Transportation

American Airlines Flight 1420
American Airlines Flight 1420 departed Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on June 1, 1999, en route to wh...
Amtrak
Amtrak, with a name derived from the words “America” and “track,” is a partially government-funded Ame...
Arkadelphia City [Steamboat]
The Arkadelphia City was a Ouachita River steamboat that suffered a disastrous boiler explosion on April 25, 1...
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 and Oklahoma Western Railroad
The Arkansas and Oklahoma Western Railroad (A&OW), based in Rogers (Benton County), was incorporated on Ju...
Arkansas Department of Transportation
The Arkansas Department of Transportation oversees the planning, maintenance, and policing of state roads and ...
Arkansas Division of Aeronautics (ADA)
The Arkansas Division of Aeronautics (ADA) is responsible for regulating aviation in the state of Arkansas as ...
Arkansas Highway 1
Stretching from the Missouri border in the north to McGehee (Desha County), Arkansas Highway 1 spans almost 16...
Arkansas Highway 57 Bridge
The Arkansas Highway 57 Bridge crosses railroad tracks in Stephens (Ouachita County). Constructed in 1928, the...
Arkansas Highway 7
Stretching almost the entirety of the state from south to north, Arkansas Highway 7 crosses eleven counties an...
Arkansas Highway Commission
In the early part of the twentieth century, Arkansas’s roads were not designed for the arrival of the automo...
Arkansas Highway Police
The Arkansas Highway Police is the oldest statewide law enforcement agency in Arkansas and serves as the law e...
Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum
The Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum (AIMM) in North Little Rock (Pulaski County) is home to Arkansas’s only ...
Arkansas Railroad Museum
The Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) grew out of an effort by the Cotton Belt Histori...
Arkansas River
The Arkansas River originates high in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, Colorado, and i...
Arkansas Traveler [Steamboat]
The Arkansas Traveler was a steamboat that sank after hitting a snag in the Arkansas River below Pine Bluff (J...
Arkansas Waterways Commission
The Arkansas Waterways Commission was established by Act 242 of 1967, and its powers and duties were amended b...
Arkansas Western Railroad
Beginning in 1896, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad (later the Kansas City Southern) arrived in He...
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...
Steamboats Named Arkansas
At least twenty nineteenth-century steamboats were called Arkansas or a derivative of the state’s name, acco...
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...
B. M. Runyan [Steamboat]
The steamboat B. M. Runyan was carrying a regiment of Union soldiers when it struck a snag in the Mississippi ...
Baring Cross Bridge
The Baring Cross Bridge is located in downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County) over the Arkansas River at river m...
Bart Tully [Steamboat]
The Bart Tully was a steam towboat that abruptly sank on the Mississippi River near Osceola (Mississippi Count...
Batesville Regional Airport
The Batesville Regional Airport is located on Highway 167 (Batesville Boulevard) in the town of Southside (Ind...
Bauxite and Northern Railroad
The Bauxite and Northern Railroad (B&N) is a short, three-mile railway built in 1906 by a subsidiary of Al...
Roswell Beebe (1795–1856)
Roswell Beebe was the first benefactor of the city of Little Rock (Pulaski County); the town of Beebe (White C...
Belle of Texas [Steamboat]
The Belle of Texas was a steamboat running between Little Rock (Pulaski County) and Memphis, Tennessee, when i...
Belle Zane [Steamboat]
The Belle Zane was a sternwheel river packet that struck a snag on the Mississippi River about twelve miles be...
Ben Laney Bridge
The Ben Laney Bridge is located in Camden (Ouachita County). Spanning the Ouachita River, the bridge carries t...