Boeing 737-79P
N7861J is a Boeing 737-79P, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2005. It has 149 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 17, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-79P · all 737-79Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 33008
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B24 · 24,200 lb thrust
- Seats
- 149
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AAA954 (octal 52524524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 17, 2017
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01255629
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Airlines CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2702 Love Field Dr # Hdq-4Gc
Dallas, TX 75235-1908
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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 N7861J, 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 December 19, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 17, 2017, 12 years after the 2005 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7861J 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 N7861J: Incident on June 25, 2024 at Portland, ME: no injuries. 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: Boeing 737-79P · operated under 121
On June 25, 2024, about 0543 eastern daylight time, Southwest Airlines (SWA) flight 4805, a Boeing 737-79P, N7861J, departed from a closed runway at Portland International Jetport (PWM), Portland, Maine. The flight continued without further incident to its intended destination, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), Baltimore, Maryland. The 2 flight crewmembers, 3 cabin crewmembers, and 131 passengers deplaned at the gate without any injuries. The flight was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 scheduled domestic passenger flight. That same …
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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data