are hereby waived by the Borrower),
to repay the Liquidity Provider for all Advances on the same day as made.  The
Borrower and the Liquidity Provider agree that the repayment in full of each
Interest Advance and the Final Advance on the date such Interest Advance or the
Final Advance is made is intended to be a contemporaneous exchange for new
value given to the Borrower by the Liquidity Provider.

                 Section 2.6  Repayments of Downgrade Advances.  (a)  Amounts
advanced hereunder in respect of a Downgrade Advance shall be deposited in the
Class A Cash Collateral Account, and invested and withdrawn from the Class A
Cash Collateral Account, as set forth in Sections 3.6(c), (d) and (f) of the
Intercreditor Agreement.  The Borrower agrees to pay to the Liquidity Provider,
on each Regular Distribution Date, commencing on the first Regular Distribution
Date after the making of a Downgrade Advance, interest on the principal amount
of any such Downgrade Advance as provided in Section 3.7; provided, however,
that amounts in respect of a Downgrade Advance withdrawn from the Class A Cash
Collateral Account for the purpose of paying interest on the Class A
Certificates in accordance with Section 3.6(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement
(the amount of any such withdrawal being an "Applied Downgrade Advance") shall
be treated as an Interest Advance under this Agreement for purposes of
determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon.
Immediately upon the withdrawal of any amounts from the Class A Cash Collateral
Account on account of a reduction in the Required Amount, the Borrower shall
repay the Downgrade Advances in a principal amount equal to the amount of such
reduction, plus interest on the principal amount prepaid as provided in Section
3.7.

                 (b)  At any time when an Applied Downgrade Advance (or any
portion thereof) is outstanding, upon the deposit in the Class A Cash
Collateral Account of any amount pursuant to clause "third" of Section 3.2 of
the Intercreditor Agreement (any such amount being a "Replenishment Amount")
for the purpose of replenishing the balance thereof up to the Required Amount
at such time, (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Applied
Downgrade Advances shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such
Replenishment Amount and (ii) the principal amount of the outstanding Downgrade
Advance shall be automatically increased by the amount of such Replenishment
Amount.

                 (c)  Upon the provision of a Replacement Liquidity Facility in
replacement of this Agreement in accordance with Section 3.6(e) of the
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effectiveness of any Replacement Liquidity Facility, the Borrower agrees that
all amounts owing to the Liquidity Provider shall be repaid in full, whether
from advances made by the Replacement Liquidity Provider, from amounts
remaining on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account after giving effect
to any application of funds therefrom to any payment of interest on the Class A
Certificates on the date of such replacement, or otherwise.

                 Section 2.7  Payments to the Liquidity Provider Under the
Intercreditor Agreement.  In order to provide for payment or repayment to the
Liquidity Provider of any amounts hereunder, the Intercreditor Agreement
provides that amounts available and referred to in Articles II and III of the
Intercreditor Agreement, to the extent payable to the Liquidity Provider
pursuant to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement (including, without
limitation, Section 3.6(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement), shall be paid to
the Liquidity Provider in accordance with the terms thereof.  Amounts so paid
to the Liquidity Provider shall be applied by the Liquidity Provider in the
order of priority required by the applicable provisions of Articles II and III
of the Intercreditor Agreement.

                 Section 2.8  Book Entries.  The Liquidity Provider shall
maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts
evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower resulting from Advances made from
time to time and the amounts of principal and interest payable hereunder and
paid from time to time in respect thereof; provided, however, that the failure
by the Liquidity Provider to maintain such account or accounts shall not affect
the obligations of the Borrower in respect of Advances.

                 Section 2.9  Payments from Available Funds Only.  All payments
to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be made only from amounts
received by it that constitute Scheduled Payments or Special Payments and only
to the extent that the Borrower shall have sufficient income or proceeds
therefrom to enable the Borrower to make payments in accordance with the terms
hereof after giving effect to the priority of payments provisions set forth in
the Intercreditor Agreement.  The Liquidity Provider agrees that it will look
solely to such amounts to the extent available for distribution to it as
provided in the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement and that the
Borrower, in its individual capacity, is not personally liable to it for any
amounts payable or liability under this Agreement except as expressly provided
in this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Participation Agreement.
Amounts on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account shall be available to
make payments only to the extent and for the purposes expressly contemplated in
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                                  ARTICLE III

                          OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWER

                 Section 3.1  Increased Costs.  If the Liquidity Provider shall
determine that (a) any change in any law or regulation or in the interpretation
thereof by any court or administrative or governmental authority charged with
the administration thereof or in the compliance by the Liquidity Provider (or
its head office) with any applicable direction, request or requirement (whether
or not having the force of law) of any central bank or competent governmental
or other authority shall either (i) impose, modify or deem applicable any
reserve, special deposit or similar requirement against assets held by, or
deposits in or for the account of, or loans made by, the Liquidity Provider, or
(ii) impose on the Liquidity Provider any other condition regarding this
Agreement or any Advance, or (iii) change the basis of taxation of any amounts
payable to the Liquidity Provider (other than Taxes imposed on the overall net
or gross income of the Liquidity Provider) and (b) the result of any event
referred to in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) shall be to increase
the cost to the Liquidity Provider of issuing or maintaining its commitment or
funding or maintaining Advances (which increase in cost shall be determined by
the Liquidity Provider's reasonable allocations of the aggregate of such cost
increases resulting from such event), then, upon demand by the Liquidity
Provider, the Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, to the Liquidity
Provider, from time to time as specified by the Liquidity Provider, additional
amounts which shall be sufficient to compensate the Liquidity Provider for such
increased cost.  A certificate as to such increased cost incurred by the
Liquidity Provider as a result of any event mentioned in clauses (i), (ii) or
(iii) above, prepared in reasonable detail and submitted by the Liquidity
Provider to the Borrower, shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, as to the
amount thereof.

                 The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts
(consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to
change the jurisdiction of its Lending Office if making such change would avoid
the need for, or reduce the amount of, any amount payable under this Section
3.1 that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the
Liquidity Provider, be otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect to the
Liquidity Provider.

                 Section 3.2  Capital Adequacy.  If the Liquidity Provider
shall determine that the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation
regarding capital adequacy, or any change therein, or any change in the
interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority, central
bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration
thereof, or compliance by the Liquidity Provider (or its head office) with any
request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the
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or comparable agency, has the effect of reducing the rate of return on the
Liquidity Provider's capital as a consequence of issuing or maintaining its
commitment hereunder or its funding or maintaining Advances to a level below
that which the Liquidity Provider could have achieved but for such adoption,
change or compliance (taking into consideration the Liquidity Provider's
policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by the Liquidity
Provider to be material, then, upon demand by the Liquidity Provider, the
Borrower shall pay to the Liquidity Provider, from time to time as specified by
the Liquidity Provider, additional amounts which shall be sufficient to
compensate the Liquidity Provider for such reduction in respect of issuing or
maintaining its commitment hereunder or its funding or maintaining Advances.  A
certificate as to such additional amount describing the event which has the
effect of reducing the rate of return on the Liquidity Provider's capital,
prepared in reasonable detail and submitted by the Liquidity Provider to the
Borrower, shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, as to the amount thereof.

                 The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts
(consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to
change the jurisdiction of its Lending Office if making such change would avoid
the need for, or reduce the amount of, any amount payable under this Section
3.2 that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the
Liquidity Provider, be otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect to the
Liquidity Provider.

                 Section 3.3  Payments Free of Deductions.  All payments made
by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and
without reduction for or on account of, any present or future stamp or other
taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions, withholdings,
restrictions or conditions of any nature whatsoever now or hereafter imposed,
levied, collected, withheld or assessed, excluding any Taxes imposed on the
overall net income of the Liquidity Provider and excluding United States
federal income tax withholding to the extent such withholding is, or would be,
actually imposed upon the Liquidity Provider as of the date of this Agreement
(such non-excluded taxes being referred to herein, collectively, as
"Non-Excluded Taxes" and, individually, as a "Non-Excluded Tax").  If any
Non-Excluded Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the
Liquidity Provider under this Agreement, the amounts so payable to the
Liquidity Provider shall be increased to the extent necessary to yield to the
Liquidity Provider (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes and taxes imposed
on the receipt of such increase) interest or any other such amounts payable
under this Agreement at the rates or in the amounts specified in this
Agreement.  Whenever any Non-Excluded Tax is payable by the Borrower, promptly
thereafter the Borrower shall send the Liquidity Provider certified copies of
tax receipts evidencing such payment by the Borrower.  The Liquidity Provider
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from time to time thereafter after the occurrence of any event requiring a
change in the most recent form previously delivered by it (and prior to the
immediately following due date of any payment by the Borrower hereunder), to
the extent that the Liquidity Provider is legally entitled to do so, two
original Internal Revenue Service Forms 1001 or 4224, as appropriate, or any
successor or other form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, certifying
that the Liquidity Provider is completely exempt from United States withholding
tax on payments pursuant to this Agreement.

                 The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts
(consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to
change the jurisdiction of its Lending Office if making such change would avoid
the need for, or reduce the amount of, any amount payable under this Section
3.3 that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the
Liquidity Provider, be otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect to the
Liquidity Provider.

                 Section 3.4  Payments.  The Borrower shall make or cause to be
made each payment to the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement so as to cause
the same to be received by the Liquidity Provider not later than 1:00 P.M. (New
York City time) on the day when due.  The Borrower shall make all such payments
in lawful money of the United States of America, to the Liquidity Provider in
immediately available funds, by wire transfer to Chase Manhattan Bank, ABA No.
021000021, for the account of Westdeutsche Landesbank Account No. 920-1-060663
(referencing Northwest Liquidity Facility).

                 Section 3.5  Computations.  All computations of interest based
on the Base Rate shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as
the case may be, and all computations of interest based on the LIBOR Rate shall
be made on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each case for the actual number
of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the
period for which such interest is payable.

                 Section 3.6  Payment on Non-Business Days.  Whenever any
payment to be made hereunder (other than a payment on LIBOR Advances) becomes
due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made
on the next succeeding Business Day and interest thereon shall be payable at
the then applicable rate during such extension.  If any payments on a LIBOR
Advance becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the
maturity thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless
the result of such extension would be to extend such payment into another
calendar month, in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day.

                 Section 3.7  Interest.  (a)  The Borrower shall pay, or shall
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amount of each Advance from and including the date of such Advance (or, in the
case of an Applied Downgrade Advance, from and including the date on which the
amount thereof was withdrawn from the Class A Cash Collateral Account to pay
interest on the Class A Certificates) to but excluding the date such principal
amount shall be paid in full and (ii) any other amount due hereunder (whether
fees, commissions, expenses or other amounts or, to the extent permitted by
law, installments of interest on Advances or any such other amount) which is
not paid when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise)
from and including the due date thereof to but excluding the date such amount
is paid in full, in each such case, at a fluctuating interest rate per annum
for each day equal to the Applicable Liquidity Rate for such Advance or such
other amount as in effect for such day, but in no event at a rate per annum
greater than the maximum rate permitted by applicable law; provided, however,
that, if at any time the otherwise applicable interest rate as set forth in
this Section 3.7 shall exceed the maximum rate permitted by applicable law,
then any subsequent reduction in such interest rate will not reduce the rate of
interest payable pursuant to this Section 3.7 below the maximum rate permitted
by applicable law until the total amount of interest accrued equals the amount
of interest that would have accrued if such otherwise applicable interest rate
as set forth in this Section 3.7 had at all times been in effect.  Nothing
contained in this Section 3.7 shall require the Borrower to pay any amount
under this Section 3.7 other than to the extent the Borrower shall have funds
available therefor.

                 (b)  Each Advance (other than a Downgrade Advance that is not
an Applied Downgrade Advance) will be either a Base Rate Advance or a LIBOR
Advance as provided in this Section.  Each such Advance will be a Base Rate
Advance for the period from the date of its borrowing to (but excluding) the
third Business Day following the Liquidity Provider's receipt of the Notice of
Borrowing for such Advance.  Thereafter, such Advance shall be a LIBOR Advance;
provided that the Final Advance shall, until repaid in full, be a Base Rate
Advance and the Borrower may not convert the Final Advance into a LIBOR
Advance.

                 (c)  Each LIBOR Advance shall bear interest during each
Interest Period at the LIBOR Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable
Margin for such LIBOR Advance, payable in arrears on the last day of such
Interest Period and, in the event of the payment of principal of such LIBOR
Advance on a day other than such last day, on the date of such payment (to the
extent of interest accrued on the amount of principal repaid).

                 (d)  Each Base Rate Advance shall bear interest at the Base
Rate plus the Applicable Margin for such Base Rate Advance, payable in arrears
on each Regular Distribution Date and, in the event of the payment of principal
of such Base Rate Advance on a day other than a Regular Distribution Date, on
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payment (to the extent of interest accrued on the amount of principal repaid).

                 (e)  Each Downgrade Advance (other than an Applied Downgrade
Advance) shall bear interest in an amount equal to the Investment Earnings on
amounts on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account, payable in arrears
on each Regular Distribution Date and, in the event of the payment of principal
of such Downgrade Advance on a day other than a Regular Distribution Date, on
the date of such payment (to the extent of interest accrued on the amount of
principal repaid).

                 (f)  Each amount not paid when due hereunder (whether fees,
commissions, expenses or other amounts or, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, installments of interest on Advances) shall bear interest at
the Base Rate.

                 (g)  Each change in the Base Rate shall become effective
immediately.

                 Section 3.8  Replacement of Borrower.  From time to time, upon
the effective date and time specified in a written and completed Notice of
Replacement Borrower in substantially the form of Annex III attached hereto (a
"Notice of Replacement Borrower") delivered to the Liquidity Provider by the
then Borrower, the successor Borrower designated therein shall be substituted
for as the Borrower for all purposes hereunder.

                 Section 3.9  Funding Loss Indemnification.  The Borrower shall
pay to the Liquidity Provider, upon the request of the Liquidity Provider, such
amount or amounts as shall be sufficient (in the reasonable opinion of the
Liquidity Provider) to compensate it for any loss, cost, or expense incurred as
a result of:

                 (a)  Any payment of a LIBOR Advance on a date other than the
         last day of the Interest Period for such Advance; or

                 (b)  Any failure by the Borrower to borrow or convert, as the
         case may be, a LIBOR Advance on the date for borrowing or conversion,
         as the case may be, specified in the relevant notice under Section 2.2
         or 3.7.

                 Section 3.10  Illegality.  Notwithstanding any other provision
in this Agreement, if any change in any applicable law, rule or regulation, or
any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental
authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or compliance by the Liquidity Provider (or its Lending
Office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law)
of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency shall make it unlawful
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its LIBOR Advances, then upon notice to the Borrower by the Liquidity Provider,
the outstanding principal amount of the LIBOR Advances shall be converted to
Base Rate Advances (a) immediately upon demand of the Liquidity Provider, if
such change or compliance with such request, in the judgment of the Liquidity
Provider, requires immediate repayment; or (b) at the expiration of the last
Interest Period to expire before the effective date of any such change or
request.

                                   ARTICLE IV

                              CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

                 Section 4.1  Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of Section
2.1.  Section 2.1 of this Agreement shall become effective on and as of the
first date (the "Effective Date") on which the following conditions precedent
have been satisfied or waived:

                 (a)  The Liquidity Provider shall have received on or before
         June __, 1996 each of the following, each dated such date (except for
         those documents delivered pursuant to paragraphs (v) and (vii) of this
         Section 4.1(a)), and each in form and substance satisfactory to the
         Liquidity Provider:

                             (i)  This Agreement duly executed on behalf of the
                 Borrower;

                            (ii)  The Intercreditor Agreement duly executed on
                 behalf of each of the parties thereto;

                           (iii)  Counterparts (or certified copies thereof) of
                 each of the Operative Agreements (other than this Agreement
                 and the Intercreditor Agreement) which, when taken together,
                 bear the signatures of all of the respective parties thereto
                 and which are in full force and effect in accordance with
                 their respective terms;

                            (iv)  A copy of the Prospectus and specimen copies
                 of the Class A Certificates;

                             (v)  Evidence that, on the Effective Date, the
                 Class A Certificates, the Class B Certificates, the Class C
                 Certificates and the Class D Certificates will receive
                 long-term credit ratings from Moody's of not lower than A2,
                 Baa1, Baa3 and Ba1, respectively, from Standard & Poor's of
                 not lower than AA, A, BBB- and BB+, respectively, and from
                 Fitch  of not lower than AA-, A-, BBB- and BB, respectively;

                            (vi)  An executed or certified copy of each
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                 Intercreditor Agreement, the Refunding Agreements and the
                 other Operative Agreements (together with, in the case of each
                 such opinion, other than the opinion of counsel for the
                 Underwriters, a letter from the counsel rendering such opinion
                 to the effect that the Liquidity Provider is entitled to rely
                 on such opinion as if it were addressed to the Liquidity
                 Provider);

                           (vii)  Evidence that there shall have been made and
                 shall be in full force and effect, all filings, recordings
                 and/or registrations, and there shall have been given or taken
                 any notice or other similar action as may be reasonably
                 necessary or, to the extent reasonably requested by the
                 Liquidity Provider, reasonably advisable, in order to
                 establish, perfect, protect and preserve the right, title and
                 interest, remedies, powers, privileges, liens and security
                 interests of, or for the benefit of, the Trustees and the
                 Liquidity Provider created by the Operative Agreements;

                          (viii)  Copies of the appraisals attached as exhibits
                 to the Prospectus;

                            (ix)  A letter from NWA Corp. regarding the
                 delivery to the Liquidity provider of periodic financial 
                 reports;

                             (x)  A guaranty by State Street Bank and Trust
                 Company, a Massachusetts corporation, of the obligations of
                 State Street under the Operative Documents to which it is a
                 party; and

                            (xi)  Such other documents, instruments, opinions
                 and approvals (and, if requested by the Liquidity Provider,
                 certified duplicates or executed copies thereof) as the
                 Liquidity Provider shall have reasonably requested.

                 (b)  The following statements shall be true and shall be
         deemed to have been represented by each party (other than clause (ii)
         below, which shall be deemed to have been represented only by
         Northwest) to the Refunding Agreements as being true on and as of the
         Effective Date:

                             (i)  The representations and warranties of such
                 Person contained in each Refunding Agreement are true and
                 correct on and as of the Effective Date as though made on and
                 as of the Effective Date; and

                            (ii)  No event has occurred and is continuing, or
                 would result from the entering into of this Agreement or the
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                 (c)  The Liquidity Provider shall have received payment in
         full of all fees and other sums required to be paid to or for the
         account of the Liquidity Provider on or prior to the Effective Date.

                 (d)  All conditions precedent to the issuance of the
         Certificates under the Trust Agreements shall have been satisfied, all
         conditions precedent to the effectiveness of the other Liquidity
         Facilities shall have been satisfied, and all conditions precedent to
         the purchase of the Certificates by the Underwriters under the
         Underwriting Agreement shall have been satisfied (unless any of such
         conditions precedent under the Underwriting Agreement shall have been
         waived by the Underwriters).

                 (e)  The Borrower shall have received a certificate, dated the
         date hereof, signed by a duly authorized representative of the
         Liquidity Provider, certifying that all conditions precedent to the
         effectiveness of Section 2.1 have been satisfied or waived (other than
         this Section 4.1(e)).

                 Section 4.2  Conditions Precedent to Borrowing.  The
obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make an Advance on the occasion of each
Borrowing shall be subject to the conditions precedent that the Effective Date
shall have occurred and, prior to the date of such Borrowing, the Borrower
shall have delivered a Notice of Borrowing which conforms to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement and has been completed as may be required by the
relevant form of the Notice of Borrowing for the type of Advance requested.

