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Little Rock National Airport
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 accepts all types of jets, including ERJ-145s, CRJ-200/700s, 737s, MD80s, DC-9s, and A319s.
Airlines serving Little Rock
- Air Midwest dba US Airways Express (Kansas City)
- American Eagle(Chicago/O'Hare, Dallas/Ft. Worth)
- Atlantic Southeast dba Delta Connection
- Comair dba Delta Connection
- Continental Express (Guadalajara (via Houston/Intercontinental), Houston/Intercontinental, Kileen (via Houston/Intercontinental), Newark, Tulsa (via Houston/Intercontinental))
- Delta Airlines
- Frontier Airlines(Denver)
- Mesa Airlines
- Mesa Airlines dba US Airways Express (Charlotte)
- Northwest Airlines (Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul (via Memphis), San Francisco (via Memphis))
- Pinnacle Airlines dba Northwest Airlink (Detroit, Kalamazoo (via Detroit), Minneapolis/St. Paul, Traverse City (via Detroit))
- Southwest Airlines
Cargo carriers:
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