Little Rock National Airport
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Little Rock National Airport is a medium sized facility located in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is an important airline facility for the Midwestern United States. Its IATA Airport Code is LIT. The airport is officially known as Little Rock National Airport/Adams Field. It is named after Captain George Geyer Adams, 154th Observation Squadron, Arkansas National Guard, who was killed in the line of duty on September 4, 1937.
On June 1, 1999, American Airlines Flight 1420 crashed upon landing at Little Rock National Airport on a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport near Dallas, Texas, killing the pilot and 8 passengers.
The airport has 12 passenger gates. It handles all types of jets, with ERJ-145s, CRJ-200/700s, 737s, 757s, MD80s, DC-9s, and A319/320s being daily visitors to the airport.
Airlines and Nonstop Destinations
- Air Midwest dba US Airways Express (Kansas City)
- American Eagle (Dallas Ft. Worth and Chicago/O'Hare)
- Atlantic Southeast dba Delta Connection (Atlanta)
- Chautauqua Airlines dba Delta Connection (Orlando)
- Comair dba Delta Connection (Cincinnati)
- Continental Express (Houston Intercontinental and Newark)
- Delta Airlines (Atlanta)
- Frontier JetExpress dba (Frontier Airlines) (Denver)
- Mesa Airlines dba US Airways Express (Charlotte)
- Northwest Airlines (Memphis)
- Pinnacle Airlines dba Northwest Airlink (Detroit and Minneapolis/St. Paul)
- Southwest Airlines (Baltimore, Dallas Love Field, Chicago Midway, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and St. Louis)
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