Flight Status & Tracker

SWA256

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO · HOU → MDW · Last tracked Oct 12, 2026

SWA256 is a flight number operated by SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO between William P Hobby Airport (KHOU) and Chicago Midway International Airport (KMDW). SkyMeter last tracked SWA256 on October 12, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a BOEING Boeing 737-700. Typical block time is 2h 17m. SkyMeter has observed 64 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
64
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
2h 17m
tracked time
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SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/12/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
19 / 3
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
0.0%
0 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

10
KHOU → KMDW
19
avg 2h 7m · William P Hobby → Chicago Midway
KAUS → KBNA
12
avg 1h 55m · Austin Bergstrom → Nashville
KSRQ → KBWI
5
avg 2h 3m · Sarasota Bradenton → Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
KPHX → PHNL
3
avg 6h 20m · Phoenix Sky Harbor → Daniel K Inouye
KMCO → KSDF
2
avg 2h 3m · Orlando → Louisville Muhammad Ali
AZ42 → PHNL
2
avg 6h 42m · Asi Heliport → Daniel K Inouye
KALB → KBNA
2
avg 2h 8m · Albany → Nashville
KDAL → KCLE
1
avg 2h 3m · Dallas Love Field → Cleveland Hopkins
KMSY → KDAL
1
avg 1h 8m · Louis Armstrong New Orleans → Dallas Love Field
24TE → KMDW
1
avg 1h 57m · Police Helicopter Patrol Heliport → Chicago Midway

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

3
B737 BOEING Boeing 737-700
38
B38M BOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
25
B738 BOEING Boeing 737-800
7

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 SWA256

30
N8788LBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/12/2026
6h 15m
No alerts
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N215WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/12/2026
1h 25m
No alerts
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N945WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/11/2026
2h 6m
No alerts
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N221WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/10/2026
3h 23m
No alerts
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N8786QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/9/2026
6h 26m
No alerts
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N8779QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/8/2026
6h 15m
No alerts
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N8779QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/8/2026
7m
No alerts
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N8980QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/8/2026
1h 50m
No alerts
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N8746QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
1h 15m
No alerts
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N8746QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
2h 16m
No alerts
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N8746QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/7/2026
1h 0m
No alerts
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N8745KBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/5/2026
6h 57m
No alerts
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N297WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/5/2026
37m
No alerts
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N297WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/5/2026
2h 2m
No alerts
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N297WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/5/2026
1h 25m
No alerts
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N453WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/4/2026
1h 8m
No alerts
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N453WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/4/2026
1h 15m
No alerts
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N453WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/4/2026
2h 9m
No alerts
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N441WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/4/2026
1h 31m
No alerts
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N441WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/4/2026
3h 10m
No alerts
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N441WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/4/2026
1h 38m
No alerts
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N482WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/3/2026
1h 39m
No alerts
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N482WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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10/3/2026
15m
No alerts
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N8723QBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/2/2026
6h 29m
No alerts
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N8791DBOEING Boeing 737 MAX 8
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10/2/2026
40m
No alerts
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N443WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/30/2026
2h 10m
No alerts
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N969WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/29/2026
2h 13m
No alerts
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N206WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/23/2026
2h 7m
No alerts
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N224WNBOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/22/2026
2h 0m
No alerts
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N7832ABOEING Boeing 737-700
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9/20/2026
2h 0m
No alerts
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