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American Airlines Flight 1420
American Airlines Flight 1420 departed Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on June 1, 1999, en route to wh...
Arkansas Aerospace Education Center (AEC)
aka: Aerospace Education Center
Located near Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (Adams Fiel...
Arkansas Air Museum
“Promoting Aviation by Preserving the Past” is the mission statement of the Arkansas Air Museum in Fayette...
Arkansas Division of Aeronautics (ADA)
The Arkansas Division of Aeronautics (ADA) is responsible for regulating aviation in the state of Arkansas as ...
Civil Air Patrol Arkansas Wing
The Arkansas Wing is one of the fifty-two chapters—including all the states, Puerto Rico, and the District o...
Aviation
Aviation history in Arkansas includes one pioneer inventor, a few attempts at commercial airplane production, ...
B-25 Bomber Crash of 1948
During a period of about three months in the winter of 1947 and 1948, Arkansas was the site of the crash of tw...
Batesville Regional Airport
The Batesville Regional Airport is located on Highway 167 (Batesville Boulevard) in the town of Southside (Ind...
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport
The Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (formerly Little Rock National Airport/Adams Field), located two...
Boone County Regional Airport
The Boone County Regional Airport is located three miles outside of Harrison (Boone County). The airport is a ...
C-130 Crash of 1970
A C-130 cargo plane flying from Little Rock Air Force Base (LRAFB) in Jacksonville (Pulaski County) caught fir...
C-130 Crash of 1971
Ten U.S. Air Force personnel were killed in a disastrous takeoff crash at Little Rock Air Force Base in Jackso...
Camden Army Air Field
aka: Harrell Field
Camden Army Air Field (a.k.a. Harrell Field) was one of three contr...
Cornelius Robinson Coffey (1903–1994)
Cornelius Robinson Coffey was the first African American to establish an aeronautical school in the United St...
Command-Aire
In 1926, the Arkansas Aircraft Company was founded in Little Rock (Pulaski County) to build small personal air...
John Carroll Cone (1891–1976)
John Carroll Cone was a promoter of aviation in Arkansas and established two significant air organizations in ...
Conway Regional Airport
Opened in 2014, the Conway Regional Airport at Cantrell Field (CRA) is a growing city-owned general aviation a...
Milton Pitts Crenchaw (1919–2015)
Milton Pitts Crenchaw, of the original Tuskegee Airmen, was one of the first African Americans in the country ...
Dexter B. Florence Memorial Field
The Dexter B. Florence Memorial Field is an airport located in Arkadelphia (Clark County). Owned by the City o...
Jess Orval Dockery (1909–1997)
Jess Orval Dockery was an aviation pioneer and an innovator of agricultural aviation in the Mid-South region, ...
Paul Page Douglas Jr. (1919–2002)
Brigadier General Paul Page Douglas, a Paragould (Greene County) native and an air force “ace,” was one of...
Eberts Training Field
Established next to the town of Lonoke in 1917, during World War I, Eberts Field ranked second among aviation ...
Fort Smith Regional Airport
The Fort Smith Regional Airport is a mixed-use airport located three miles southeast of Fort Smith (Sebastian ...
Marlon DeWitt Green (1929–2009)
In 1963, Marlon DeWitt Green, an Arkansas-born African American and former U.S. Air Force pilot, broke the air...
Jonesboro Municipal Airport
The Jonesboro Municipal Airport is located three miles east of the Jonesboro (Craighead County) central busine...
First Night Flight of Charles Lindbergh
In the acclaim for Charles Augustus Lindbergh following his solo transatlantic flight in 1927, few people reco...
Little Rock Air Force Base
The Little Rock Air Force Base (LRAFB) is located on 6,412 acres of land within the city limits of Jacksonvill...
Little Rock Aviation Supply Depot
During World War I, an air supply depot was constructed at Little Rock (Pulaski County) south of 12th Street n...
Charles M. McDermott (1808–1884)
Charles M. McDermott was a medical doctor, minister, plantation owner, Greek scholar, charter member of the So...
James Smith McDonnell Jr. (1899–1980)
James Smith McDonnell Jr. was one of the most significant aerospace industrialists of the twentieth century, b...
Pierce Winningham “Mac” McKennon (1919–1947)
Pierce Winningham “Mac” McKennon was a talented musician but is more widely remembered as a famous World W...
Memorial Field Airport
Memorial Field Airport is located southwest of Hot Springs (Garland County), three miles from the city center....