                                   ARTICLE V

                                   COVENANTS

                 Section 5.1  Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower.  So long
as any Advance shall remain unpaid or the Liquidity Provider shall have any
Commitment hereunder or the Borrower shall have any obligation to pay any
amount to the Liquidity Provider hereunder, the Borrower will, unless the
Liquidity Provider shall otherwise consent in writing:

                 (a)  Performance of This and Other Agreements.  Punctually pay
         or cause to be paid all amounts payable by it under this Agreement and
         the other Operative Agreements and observe and perform in all material
         respects the conditions, covenants and requirements applicable to it
         contained in this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements.

                 (b)  Reporting Requirements.  Furnish to the Liquidity
         Provider with reasonable promptness, such other information and data
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         reasonably requested by the Liquidity Provider; and permit the
         Liquidity Provider, upon reasonable notice, to inspect the Borrower's
         books and records with respect to such transactions and to meet with
         officers and employees of the Borrower to discuss such transactions.

                 Section 5.2  Negative Covenants of the Borrower.  So long as
any Advance shall remain unpaid or the Liquidity Provider shall have any
Commitment hereunder or the Borrower shall have any obligation to pay any
amount to the Liquidity Provider hereunder, the Borrower will not, without the
written consent of the Liquidity Provider:

                 (a)  Amendments.  Modify, amend or supplement, or give any
         consent to any modification, amendment or supplement or make any
         waiver with respect to, any provision of the Trust Agreements or the
         Intercreditor Agreement, except for any supplemental agreement to the
         Trust Agreements provided for in Section 9.1 thereof.

                 (b)  Borrower.  Appoint or permit or suffer to be appointed
         any successor Borrower without the prior written approval of the
         Liquidity Provider (which approval shall not be unreasonably
         withheld).

                                   ARTICLE VI

                                 FINAL ADVANCE

                 Section 6.1  Final Advance.  If (a)(i) a Triggering Event
shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) there is a Performing Note
Deficiency or (b) a Liquidity Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Liquidity Provider may, in its discretion, make a Final Advance
whereupon (i) the Liquidity Provider shall have no further obligation to make
Advances hereunder, (ii) all other outstanding Advances shall be automatically
converted into Final Advances for purposes of determining the Applicable
Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon, and (iii) subject to Sections 2.7
and 2.9, all Advances, any accrued interest thereon and any other amounts
outstanding hereunder shall become immediately due and payable to the Liquidity
Provider.

                                  ARTICLE VII

                                 MISCELLANEOUS

                 Section 7.1  Amendments, Etc.  No amendment or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement, nor consent to any departure by the Borrower
therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing
and signed by the Liquidity Provider, and, in the case of an amendment, the
Borrower, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the
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                 Section 7.2  Notices, Etc.  Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder
shall be in writing (including telecopier and mailed or delivered or sent by
telecopier):

                 Borrower:               State Street Bank & Trust Company
                                         of Connecticut, National Association
                                         c/o State Street Bank and Trust Company
                                         Two International Place
                                         Boston, Massachusetts  02110
                                         Attention: Corporate Trust Department
                                         Telephone: (617) 664-5600
                                         Telecopy:  (617) 664-5371


                 Liquidity
                   Provider:             Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale,
                                         New York Branch
                                         1211 Avenue of the Americas
                                         New York, New York 10036
                                         Attention:  Brigitte Thieme
                                                     Asset-Based Finance
                                         Telephone:  (212) 852-6111
                                         Telecopy:   (213) 921-5947

or, as to each of the foregoing, at such other address as shall be designated
by such Person in a written notice to the others.  All such notices and
communications shall be effective (i) if given by telecopier, when transmitted
to the telecopier number specified above, (ii) if given by mail, when deposited
in the mails addressed as specified above, and (iii) if given by other means,
when delivered at the address specified above, except that written notices to
the Liquidity Provider pursuant to the provisions of Articles II and III hereof
shall not be effective until received by the Liquidity Provider.  A copy of all
notices delivered hereunder to either party shall in addition be delivered to
each of the parties to the Participation Agreements at their respective
addresses set forth therein.

                 Section 7.3  No Waiver; Remedies.  No failure on the part of
the Liquidity Provider to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right under
this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any right under this Agreement preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right.  The remedies
herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by
law.

                 Section 7.4  Further Assurances.  The Borrower agrees to do
such further acts and things and to execute and deliver to the Liquidity
Provider such additional assignments, agreements, powers and instruments as the
Liquidity Provider may reasonably require or deem advisable to carry into
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assure and confirm unto the Liquidity Provider its rights, powers and remedies
hereunder and under the other Operative Agreements.

                 Section 7.5  Indemnification; Survival of Certain Provisions.
The Liquidity Provider shall be indemnified hereunder to the extent and in the
manner described in Section ___ of the Participation Agreements.  In addition,
the Borrower agrees to indemnify, protect, defend and hold harmless the
Liquidity Provider from, against and in respect of, and shall pay on demand,
all Expenses of any kind or nature whatsoever, whether arising before, on or
after the date hereof, that may be imposed, incurred by or asserted against any
Liquidity Indemnitee, in any way relating to, resulting from, or arising out of
or in connection with, this Agreement, the Fee Letter, the Intercreditor
Agreement or the Refunding Agreements; provided, however, that the Borrower
shall not be required to indemnify, protect, defend and hold harmless any
Liquidity Indemnitee in respect of any Expense of such Liquidity Indemnitee (i)
to the extent such Expense is attributable to the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such Liquidity Indemnitee or any Related Indemnitee, (ii) that is
ordinary and usual operating overhead expense or (iii) to the extent such
Expense is attributable to the failure by such Liquidity Indemnitee or its
Related Indemnitee to perform or observe any agreement, covenant or condition
on its part to be performed or observed in any Operative Agreement.  The
indemnities contained in such Section __ of the Participation Agreements, and
the provisions of Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.5 and 7.7, shall survive the
termination of this Agreement.

                 Section 7.6  Liability of the Liquidity Provider.  (a)
Neither the Liquidity Provider nor any of its officers or directors shall be
liable or responsible for:  (i) the use which may be made of the Advances or
any acts or omissions of the Borrower or any beneficiary or transferee in
connection therewith; (ii) the validity, sufficiency or genuineness of
documents, or of any endorsement thereon, even if such documents should prove
to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or forged; or
(iii) the making of Advances by the Liquidity Provider against delivery of a
Notice of Borrowing and other documents which do not comply with the terms
hereof; provided, however, that the Borrower shall have a claim against the
Liquidity Provider, and the Liquidity Provider shall be liable to the Borrower,
to the extent of any damages suffered by the Borrower which were the result of
(A) the Liquidity Provider's willful misconduct or negligence in determining
whether documents presented hereunder comply with the terms hereof, or (B) any
breach by the Liquidity Provider of any of the terms of this Agreement,
including, but not limited to, the Liquidity Provider's failure to make lawful
payment hereunder after the delivery to it by the Borrower of a Notice of
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                 (b)  The Liquidity Provider shall not be liable or responsible
in any respect for (i) any error, omission, interruption or delay in
transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however
transmitted, in connection with this Agreement or any Notice of Borrowing
delivered hereunder, or (ii) any action, inaction or omission which may be
taken by it in good faith, absent willful misconduct or negligence (in which
event the extent of the Liquidity Provider's potential liability to the
Borrower shall be limited as set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph),
in connection with this Agreement or any Notice of Borrowing.

                 Section 7.7  Costs, Expenses and Taxes.  The Borrower agrees
to pay, or cause to be paid (A) on the Effective Date and on such later date or
dates on which the Liquidity Provider shall make demand, all reasonable
out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Liquidity Provider in connection with
the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery, filing and recording of this
Agreement, any other Operative Agreement and any other documents which may be
delivered in connection with this Agreement, including, without limitation, the
reasonable fees and expenses of outside counsel for the Liquidity Provider and
(B) on demand, all reasonable costs and expenses of the Liquidity Provider
(including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) in connection with (i) the
enforcement of this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement, (ii) the
modification or amendment of, or supplement to, this Agreement or any other
Operative Agreement or such other documents which may be delivered in
connection herewith or therewith (whether or not the same shall become
effective) or (iii) any action or proceeding relating to any order, injunction,
or other process or decree restraining or seeking to restrain the Liquidity
Provider from paying any amount under this Agreement, the Intercreditor
Agreement or any other Operative Document or otherwise affecting the
application of funds in the Cash Collateral Accounts.  In addition, the
Borrower shall pay any and all recording, stamp and other similar taxes and
fees payable or determined to be payable in connection with the execution,
delivery, filing and recording of this Agreement, any other Operative Agreement
and such other documents, and agrees to save the Liquidity Provider harmless
from and against any and all liabilities with respect to or resulting from any
delay in paying or omission to pay such taxes or fees.

                 Section 7.8  Binding Effect; Participations.  (a)  This
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower and
the Liquidity Provider and their respective successors and assigns, except that
neither the Liquidity Provider (except as otherwise provided in this Section
7.8) nor the Borrower shall have the right to assign its rights hereunder or
any interest herein without the prior written consent of the other party,
subject to the requirement of Section 7.8(b).  The Liquidity Provider may grant
participations herein or in any of its rights or security hereunder and under
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sole discretion select, subject to the requirement of Section 7.8(b).  No such
participation by the Liquidity Provider, however, will relieve the Liquidity
Provider of its obligations hereunder.  In connection with any participation or
any proposed participation, the Liquidity Provider may disclose to the
participant or the proposed participant any information that the Borrower is
required to deliver or to disclose to the Liquidity Provider pursuant to this
Agreement.  The Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Liquidity Provider's
source of funds may derive in part from its participants.  Accordingly,
references in this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to
determinations, reserve and capital adequacy requirements, increased costs,
reduced receipts and the like as they pertain to the Liquidity Provider shall
be deemed also to include those of each of its participants (subject, in each
case, to the maximum amount that would have been incurred by or attributable to
the Liquidity Provider directly if the Liquidity Provider, rather than the
participant, had held the interest participated).

                 (b)  If, pursuant to subsection (a) above, the Liquidity
Provider sells any participation to any bank or other entity (each, a
"Participant"), then, concurrently with the effectiveness of such
participation, the Participant shall (i) represent to the Liquidity Provider
(for the benefit of the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower) either (A) that it
is incorporated under the laws of the United States or a state thereof or (B)
that under applicable law and treaties, no taxes will be required to be
withheld by the Borrower or the Liquidity Provider with respect to any payments
to be made to such Participant in respect of this Agreement, (ii) furnish to
the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower either (x) a statement that it is
incorporated under the laws of the United States or a state thereof or (y) if
it is not so incorporated, two copies of a properly completed United States
Internal Revenue Service Form 4224 or Form 1001, as appropriate, or other
applicable form, certificate or document prescribed by the Internal Revenue
Service certifying, in each case, such Participant's entitlement to a complete
exemption from United States federal withholding tax in respect to any and all
payments to be made hereunder, and (iii) agree (for the benefit of the
Liquidity Provider and the Borrower) to provide the Liquidity Provider and the
Borrower a new Form 4224 or Form 1001, as appropriate, (A) on or before the
date that any such form expires or becomes obsolete or (B) after the occurrence
of any event requiring a change in the most recent form previously delivered by
it and prior to the immediately following due date of any payment by the
Borrower hereunder, certifying in the case of a Form 1001 or Form 4224 that
such Participant is entitled to a complete exemption from United States federal
withholding tax on payments under this Agreement.  Unless the Borrower has
received forms or other documents reasonably satisfactory to it indicating that
payments hereunder are not subject to United States federal withholding tax,
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payments at the applicable statutory rate without any obligation to gross-up or
indemnify pursuant to Section 3.3.

                 (c)  Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7.8,
the Liquidity Provider may assign and pledge all or any portion of the Advances
owing to it to any Federal Reserve Bank or the United States Treasury as
collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal
Reserve Bank, provided that any payment in respect of such assigned Advances
made by the Borrower to the Liquidity Provider in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement shall satisfy the Borrower's obligations hereunder in respect of
such assigned Advance to the extent of such payment.  No such assignment shall
release the Liquidity Provider from its obligations hereunder.

                 Section 7.9  Severability.  Any provision of this Agreement
which is prohibited, unenforceable or not authorized in any jurisdiction shall,
as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition,
unenforceability or non-authorization without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof or affecting the validity, enforceability or legality of such
provision in any other jurisdiction.

                 Section 7.10  GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED
BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                 Section 7.11  Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury
Trial.

                 (a)  Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally:

                    (i)   submits for itself and its property in any legal
         action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Operative
         Agreement, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in
         respect hereof or thereof, to the non-exclusive general jurisdiction
         of the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United
         States of America for the Southern District of New York, and the
         appellate courts from any thereof;

                    (ii)  consents that any such action or proceeding may be
         brought in such courts, and waives any objection that it may now or
         hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any
         such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an
         inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

                   (iii)  if such party does not maintain an office for the
         transaction of its business in New York, agrees that service of
         process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a
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         (or any substantially similar form and mail), postage prepaid, to each
         party hereto at its address set forth in Section 7.2, or at such other
         address of which the Liquidity Provider shall have been notified
         pursuant thereto; and

                    (iv)  agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to
         effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or
         shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction.

                 (b)  THE BORROWER AND THE LIQUIDITY PROVIDER EACH HEREBY AGREE
TO WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF
ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM
RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RELATIONSHIP THAT IS
BEING ESTABLISHED, including, without limitation, contract claims, tort claims,
breach of duty claims and all other common law and statutory claims.  The
Borrower and the Liquidity Provider each warrant and represent that it has
reviewed this waiver with its legal counsel, and that it knowingly and
voluntarily waives its jury trial rights following consultation with such legal
counsel.  THIS WAIVER CANNOT BE MODIFIED ORALLY.

                 Section 7.12  Execution in Counterparts.  This Agreement may
be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto on
separate counterparts, each of which counterparts, when so executed and
delivered, shall be deemed to be an original and all of which counterparts,
taken together, shall constitute but one and the same Agreement.

                 Section 7.13  Entirety.  This Agreement and the other
Operative Agreements constitute the entire agreement of the parties hereto with
respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior
understandings and agreements of such parties.

                 Section 7.14  Headings; Section References.  Section headings
in this Agreement are included herein for convenience of reference only and
shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other purpose.  Unless
the context otherwise requires or otherwise indicated herein, all Section
references in this Agreement are references to Sections hereof.

                 Section 7.15  LIQUIDITY PROVIDER'S OBLIGATION TO MAKE
ADVANCES.  EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, THE OBLIGATIONS OF
THE LIQUIDITY PROVIDER TO MAKE ADVANCES HEREUNDER, AND THE BORROWER'S RIGHTS TO
DELIVER NOTICES OF BORROWING REQUESTING THE MAKING OF ADVANCES HEREUNDER, SHALL
BE UNCONDITIONAL AND IRREVOCABLE, AND SHALL BE PAID OR PERFORMED, IN EACH CASE
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                 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers
thereunto duly authorized as of the date first set forth above.

                                       STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY
                                            OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL
                                            ASSOCIATION, not in its
                                            individual capacity but solely
                                            as Subordination Agent, as
                                            Borrower


                                       By:                           
                                          ---------------------------
                                          Name:
                                          Title:


                                       WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK
                                       GIROZENTRALE, NEW YORK BRANCH,
                                       as Liquidity Provider


                                       By:                           
                                          ---------------------------
                                          Name:
                                          Title:






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                                            Annex I to Irrevocable
                                            Revolving Credit Agreement

                      INTEREST ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING

                 The undersigned, a duly authorized signatory of the
undersigned borrower (the "Borrower"), hereby certifies to Westdeutsche
Landesbank (the "Liquidity Provider"), with reference to the Irrevocable
Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of June 12, 1996, between the Borrower and
the Liquidity Provider (the "Liquidity Agreement"; the terms defined therein
and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined or
referenced), that:

                 (1)      The Borrower is the Subordination Agent under the
         Intercreditor Agreement.

                 (2)      The Borrower is delivering this Notice of Borrowing
         for the making of an Interest Advance by the Liquidity Provider to be
         used for the payment of interest on the Class A Certificates which was
         payable on ______________ in accordance with the terms and provisions
         of the Class A Trust Agreement and the Class A Certificates pursuant
         to clause fourth of Section 3.2 of the Intercreditor Agreement or
         clause sixth of Section 3.3 of the Intercreditor Agreement, which
         Advance is requested to be made on _____________.

                 (3)      The amount of the Interest Advance requested hereby
         (i) is $_________, to be applied in respect of the payment of interest
         which was due and payable on the Class A Certificates on such
         Distribution Date, (ii) does not include any amount with respect to
         the payment of principal of, or premium on, the Class A Certificates,
         the Class B Certificates, the Class C Certificates or the Class D
         Certificates, or interest on the Class B Certificates, the Class C
         Certificates or the Class D Certificates, (iii) was computed in
         accordance with the provisions of the Class A Certificates, the Class
         A Trust Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement (a copy of which
         computation is attached hereto as Schedule I), (iv) does not exceed
         the Available Commitment on the date hereof, and (v) has not been and
         is not the subject of a prior or contemporaneous Notice of Borrowing.

                 (4)      Upon receipt by or on behalf of the Borrower of the
         amount requested hereby, (a) the Borrower will apply the same in
         accordance with the terms of Section 3.2 or 3.3 of the Intercreditor
         Agreement, as the case may be, (b) no portion of such amount shall be
         applied by the Borrower for any other purpose and (c) no portion of
         such amount until so applied shall be commingled with other funds held
         by the Borrower.
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                 (5)      The Borrower hereby requests that the Advance
         requested hereby be a Base Rate Advance and that such Base Rate
         Advance be converted into a LIBOR Rate Advance on the third Business
         Day following your receipt of this notice.

                 The Borrower hereby acknowledges that, pursuant to the
Liquidity Agreement, the making of the Interest Advance as requested by this
Notice of Borrowing shall automatically reduce, subject to reinstatement in
accordance with the terms of the Liquidity Agreement, the Available Commitment
by an amount equal to the amount of the Interest Advance requested to be made
hereby as set forth in clause (i) of paragraph (3) of this Certificate and such
reduction shall automatically result in corresponding reductions in the amounts
available to be borrowed pursuant to a subsequent Advance.

                 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has executed and delivered
this Notice of Borrowing as of the __ day of ___________, _____.


                                       STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY
                                           OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL
                                           ASSOCIATION, not in its
                                           individual capacity but solely
                                           as Subordination Agent, as
                                           Borrower


                                       By:                           
                                          ---------------------------
                                          Name:
                                          Title:






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               SCHEDULE I TO INTEREST ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING

                [Insert Copy of Computations in accordance with
                     Interest Advance Notice of Borrowing]
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                                              Annex II to Irrevocable
                                              Revolving Credit Agreement

                     DOWNGRADE ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING

                 The undersigned, a duly authorized signatory of the
undersigned subordination agent (the "Borrower"), hereby certifies to
Westdeutsche Landesbank (the "Liquidity Provider"), with reference to the
Irrevocable Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of June 12, 1996, between the
Borrower and the Liquidity Provider (the "Liquidity Agreement"; the terms
defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein
defined or referenced), that:

                 (1)      The Borrower is the Subordination Agent under the
         Intercreditor Agreement.

                 (2)      The Borrower is delivering this Notice of Borrowing
         for the making of the Downgrade Advance by the Liquidity Provider to
         be used for the funding of the Class A Cash Collateral Account in
         accordance with Section 3.6(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement by
         reason of the downgrading of the short-term unsecured debt rating of
         the Liquidity Provider issued by either Rating Agency below the
         Threshold Rating, which Advance is requested to be made on _________.

                 (3)      The amount of the Downgrade Advance requested hereby
         (i) is $________, which equals the Available Commitment on the date
         hereof and is to be applied in respect of the funding of the Class A
         Cash Collateral Account in accordance with Section 3.6(c) of the
         Intercreditor Agreement, (ii) does not include any amount with respect
         to the payment of the principal of, or premium on, the Class A
         Certificates, or principal of, or interest or premium on, the Class B
         Certificates, the Class C Certificates or the Class D Certificates,
         (iii) was computed in accordance with the provisions of the Class A
         Certificates, the Class A Trust Agreement and the Intercreditor
         Agreement (a copy of which computation is attached hereto as Schedule
         I), and (iv) has not been and is not the subject of a prior or
         contemporaneous Notice of Borrowing under the Liquidity Agreement.

