SWA856 is operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW) and Theodore Francis Green State Airport (KPVD). The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 46m. SkyMeter has observed 111 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

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FLIGHTS
111
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 46m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 08/22/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
30 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
1.8%
2 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KMDW → KPVD
40
avg 1h 51m · Chicago Midway → Theodore Francis Green State
KMAF → KDAL
9
avg 55m · Midland → Dallas Love Field
KBWI → KRDU
7
avg 53m · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall → Raleigh Durham
KRDU → KDEN
7
avg 3h 19m · Raleigh Durham → Denver
KBOS → KDAL
6
avg 3h 46m · General Edward Lawrence Logan → Dallas Love Field
KBWI → KBOS
6
avg 1h 10m · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall → General Edward Lawrence Logan
KIND → KMCO
5
avg 1h 56m · Indianapolis → Orlando
KMDW → KBHM
4
avg 1h 15m · Chicago Midway → Birmingham-Shuttlesworth
KBWI → KIND
4
avg 1h 43m · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall → Indianapolis
KBHM → KDAL
2
avg 1h 22m · Birmingham-Shuttlesworth → Dallas Love Field

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
59
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
48
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
22

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
2
Rejected TO
0
Stall warnings
0
Overspeeds
0
Runway excursion
0
Counts represent flights with at least one occurrence of each flag, not the total event count. See /incidents for individual events.

Recent flights

Newest 30 operations of SWA856

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N488WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/22/2026
1h 22m
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N488WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/22/2026
1h 11m
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N8547VBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/22/2026
2h 39m
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N8802QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/20/2026
54m
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N8673FBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/18/2026
1h 17m
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N8574ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/18/2026
1h 46m
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N8574ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/17/2026
1h 53m
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N8574ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/17/2026
3h 39m
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N8574ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
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08/17/2026
1h 25m
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N563WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/16/2026
1h 21m
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N563WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/16/2026
1h 14m
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N563WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/16/2026
59m
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N570WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/16/2026
2h 20m
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N8886CBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/15/2026
1h 19m
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N8886CBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/14/2026
2h 26m
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N8886CBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/14/2026
3h 46m
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N8886CBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/14/2026
1h 2m
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N8930SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/14/2026
26m
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N8930SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/13/2026
3h 7m
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N8930SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/13/2026
3h 33m
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N8930SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/13/2026
1h 12m
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N8874QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/11/2026
2h 39m
No alerts
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N8826QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/11/2026
2h 1m
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N8826QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/10/2026
1h 55m
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N8826QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/10/2026
3h 57m
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N8826QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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08/10/2026
1h 3m
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N454WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/10/2026
1h 12m
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N454WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/10/2026
1h 16m
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N454WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/10/2026
38m
No alerts
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N7740ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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08/09/2026
29m
No alerts
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