Flight Status & Tracker

SWA161

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · DEN → DSM · Last tracked Oct 17, 2026

SWA161 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between Denver International Airport (KDEN) and Des Moines International Airport (KDSM). SkyMeter last tracked SWA161 on October 17, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8. Typical block time is 1h 46m. SkyMeter has observed 73 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

SkyMeter tracks historical flight activity from ADS-B data — this is not a live gate-to-gate status feed.

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FLIGHTS
73
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
1h 46m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/29/2025 → 10/17/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
18 / 5
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KDEN → KDSM
17
avg 1h 46m · Denver → Des Moines
KBWI → KRDU
10
avg 53m · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall → Raleigh Durham
KDAL → KLAX
8
avg 2h 54m · Dallas Love Field → Los Angeles
KATL → KDAL
8
avg 1h 54m · Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta → Dallas Love Field
KPHX → KPIT
4
avg 3h 53m · Phoenix Sky Harbor → Pittsburgh
KLAX → KOAK
3
avg 1h 13m · Los Angeles → Metropolitan Oakland
KMAF → KHOU
3
avg 1h 2m · Midland → William P Hobby
KDAL → KMDW
2
avg 1h 52m · Dallas Love Field → Chicago Midway
KAUS → KDAL
2
avg 47m · Austin Bergstrom → Dallas Love Field
KATL → KLAX
1
avg 6h 5m · Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta → Los Angeles

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

5
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
48
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
13
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
12
NAVI NORTH AMERICAN-RYAN North American Navion
2
FA62 FA62
2

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
0
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 SWA161

30
N914WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/17/2026
1h 7m
No alerts
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N8942LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/16/2026
2h 49m
No alerts
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N8942LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/16/2026
1h 41m
No alerts
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N8991SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/15/2026
1h 4m
No alerts
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N8991SBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/15/2026
2h 46m
No alerts
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N9002WBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/13/2026
2h 53m
No alerts
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N9002WBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/13/2026
1h 57m
No alerts
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N7731ABOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/12/2026
1h 51m
No alerts
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N7731ABOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/12/2026
54m
No alerts
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N255WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
→
10/10/2026
59m
No alerts
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N8753QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/10/2026
2h 49m
No alerts
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N8753QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/10/2026
1h 49m
No alerts
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N8579ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
10/9/2026
2h 51m
No alerts
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N8579ZBOEING Boeing 737-800
→
10/9/2026
1h 58m
No alerts
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N8748QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/8/2026
1h 7m
No alerts
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N8748QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/8/2026
2h 32m
No alerts
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N8748QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/8/2026
21m
No alerts
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N8748QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/7/2026
1h 46m
No alerts
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N8748QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/7/2026
10m
No alerts
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N8748QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/7/2026
6h 4m
↘ Diverted (inferred)
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N8748QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/7/2026
9m
No alerts
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N8891QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/7/2026
1h 29m
No alerts
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N8891QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/7/2026
2h 15m
No alerts
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N8891QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/7/2026
3h 0m
No alerts
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N8891QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/7/2026
44m
No alerts
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N8891QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/6/2026
1h 49m
No alerts
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N8993QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/6/2026
2h 56m
No alerts
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N8993QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/6/2026
2h 10m
No alerts
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N8993QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
→
10/6/2026
22m
No alerts
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N941WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/5/2026
1h 53m
No alerts
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