                 (4)      Upon receipt by or on behalf of the Borrower of the
         amount requested hereby, (a) the Borrower will deposit such amount in
         the Class A Cash Collateral Account and apply the same in accordance
         with the terms of Section 3.6(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (b)
         no portion of such amount shall be applied by the Borrower for any
         other purpose and (c) no portion of such amount until so applied shall
         be commingled with other funds held by the Borrower.

                 (5)      The Borrower hereby requests that the Advance
         requested hereby be a Base Rate Advance and that such Base
<PAGE>   34


         Rate Advance be converted into a LIBOR Rate Advance on the third
         Business Day following your receipt of this notice.

                 The Borrower hereby acknowledges that, pursuant to the
Liquidity Agreement, (A) the making of the Downgrade Advance as requested by
this Notice of Borrowing shall automatically and irrevocably terminate the
obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make further Advances under the
Liquidity Agreement; and (B) following the making by the Liquidity Provider of
the Downgrade Advance requested by this Notice of Borrowing, the Borrower shall
not be entitled to request any further Advances under the Liquidity Agreement.

                 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has executed and delivered
this Notice of Borrowing as of the ___ day of _________, ______.


                                       STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY
                                           OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL
                                           ASSOCIATION, not in its
                                           individual capacity but solely
                                           as Subordination Agent, as
                                           Borrower


                                       By:                           
                                          ---------------------------
                                          Name:
                                          Title:






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              SCHEDULE I TO DOWNGRADE ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING

                [Insert Copy of computations in accordance with
                     Downgrade Advance Notice of Borrowing]
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                                               Annex III to Irrevocable
                                               Revolving Credit Agreement

                         NOTICE OF REPLACEMENT BORROWER

                                                                          [Date]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

                 For value received, the undersigned beneficiary hereby
irrevocably transfers to:

                          [Name of Transferee]
                          [Address of Transferee]

all rights of the undersigned as Borrower under the Liquidity Agreement
referred to above.  The transferee has succeeded the undersigned as
Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement referred to in the first
paragraph of the Liquidity Agreement.

                 By this transfer, all rights of the undersigned as Borrower
under the Liquidity Agreement are transferred to the transferee and the
transferee shall hereafter have the sole rights as Borrower thereunder.  The
undersigned shall pay any costs and expenses of such transfer, including, but
not limited to, transfer taxes or governmental charges.

                 We ask that this transfer be effective as of _________, ____.


                                       STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY
                                           OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL
                                           ASSOCIATION, not in its
                                           individual capacity but solely
                                           as Subordination Agent, as
                                           Borrower


                                       By:                           
                                          ---------------------------
                                          Name:
                                          Title:


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                                                                  Exhibit (n)(2)

                                                                    DRAFT 6/3/96





                            INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

                                  Dated as of

                                 June 12, 1996

                                     AMONG

                      STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,

                         not in its individual capacity
                        but solely as Trustee under the
                 Northwest Airlines Pass Through Trust 1996-1A,
                 Northwest Airlines Pass Through Trust 1996-1B,
                 Northwest Airlines Pass Through Trust 1996-1C
                                      and
                 Northwest Airlines Pass Through Trust 1996-1D

                     WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK GIROZENTRALE,
                                NEW YORK BRANCH,

                         as Class A Liquidity Provider,
                           Class B Liquidity Provider
                        and Class C Liquidity Provider,

                                      AND

              STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT,
                             NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

                     not in its individual capacity except
                       as expressly set forth herein but
                   solely as Subordination Agent and Trustee
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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS

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                                                           ARTICLE I

                                                          DEFINITIONS
         <S>          <C>                                                                                                    <C>
         SECTION 1.1  Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2

                                                           ARTICLE II

                                               TRUST ACCOUNTS; CONTROLLING PARTY

         SECTION 2.1  Agreement to Terms of Subordination;
                          Payments from Monies Received Only  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
         SECTION 2.2  Trust Accounts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
         SECTION 2.3  Deposits to the Collection Account and
                          Special Payments Account  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
         SECTION 2.4  Distributions of Special Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
         SECTION 2.5  Designated Representatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
         SECTION 2.6  Controlling Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25

                                                          ARTICLE III

                                           RECEIPT, DISTRIBUTION AND APPLICATION OF
                                                        AMOUNTS RECEIVED

         SECTION 3.1  Written Notice of Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
         SECTION 3.2  Distribution of Amounts on Deposit in the
                          Collection Account  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
         SECTION 3.3  Distribution of Amounts on Deposit
                          Following a Triggering Event  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
         SECTION 3.4  Other Payments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
         SECTION 3.5  Payments to the Trustees and the Liquidity
                          Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
         SECTION 3.6  Liquidity Facilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32

                                                           ARTICLE IV

                                                      EXERCISE OF REMEDIES

         SECTION 4.1  Directions from the Controlling Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
         SECTION 4.2  Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
         SECTION 4.3  Discontinuance of Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
         SECTION 4.4  Right of Certificateholders to Receive
                          Payments Not to Be Impaired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
         SECTION 4.5  Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40

                                                           ARTICLE V

                                               DUTIES OF THE SUBORDINATION AGENT;
                                                  AGREEMENTS OF TRUSTEES, ETC.
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         SECTION 5.1  Notice of Indenture Default or Triggering
                          Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
         SECTION 5.2  Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
         SECTION 5.3  No Duties Except as Specified in
                          Intercreditor Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42
         SECTION 5.4  Notice from the Liquidity Providers and
                          Trustees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42

                                                           ARTICLE VI

                                                    THE SUBORDINATION AGENT

         SECTION 6.1  Authorization; Acceptance of Trusts and
                          Duties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42
         SECTION 6.2  Absence of Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
         SECTION 6.3  No Representations or Warranties as to
                          Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
         SECTION 6.4  No Segregation of Monies; No Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
         SECTION 6.5  Reliance; Agents; Advice of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
         SECTION 6.6  Capacity in Which Acting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  44
         SECTION 6.7  Compensation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  44
         SECTION 6.8  May Become Certificateholder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  44
         SECTION 6.9  Subordination Agent Required; Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  45
         SECTION 6.10  Money to Be Held in Trust  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  45

                                                          ARTICLE VII

                                             INDEMNIFICATION OF SUBORDINATION AGENT

         SECTION 7.1  Scope of Indemnification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  45

                                                          ARTICLE VIII

                                                 SUCCESSOR SUBORDINATION AGENT

         SECTION 8.1  Replacement of Subordination Agent;
                          Appointment of Successor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  46

                                                           ARTICLE IX

                                                  SUPPLEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS

         SECTION 9.1  Amendments, Waivers, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  47
         SECTION 9.2  Subordination Agent Protected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
         SECTION 9.3  Effect of Supplemental Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
         SECTION 9.4  Notice to Rating Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
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                                                           ARTICLE X

                                                         MISCELLANEOUS
         <S>          <C>                                                                                                    <C>
         SECTION 10.1  Termination of Intercreditor Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  49
         SECTION 10.2  Intercreditor Agreement for Benefit of
                                  Trustees, Liquidity Providers and
                                  Subordination Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  49
         SECTION 10.3  Notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  49
         SECTION 10.4  Severability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  50
         SECTION 10.5  No Oral Modifications or Continuing
                          Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  50
         SECTION 10.6  Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  50
         SECTION 10.7  Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  50
         SECTION 10.8  Counterpart Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  50
         SECTION 10.9  Subordination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  51
         SECTION 10.10  GOVERNING LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  52
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Schedule 1       Indentures
Schedule 2       Refunding Agreements





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                            INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT


                 INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of June 12, 1996, among STATE
STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, a Massachusetts trust company ("State Street"),
not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee of each Trust (each as
defined below), WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK GIROZENTRALE, NEW YORK BRANCH
("WestLB"), as Class A Liquidity Provider, WestLB, as Class B Liquidity
Provider, WestLB, as Class C Liquidity Provider, and STATE STREET BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a Connecticut trust company
("State Street of Connecticut"), not in its individual capacity except as
expressly set forth herein, but solely as Subordination Agent and trustee
hereunder (in such capacity, together with any successor appointed pursuant to
Article VIII hereof, the "Subordination Agent").

                 WHEREAS, all capitalized terms used herein shall have the
respective meanings referred to in Article I hereof;

                 WHEREAS, pursuant to each Indenture, the related Owner Trustee
proposes to issue on a nonrecourse basis up to four series of Equipment Notes
to finance or refinance the current indebtedness of such Owner Trustee
originally incurred to finance the purchase of the Aircraft referred to in such
Indenture which has been leased to Northwest pursuant to the related Lease;

                 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Refunding Agreements, each Trust will
acquire those Equipment Notes having an interest rate equal to the interest
rate applicable to the Certificates to be issued by such Trust;

                 WHEREAS, pursuant to each Trust Agreement, the Trust created
thereby proposes to issue a single class of Certificates (a "Class") bearing
the interest rate and having the final distribution date described in such
Trust Agreement on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein;

                 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the
Underwriters propose to purchase the Certificates issued by each Trust in the
aggregate face amount set forth opposite the name of such Trust on Schedule I
thereto on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein;

                 WHEREAS, each Liquidity Provider proposes to enter into a
revolving credit agreement (each, a "Liquidity Facility") with the
Subordination Agent, as agent for the respective Trustee of each Trust (other
than the Class D Trust), for the benefit of the Certificateholders of such
Trust; and

                 WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the obligations of the
Underwriters under the Underwriting Agreement that the Subordination Agent, the
Trustees and the Liquidity Providers agree to the terms of subordination set
forth in this Agreement
<PAGE>   6
in respect of each Class of Certificates, and the Subordination Agent, the
Trustees and the Liquidity Providers, by entering into this Agreement, hereby
acknowledge and agree to such terms of subordination and the other provisions
of this Agreement.

                 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements
herein contained, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:


                                   ARTICLE I

                                  DEFINITIONS

                 SECTION 1.1  Definitions.  For all purposes of this Agreement,
except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise
requires:

                 (1)      the terms used herein that are defined in this
         Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and
         include the plural as well as the singular;

                 (2)      all references in this Agreement to designated
         "Articles", "Sections" and other subdivisions are to the designated
         Articles, Sections and other subdivisions of this Agreement;

                 (3)      the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and
         other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and
         not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and

                 (4)      the term "including" shall mean "including without
         limitation".

         "Acceleration" means, with respect to the amounts payable in respect
of the Equipment Notes issued under any Indenture, the declaration of such
amounts to be immediately due and payable.  "Accelerate" and "Accelerated" have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.

         "Adjusted Expected Distributions" means with respect to the
Certificates of any Class on any Current Distribution Date the sum of (x) the
amount of accrued and unpaid interest on such Certificates plus (y) the greater
of:

                 (A)  the difference between (x) the Pool Balance of such
         Certificates as of the immediately preceding Distribution Date and (y)
         the Pool Balance of such Certificates as of the Current Distribution
         Date calculated on the basis that (i) the principal of the
         Non-Performing Equipment Notes held in such Trust has been paid in
         full and such payments have been





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         distributed to the holders of such Certificates and (ii) the principal
         of the Performing Equipment Notes has been paid when due (but without
         giving effect to any acceleration of Performing Equipment Notes) and
         has been distributed to the holders of such Certificates; and

                 (B) the amount if any by which (i) the Pool Balance of such
         Class of Certificates as of the immediately preceding Distribution
         Date exceeds (ii) the Aggregate LTV Collateral Amount for such Class
         of Certificates for the Current Distribution Date;

provided that, until the initial LTV Appraisals, clause (B) above shall not be
applicable.

         "Affiliate" means, with respect to any Person, any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with
such Person.  For the purposes of this definition, "control" means the power,
directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of such Person whether through the ownership of voting securities or
by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.

         "Aggregate LTV Collateral Amount" means for any Class of Certificates
for any Distribution Date the sum of the applicable LTV Collateral Amounts for
each Aircraft minus the Pool Balance for each Class of Certificates, if any,
senior to such Class after giving effect to any distribution of principal on
such Distribution Date on such senior Class or Classes.

         "Aircraft" means, with respect to each Indenture, the "Aircraft"
referred to therein.

         "Appraisal" means a current fair market appraisal (which may be a
"desktop" appraisal) performed by any Appraiser or any other nationally
recognized appraiser on the basis of an arm's-length transaction between an
informed and willing purchaser under no compulsion to buy and an informed and
willing seller under no compulsion to sell and both having knowledge of all
relevant facts.

         "Appraised Current Market Value" of any Aircraft means the lower of
the average or the median of the most recent three Appraisals of such Aircraft.

         "Appraisers" means Aircraft Information Services, Inc., BK Associates,
Inc. and Simat, Helliesen & Eichner, Inc.

         "Available Amount" means, with respect to any Liquidity Facility on
any drawing date, an amount equal to (a) the





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Stated Amount of such Liquidity Facility, less (b) the amount of each Interest
Drawing honored by the Liquidity Provider under such Liquidity Facility on or
prior to such date which has not been reimbursed or reinstated as of such date;
provided that, following a Downgrade Drawing or a Final Drawing under such
Liquidity Facility, the Available Amount of such Liquidity Facility shall be
zero.

         "Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day
on which commercial banks are required or authorized to close in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, New York, New York, or the city and state in which any Trustee, the
Subordination Agent or any Loan Trustee maintains its Corporate Trust Office or
receives and disburses funds.

         "Cash Collateral Account" means the Class A Cash Collateral Account,
the Class B Cash Collateral Account or the Class C Cash Collateral Account, as
applicable.

         "Certificate" means a Class A Certificate, a Class B Certificate, a
Class C Certificate or a Class D Certificate, as applicable.

         "Certificateholder" means any holder of one or more Certificates.

         "Class" has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary
statements to this Agreement.

         "Class A Cash Collateral Account" means an Eligible Deposit Account in
the name of the Subordination Agent maintained at an Eligible Institution,
which shall be the Subordination Agent if it shall so qualify, into which all
amounts drawn under the Class A Liquidity Facility pursuant to Section 3.6(c),
3.6(d) or 3.6(i) shall be deposited.

         "Class A Certificateholder" means, at any time, any holder of one or
more Class A Certificates.

         "Class A Certificates" means the certificates issued by the Class A
Trust, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Class A Trust Agreement,
and authenticated by the Class A Trustee, representing fractional undivided
interests in the Class A Trust, and any certificates issued in exchange
therefor or replacement thereof pursuant to the terms of the Class A Trust
Agreement.

         "Class A Liquidity Facility" means, initially, the Revolving Credit
Agreement dated as of June 12, 1996, between the Subordination Agent, as agent
of the Class A Trustee, and the Class A Liquidity Provider, and, from and after
the replacement of such Agreement pursuant hereto, the Replacement Liquidity
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case as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in
accordance with its terms.

         "Class A Liquidity Provider" means WestLB, together with any
Replacement Liquidity Provider which has issued a Replacement Liquidity
Facility to replace the Class A Liquidity Facility pursuant to Section 3.6(e).

         "Class A Trust" means Northwest Airlines 1996-A Pass Through Trust
created and administered pursuant to the Class A Trust Agreement.

         "Class A Trust Agreement" means the Pass Through Trust Agreement dated
June 3, 1996, among Northwest, NWA Corp. and the Class A Trustee, as
supplemented by the Supplement No. 1A thereto dated June 12, 1996, governing
the creation and administration of the Class A Trust and the issuance of the
Class A Certificates, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.

         "Class A Trustee" means State Street, not in its individual capacity
except as expressly set forth in the Class A Trust Agreement, but solely as
trustee under the Class A Trust Agreement, together with any successor trustee
appointed pursuant thereto.

         "Class B Cash Collateral Account" means an Eligible Deposit Account in
the name of the Subordination Agent maintained at an Eligible Institution,
which shall be the Subordination Agent if it shall so qualify, into which all
amounts drawn under the Class B Liquidity Facility pursuant to Section 3.6(c),
3.6(d) or 3.6(i) shall be deposited.

         "Class B Certificateholder" means, at any time, any holder of one or
more Class B Certificates.

         "Class B Certificates" means the certificates issued by the Class B
Trust, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Class B Trust Agreement,
and authenticated by the Class B Trustee, representing fractional undivided
interests in the Class B Trust, and any certificates issued in exchange
therefor or replacement thereof pursuant to the terms of the Class B Trust
Agreement.

         "Class B Liquidity Facility" means, initially, the Revolving Credit
Agreement dated as of June 12, 1996, between the Subordination Agent, as agent
of the Class B Trustee, and the Class B Liquidity Provider, and, from and after
the replacement of such Agreement pursuant hereto, the Replacement Liquidity
Facility therefor, if any, in each case as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.





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         "Class B Liquidity Provider" means WestLB, together with any
Replacement Liquidity Provider which has issued a Replacement Liquidity
Facility to replace the Class B Liquidity Facility pursuant to Section 3.6(e).

         "Class B Trust" means Northwest Airlines 1996-B Pass Through Trust
created and administered pursuant to the Class B Trust Agreement.

         "Class B Trust Agreement" means the Pass Through Trust Agreement dated
as of June 3, 1996, among Northwest, NWA Corp.  and the Class B Trustee, as
supplemented by the Supplement No. 1B thereto dated June 12, 1996, governing
the creation and administration of the Class B Trust and the issuance of the
Class B Certificates, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.

         "Class B Trustee" means State Street, not in its individual capacity
except as expressly set forth in the Class B Trust Agreement, but solely as
trustee under the Class B Trust Agreement, together with any successor trustee
appointed pursuant thereto.

         "Class C Cash Collateral Account" means an Eligible Deposit Account in
the name of the Subordination Agent and maintained at an Eligible Institution,
which shall be the Subordination Agent if it shall so qualify, into which all
amounts drawn under the Class C Liquidity Facility pursuant to Section 3.6(c),
3.6(d) or 3.6(i) shall be deposited.

         "Class C Certificateholder" means, at any time, any holder of one or
more Class C Certificates.

         "Class C Certificates" means the certificates issued by the Class C
Trust, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Class C Trust Agreement,
and authenticated by the Class C Trustee, representing fractional undivided
interests in the Class C Trust, and any certificates issued in exchange
therefor or in replacement thereof pursuant to the terms of the Class C Trust
Agreement.

         "Class C Liquidity Facility" means, initially, the Revolving Credit
Agreement dated as of June 12, 1996, between the Subordination Agent, as agent
of the Class C Trustee, and the Class C Liquidity Provider and, from and after
the replacement of such Agreement pursuant hereto, the Replacement Liquidity
Facility therefor, if any, in each case as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.

         "Class C Liquidity Provider" means WestLB, together with any
Replacement Liquidity Provider which has issued a





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Replacement Liquidity Facility to replace the Class C Liquidity Facility
pursuant to Section 3.6(e).

         "Class C Trust" means Northwest Airlines 1996-C Pass Through Trust
created and administered pursuant to the Class C Trust Agreement.

         "Class C Trust Agreement" means the Pass Through Trust Agreement dated
June 3, 1996, among Northwest, NWA Corp. and the Class C Trustee, as
supplemented by the Supplement No. 1C thereto dated June 12, 1996, governing
the creation and administration of the Class C Trust and the issuance of the
Class C Certificates, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.

         "Class C Trustee" means State Street, not in its individual capacity
except as expressly set forth in the Class C Trust Agreement, but solely as
trustee under the Class C Trust Agreement, together with any successor trustee
appointed pursuant thereto.

         "Class D Certificateholder" means, at any time, any holder of one or
more Class D Certificates.

         "Class D Certificates" means the certificates issued by the Class D
Trust, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Class D Trust Agreement,
and authenticated by the Class D Trustee, representing fractional undivided
interests in the Class D Trust, and any certificates issued in exchange
therefor or in replacement thereof pursuant to the terms of the Class D Trust
Agreement.

