LEGO City 3181 Passenger Plane

LEGO City set 3181, Passenger Plane, depicts a passenger aircraft within the Airport area of the theme. Released in 2010, it contains 309 pieces and belongs to the urban range focused on airport activity, travel, and ground service.

Its subject is a civil passenger aircraft, making it a straightforward addition to city layouts that include flight, terminal activity, and airport operations.

The set contains 309 pieces and 3 minifigures. The figures are a pilot in a black suit with tie, airplane badge, black hat, and cheek lines, a ground crew member with an orange jacket with zipper and reflective stripes, blue legs, dark bluish gray hat, and stubble, and a man with an open dark blue jacket, light bluish gray legs, and reddish brown hair.

This set suits builders who want a passenger aircraft for a LEGO City airport scene. It supports role play involving the pilot, passenger, and ground crew, while also fitting as a display item in a City collection focused on transport and airport subjects.

Inventory of set 3181

The inventory of set 3181 lists 309 pieces, spare parts excluded: 122 different lots (one shape in one color) for 109 part shapes. The box also contains 4 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 3181

Main color: white, making up 29% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (16%) and blue (16%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 3181

97 of the 109 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 3181

One part shape in set 3181 appears in no other set in the catalog, most often a printed element, a sticker or a mold specific to the model. If it gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set. Counting colors, 2 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

Rebuilding set 3181 from another set

Share of the parts of set 3181 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 33%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 3181 within its line

With 309 pieces, set 3181 ranks #258 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 227 sets released in 2010, it ranks #86.