FAA Southwest Region

About FAA Southwest

The Southwest Region is anchored by the DFW Metroplex and Houston, two of the largest airline hubs in the world, and extends across the energy corridor of Louisiana and Oklahoma to the high desert of New Mexico. The FAA assigns each airport in the United States to one of nine regions; this region handles airport certification, safety inspections, federal-grant coordination, and overall coordination with the air-traffic-control facilities physically inside its territory.

For travelers, the most useful thing to know about a region is which of its airports is the closest large_airport for the trip you are planning, and which secondary or regional airports could spare you a longer drive to the major airport. The featured airports below cover the largest gateways inside the Southwest Region, and the state list below that gives you a way to drill into every public-use airport the region covers.

States & territories in the Southwest region

Featured airports inside the Southwest region

Region totals