         "Class D Trust" means Northwest Airlines 1996-D Pass Through Trust
created and administered pursuant to the Class D Trust Agreement.

         "Class D Trust Agreement" means the Pass Through Trust Agreement dated
as of June 3, 1996, among Northwest, NWA Corp.  and the Class D Trustee, as
supplemented by the Supplement No. 1D thereto dated June 12, 1996, governing
the creation and administration of the Class D Trust and the issuance of the
Class D Certificates, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.

         "Class D Trustee" means State Street, not in its individual capacity
except as expressly set forth in the Class D Trust Agreement, but solely as
trustee under the Class D Trust Agreement, together with any successor trustee
appointed pursuant thereto.

         "Closing Date" means June 12, 1996.





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         "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time
to time, and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.

         "Collection Account" means the Eligible Deposit Account established by
the Subordination Agent pursuant to Section 2.2 which the Subordination Agent
shall make deposits in and withdrawals from in accordance with this Agreement.

         "Controlling Party" means the Person entitled to act as such pursuant
to the terms of Section 2.6.

         "Corporate Trust Office" means, with respect to any Trustee, the
Subordination Agent or any Loan Trustee, the office of such Person in the city
at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be
principally administered.

         "Current Distribution Date" means a Distribution Date specified as a
reference date for calculating the Adjusted Expected Distributions or Expected
Distributions with respect to the Certificates of any Trust as of such
Distribution Date.

         "Designated Representatives" means the Trustee Representatives and the
LP Representatives identified under Section 2.5.

         "Distribution Date" means a Regular Distribution Date or a Special
Distribution Date.

         "Dollars" means United States dollars.

         "Downgrade Drawing" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.6(c).

         "Downgraded Facility" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.6(c).

         "Drawing" means an Interest Drawing, a Final Drawing or a Downgrade
Drawing, as the case may be.

         "Eligible Deposit Account" means either (a) a segregated account with
an Eligible Institution or (b) a segregated trust account with the corporate
trust department of a depository institution organized under the laws of the
United States of America or any one of the states thereof or the District of
Columbia (or any U.S. branch of a foreign bank), having corporate trust powers
and acting as trustee for funds deposited in such account, so long as any of
the securities of such depository institution has a long-term unsecured debt
rating from each Rating Agency of at least A-3 or its equivalent.  An Eligible
Deposit Account may be maintained with a Liquidity Provider so long as such





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Liquidity Provider is an Eligible Institution; provided that such Liquidity
Provider shall have waived all rights of set-off and counterclaim with respect
to such account.

         "Eligible Institution" means (a) the corporate trust department of the
Subordination Agent or any Trustee, as applicable, or (b) a depository
institution organized under the laws of the United States of America or any one
of the states thereof or the District of Columbia (or any U.S. branch of a
foreign bank), which has a long-term unsecured debt rating from each Rating
Agency of at least A-3 or its equivalent.

         "Eligible Investments" means (a) investments in obligations of, or
guaranteed by, the United States Government having maturities no later than 90
days following the date of such investment, (b) investments in open market
commercial paper of any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United
States of America or any state thereof with a short-term unsecured debt rating
issued by Moody's and Standard & Poor's of at least A-1 and P-1, respectively,
having maturities no later than 90 days following the date of such investment
or (c) investments in negotiable certificates of deposit, time deposits,
banker's acceptances, commercial paper or other direct obligations of, or
obligations guaranteed by, commercial banks organized under the laws of the
United States or of any political subdivision thereof (or any U.S. branch of a
foreign bank) with issuer ratings of at least B/C by Thomson Bankwatch, having
maturities no later than 90 days following the date of such investment;
provided, however, that (x) all Eligible Investments that are bank obligations
shall be denominated in U.S. dollars; and (y) the aggregate amount of Eligible
Investments at any one time that are bank obligations issued by any one bank
shall not be in excess of 5% of such bank's capital surplus; provided further
that (1) any investment of the types described in clauses (a), (b) and (c)
above may be made through a repurchase agreement in commercially reasonable
form with a bank or other financial institution qualifying as an Eligible
Institution so long as such investment is held by a third party custodian also
qualifying as an Eligible Institution, and (2) all such investments set forth
in (a), (b) and (c) above mature no later than the Business Day immediately
preceding the next Regular Distribution Date; provided further, however, that
in the case of any Eligible Investment issued by a domestic branch of a foreign
bank, the income from such investment shall be from sources within the United
States for purposes of the Code.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no investment
of the types described in clause (b) or (c) above which is issued or guaranteed
by a Liquidity Provider or Northwest or any of their respective Affiliates
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         "Equipment Notes" means, at any time, the Series A Equipment Notes,
the Series B Equipment Notes, the Series C Equipment Notes and the Series D
Equipment Notes, collectively, and in each case, any Equipment Notes issued in
exchange therefor or replacement thereof pursuant to the terms of the
Indentures.

         "Expected Distributions" means, with respect to the Certificates of
any Trust on any Current Distribution Date, the sum of (x) accrued and unpaid
interest on such Certificates and (y) the difference between (A) the Pool
Balance of such Certificates as of the immediately preceding Distribution Date
and (B) the Pool Balance of such Certificates as of the Current Distribution
Date, calculated on the basis that the principal of the Equipment Notes held in
such Trust has been paid when due (whether at stated maturity or upon
redemption, prepayment, purchase or acceleration or otherwise) and such
payments have been distributed to the holders of such Certificates.  For
purposes of calculating Expected Distributions, any premium paid on the
Equipment Notes held in any Trust which has not been distributed to the
Certificateholders of such Trust (other than such premium or a portion thereof
applied to the payment of interest on the Certificates of such Trust or the
reduction of the Pool Balance of such Trust) shall be added to the amount of
such Expected Distributions.

         "Final Distributions" means, with respect to the Certificates of any
Trust on any Distribution Date, the sum of (a) the aggregate amount of all
accrued and unpaid interest on such Certificates and (b) the Pool Balance of
such Certificates as of the immediately preceding Distribution Date.  For
purposes of calculating Final Distributions, any premium paid on the Equipment
Notes held in any Trust which has not been distributed to the
Certificateholders of such Trust (other than such premium or a portion thereof
applied to the payment of interest on the Certificates of such Trust or the
reduction of the Pool Balance of such Trust) shall be added to the amount of
such Final Distributions.

         "Final Drawing" means, in respect of a Liquidity Facility, a borrowing
or drawing of all available and undrawn amounts under such Liquidity Facility
in accordance with the provisions thereof.

         "Final Legal Distribution Date" means, for each of the Class A
Certificates, the Class B Certificates and the Class C Certificates, July 2016
and, for the Class D Certificates, July 2, 2006.

         "Fitch" means Fitch Investors Service, L.P.





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         "Indenture" means each Amended and Restated Trust Indenture and
Mortgage listed on Schedule 1 hereto, as the same may be amended, supplemented
or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.

         "Indenture Default" means, with respect to any Indenture, any Event of
Default (as such term is defined in such Indenture) thereunder.

         "Interest Drawing" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.6(a).

         "Investment Earnings" means investment earnings on funds on deposit in
the Trust Accounts net of losses and investment expenses of the Subordination
Agent in making such investments.

         "Lease" means, with respect to each Indenture, the "Lease" referred to
therein.

         "Lien" means any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, claim, disposition of
title, encumbrance, lease, sublease, sub-sublease or security interest of any
kind, including, without limitation, any thereof arising under any conditional
sales or other title retention agreement.

         "Liquidity Event of Default," with respect to any Liquidity Facility,
has the meaning assigned to such term in such Liquidity Facility.

         "Liquidity Expenses" means all Liquidity Obligations other than (i)
the principal amount of any Drawings under the Liquidity Facilities and (ii)
any interest accrued on any Liquidity Obligations.

         "Liquidity Facility" means, at any time, the Class A Liquidity
Facility, the Class B Liquidity Facility or the Class C Liquidity Facility, as
applicable.

         "Liquidity Obligations" means all principal, interest, fees and other
amounts owing to the Liquidity Providers under the Liquidity Facilities,
Section [10.1] of the Participation Agreements and the Refunding Agreements.

         "Liquidity Provider" means, at any time, the Class A Liquidity
Provider, the Class B Liquidity Provider or the Class C Liquidity Provider, as
applicable.

         "Loan Trustee" means, with respect to any Indenture, the loan trustee
thereunder.

         "LP Incumbency Certificate" has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.5(b).





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         "LP Representatives" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.5(b).

         "LTV Appraisals" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
4.1(a).

         "LTV Collateral Amount" of any Aircraft for any Class of Certificates
on any Distribution Date means the lesser of (i) the LTV Ratio for such Class
of Certificates multiplied by the Appraised Current Market Value of such
Aircraft and (ii) the outstanding principal amount of the Equipment Notes
secured by such Aircraft after giving effect to any principal payments of such
Equipment Notes on or before such Distribution Date.

         "LTV Ratio" means for the Class A Certificates ___%, for the Class B
Certificates ___%, for the Class C Certificates ___% and for the Class D
Certificates ___%.

         "Minimum Sale Price" means, with respect to any Aircraft or the
Equipment Notes issued in respect of such Aircraft, at any time, the lesser of
(a) 75% of the Appraised Current Market value of such Aircraft based upon the
most recent Appraisal and (b) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of
such Equipment Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon.

         "Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc.

         "Non-Controlling Party" means, at any time, any Trustee or Liquidity
Provider which is not the Controlling Party at such time.

         "Northwest" means Northwest Airlines, Inc., a Minnesota corporation,
and its successors and assigns.

         "Northwest Bankruptcy Event" means the occurrence and continuation of
any of the following:

                 (a)      the commencement of an involuntary case or other
         proceeding in respect of Northwest in an involuntary case under the
         federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any other
         applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
         law in the United States or seeking the appointment of a receiver,
         liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or similar
         official) of Northwest or for all or substantially all of its
         property, or seeking the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs and
         the continuation of any such case or other proceeding undismissed and
         unstayed for a period of ninety (90) consecutive days or an order,
         judgment or decree shall be entered in any proceeding by any court of
         competent jurisdiction appointing, without the





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         consent of Northwest, a receiver, trustee or liquidator of Northwest,
         or of any substantial part of its property, or sequestering any
         substantial part of the property of Northwest and any such order,
         judgment or decree or appointment or sequestration shall be final or
         shall remain in force undismissed, unstayed or unvacated for a period
         of ninety (90) days after the date of entry thereof; or

                 (b)      the commencement by Northwest of a voluntary case
         under the federal bankruptcy laws, as now constituted or hereafter
         amended, or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
         insolvency or other similar law in the United States, or the consent
         by Northwest to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver,
         liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator (or other
         similar official) of Northwest or for all or substantially all of its
         property, or the making by Northwest of any assignment for the benefit
         of creditors or the taking by Northwest of any corporate action to
         authorize any of the foregoing.

         "NWA Corp." means Northwest Airlines Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, and its successors and assigns.

         "Officer's Certificate" of any Person means a certification signed by
a Responsible Officer of such Person.

         "Operative Agreements" means this Agreement, the Liquidity Facilities,
the Indentures, the Trust Agreements, the Underwriting Agreement, the Refunding
Agreements, the Leases, the Participation Agreements, the Equipment Notes and
the Certificates, together with all exhibits and schedules included with any of
the foregoing.

         "Outstanding" means, when used with respect to each Class of
Certificates, as of the date of determination, all Certificates of such Class
theretofore authenticated and delivered under the related Trust Agreement,
except:

                    (i)   Certificates of such Class theretofore cancelled by
         the Registrar (as defined in such Trust Agreement) or delivered to the
         Trustee thereunder or such Registrar for cancellation;

                    (ii)  Certificates of such Class for which money in the
         full amount required to make the final distribution with respect to
         such Certificates pursuant to Section 11.01 of such Trust Agreement
         has been theretofore deposited with the related Trustee in trust for
         the holders of such Certificates as provided in Section 4.01 of such
         Trust Agreement pending





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         distribution of such money to such Certificateholders pursuant to such
         final distribution payment; and

                   (iii)  Certificates of such Class in exchange for or in lieu
         of which other Certificates have been authenticated and delivered
         pursuant to such Trust Agreement;

provided, however, that in determining whether the holders of the requisite
Outstanding amount of such Certificates have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, any Certificates
owned by Northwest or any of its Affiliates shall be disregarded and deemed not
to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether such Trustee shall be
protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver, only Certificates that such Trustee knows to be so
owned shall be so disregarded.  Certificates so owned that have been pledged in
good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the applicable Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with
respect to such Certificates and that the pledgee is not Northwest or any of
its Affiliates.

         "Overdue Scheduled Payment" means any Scheduled Payment which is not
in fact received by the Subordination Agent within five days of the Scheduled
Payment Date relating thereto.

         "Owner Trustee" means, with respect to any Indenture, the Owner
Trustee (as defined therein) not in its individual capacity but solely as
trustee under the related owner trust agreement, together with any successor
trustee appointed pursuant to such owner trust agreement.

         "Participation Agreements" mean, with respect to each Indenture, the
"Participation Agreement" referred to therein.

         "Performing Equipment Note" means an Equipment Note issued pursuant to
an Indenture with respect to which no payment default has occurred and is
continuing; provided that in the event of a bankruptcy proceeding involving
Northwest under Title 11 of the United States Code (the "Bankruptcy Code"), (i)
any payment default existing during 60-day period under Section 1110(a)(1)(A)
of the Bankruptcy Code (or such longer period as may apply under Section
1110(b) of the Bankruptcy Code) (the "Section 1110 Period") shall not be taken
into consideration, unless during such period the trustee in such proceeding or
Northwest refuses to assume or agree to perform its obligations under the Lease
related to such Equipment Notes and (ii) any payment default occurring after
the date of the order of relief in such proceeding shall not be taken into
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such payment default is cured under Section 1110(a)(1)(B) of the Bankruptcy
Code before the later of 30 days after the date of such default or the
expiration of the Section 1110 Period.

         "Performing Note Deficiency" means any time that less than 65% of the
then aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Equipment Notes are
Performing Equipment Notes.

         "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, trustee, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

         "Pool Balance" means, with respect to each Trust or the Certificates
issued by any Trust, as of any date, (i) the original aggregate face amount of
the Certificates of such Trust less (ii) the aggregate amount of all payments
made in respect of the Certificates of such Trust other than payments made in
respect of interest or premium thereon or reimbursement of any costs and
expenses in connection therewith.  The Pool Balance for each Trust or the
Certificates issued by any Trust as of any Distribution Date shall be computed
after giving effect to any payment of principal, if any, on the Equipment Notes
or other Trust Property held in such Trust and the distribution thereof to be
made on such date.

         "Proceeding" means any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial
or administrative proceeding.

         "PTC Event of Default" means, with respect to each Trust Agreement,
the failure to pay within 10 Business Days of the due date thereof: (i) the
outstanding Pool Balance of the applicable Class of Certificates on the Final
Legal Distribution Date for such Class or (ii) interest due on such
Certificates on any Distribution Date (unless, in the case of the Class A,
Class B or Class C Certificates, the Subordination Agent shall have made an
Interest Drawing with respect thereto in an amount sufficient to pay such
interest and shall have distributed such amount to the holders of the
Certificates entitled thereto).

         "Rating Agencies" means, collectively, at any time, each nationally
recognized rating agency which shall have been requested to rate the
Certificates and which shall then be rating the Certificates.  Initially, the
Rating Agencies shall consist of Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch.

         "Ratings Confirmation" means, with respect to any action proposed to
be taken, a written confirmation from each of the Rating Agencies that such
action would not result in (i) a reduction of the rating for any Class of





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Certificates below the then current rating for such Class of Certificates or
(ii) a withdrawal or suspension of the rating of any Class of Certificates.

         "Refunding Agreements" means each of the Refunding Agreements listed
on Schedule 2 hereto, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.

         "Regular Distribution Dates" means each January 2 and July 2,
commencing on January 2, 1997; provided, however, that, if any such day shall
not be a Business Day, the related distribution shall be made on the next
succeeding Business Day without additional interest.

         "Replacement Liquidity Facility" means, for any Trust, an irrevocable
revolving credit agreement in substantially the form of the initial Liquidity
Facility for such Trust, including reinstatement provisions or in such other
form (which may include a letter of credit) as shall permit the Rating Agencies
to confirm in writing their respective ratings then in effect for the
Certificates (before downgrading of such ratings, if any, as a result of the
downgrading of the Liquidity Provider), in a face amount equal to the Required
Amount for such Liquidity Facility and issued by a Replacement Liquidity
Provider, provided that, if a form of Liquidity Facility that is not
substantially in the form of the replaced Liquidity Facility is to be used,
Northwest shall have received of a satisfactory opinion of tax counsel
satisfactory to Northwest with respect to such form of Replacement Liquidity
Facility (and a copy of such opinion shall be furnished to the Subordination
Agent).

         "Replacement Liquidity Provider" means a Person having short-term
unsecured debt ratings issued by the applicable Rating Agencies or, in the
event the selected Person's short-term unsecured debt is not rated by Moody's
or Standard & Poor's, long-term unsecured debt ratings issued by the applicable
Rating Agencies, which are equal to or higher than the Threshold Rating,
provided that, if Fitch does not provide short-term unsecured debt ratings for
such financial institution and Moody's and Standard & Poor's do provide such
ratings, then such financial institution shall be required only to have
short-term unsecured debt ratings equal to or higher than the Threshold Ratings
provided by Moody's and Standard & Poor's.

         "Required Amount" means, with respect to each Liquidity Facility, for
any day, the sum of the aggregate amount of interest, calculated at the rate
per annum equal to the Stated Interest Rate for the related Class of
Certificates, that would be payable on such Class of Certificates on each of
the three successive Regular Distribution Dates immediately following such day
or, if such day is a Regular Distribution Date, on such day and the succeeding
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Regular Distribution Dates, in each case calculated on the basis of the Pool
Balance of such Class of Certificates on such date and without regard to
expected future payments of principal on such Class of Certificates.

         "Responsible Officer" means (i) with respect to the Subordination
Agent and each of the Trustees, any officer in the corporate trust
administration department of the Subordination Agent or such Trustee or any
other officer customarily performing functions similar to those performed by
the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom
any corporate trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of and
familiarity with a particular subject and (ii) with respect to each Liquidity
Provider, [_______________] or another authorized officer of such Liquidity
Provider.

         "Scheduled Payment" means, with respect to any Equipment Note, (i) any
payment of principal and interest on such Equipment Note (other than an Overdue
Scheduled Payment) due from the obligor thereon or (ii) any payment of interest
on the corresponding Class of Certificates with funds drawn under any Liquidity
Facility, which payment represents the installment of principal at the stated
maturity of such installment of principal on such Equipment Note, the payment
of regularly scheduled interest accrued on the unpaid principal amount of such
Equipment Note, or both; provided that any payment of principal of, premium, if
any, or interest resulting from the redemption or purchase of any Equipment
Note shall not constitute a Scheduled Payment.

         "Scheduled Payment Date" means, with respect to any Scheduled Payment,
the date on which such Scheduled Payment is scheduled to be made.

         "Series A Equipment Notes" means the [___]% Series A Equipment Notes
issued pursuant to each Indenture by the related Owner Trustee and
authenticated by the Loan Trustee thereunder, and any such Equipment Notes
issued in exchange therefor or replacement thereof pursuant to the terms of
such Indenture.

         "Series B Equipment Notes" means the [___]% Series B Equipment Notes
issued pursuant to each Indenture by the related Owner Trustee and
authenticated by the Loan Trustee thereunder, and any such Equipment Notes
issued in exchange therefor or replacement thereof pursuant to the terms of
such Indenture.

         "Series C Equipment Notes" means the [___]% Series C Equipment Notes
issued pursuant to the Indentures relating to certain of the Aircraft (as
specified in such Indentures) by the related Owner Trustee and authenticated by
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exchange therefor or replacement thereof pursuant to the terms of such
Indenture.

