Boeing 737-8
N1811U is a Boeing 737-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2022. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 17, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-8 · all 737-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 60219
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Cfm Intl LEAP-1B28 SER · 29,317 lb thrust
- Seats
- 175
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A146F1 (octal 50243361)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 17, 2022
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01360335
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Airlines CO
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 2702 Love Field Drive Hdq-4Gc
Dallas, TX 75235
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1811U, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued January 3, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 17, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60219 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1811U according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1811U: Incident on May 1, 1995 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas DC10-10 · operated under 121
failure of the safety wire and/or safety wire lug arm on one of the stage one to two disk flange bolts due to an inadequate safetying method.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data