{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2004-12-12","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-01-12","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"13802","engine_horsepower":2200,"engine_maker":"CFM INTL.","engine_model":"CFM56 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1384404","mode_s_code":"51420365","mode_s_hex":"A620F5","model":"737-7H4","n_number":"N494WN","name":"SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Chicago","damage":"SUBS","date":"2005-07-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI05LA179","probable_cause":"The pushback tow driver not maintaining visual lookout for the wing walker's visual signal, and the driver not maintaining clearance from the vehicle during the pushback for taxi.  Factors to the accident were the standing vehicle behind the airplane, the inadequate group/crew coordination for the pushback, and the lack of guidance in the company's manuals to stop the tow when visual lookout is not maintained.","registration":"N494WN","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on July 8, 2005 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N494WN is a Boeing 737-7H4, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2004. It has 143 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2005 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 12, 2004.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued January 12, 2005, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated December 12, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33868 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N494WN according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N494WN: Accident on July 8, 2005 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":143,"serial_number":"33868","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2702 LOVE FIELD DR # HDQ-4GC","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00113969","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N494WN","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2004,"zip":"752351908"}