         "Series D Equipment Notes" means the [___]% Series D Equipment Notes
issued pursuant to each the two Indentures relating to Boeing 747 aircraft by
the related Owner Trustee and authenticated by the Loan Trustee thereunder, and
any such Equipment Notes issued in exchange therefor or replacement thereof
pursuant to the terms of such Indenture.

         "Special Distribution Date" means, with respect to any Special
Payment, the date chosen by the Subordination Agent pursuant to Section 2.4(a)
for the distribution of such Special Payment in accordance with this Agreement;
provided, however, that, if any such day shall not be a Business Day, the
related distribution shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day without
additional interest.

         "Special Payment" means any payment (other than a Scheduled Payment)
in respect of, or any proceeds of, any Equipment Note or Trust Indenture Estate
(as defined in each Indenture), including Overdue Scheduled Payments, payments
in respect of the redemption or repurchase of any Equipment Note and payments
in respect of the sale of any Equipment Note to the related Owner Trustee,
Owner Participant or any other Person.

         "Special Payments Account" means the Eligible Deposit Account created
pursuant to Section 2.2 as a sub-account to the Collection Account.

         "Standard & Poor's" means Standard & Poor's Rating Group, a division of
McGraw-Hill Inc.

         "Stated Amount" with respect to any Liquidity Facility, means the
Commitment (as defined in such Liquidity Facility) of the applicable Liquidity
Provider thereunder.

         "Stated Interest Rate" means (i) with respect to the Class A
Certificates, [___]% per annum, (ii) with respect to the Class B Certificates,
[___]% per annum, and (iii) with respect to the Class C Certificates, [___]%
per annum.

         "State Street" has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble to this
Agreement.

         "State Street of Connecticut" has the meaning assigned to it in the
preamble to this Agreement.

         "Subordination Agent" has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble
to this Agreement.

         "Tax" and "Taxes" mean any and all taxes, fees, levies, duties,
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(together with any and all interest, penalties, loss, damage, liability,
expense, additions to tax and additional amounts or costs incurred or imposed
with respect thereto) imposed or otherwise assessed by the United States or by
any state, local or foreign government (or any subdivision or agency thereof)
or other taxing authority, including, without limitation:  taxes or other
charges on or with respect to income, franchises, windfall or other profits,
gross receipts, property, sales, use, capital stock, payroll, employment,
social security, workers' compensation, unemployment compensation, or net worth
and similar charges; taxes or other charges in the nature of excise,
withholding, ad valorem, stamp, transfer, value added, taxes on goods and
services, gains taxes, license, registration and documentation fees, customs
duties, tariffs, and similar charges.

         "Threshold Rating" means the short-term unsecured debt rating of P-1
by Moody's, A-1 by Standard & Poor's and F-1+ by Fitch or, in the event a
person's short-term unsecured debt is not rated by either Moody's or Standard
Poor's, the long-term unsecured debt rating by Moody's and Standard & Poor's at
least equal to the initial rating by each of Moody's and Standard Poor's on the
Class A Certificates.

         "Treasury Regulations" means regulations, including proposed or
temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code.  References herein to
specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include
analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.

         "Triggering Event" means (x) the occurrence of an Indenture Default
under all of the Indentures resulting in a PTC Event of Default with respect to
the most senior Class of Certificates then Outstanding, (y) the Acceleration
of, or a failure to pay at final maturity, all of the outstanding Equipment
Notes or (z) the occurrence of a Northwest Bankruptcy Event.

         "Trust" means any of the Class A Trust, the Class B Trust, the Class C
Trust or the Class D Trust.

         "Trust Accounts" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.2(a).

         "Trust Agreement" means any of the Class A Trust Agreement, Class B
Trust Agreement, Class C Trust Agreement or Class D Trust Agreement.

         "Trustee" means any of the Class A Trustee, the Class B Trustee, the
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         "Trustee Incumbency Certificate" has the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 2.5(a).

         "Trustee Representatives" has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.5(a).

         "Underwriters" means Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, BT Securities
Corporation, Citicorp Securities, Inc., CS First Boston Corporation and
PaineWebber Incorporated.

         "Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement dated June
3, 1996, among the Underwriters, NWA Corp. and Northwest, relating to the
purchase of the Certificates by the Underwriters, as the same may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its
terms.

         "WestLB" has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble to this
Agreement.

         "Written Notice" means, from (i) any Trustee or Liquidity Provider, a
written instrument executed by the Designated Representative of such Person,
and (ii) the Subordination Agent, a written instrument executed by a Person
designated in the Officer's Certificate of the Subordination Agent delivered on
the Closing Date.  An invoice delivered by a Liquidity Provider pursuant to
Section 3.1 in accordance with its normal invoicing procedures shall constitute
Written Notice under such Section.


                                   ARTICLE II

                       TRUST ACCOUNTS; CONTROLLING PARTY

                 SECTION 2.1  Agreement to Terms of Subordination; Payments
from Monies Received Only.  (a)  Each Trustee hereby acknowledges and agrees to
the terms of subordination set forth in this Agreement in respect of each Class
of Certificates and agrees to enforce such provisions and cause all payments in
respect of the Equipment Notes and the Liquidity Facilities to be applied in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.  In addition, each Trustee hereby
agrees to cause the Equipment Notes purchased by the related Trust to be
registered in the name of the Subordination Agent, as agent and trustee for
such Trustee, to be held in trust by the Subordination Agent solely for the
purpose of facilitating the enforcement of the subordination and other
provisions of this Agreement.

                 (b)  Except as otherwise expressly provided in the next
succeeding sentence of this Section 2.1, all payments to be made by the
Subordination Agent hereunder shall be made only from amounts received by it
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Special Payments or payments under Section [___] of the Participation
Agreements, and only to the extent that the Subordination Agent shall have
received sufficient income or proceeds therefrom to enable it to make such
payments in accordance with the terms hereof.  Each of the Trustees and the
Subordination Agent hereby agrees and, as provided in each Trust Agreement,
each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Certificate, and each Liquidity
Provider, by entering into the Liquidity Facility to which it is a party, has
agreed to look solely to such amounts  to the extent available for distribution
to it as provided in this Agreement and that none of the Trustees, Owner
Trustees, Loan Trustees, Owner Participants nor the Subordination Agent is
personally liable to any of them for any amounts payable or any liability under
this Agreement, any Trust Agreement, any Liquidity Facility or such
Certificate, except (in the case of the Subordination Agent) as expressly
provided herein or (in the case of the Trustees) as expressly provided in each
Trust Agreement or (in the case of the Owner Trustees and the Loan Trustees) as
expressly provided in any Operative Agreement.

                 SECTION 2.2  Trust Accounts.  (a)  Upon the execution of this
Agreement, the Subordination Agent shall establish and maintain in its name (i)
the Collection Account as an Eligible Deposit Account, bearing a designation
clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held in trust for the
benefit of the Trustees, the Certificateholders and the Liquidity Providers and
(ii) as a sub-account in the Collection Account, the Special Payments Account
as an Eligible Deposit Account, bearing a designation clearly indicating that
the funds deposited therein are held in trust for the benefit of the Trustees,
the Certificateholders and the Liquidity Providers.  The Subordination Agent
shall establish and maintain the Cash Collateral Accounts pursuant to and under
the circumstances set forth in Section 3.6(f) hereof.  Upon such establishment
and maintenance under Section 3.6(f) hereof, the Cash Collateral Accounts
shall, together with the Collection Account, constitute the "Trust Accounts"
hereunder.

                 (b)  Funds on deposit in the Trust Accounts shall be invested
and reinvested by the Subordination Agent in Eligible Investments selected by
the Subordination Agent if such investments are reasonably available and have
maturities no later than the earlier of (i) 90 days following the date of such
investment and (ii) the Business Day immediately preceding the Regular
Distribution Date or the date of the related distribution pursuant to Section
2.4 hereof, as the case may be, next following the date of such investment;
provided, however, that following the making of a Downgrade Drawing, the
Subordination Agent shall invest and reinvest such amounts at the direction of
the Liquidity Provider funding such Drawing.  Unless otherwise expressly
provided in this Agreement (including, without limitation, with respect to
Investment Earnings on deposit in the Cash Collateral Accounts, Section 3.6(f)
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Earnings shall be deposited in the Collection Account when received by the
Subordination Agent and shall be applied by the Subordination Agent in the same
manner as the principal amount of such investment is to be applied and any
losses shall be charged against the principal amount invested, in each case net
of the Subordination Agent's reasonable fees and expenses in making such
investments.  The Subordination Agent shall not be liable for any loss
resulting from any investment, reinvestment or liquidation required to be made
under this Agreement other than by reason of its willful misconduct or gross
negligence.  Eligible Investments and any other investment required to be made
hereunder shall be held to their maturities except that any such investment may
be sold (without regard to its maturity) by the Subordination Agent without
instructions whenever such sale is necessary to make a distribution required
under this Agreement.  Uninvested funds held hereunder shall not earn or accrue
interest.

                 (c)  The Subordination Agent shall possess all right, title
and interest in all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts
and in all proceeds thereof (including all income thereon, except as otherwise
provided herein with respect to Investment Earnings).  The Trust Accounts shall
be held in trust by the Subordination Agent under the sole dominion and control
of the Subordination Agent for the benefit of the Trustees, the
Certificateholders and the Liquidity Providers, as the case may be.  If, at any
time, any of the Trust Accounts ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account, the
Subordination Agent shall within 10 Business Days (or such longer period, not
to exceed 30 calendar days, to which each Rating Agency may consent) establish
a new Collection Account, Special Payments Account or Cash Collateral Account,
as the case may be, as an Eligible Deposit Account and shall transfer any cash
and/or any investments to such new Collection Account, Special Payments Account
or Cash Collateral Account, as the case may be.  So long as State Street is an
Eligible Institution, the Trust Accounts shall be maintained with it as
Eligible Deposit Accounts.

                 SECTION 2.3  Deposits to the Collection Account and Special
Payments Account.  (a)  The Subordination Agent shall, upon receipt thereof,
deposit in the Collection Account all Scheduled Payments received by it.

                 (b)  The Subordination Agent shall, on each date when one or
more Special Payments are made to the Subordination Agent as holder of the
Equipment Notes, deposit in the Special Payments Account the aggregate amount
of such Special Payments.

                 SECTION 2.4  Distributions of Special Payments.  (a)  Notice
of Special Payment.  Upon receipt by the Subordination Agent, as registered
holder of the Equipment Notes, of any notice of a Special Payment (or, in the
absence of any such notice, upon receipt by the Subordination Agent of a
Special Payment), the Subordination Agent shall promptly give notice thereof to
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shall promptly calculate the amount of the redemption or purchase of Equipment
Notes or the amount of any Overdue Scheduled Payment, as the case may be,
comprising such Special Payment under the applicable Indenture or Indentures
and shall promptly send to each Trustee a Written Notice of such amount and the
amount allocable to each Trust.  Such Written Notice shall also set the
distribution date for such Special Payment (a "Special Distribution Date"),
which shall be a Business Day which follows the later to occur of (x) the 10th
day after the date of such Written Notice or (y) the date the Subordination
Agent has received or expects to receive such Special Payment.  Amounts on
deposit in the Special Payments Account shall be distributed in accordance with
Sections 2.4(b) and 2.4(c) hereof, as applicable.

                 (b)  (i)  Redemptions and Purchases of Equipment Notes.  So
long as no Triggering Event shall have occurred (whether or not continuing),
the Subordination Agent shall make distributions pursuant to this Section
2.4(b) of amounts on deposit in the Special Payments Account on account of the
redemption or purchase of all of the Equipment Notes issued pursuant to an
Indenture on the Special Distribution Date for such Special Payment in the
following order of priority:

                 first, such amount as shall be required to pay (A) all accrued
         and unpaid Liquidity Expenses then in arrears plus(B) the product of
         (x) the aggregate amount of all accrued and unpaid Liquidity Expenses
         not in arrears to such Special Payment Date multiplied by (y) a
         fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate outstanding
         principal amount of Equipment Notes being redeemed, purchased or
         prepaid on such Special Payment Date and the denominator of which is
         the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Equipment Notes,
         shall be distributed to the Liquidity Providers pari passu on the
         basis of the amount of Liquidity Expenses owed to each Liquidity
         Provider;

                 second, such amount as shall be required to pay (A) all
         accrued and unpaid interest then in arrears on all Liquidity
         Obligations plus (B) the product of (x) the aggregate amount of all
         accrued and unpaid interest on all Liquidity Obligations not in
         arrears to such Special Payment Date (at the rate provided in the
         applicable Liquidity Facility) multiplied by (y) a fraction, the
         numerator of which is the aggregate outstanding principal amount of
         Equipment Notes being redeemed, purchased or prepaid on such Special
         Payment Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate outstanding
         principal amount of all Equipment Notes, shall be distributed to the
         Liquidity Providers pari passu on the basis of the amount of Liquidity
         Obligations owed to each Liquidity Provider;

                 third, such amount as shall be required (A) to pay or
         reimburse the Liquidity Providers in an amount equal to the amount of
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         Liquidity Facilities shall be distributed to the Liquidity Providers
         or (B) so long as neither (x) a Liquidity Event of Default shall have
         occurred and be continuing or (y)(1) a Triggering Event shall have
         occurred and be continuing and (2) there is a Performing Note
         Deficiency, to replenish the Cash Collateral Accounts up to their
         respective Required Amounts shall be deposited in the Cash Collateral
         Accounts, in each such case, pari passu on the basis of the amounts of
         such unreimbursed Interest Drawings and/or deficiencies;

                 fourth, such amount as shall be required to pay in full
         Expected Distributions to the holders of Class A Certificates on such
         Special Distribution Date shall be distributed to the Class A Trustee;

                 fifth, such amount as shall be required to pay in full
         Expected Distributions to the holders of Class B Certificates on such
         Special Distribution Date shall be distributed to the Class B Trustee;

                 sixth, such amount as shall be required to pay in full
         Expected Distributions to the holders of Class C Certificates on such
         Special Distribution Date shall be distributed to the Class C Trustee;

                 seventh, such amount as shall be required to pay in full
         Expected Distributions to the holders of Class D Certificates on such
         Special Distribution Date shall be distributed to the Class D Trustee;
         and

                 eighth, the balance, if any, of such Special Payment shall be
         transferred to the Collection Account for distribution in accordance
         with Section 3.2 hereof.

                    (ii)  Upon the occurrence of a Triggering Event (whether or
not continuing), the Subordination Agent shall make distributions pursuant to
this Section 2.4(b) of amounts on deposit in the Special Payments Account on
account of the redemption or purchase of all of the Equipment Notes issued
pursuant to an Indenture on the Special Distribution Date for such Special
Payment in accordance with Section 3.3 hereof.

                 (c)  Other Special Payments.  Any amounts on deposit in the
Special Payments Account other than in respect of amounts to be distributed
pursuant to Section 2.4(b) shall be distributed on the Special Distribution
Date therefor in accordance with Article III hereof.

                 (d)  Investment of Amounts in Special Payments Account.  Any
amounts on deposit in the Special Payments Account prior to the distribution
thereof pursuant to Section 2.4(b) or (c) shall be invested in accordance with
Section 2.2(b).  Investment Earnings on such investments shall be distributed
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                 SECTION 2.5  Designated Representatives.  (a)  With the
delivery of this Agreement, each Trustee shall furnish to the Subordination
Agent, and from time to time thereafter may furnish to the Subordination Agent,
at such Trustee's discretion, or upon the Subordination Agent's request (which
request shall not be made more than one time in any 12-month period), a
certificate (a "Trustee Incumbency Certificate") of a Responsible Officer of
such Trustee certifying as to the incumbency and specimen signatures of the
officers of such Trustee and the attorney-in-fact and agents of such Trustee
(the "Trustee Representatives") authorized to give Written Notices on behalf of
such Trustee hereunder.  Until the Subordination Agent receives a subsequent
Trustee Incumbency Certificate, it shall be entitled to rely on the last
Trustee Incumbency Certificate delivered to it hereunder.

                 (b)  With the delivery of this Agreement, each Liquidity
Provider shall furnish to the Subordination Agent, and from time to time
thereafter may furnish to the Subordination Agent, at such Liquidity Provider's
discretion, or upon the Subordination Agent's request (which request shall not
be made more than one time in any 12-month period), a certificate (an "LP
Incumbency Certificate") of [_______________] or any other authorized signatory
of such Liquidity Provider certifying as to the incumbency and specimen
signatures of any officer, attorney-in-fact, agent or other designated
representative of such Liquidity Provider (the "LP Representatives" and,
together with the Trustee Representatives, the "Designated Representatives")
authorized to give Written Notices on behalf of such Liquidity Provider
hereunder.  Until the Subordination Agent receives a subsequent LP Incumbency
Certificate, it shall be entitled to rely on the last LP Incumbency Certificate
delivered to it hereunder.

                 SECTION 2.6  Controlling Party.  (a)  The Trustees and the
Liquidity Providers hereby agree that, with respect to any Indenture at any
given time, the Loan Trustee thereunder will be directed (i) in taking, or
refraining from taking, any action with respect to such Indenture or the
Equipment Notes issued thereunder, so long as no Indenture Default has occurred
and is continuing thereunder, by the holders of at least a majority of the
outstanding principal amount of such Equipment Notes (provided that, for so
long as the Subordination Agent is the registered holder of the Equipment
Notes, the Subordination Agent shall act with respect to this clause (i) in
accordance with the directions of the Trustees representing holders of
Certificates representing an undivided interest in such principal amount of
Equipment Notes), and (ii) after the occurrence and during the continuance of
an Indenture Default thereunder (which has not been cured by the applicable
Owner Trustee or the applicable Owner Participant pursuant to Section [___] of
such Indenture), in taking, or refraining from taking, any action with respect
to such Indenture or such Equipment Notes, including  exercising remedies
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issued thereunder or foreclosing the Lien on the Aircraft securing such
Equipment Notes), by the Controlling Party.

                 (b)  The Person who shall be the "Controlling Party" with
respect to any Indenture shall be: (w) the Class A Trustee; (x) upon payment of
Final Distributions to the holders of Class A Certificates, the Class B
Trustee; (y) upon payment of Final Distributions to the holders of Class B
Certificates, the Class C Trustee; and (z) upon payment of Final Distributions
to the holders of Class C Certificates, the Class D Trustee.  For purposes of
giving effect to the foregoing, the Trustees (other than the Controlling Party)
irrevocably agree (and the Certificateholders (other than the
Certificateholders represented by the Controlling Party) shall be deemed to
agree by virtue of their purchase of Certificates) that the Subordination
Agent, as record holder of the Equipment Notes, shall exercise its voting
rights in respect of the Equipment Notes as directed by the Controlling Party
and any vote so exercised shall be binding upon the Trustees and all
Certificateholders.

                 The Subordination Agent shall give written notice to all of
the other parties to this Agreement promptly upon a change in the identity of
the Controlling Party.  Each of the parties hereto agrees that it shall not
exercise any of the rights of the Controlling Party at such time as it is not
the Controlling Party hereunder; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall prevent or prohibit any Non-Controlling Party from exercising
such rights as shall be specifically granted to such Non-Controlling Party
hereunder and under the other Operative Agreements.

                 (c)  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Liquidity Provider
with the then greatest amount of unreimbursed Liquidity Obligations payable to
it under the Liquidity Facilities shall have the right to elect, by Written
Notice to the Subordination Agent and each of the Trustees, to become the
Controlling Party hereunder with respect to any Indenture at any time from and
including the date which is 18 months from the Acceleration of the Equipment
Notes under such Indenture, if at the time of such election all Liquidity
Obligations owed to such Liquidity Provider under the Liquidity Facilities have
not been paid in full.

                 (d)  The exercise of remedies by the Controlling Party under
this Agreement shall be expressly limited by Section 4.1(a)(ii) hereof.

