Air

Plane crash seen from above
American Airlines Flight 1420
American Airlines Flight 1420 departed Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on June 1, 1999, en route to wh...
large interior space with floor to ceiling windows and various old aircraft and automobiles hanging from ceiling and positioned on the floor
Arkansas Aerospace Education Center (AEC)
aka: Aerospace Education Center
Located near Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (Adams Fiel...
airplane hangar labeled "Drake Field Fayetteville" with military airplane and helicopter
Arkansas Air and Military Museum
With the mission statement “Promoting Aviation by Preserving the Past,” the Arkansas Air Museum in Fayette...
man and woman sitting in open air airplane
Arkansas Division of Aeronautics (ADA)
The Arkansas Division of Aeronautics (ADA) is responsible for regulating aviation in the state of Arkansas as ...
Red-white-and-blue airplanes at airport and "Phillips 66" sign with building in the background
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...
airplane hangar labeled "Drake Field Fayetteville" with military airplane and helicopter
Aviation
Aviation history in Arkansas includes one pioneer inventor, a few attempts at commercial airplane production, ...
Military aircraft flying against blue sky
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...
Young white boy on bicycle under a diamond shaped Coca-Cola and Dawson's Grocery sign
Batesville Regional Airport
The Batesville Regional Airport is located on Highway 167 (Batesville Boulevard) in the town of Southside (Ind...
Airport buildings and hangar with town in the background
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport
The Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (formerly Little Rock National Airport/Adams Field), located two...
Stock certificate for the Harrison Municipal Airport Association from October 1944
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...
Newspaper clipping with text and photo of wreckage
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...
White man standing in cockpit of small airplane with propeller in front of large aircraft garage between two similar airplanes
Central Flying Service
In 1938, anticipating an upcoming military need for trained pilots, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created th...
African American man in cap standing next to airplane
Cornelius Robinson Coffey (1903–1994)
Cornelius Robinson Coffey was the first African American to establish an aeronautical school in the United St...
White man wearing glasses sitting in cockpit of aircraft grinning
Richard Lawrence (Dick) Collins (1933–2018)
Richard Lawrence (Dick) Collins was a prolific author and journalist of aviation matters. He was the editor-in...
Side view of biplane
Command-Aire
In 1926, the Arkansas Aircraft Company was founded in Little Rock (Pulaski County) to build small personal air...
White man in suit and tie looking downward in front of wall with portraits
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...
older black man with serious expression and short white hair and sideburns in suit jacket and striped tie
Milton Pitts Crenchaw (1919–2015)
Milton Pitts Crenchaw, of the original Tuskegee Airmen, was one of the first African Americans in the country ...
Airport runway with buildings as seen from above
Dexter B. Florence Memorial Field
The Dexter B. Florence Memorial Field is an airport located in Arkadelphia (Clark County). Owned by the City o...
Young white man in green suit and tie
Jess Orval Dockery (1909–1997)
Jess Orval Dockery was an aviation pioneer and an innovator of agricultural aviation in the Mid-South region, ...
Two men in air force uniforms on an airfield, standing by the nose of an airplane on which is painted "Arkansas 'Blitz'"
Paul Page Douglas Jr. (1919–2002)
Brigadier General Paul Page Douglas, a Paragould (Greene County) native and an air force “ace,” was one of...
Complex of buildings in rows with water tower and airstrip
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 ...
African American man in suit standing in front of airplane
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...
Young white man in suit and jacket standing beside his airplane named the "Spirit of St. Louis"
First Night Flight of Charles Lindbergh
In the acclaim for Charles Augustus Lindbergh following his solo transatlantic flight in 1927, few people reco...
View of two large planes in air with deployed parachutes from inside third airplane
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...
aerial view of industrial building
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...
Old white man with glasses and long beard in suit
Charles M. McDermott (1808–1884)
Charles M. McDermott was a medical doctor, minister, plantation owner, Greek scholar, charter member of the So...
White man in glasses and suit posing in wooden chair with a rolled up newspaper
James Smith McDonnell Jr. (1899–1980)
James Smith McDonnell Jr. was one of the most significant aerospace industrialists of the twentieth century, b...