                 (e)  The Controlling Party shall not be entitled to require or
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                                  ARTICLE III

                    RECEIPT, DISTRIBUTION AND APPLICATION OF
                                AMOUNTS RECEIVED

                 SECTION 3.1  Written Notice of Distribution.  (a)  No later
than 3:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day immediately preceding
each Distribution Date (or Special Distribution Date for purposes of Section
2.4(b) hereof, as the case may be), each of the following Persons shall deliver
to the Subordination Agent a Written Notice setting forth the following
information as at the close of business on such Business Day:

                    (i)   With respect to the Class A Certificates, the Class A
         Trustee shall separately set forth the amounts to be paid in
         accordance with clause "fourth" of Section 3.2 or Section 2.4(b), as
         the case may be, hereof;

                    (ii)  With respect to the Class B Certificates, the Class B
         Trustee shall separately set forth the amounts to be paid in
         accordance with clause "fifth" of Section 3.2 or Section 2.4(b), as
         the case may be, hereof;

                   (iii)  With respect to the Class C Certificates, the Class C
         Trustee shall separately set forth the amounts to be paid in
         accordance with clause "sixth" of Section 3.2 or Section 2.4(b), as
         the case may be, hereof;

                    (iv)  With respect to the Class D Certificates, the Class D
         Trustee shall separately set forth the amounts to be paid in
         accordance with clause "seventh" of Section 3.2 or Section 2.4(b), as
         the case may be, hereof; and

                    (v)   With respect to each Liquidity Facility, the
         Liquidity Provider thereunder shall separately set forth the amounts
         to be paid in accordance with clauses "first", "second" and "third" of
         Section 3.2 or Section 2.4(b), as the case may be, hereof.

The notices required under this Section 3.1(a) may be in the form of a schedule
or similar document provided to the Subordination Agent by the parties
referenced therein or by any one of them, which schedule or similar document
may state that, unless there has been a prepayment of the Certificates, such
schedule or similar document is to remain in effect until any substitute notice
or amendment shall be given to the Subordination Agent by the party providing
such notice.

                 (b)  Following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, the
Subordination Agent shall request the following information from the following
Persons, and each of the following Persons shall, upon the request of the
Subordination Agent, deliver a Written Notice to the Subordination Agent
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                    (i)   With respect to the Class A Certificates, the Class A
         Trustee shall separately set forth the amounts to be paid in
         accordance with clauses "first" (relating to indemnity payments made
         by the Class A Certificateholders) and "sixth" of Section 3.3 hereof;

                    (ii)  With respect to the Class B Certificates, the Class B
         Trustee shall separately set forth the amounts to be paid in
         accordance with clauses "first" (relating to indemnity payments made
         by the Class B Certificateholders) and "seventh" of Section 3.3
         hereof;

                   (iii)  With respect to the Class C Certificates, the Class C
         Trustee shall separately set forth the amounts to be paid in
         accordance with clauses "first" (relating to indemnity payments made
         by the Class C Certificateholders) and "eighth" of Section 3.3 hereof;

                    (iv)  With respect to the Class D Certificates, the Class D
         Trustee shall separately set forth the amounts to be paid in
         accordance with clauses "first" (relating to indemnity payments made
         by the Class D Certificateholders) and "ninth" of Section 3.3 hereof;
         and

                    (v)   With respect to each Liquidity Facility, the
         Liquidity Provider thereunder shall separately set forth the amounts
         to be paid in accordance with clauses "second, "third" and "fourth" of
         Section 3.3 hereof.

                 (c)  At such time as a Trustee or a Liquidity Provider shall
have received all amounts owing to it (and, in the case of a Trustee, the
Certificateholders for which it is acting) pursuant to Section 2.4, 3.2 or 3.3
hereof, as applicable, and, in the case of a Liquidity Provider, its commitment
under the related Liquidity Facility shall have terminated or expired, such
Person shall, by a Written Notice, so inform the Subordination Agent and each
other party to this Agreement.

                 (d)  As provided in Section 6.5 hereof, the Subordination
Agent shall be fully protected in relying on any of the information set forth
in a Written Notice provided by any Trustee or any Liquidity Provider pursuant
to paragraphs (a) through (c) above and shall have no independent obligation to
verify, calculate or recalculate any amount set forth in any Written Notice
delivered in accordance with such paragraphs.

                 (e)  Any Written Notice delivered by a Trustee or a Liquidity
Provider, as applicable, pursuant to Section 3.1(a), 3.1(b) or 3.1(c) hereof,
if made prior to 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) shall be effective on the date
delivered (or if delivered later shall be effective as of the next Business
Day).  Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Subordination Agent shall as
promptly as practicable comply with any such instructions; provided, however,
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pursuant to any instruction received after 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on
any Business Day may be made on the next succeeding Business Day.

                 (f)  In the event the Subordination Agent shall not receive
from any Person any information set forth in paragraphs (a) or (b) above which
is required to enable the Subordination Agent to make a distribution to such
Person pursuant to Section 3.2 or 3.3 hereof, the Subordination Agent shall
request such information and, failing to receive any such information, the
Subordination Agent shall not make such distribution(s) to such Person.  In
such event, the Subordination Agent shall make distributions pursuant to
clauses "first" through "eighth" of Section 3.2 and clauses "first" through
"ninth" of Section 3.3 to the extent it shall have sufficient information to
enable it to make such distributions, and shall continue to hold any funds
remaining, after making such distributions, until the Subordination Agent shall
receive all necessary information to enable it to distribute any funds so
withheld.

                 (g)  On such dates (but not more frequently than monthly) as
any Liquidity Provider or any Trustee shall request, the Subordination Agent
shall send to such party a written statement reflecting all amounts on deposit
with the Subordination Agent pursuant to Section 3.1(f) hereof.

                 SECTION 3.2  Distribution of Amounts on Deposit in the
Collection Account.  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 2.4, 3.1(f), 3.3,
3.4 and 3.6(b), amounts on deposit in the Collection Account (or, in the case
of any amount described in Section 2.4(c), on deposit in the Special Payments
Account) shall be promptly distributed on each Distribution Date in the
following order of priority and in accordance with the information provided to
the Subordination Agent pursuant to Section 3.1(a) hereof:

                 first, such amount as shall be required to pay all accrued and
         unpaid Liquidity Expenses owed to each Liquidity Provider shall be
         distributed to the Liquidity Providers pari passu on the basis of the
         amount of Liquidity Expenses owed to each Liquidity Provider;

                 second, such amount as shall be required to pay in full the
         aggregate amount of interest accrued on all Liquidity Obligations (at
         the rate provided in the applicable Liquidity Facility) shall be
         distributed to the Liquidity Providers pari passu on the basis of the
         amount of Liquidity Obligations owed to each Liquidity Provider;

                 third, such amount as shall be required (A) to pay or
         reimburse the Liquidity Providers in an amount equal to the amount of
         all Liquidity Obligations then due (other than amounts payable
         pursuant to clause "first" or "second" of this Section 3.2) shall be
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         Providers, and (B) if applicable, to replenish the Cash Collateral
         Accounts up to their respective Required Amounts shall be deposited in
         the Cash Collateral Accounts, in each such case, pari passu on the
         basis of the amounts of such unreimbursed Liquidity Obligations and/or
         deficiencies;

                 fourth, such amount as shall be required to pay in full
         Expected Distributions to the holders of the Class A Certificates on
         such Distribution Date shall be distributed to the Class A Trustee;

                 fifth, such amount as shall be required to pay in full
         Expected Distributions to the holders of the Class B Certificates on
         such Distribution Date shall be distributed to the Class B Trustee;

                 sixth, such amount as shall be required to pay in full
         Expected Distributions to the holders of the Class C Certificates on
         such Distribution Date shall be distributed to the Class C Trustee;

                 seventh, such amount as shall be required to pay in full
         Expected Distributions to the holders of the Class D Certificates on
         such Distribution Date shall be distributed to the Class D Trustee;
         and

                 eighth, such amount as shall be required to pay in full the
         aggregate unpaid amount of fees and expenses payable as of such
         Distribution Date to the Subordination Agent and each Trustee pursuant
         to the terms of this Agreement and the Trust Agreements, as the case
         may be, shall be distributed to the Subordination Agent and such
         Trustee.

                 SECTION 3.3  Distribution of Amounts on Deposit Following a
Triggering Event.  (a)  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 3.1(f) and
3.6(b) hereof, upon the occurrence of a Triggering Event and at all times
thereafter, all funds in the Collection Account or the Special Payments Account
shall be promptly distributed by the Subordination Agent in the following order
of priority:

                 first, such amount as shall be required to reimburse (i) the
         Subordination Agent for any out-of-pocket costs and expenses actually
         incurred by it (to the extent not previously reimbursed) in the
         protection of, or the realization of the value of, the Equipment Notes
         or any Trust Indenture Estate, shall be applied by the Subordination
         Agent in reimbursement of such costs and expenses, (ii) each Trustee
         for any amounts of the nature described in clause (i) above actually
         incurred by it under the applicable Trust Agreement (to the extent not
         previously reimbursed), shall be distributed to such Trustee and (iii)
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         any Trustee in respect of amounts described in clause (i) above, shall
         be distributed to such Liquidity Provider or to the applicable Trustee
         for the account of such Certificateholder, in each such case, pari
         passu on the basis of all amounts described in clauses (i) through
         (iii) above;

                 second, such amount remaining as shall be required to pay all
         accrued and unpaid Liquidity Expenses (including fees in respect of a
         Downgrade Drawing) shall be distributed to each Liquidity Provider
         pari passu on the basis of the amount of Liquidity Expenses owed to
         each Liquidity Provider;

                 third, such amount remaining as shall be required to pay
         accrued and unpaid interest on the Liquidity Obligations (other than
         interest in respect of a Downgrade Drawing) as provided in the
         Liquidity Facilities shall be distributed to each Liquidity Provider
         pari passu on the basis of the amount of such accrued and unpaid
         interest owed to each Liquidity Provider;

                 fourth, such amount remaining as shall be required (A) to pay
         in full the outstanding amount of all Liquidity Obligations, whether
         or not then due (other than amounts payable pursuant to clause
         "second" or "third" of this Section 3.3) shall be distributed to each
         Liquidity Provider that has not funded a Cash Collateral Account in
         accordance with Section 3.6(c), 3.6(d) or 3.6(i) hereof, and/or (B) if
         applicable, so long as no Performing Note Deficiency exists or
         Liquidity Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to
         replenish the Cash Collateral Accounts up to their respective Required
         Amounts shall be deposited in the Cash Collateral Accounts, in each
         case, paripassu on the basis of the amount of Liquidity Obligations
         owed to each Liquidity Provider and/or such deficiencies;

                 fifth, such amount as shall be required to reimburse or pay
         (i) the Subordination Agent for any Tax (other than Taxes imposed on
         compensation paid hereunder), expense, fee, charge or other loss
         incurred by or any other amount payable to the Subordination Agent in
         connection with the transactions contemplated hereby (to the extent
         not previously reimbursed), shall be applied by the Subordination
         Agent in reimbursement of such amount, (ii) each Trustee for any Tax
         (other than Taxes imposed on compensation paid under the applicable
         Trust Agreement), expense, fee, charge, loss or any other amount
         payable to such Trustee under the applicable Trust Agreements (to the
         extent not previously reimbursed), shall be distributed to such
         Trustee and (iii) each Certificateholder for payments, if any, made by
         it pursuant to Section 5.2 hereof in respect of amounts described in
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         such Certificateholder, in each such case, pari passu on the basis of
         all amounts described in clauses (i) through (iii) above;

                 sixth, such amount remaining as shall be required to pay in
         full Adjusted Expected Distributions on the Class A Certificates shall
         be distributed to the Class A Trustee;

                 seventh, such amount remaining as shall be required to pay in
         full Adjusted Expected Distributions on the Class B Certificates shall
         be distributed to the Class B Trustee;

                 eighth, such amount remaining as shall be required to pay in
         full Adjusted Expected Distributions on the Class C Certificates shall
         be distributed to the Class C Trustee;

                 ninth, such amount remaining as shall be required to pay in
         full Adjusted Expected Distributions on the Class D Certificates shall
         be distributed to the Class D Trustee;

                 tenth, such amount remaining shall be retained in the
         Collection Account until the immediately succeeding Distribution Date
         or, if all Classes of Certificates shall have been paid in full, shall
         be distributed to the Owner Trustee to the extent that the amount
         received from the Loan Trustees and deposited in the Collection
         Account exceed the amounts described in clauses "first" through
         "ninth" above; and

                 eleventh, such amount remaining shall be distributed to the
Certificateholders of the related Trust.

                 SECTION 3.4  Other Payments.  Any payments received by the
Subordination Agent for which no provision as to the application thereof is
made in this Agreement shall be distributed by the Subordination Agent in the
order of priority specified in Section 3.3 hereof.

                 SECTION 3.5  Payments to the Trustees and the Liquidity
Providers.  Any amounts distributed hereunder to any Liquidity Provider shall
be paid to such Liquidity Provider by wire transfer of funds to the address
such Liquidity Provider shall provide to the Subordination Agent.  The
Subordination Agent shall provide a Written Notice of any such transfer to the
applicable Liquidity Provider, as the case may be, at the time of such
transfer.  Any amounts distributed hereunder by the Subordination Agent to any
Trustee which shall not be the same institution as the Subordination Agent
shall be paid to such Trustee by wire transfer funds at the address such
Trustee shall provide to the Subordination Agent.

                 SECTION 3.6  Liquidity Facilities.  (a)  Interest Drawings.
If on any Distribution Date, after giving effect to the subordination
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Agent shall not have sufficient funds for the payment of any amounts due and
owing in respect of accrued interest on the Class A Certificates, the Class B
Certificates or the Class C Certificates (at the Stated Interest Rate for such
Class of Certificates), then, prior to 12:00 noon (New York City time) on the
Business Day following such Distribution Date, the Subordination Agent shall
request a drawing (each such drawing, an "Interest Drawing") under the
Liquidity Facility with respect to such Class of Certificates in an amount
equal to the lesser of (i) an amount sufficient to pay the amount of such
accrued interest (at the Stated Interest Rate for such Class of Certificates)
and (ii) the Available Amount under such Liquidity Facility, and shall pay such
amount to the Trustee with respect to such Class of Certificates in payment of
such accrued interest.

                 (b)  Application of Interest Drawings.  Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, (i) all payments received
by the Subordination Agent in respect of an Interest Drawing under the Class A
Liquidity Facility and all amounts withdrawn by the Subordination Agent from
the Class A Cash Collateral Account, and payable in each case to the Class A
Certificateholders, shall be promptly distributed to the Class A Trustee, (ii)
all payments received by the Subordination Agent in respect of an Interest
Drawing under the Class B Liquidity Facility and all amounts withdrawn by the
Subordination Agent from the Class B Cash Collateral Account, and payable in
each case to the Class B Certificateholders, shall be promptly distributed to
the Class B Trustee and (iii) all payments received by the Subordination Agent
in respect of an Interest Drawing under the Class C Liquidity Facility and all
amounts withdrawn by the Subordination Agent from the Class C Cash Collateral
Account, and payable in each case to the Class C Certificateholders, shall be
promptly distributed to the Class C Trustee.

                 (c)  Downgrade Drawings.  If at any time the debt rating of
any Liquidity Provider issued by either Rating Agency is lower than the
applicable Threshold Rating, within 30 days after receiving notice of such
downgrading (but no later than the expiration date of the Liquidity Facility
issued by the downgraded Liquidity Provider (the "Downgraded Facility")), such
Liquidity Provider may arrange, or the Subordination Agent (in consultation
with Northwest), may arrange for a Replacement Liquidity Provider to issue and
deliver a Replacement Liquidity Facility to the Subordination Agent.  If a
Downgraded Facility has not been replaced in accordance with the terms of this
paragraph, the Subordination Agent shall, subject to Section 3.6(d) hereof, on
such 30th day (or if such 30th day is not a Business Day, on the next
succeeding Business Day) (or, if earlier, the expiration date of such
Downgraded Facility) request a drawing in accordance with and to the extent
permitted by such Downgraded Facility (such drawing, a "Downgrade Drawing") of
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to a Downgrade Drawing shall be maintained and invested as provided in Section
3.6(f) hereof.

                 (d)  [Reserved.]

                 (e)  Issuance of Replacement Liquidity Facility.  At any time,
the Subordination Agent may, at its option, in consultation with Northwest,
arrange for a Replacement Liquidity Facility to replace the Liquidity Facility
for any Class of Certificates; provided that, until the third anniversary of
the date of this Agreement, the initial Liquidity Provider may not be replaced
unless there shall have become due to the initial Liquidity Provider amounts
pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.2 or 3.3 of the Liquidity Facilities and the
replacement of the initial Liquidity Provider would reduce or eliminate the
obligation to pay such amounts.  In any such consultation, the Subordination
Agent shall accept the recommendations of Northwest in the absence of a good
faith reason not to do so.  If such Replacement Liquidity Facility is provided
at any time after a Provider Advance has been made, all funds on deposit in the
relevant Cash Collateral Account will be returned to the Liquidity Provider
being replaced.  No such Replacement Liquidity Facility executed in connection
therewith shall become effective and no such Replacement Liquidity Facility
shall be deemed a "Liquidity Facility" under the Operative Agreements, unless
and until (i) the conditions referred to in the immediately following paragraph
shall have been satisfied and (ii) if such Replacement Liquidity Facility shall
materially adversely affect the rights, remedies, interests or obligations of
the Class A Certificateholders, the Class B Certificateholders or the Class C
Certificateholders under any of the Operative Agreements, the applicable
Trustee shall have consented, in writing, to the execution and issuance of such
Replacement Liquidity Facility.

                 In connection with the issuance of each Replacement Liquidity
Facility, the Subordination Agent shall (x) prior to the issuance of such
Replacement Liquidity Facility, obtain written confirmation from each Rating
Agency that such Replacement Liquidity Facility will not cause a reduction of
the rating then in effect for any Class of Certificates by such Rating Agency
(without regard to the ratings of any Liquidity Provider being replaced
pursuant to Section 3.6(c) hereof), (y) pay all Liquidity Obligations then
owing to the replaced Liquidity Provider (which payment shall be made first
from available funds in the Cash Collateral Account as described in clause (vi)
of Section 3.6(f) hereof and thereafter from any other available source,
including, without limitation, a drawing under the Replacement Liquidity
Facility, it being understood that no Replacement Liquidity Facility shall
become effective (other than insofar as necessary to permit the repayment of
amounts owed to the replaced Liquidity Provider) until all amounts owed to the
replaced Liquidity Provider have been paid) and (z) cause the issuer of the
Replacement Liquidity Facility to deliver the Replacement Liquidity Facility to
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Agent, together with a legal opinion opining that such Replacement Liquidity
Facility is an enforceable obligation of such Replacement Liquidity Provider.
Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 3.6(e), (i) the
replaced Liquidity Facility shall terminate and (ii) such Replacement Liquidity
Provider shall be deemed to be a Liquidity Provider with the rights and
obligations of a Liquidity Provider hereunder and under the other Operative
Agreements and such Replacement Liquidity Facility shall be deemed to be a
Liquidity Facility hereunder and under the other Operative Agreements.

                 (f)  Cash Collateral Accounts; Withdrawals; Investments.  In
the event the Subordination Agent shall draw all available amounts under the
Class A Liquidity Facility, the Class B Liquidity Facility or the Class C
Liquidity Facility pursuant to Section 3.6(c) or 3.6(d) or a Final Drawing
shall be made as provided in the Liquidity Facility, amounts so drawn shall be
deposited by the Subordination Agent in the Class A Cash Collateral Account,
the Class B Cash Collateral Account or the Class C Cash Collateral Account,
respectively.  Amounts so deposited shall be invested in Eligible Investments
in accordance with Section 2.2(b) hereof.  Investment Earnings on amounts on
deposit in the Cash Collateral Accounts after any drawings under Section
3.6(c), 3.6(d) or 3.6(i) hereof shall be paid to the respective Liquidity
Provider entitled thereto prior to giving effect to the distributions below on
each Distribution Date commencing on the first Distribution Date after any such
drawing.  The Subordination Agent shall deliver a written statement to the
respective Liquidity Provider to be paid one day prior to each Distribution
Date setting forth the aggregate amount of Investment Earnings held in the Cash
Collateral Accounts as of such date.  In addition, from and after the date
funds are so deposited, the Subordination Agent shall make withdrawals from
such account as follows:

                    (i)   on each Distribution Date, the Subordination Agent
         shall, to the extent it shall not have received funds to pay accrued
         and unpaid interest on the Class A Certificates (at the Stated
         Interest Rate for the Class A Certificates) from any other source,
         withdraw from the Class A Cash Collateral Account, and pay to the
         Class A Trustee an amount equal to the lesser of (x) an amount
         necessary to pay accrued and unpaid interest (at the Stated Interest
         Rate for the Class A Certificates) on such Class A Certificates and
         (y) the amount on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account;

                    (ii)  on each Distribution Date, the Subordination Agent
         shall, to the extent it shall not have received funds to pay accrued
         and unpaid interest on the Class B Certificates (at the Stated
         Interest Rate for the Class B Certificates) from any other source,
         withdraw from the Class B Cash Collateral Account, and pay to the
         Class B Trustee an amount equal to the lesser of (x) an amount
         necessary to pay accrued and unpaid interest (at the Stated Interest
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         Certificates) on such Class B Certificates and (y) the amount on
         deposit in the Class B Cash Collateral Account;

                   (iii)  on each Distribution Date, the Subordination Agent
         shall, to the extent it shall not have received funds to pay accrued
         and unpaid interest on the Class C Certificates (at the Stated
         Interest Rate for the Class C Certificates) from any other source,
         withdraw from the Class C Cash Collateral Account, and pay to the
         Class C Trustee an amount equal to the lesser of (x) an amount
         necessary to pay accrued and unpaid interest (at the Stated Interest
         Rate for the Class C Certificates) on such Class C Certificates and
         (y) the amount on deposit in the Class C Cash Collateral Account;

                    (iv)  on each date on which the Pool Balance of the Class A
         Trust shall have been reduced by payments made to the Class A
         Certificateholders pursuant to Section 2.4, 3.2 or 3.3 hereof, the
         Subordination Agent shall withdraw from the Class A Cash Collateral
         Account such amount as is necessary so that, after giving effect to
         the reduction of the Pool Balance on such date (including any such
         reduction resulting from a prior withdrawal of amounts on deposit in
         the Class A Cash Collateral Account on such date), the Required Amount
         (with respect to the Class A Liquidity Facility) will be on deposit in
         the Class A Cash Collateral Account and shall first, pay such amount
         to the Class A Liquidity Provider until the Liquidity Obligations
         (with respect to the Class A Certificates) shall have been paid in
         full, and second, deposit any remaining amount in the Collection
         Account;

                    (v)   on each date on which the Pool Balance of the Class B
         Trust shall have been reduced by payments made to the Class B
         Certificateholders pursuant to Section 2.4, 3.2 or 3.3 hereof, the
         Subordination Agent shall withdraw from the Class B Cash Collateral
         Account such amount as is necessary so that, after giving effect to
         the reduction of the Pool Balance on such date (including any such
         reduction resulting from a prior withdrawal of amounts on deposit in
         the Class B Cash Collateral Account on such date), the Required Amount
         (with respect to the Class B Liquidity Facility) will be on deposit in
         the Class B Cash Collateral Account and shall first, pay such amount
         to the Class B Liquidity Provider until the Liquidity Obligations
         (with respect to the Class B Certificates) shall have been paid in
         full, and second, deposit any remaining amount in the Collection
         Account;

                    (vi)  on each date on which the Pool Balance of the Class C
         Trust shall have been reduced by payments made of the Class C
         Certificateholders pursuant to Section 2.4, 3.2 or 3.3 hereof, the
         Subordination Agent shall withdraw from the Class C Cash Collateral
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         the Pool Balance on such date (including any such reduction resulting
         from a prior withdrawal of amounts on deposit in the Class C Cash
         Collateral Account on such date), the Required Amount (with respect to
         the Class C Liquidity Facility) will be on deposit in the Class C Cash
         Collateral Account and shall first, pay such amount to the Class C
         Liquidity Provider until the Liquidity Obligations (with respect to
         the Class C Certificates) shall have been paid in full, and second,
         deposit any remaining amount in the Collection Account;

                   (vii)  if a Replacement Liquidity Facility for any Class of
         Certificates shall be delivered to the Subordination Agent following
         the date on which funds have been deposited into the Cash Collateral
         Account for such Class of Certificates, the Subordination Agent shall
         withdraw all amounts on deposit in such Cash Collateral Account and
         shall, prior to the payment to the replaced Liquidity Provider of any
         amounts referred to in clause (y) of the second paragraph of Section
         3.6(e), pay such amounts to the replaced Liquidity Provider until all
         Liquidity Obligations owed to such Person shall have been paid in
         full, and shall deposit any remaining amount in the Collection
         Account; and

                 (viii)   following the payment of Final Distributions with
         respect to any Class of Certificates (other than the Class D
         Certificates), on the date on which the Subordination Agent shall have
         been notified by the Liquidity Provider for such Class of Certificates
         that the Liquidity Obligations owed to such Liquidity Provider have
         been paid in full, the Subordination Agent shall withdraw all amounts
         on deposit in the Cash Collateral Account in respect of such Class of
         Certificates and shall deposit such amount in the Collection Account.

                 (g)  Reinstatement.  With respect to any Interest Drawing
under the Liquidity Facility for any Trust, upon the reimbursement of the
applicable Liquidity Provider for all or any part of the amount of such
Interest Drawing, together with any accrued interest thereon, the Available
Amount of such Liquidity Facility shall be reinstated by an amount equal to the
amount so reimbursed to the applicable Liquidity Provider; provided, however,
that such Liquidity Facility shall not be so reinstated in part or in full at
any time if both (i) a Triggering Event shall have occurred and (ii) a
Performing Note Deficiency exists.  In the event that at any time prior to both
the occurrence of a Triggering Event and the existence of a Performing Note
Deficiency funds are withdrawn from any Cash Collateral Account pursuant to
clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of Section 3.6(f) hereof, then funds received by the
Subordination Agent prior to both the occurrence of a Triggering Event and the
existence of a Performing Note Deficiency shall be deposited in such Cash
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or clause "fourth" of Section 3.3, as applicable, and applied in accordance
with Section 3.6(f) hereof.

                 (h)  Reimbursement.  The amount of each drawing under the
Liquidity Facilities shall be due and payable, together with interest thereon,
on the dates and at the rates, respectively, provided in the Liquidity
Facilities.

                 (i)  Final Drawing.  If any action is required under a
Liquidity Facility to be taken by the Subordination Agent in order to make a
Final Drawing thereunder, the Subordination Agent shall not fail to take such
action.  Upon receipt of the proceeds of a Final Drawing under the related
Liquidity Facility, the Subordination Agent shall maintain and invest such
proceeds in accordance with Section 3.6(f) hereof.

                 (j)  Reduction of Stated Amount.  Promptly following each date
on which the Required Amount of the Liquidity Facility for a Class of
Certificates is reduced as a result of a distribution to the Certificateholders
of such Class of Certificates, the Subordination Agent shall, if such Liquidity
Facility provides for reductions of the Stated Amount of such Liquidity
Facility and if such reductions are not automatic, request the Liquidity
Provider for such Class of Certificates to reduce such Stated Amount to an
amount equal to the Required Amount with respect to such Liquidity Facility (as
calculated by the Subordination Agent after giving effect to such payment).
Each such request shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the
applicable Liquidity Facility.

                 (k)  Relation to Subordination Provisions.  Interest Drawings
under the Liquidity Facilities and withdrawals from the Cash Collateral
Accounts, in each case, in respect of interest on the Certificates of any
Class, will be distributed to the Trustee for such Class of Certificates,
notwithstanding Sections 3.2, 3.3 and 3.6(h) hereof.


                                   ARTICLE IV

                              EXERCISE OF REMEDIES

                 SECTION 4.1  Directions from the Controlling Party.
(a)  (i)  Following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Indenture
Default under any Indenture, the Controlling Party shall direct the Loan Trustee
under such Indenture in the exercise of remedies available to the holders of the
Equipment Notes issued pursuant to such Indenture, including, without
limitation, the ability to vote all such Equipment Notes in favor of declaring
all of the unpaid principal amount of such Equipment Notes and accrued interest
thereon to be due and payable under, and in accordance with, the provisions of
such Indenture.  Subject to the Owner Trustees' and the Owner Participants'
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the Equipment Notes issued pursuant to any Indenture have been Accelerated
following an Indenture Default with respect thereto, the Controlling Party may
sell, assign, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of and deliver all (but not
less than all) of such Equipment Notes to any Person at public or private sale,
at any location at the option of the Controlling Party, all upon such terms and
conditions as it may reasonably deem advisable in accordance with applicable
law.

                    (ii)  Subject to the Owner Trustees' and the Owner
Participants' rights set forth in the Indentures to purchase the Equipment
Notes, and notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as any Certificates remain
Outstanding, during the period ending on the date which is nine months after
the earlier of (x) the Acceleration of the Equipment Notes issued pursuant to
any Indenture or (y) the occurrence of a Northwest Bankruptcy Event, without
the consent of each Trustee, (A) no Aircraft subject to the Lien of such
Indenture or such Equipment Notes may be sold if the net proceeds from such
sale would be less than the Minimum Sale Price for such Aircraft or such
Equipment Notes, and (B) the amount and payment dates of rentals payable by
Northwest under the Lease for such Aircraft may not be adjusted, if, as a
result of such adjustment, the discounted present value of all such rentals
would be less than 75% of the discounted present value of the rentals payable
by Northwest under such Lease before giving effect to such adjustment, in each
case, using the weighted average interest rate of the Equipment Notes issued
pursuant to such Indenture as the discount rate.

                   (iii)  At the request of the Controlling Party, the
Subordination Agent may from time to time during the continuance of an
Indenture Default (and before the occurrence of a Triggering Event) commission
Appraisals with respect to the related Aircraft.

                    (iv)  After a Triggering Event occurs and any Equipment
Note becomes a Non-Performing Equipment Note, the Subordination Agent shall
obtain Appraisals for the Aircraft as soon as practicable and additional
Appraisals on or prior to each anniversary of the date of such initial
Appraisals; provided that, if the Controlling Party reasonably objects to the
appraised value of the Aircraft shown in any such Appraisals, the Controlling
Party shall have the right to obtain or cause to be obtained substitute
Appraisals (including any Appraisals based upon physical inspection of the
Aircraft).

                 (b)  The Controlling Party shall take such actions as it may
reasonably deem most effectual to complete the sale or other disposition of
such Aircraft or Equipment Notes.  In addition, in lieu of any sale,
assignment, contract to sell or other disposition, the Subordination Agent, on
behalf of the Controlling Party, may maintain possession of such Equipment
Notes and continue to apply monies received in respect of such Equipment Notes
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addition, in lieu of such sale, assignment, contract to sell or other
disposition, or in lieu of such maintenance of possession, the Controlling
Party may instruct the Loan Trustee under such Indenture to foreclose on the
Lien on the related Aircraft or to take any other remedial action permitted
under such Indenture or applicable law.

                 SECTION 4.2  Remedies Cumulative.  Each and every right, power
and remedy given to the Trustees, the Controlling Party or the Subordination
Agent specifically or otherwise in this Agreement shall be cumulative and shall
be in addition to every other right, power and remedy herein specifically given
or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute, and each and
every right, power and remedy whether specifically herein given or otherwise
existing may, subject always to the terms and conditions hereof, be exercised
from time to time and as often and in such order as may be deemed expedient by
any Trustee, the Controlling Party or the Subordination Agent, as appropriate,
and the exercise or the beginning of the exercise of any power or remedy shall
not be construed to be a waiver of the right to exercise at the same time or
thereafter any other right, power or remedy.  No delay or omission by any
Trustee, the Controlling Party or the Subordination Agent in the exercise of
any right, remedy or power or in the pursuit of any remedy shall impair any
such right, power or remedy or be construed to be a waiver of any default or to
be an acquiescence therein.

                 SECTION 4.3  Discontinuance of Proceedings.  In case any party
to this Agreement (including the Controlling Party in such capacity) shall have
instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right, power or remedy under this
Agreement by foreclosure, entry or otherwise, and such Proceedings shall have
been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or shall have been determined
adversely to the Person instituting such Proceeding, then and in every such
case each such party shall, subject to any determination in such proceedings,
be restored to its former position and rights hereunder, and all rights,
remedies and powers of such party shall continue as if no such Proceedings had
been instituted.

                 SECTION 4.4  Right of Certificateholders to Receive Payments
Not to Be Impaired.  Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding
but subject to each Trust Agreement, the right of any Certificateholder or any
Liquidity Provider, respectively, to receive payments pursuant to Section 2.4,
3.2 or 3.3 hereof when due, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after the applicable Distribution Date, shall not be
impaired or affected without the consent of such Certificateholder or such
Liquidity Provider, respectively.

                 SECTION 4.5  Undertaking for Costs.  In any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Agreement or in any suit against
any Controlling Party or the Subordination Agent for any action taken or
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Subordination Agent, as the case may be, a court in its discretion may require
the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs
of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, against any party litigant
in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or
defenses made by the party litigant.  The provisions of this Section do not
apply to a suit instituted by the Subordination Agent, a Liquidity Provider or
a Trustee or a suit by Certificateholders holding more than 10% of the original
principal amount of any Class of Certificates.


                                   ARTICLE V

                       DUTIES OF THE SUBORDINATION AGENT;
                          AGREEMENTS OF TRUSTEES, ETC.

                 SECTION 5.1  Notice of Indenture Default or Triggering Event.
(a)  In the event the Subordination Agent shall have actual knowledge of the
occurrence of an Indenture Default or a Triggering Event, as promptly as
practicable, and in any event within 10 days after obtaining knowledge thereof,
the Subordination Agent shall transmit by mail to the Rating Agencies, the
Liquidity Providers and the Trustees notice of such Indenture Default or
Triggering Event, unless such Indenture Default or Triggering Event shall have
been cured or waived.  For all purposes of this Agreement, in the absence of
actual knowledge on the part of a Responsible Officer, the Subordination Agent
shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Indenture Default or Triggering
Event unless notified in writing by one or more Trustees, one or more Liquidity
Providers or one or more Certificateholders.

                 (b)  Other Notices.  The Subordination Agent will furnish to
each Liquidity Provider and Trustee, promptly upon receipt thereof, duplicates
or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial
statements and other instruments furnished to the Subordination Agent as
registered holder of the Equipment Notes or otherwise in its capacity as
Subordination Agent to the extent the same shall not have been otherwise
directly distributed to such Liquidity Provider or Trustee, as applicable,
pursuant to the express provision of any other Operative Agreement.

                 SECTION 5.2  Indemnification.  The Subordination Agent shall
not be required to take any action or refrain from taking any action under
Section 5.1 (other than the first sentence thereof) or Article IV hereof unless
the Subordination Agent shall have been indemnified (to the extent and in the
manner reasonably satisfactory to the Subordination Agent) against any
liability, cost or expense (including counsel fees and expenses) which may be
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this Agreement and nothing contained in this Agreement shall require the
Subordination Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk
or liability is not reasonably assured to it.  The Subordination Agent shall
not be required to take any action under Section 5.1 (other than the first
sentence thereof) or Article IV hereof, nor shall any other provision of this
Agreement be deemed to impose a duty on the Subordination Agent to take any
action, if the Subordination Agent shall have been advised by counsel that such
action is contrary to the terms hereof or is otherwise contrary to law.

                 SECTION 5.3  No Duties Except as Specified in Intercreditor
Agreement.  The Subordination Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to
take or refrain from taking any action under, or in connection with, this
Agreement, except as expressly provided by the terms of this Agreement; and no
implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the
Subordination Agent.  The Subordination Agent agrees that it will, in its
individual capacity and at its own cost and expense (but without any right of
indemnity in respect of any such cost or expense under Section 7.1 hereof)
promptly take such action as may be necessary to duly discharge all Liens on
any of the Trust Accounts or any monies deposited therein which result from
claims against it in its individual capacity not related to its activities
hereunder or any other Operative Agreement.

                 SECTION 5.4  Notice from the Liquidity Providers and Trustees.
If any Liquidity Provider or Trustee has notice of an Indenture Default or a
Triggering Event, such Person shall promptly give notice thereof to all other
Liquidity Providers and Trustees and to the Subordination Agent, provided,
however, that no such Person shall have any liability hereunder as a result of
its failure to deliver any such notice.


                                   ARTICLE VI

                            THE SUBORDINATION AGENT

                 SECTION 6.1  Authorization; Acceptance of Trusts and Duties.
Each of the Class A Trustee, Class B Trustee and Class C Trustee hereby
designates and appoints the Subordination Agent as the agent and trustee of
such Trustee under the applicable Liquidity Facility and authorizes the
Subordination Agent to enter into the applicable Liquidity Facility as agent
and trustee for such Trustee.  Each of the Liquidity Providers and the Trustees
hereby designates and appoints the Subordination Agent as the agent and trustee
of such Person under this Agreement and authorizes the Subordination Agent to
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                 State Street of Connecticut hereby accepts the duties hereby
created and applicable to it as the Subordination Agent and agrees to perform
the same but only upon the terms of this Agreement and agrees to receive and
disburse all monies received by it in accordance with the terms hereof.  The
Subordination Agent shall not be answerable or accountable under any
circumstances, except (a) for its own willful misconduct or gross negligence,
(b) as provided in Section 2.2 hereof and (c) for liabilities that may result
from the material inaccuracy of any representation or warranty of the
Subordination Agent made in its individual capacity in any Operative Agreement.
The Subordination Agent shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Subordination Agent, unless it is
proved that the Subordination Agent was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts.

                 SECTION 6.2  Absence of Duties.  The Subordination Agent shall
have no duty to see to any recording or filing of this Agreement or any other
document, or to see to the maintenance of any such recording or filing.

                 SECTION 6.3  No Representations or Warranties as to Documents.
The Subordination Agent in its individual capacity does not make nor shall be
deemed to have made any representation or warranty as to the validity, legality
or enforceability of this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement or as to
the correctness of any statement contained in any thereof, except for the
representations and warranties of the Subordination Agent, made in its
individual capacity, under any Operative Agreement to which it is a party.  The
Certificateholders, the Trustees and the Liquidity Providers make no
representation or warranty hereunder whatsoever.

                 SECTION 6.4  No Segregation of Monies; No Interest.  Any
monies paid to or retained by the Subordination Agent pursuant to any provision
hereof and not then required to be distributed to any Trustee or any Liquidity
Provider as provided in Articles II and III hereof need not be segregated in
any manner except to the extent required by such Articles II and III and by
law, and the Subordination Agent shall not (except as otherwise provided in
Section 2.2 hereof) be liable for any interest thereon; provided, however, that
any payments received or applied hereunder by the Subordination Agent shall be
accounted for by the Subordination Agent so that any portion thereof paid or
applied pursuant hereto shall be identifiable as to the source thereof.

                 SECTION 6.5  Reliance; Agents; Advice of Counsel.  The
Subordination Agent shall not incur liability to anyone in acting upon any
signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order,
certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by it to
be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties.  As
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for all purposes hereof rely on a certificate signed by any Responsible Officer
of the applicable Trustee, and such certificate shall constitute full
protection to the Subordination Agent for any action taken or omitted to be
taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon.  As to any fact or matter
relating to the Liquidity Providers or the Trustees the manner of ascertainment
of which is not specifically described herein, the Subordination Agent may for
all purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by any Responsible Officer of
the applicable Liquidity Provider or Trustee, as the case may be, as to such
fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the
Subordination Agent for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good
faith in reliance thereon.  The Subordination Agent shall assume, and shall be
fully protected in assuming, that each of the Liquidity Providers and each of
the Trustees are authorized to enter into this Agreement and to take all action
to be taken by them pursuant to the provisions hereof, and shall not inquire
into the authorization of each of the Liquidity Providers and each of the
Trustees with respect thereto.  In the administration of the trusts hereunder,
the Subordination Agent may execute any of the trusts or powers hereof and
perform its powers and duties hereunder directly or through agents or attorneys
and may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled persons to be
selected and retained by it, and the Subordination Agent shall not be liable
for the acts or omissions of any agent appointed with due care or for anything
done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the advice or
written opinion of any such counsel, accountants or other skilled persons.

                 SECTION 6.6  Capacity in Which Acting.  The Subordination
Agent acts hereunder solely as agent and trustee herein and not in its
individual capacity, except as otherwise expressly provided in the Operative
Agreements.

                 SECTION 6.7  Compensation.  The Subordination Agent shall be
entitled to reasonable compensation, including expenses and disbursements, for
all services rendered hereunder and shall have a priority claim to the extent
set forth in Article III hereof on all monies collected hereunder for the
payment of such compensation, to the extent that such compensation shall not be
paid by others.  The Subordination Agent agrees that it shall have no right
against any Trustee or Liquidity Provider for any fee as compensation for its
services as agent under this Agreement.  The provisions of this Section 6.7
shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

                 SECTION 6.8  May Become Certificateholder.  The institution
acting as Subordination Agent hereunder may become a Certificateholder and have
all rights and benefits of a Certificateholder to the same extent as if it were
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                 SECTION 6.9  Subordination Agent Required; Eligibility.  There
shall at all times be a Subordination Agent hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America or of any State or the District of Columbia having a combined capital
and surplus of at least $100,000,000 (or the obligations of which, whether now
in existence or hereafter incurred, are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by
a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States,
any State thereof or of the District of Columbia and having a combined capital
and surplus of at least $100,000,000), if there is such an institution willing
and able to perform the duties of the Subordination Agent hereunder upon
reasonable or customary terms.  Such corporation shall be a citizen of the
United States and shall be authorized under the laws of the United States or
any State thereof or of the District of Columbia to exercise corporate trust
powers and shall be subject to supervision or examination by federal, state or
District of Columbia authorities.  If such corporation publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any of
the aforesaid supervising or examining authorities, then, for the purposes of
this Section 6.9, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published.

                 In case at any time the Subordination Agent shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Subordination
Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in
Section 8.1.

                 SECTION 6.10  Money to Be Held in Trust.  All Equipment Notes,
monies and other property deposited with or held by the Subordination Agent
pursuant to this Agreement shall be held in trust for the benefit of the
parties entitled to such Equipment Notes, monies and other property.  All such
Equipment Notes, monies or other property shall be held in the Trust Department
of the institution acting as Subordination Agent hereunder.


                                  ARTICLE VII

                     INDEMNIFICATION OF SUBORDINATION AGENT

                 SECTION 7.1  Scope of Indemnification.  The Subordination
Agent shall be indemnified hereunder to the extent and in the manner described
in Section [___] of the Participation Agreements.  The indemnities contained in
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                                  ARTICLE VIII

                         SUCCESSOR SUBORDINATION AGENT

                 SECTION 8.1  Replacement of Subordination Agent; Appointment
of Successor.  The Subordination Agent may resign at any time by so notifying
the Trustees and the Liquidity Providers.  The Liquidity Provider or the
Controlling Party (or, prior to the occurrence of a Triggering Event, the
Person who would be the Controlling Party if a Triggering Event had occurred)
may remove the Subordination Agent for cause by so notifying the Subordination
Agent and may appoint a successor Subordination Agent.  The Controlling Party
(or, prior to the occurrence of a Triggering Event, the Person who would be the
Controlling Party if a Triggering Event had occurred) shall remove the
Subordination Agent if:

                 (1)  the Subordination Agent fails to comply with Section 6.9
                      hereof;

                 (2)  the Subordination Agent is adjudged bankrupt or
                      insolvent;

                 (3)  a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the
                      Subordination Agent or its property; or

                 (4)  the Subordination Agent otherwise becomes incapable of
                      acting.

                 If the Subordination Agent resigns or is removed or if a
vacancy exists in the office of Subordination Agent for any reason (the
Subordination Agent in such event being referred to herein as the retiring
Subordination Agent), the Controlling Party (or, prior to the occurrence of a
Triggering Event, the Person who would be the Controlling Party if a Triggering
Event had occurred) shall promptly appoint a successor Subordination Agent.

                 Any corporation into which the Subordination Agent may be
merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the
Subordination Agent shall be a party, or any corporation to which substantially
all the corporate trust business of the Subordination Agent may be transferred,
shall, subject to the terms of Section 6.9 hereof, be the Subordination Agent
hereunder and under the other Operative Documents to which the Subordination
Agent is a party without further act, except that such Person shall give prompt
subsequent notice of such transaction to the Liquidity Provider and each
Trustee,

                 A successor Subordination Agent shall deliver a written
acceptance of its appointment as Subordination Agent hereunder to the retiring
Subordination Agent, upon which the resignation or removal of the retiring
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effective, and the successor Subordination Agent shall have all the rights,
powers and duties of the Subordination Agent under this Agreement.  The
successor Subordination Agent shall mail a notice of its succession to the
Liquidity Providers and the Trustees.  The retiring Subordination Agent shall
promptly transfer its rights under each of the Liquidity Facilities and all of
the property held by it as Subordination Agent to the successor Subordination
Agent.

                 If a successor Subordination Agent does not take office within
60 days after the retiring Subordination Agent resigns or is removed, the
retiring Subordination Agent or one or more of the Trustees may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Subordination Agent.

                 If the Subordination Agent fails to comply with Section 6.9
hereof (to the extent applicable), one or more of the Trustees or one or more
of the Liquidity Providers may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the removal of the Subordination Agent and the appointment of a successor
Subordination Agent.

                 Notwithstanding the foregoing, no resignation or removal of
the Subordination Agent shall be effective unless and until a successor has
been appointed.  No appointment of a successor Subordination Agent shall be
effective unless and until the Rating Agencies shall have delivered a Ratings
Confirmation.


                                   ARTICLE IX

                           SUPPLEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS

                 SECTION 9.1  Amendments, Waivers, Etc.  (a)  This Agreement
may not be supplemented, amended or modified without the consent of each
Trustee (acting with the consent of holders of Certificates of the related
Class evidencing interests in the related Trust aggregating not less than a
majority in interest in such Trust), the Subordination Agent and each Liquidity
Provider; provided, however, that this Agreement may be supplemented, amended
or modified without the consent of any Trustee if such supplement or amendment
cures an ambiguity or inconsistency or does not materially adversely affect
such Trustee or the holders of the related Class of Certificates.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, without the consent of each Certificateholder
and each Liquidity Provider, no supplement, amendment or modification of this
Agreement may (i) reduce the percentage of the interest in any Trust evidenced
by the Certificates issued by such Trust necessary to consent to modify or
amend any provision of this Agreement or to waive compliance therewith or (ii)
modify Section 2.4, 3.2 or 3.3 hereof, relating to the distribution of monies
received by the Subordination Agent hereunder from the Equipment Notes or
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time following the payment of Final Distributions with respect to the related
Class of Certificates.

                 (b)  In the event that the Subordination Agent, as the
registered holder of any Equipment Notes, receives a request for its consent to
any amendment, modification or waiver under such Equipment Notes, the Indenture
pursuant to which such Equipment Notes were issued, or the Lease, Participation
Agreement or other related document, (i) if no Indenture Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, the Subordination Agent shall request instructions
with respect to each Series of Equipment Notes from the Trustee of the Trust
which holds such Equipment Notes and shall vote or consent in accordance with
the instructions of such Trustee and (ii) if any Indenture Default (which has
not been cured by the applicable Owner Trustee or the applicable Owner
Participant pursuant to Section [___] of such Indenture) shall have occurred
and be continuing with respect to such Indenture, the Subordination Agent will
exercise its voting rights as directed by the Controlling Party; provided that
no such amendment, modification or waiver shall, without the consent of each
Liquidity Provider, reduce the amount of rent, supplemental rent or stipulated
loss values payable by the lessee under the Lease.

                 SECTION 9.2  Subordination Agent Protected.  If, in the
reasonable opinion of the institution acting as the Subordination Agent
hereunder, any document required to be executed pursuant to the terms of
Section 9.1 affects any right, duty, immunity or indemnity with respect to it
under this Agreement or any Liquidity Facility, the Subordination Agent may in
its discretion decline to execute such document.

                 SECTION 9.3  Effect of Supplemental Agreements.  Upon the
execution of any amendment or supplement hereto pursuant to the provisions
hereof, this Agreement shall be and be deemed to be and shall be modified and
amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of
rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Agreement of the parties
hereto and beneficiaries hereof shall thereafter be determined, exercised and
enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and
amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental agreement
shall be and be deemed to be and shall be part of the terms and conditions of
this Agreement for any and all purposes.  In executing or accepting any
supplemental agreement permitted by this Article IX, the Subordination Agent
shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
opinion of counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental agreement is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement.

                 SECTION 9.4  Notice to Rating Agencies.  Promptly following
its receipt of each amendment, consent, modification, supplement or waiver
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Subordination Agent shall send a copy thereof to each Rating Agency.


                                   ARTICLE X

                                 MISCELLANEOUS

                 SECTION 10.1  Termination of Intercreditor Agreement.
Following payment of Final Distributions with respect to each Class of
Certificates and the payment in full of all Liquidity Obligations to the
Liquidity Providers and provided that there shall then be no other amounts due
to the Certificateholders, the Trustees, the Liquidity Providers and the
Subordination Agent hereunder or under the Trust Agreements, and that the
commitment of the Liquidity Providers under the Liquidity Facilities shall have
expired or been terminated, this Agreement and the trusts created hereby shall
terminate and this Agreement shall be of no further force or effect.  Except as
aforesaid or otherwise provided, this Agreement and the trusts created hereby
shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with the terms hereof.

                 SECTION 10.2  Intercreditor Agreement for Benefit of Trustees,
Liquidity Providers and Subordination Agent.  Nothing in this Agreement,
whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any Person other than
the Trustees, the Liquidity Providers and the Subordination Agent any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement.

                 SECTION 10.3  Notices.  Unless otherwise expressly specified
or permitted by the terms hereof, all notices, requests, demands,
authorizations, directions, consents, waivers or documents provided or
permitted by this Agreement to be made, given, furnished or filed shall be in
writing, mailed by certified mail, postage prepaid, or by confirmed telecopy
and

                    (i)   if to the Subordination Agent, addressed to at its
office at:

                          State Street Bank and Trust Company of 
                            Connecticut, National Association
                          c/o State Street Bank and Trust Company
                          Two International Place
                          Boston, Massachusetts  02110
                          Attention:  ______________

                    (ii)  if to any Trustee, addressed to it at its office at:

                          c/o State Street Bank and Trust Company
                          Two International Place
                          Boston, Massachusetts  02110
                          Attention:  ______________





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     (iii)  if to any Liquidity Provider, addressed to it at its office at:

                          Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale,
                          New York Branch
                          1211 Avenue of the Americas
                          New York, New York 10036
                          Attention:  Brigitte Thieme,
                                             Asset Based Finance
                          Telecopy:  212-921-5947

Whenever any notice in writing is required to be given by any Trustee or
Liquidity Provider or the Subordination Agent to any of the other of them, such
notice shall be deemed given and such requirement satisfied when such notice is
received, if such notice is received, if such notice is mailed by certified
mail, postage prepaid or by courier service or is sent by confirmed telecopy
addressed as provided above.  Any party hereto may change the address to which
notices to such party will be sent by giving notice of such change to the other
parties to this Agreement.

                 SECTION 10.4  Severability.  Any provision of this Agreement
which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any
such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate
or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

                 SECTION 10.5  No Oral Modifications or Continuing Waivers.  No
terms or provisions of this Agreement may be changed, waived, discharged or
terminated orally, but only by an instrument in writing signed by the party or
other Person against whom enforcement of the change, waiver, discharge or
termination is sought and any other party or other Person whose consent is
required pursuant to this Agreement and any waiver of the terms hereof shall be
effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose given.

                 SECTION 10.6  Successors and Assigns.  All covenants and
agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of,
each of the parties hereto and the successors and assigns of each, all as
herein provided.

                 SECTION 10.7  Headings.  The headings of the various Articles
and Sections herein and in the table of contents hereto are for convenience of
reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions
hereof.

                 SECTION 10.8  Counterpart Form.  This Agreement may be
executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
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all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same agreement.

                 SECTION 10.9  Subordination.  (a)  As between the Liquidity
Providers, on the one hand, and the Trustees and the Certificateholders, on the
other hand, this Agreement shall be a subordination agreement for purposes of
Section 510 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, as amended from time to time.

                 (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Agreement, if
prior to the payment in full to the Liquidity Providers of all Liquidity
Obligations then due and payable, any party hereto shall have received any
payment or distribution in respect of Equipment Notes or any other amount under
the Indentures or other Operative Documents which, had the subordination
provisions of this Agreement been properly applied to such payment,
distribution or other amount, would not have been distributed to such Person,
then such payment, distribution or other amount shall be received and held in
trust by such Person and paid over or delivered to the Subordination Agent for
application as provided herein.

                 (c)  If any Trustee, any Liquidity Provider or the
Subordination Agent receives any payment in respect of any obligations owing
hereunder (or, in the case of the Liquidity Providers, in respect of the
Liquidity Obligations), which is subsequently invalidated, declared
preferential, set aside and/or required to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or
other party, then, to the extent of such payment, such obligations (or, in the
case of the Liquidity Providers, such Liquidity Obligations) intended to be
satisfied shall be revived and continue in full force and effect as if such
payment had not been received.

                 (d)  The Trustees (on behalf of themselves and the holders of
Certificates), the Liquidity Providers and the Subordination Agent confirm that
the payment priorities specified in Sections 2.4, 3.2 and 3.3 shall apply in
all circumstances, notwithstanding the fact that the obligations owed to the
Trustees and the holders of Certificates are secured by certain assets and the
Liquidity Obligations are not so secured.  The Trustees expressly agree (on
behalf of themselves and the holders of Certificates) not to assert priority
over the holders of Liquidity Obligations due to their status as secured
creditors in any bankruptcy, insolvency or other legal proceeding.

                 (e)  Each of the Trustees (on behalf of themselves and the
holders of Certificates), the Liquidity Providers and the Subordination Agent
may take any of the following actions without impairing its rights under this
Agreement:

                    (i)   obtain a lien on any property to secure any amounts
         owing to it hereunder, including, in the case of the Liquidity
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                    (ii)  obtain the primary or secondary obligation of any
         other obligor with respect to any amounts owing to it hereunder,
         including, in the case of the Liquidity Providers, any of the
         Liquidity Obligations,

                   (iii)  renew, extend, increase, alter or exchange any
         amounts owing to it hereunder, including, in the case of the Liquidity
         Providers, any of the Liquidity Obligations, or release or compromise
         any obligation of any obligor with respect thereto,

                    (iv)  refrain from exercising any right or remedy, or delay
         in exercising such right or remedy, which it may have, or

                    (v)   take any other action which might discharge a
         subordinated party or a surety under applicable law.

                 SECTION 10.10  GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL IN ALL
RESPECTS BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE
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                 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized, as of the day and year first above written, and acknowledge that
this Agreement has been made and delivered in the City of New York, and this
Agreement has become effective only upon such execution and delivery.


                           STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, 
                                    not in its individual
                                    capacity but solely as Trustee 
                                    for each of the Trusts


                           By                                 
                             ---------------------------------
                             Name:
                             Title:


                           WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK GIROZENTRALE, 
                              NEW YORK BRANCH, as
                                    Class A Liquidity Provider, 
                                    Class B Liquidity Provider and
                                    Class C Liquidity Provider


                           By                                 
                             ---------------------------------
                             Name:
                             Title:


                           STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT,
                                    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
                                    not in its individual capacity except as 
                                    expressly set forth herein but
                                    solely as Subordination Agent and trustee


                           By                                 
                             ---------------------------------
                             Name:
                             Title:




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SCHEDULE 1 TO

INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT


                                   Indentures
<PAGE>   59
SCHEDULE 2 TO

INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT


                              Refunding Agreements

<PAGE>   1
                                                                Exhibit 23(a)(1)


               [LETTERHEAD OF AIRCRAFT INFORMATION SERVICES, INC.]

                                                                     22 May 1996

NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.
5105 Northwest Drive
St. Paul, MN  55111-3034

Dear Sirs:

We hereby consent to the use of our name and the making of the statements with
respect to us, including the reference to our appraisal reports and summary
appraisal letter relating to the Aircraft appraised by us, which are set forth
in the Prospectus and related Prospectus Supplement (collectively, the
"Prospectus") relating to the Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass-Through Trusts. We
also consent to the inclusion of our summary appraisal letter in such
Prospectus, the incorporation by reference of our appraisal reports in the
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-2516) and such Prospectus, and
the reference to us under the heading "Experts" in such Prospectus.

Sincerely,

AIRCRAFT INFORMATION SERVICE, INC.

Fred E. Bearden
President

FEB/ND/slf

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                                                                Exhibit 23(a)(2)


                       [LETTERHEAD OF BK ASSOCIATES, INC.]
                             1295 Northern Boulevard
                            Manhasset, New York 11030
                       (516) 365-6272 - Fax (516) 365-6287

                                          May 29, 1996

NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.
5101 Northwest Drive
St. Paul, MN  55111-3034

Dear Sirs:

We hereby consent to the use of our name and the making of the statements with
respect to us, including the reference to our appraisal reports and summary
appraisal letter relating to the Aircraft appraised by us, which are set forth
in the Prospectus and related Prospectus Supplement (collectively, the
"Prospectus") relating to the Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass-Through Trusts. We
also consent to the inclusion of our summary appraisal letter in such
Prospectus, the incorporation by reference of our appraisal reports in the
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-2516) and such Prospectus, and
the reference to us under the heading "Experts" in such Prospectus.

                                           Sincerely yours,

                                           BK ASSOCIATES, INC.

                                           John F. Keitz
                                           Vice President
                                           ISTAT Certified Senior Appraiser


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                                                              Exhibit 23(a)(3)


                [Letterhead of Simat, Helliesen & Eichner, Inc.]



                                        May 29, 1996


Northwest Airlines, Inc.
5101 Northwest Drive
St. Paul, MN 55111-3034

Dear Sirs:

        We hereby consent to the use of our name and the making of the
statements with respect to us, including the reference to our appraisal reports
and summary appraisal letter relating to the Aircraft appraised by us, which
are set forth in the Prospectus and related Prospectus Supplement
(collectively, the "Prospectus") relating to the Northwest Airlines 1996-1
Pass-Through Trusts. We also consent to the inclusion of our summary appraisal
letter in such Prospectus, the incorporation by reference of our appraisal
reports in the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-2516) and such
Prospectus, and the reference to us under the heading "Experts" in such
Prospectus. 

                                        Sincerely,



                                        /s/ Clive G. Medland
                                        --------------------
                                        Clive G. Medland
                                        Vice President

                                

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                                                                Exhibit 23(a)(4)

                   [LETTERHEAD OF BINGHAM, DANA & GOULD LLP]


                                  June 5, 1996

Northwest Airlines Corporation
and
Northwest Airlines, Inc.
5101 Northwest Drive
St. Paul, Minnesota 55111-3034

Gentlemen:

        We hereby consent to the reference to our firm contained under the
heading "Certain Massachusetts and Connecticut Taxes" and "Legal Matters" in
the Prospectus and related Prospectus Supplement (collectively, the
"Prospectus") relating to the Northwest Airlines 1996-1 Pass Through Trusts. In
giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of
persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of
1988, as amended or the Rules and Regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission. 

                                        Very truly yours,

                                        /s/ Bingham, Dana & Gould LLP
                                        
                                        BINGHAM, DANA & GOULD LLP


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