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Aviation in Arkansas

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Commercial – primary
  
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General aviation
  
71

Military and other airports
  
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Commercial – non-primary
  
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Other public-use airports
  
22

Aviation in Arkansas

Arkansas first aeronautical event was the flight of a balloon around 1870 in Yell county. The first heavier than air flight was by James C. “Bud” Mars on 21 May 1910.

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Events

  • July 1930, Walter Herschel Beech, founder of Beechcraft is turned down to build a factory in Arkansas City, Arkansas, building the company in Wichita, Kansas instead.
  • September 19, 1980, a major mishap occurred after a socket rolled off a platform and punctured a Titan II Stage I fuel tank, subsequently causing the entire silo to explode, killing an Air Force airman, SrA David Livingston, and destroying the silo near Damascus, Arkansas. A "B" grade television movie portrays this event, "Disaster at Silo 7".
  • 1 April 1981 Arkansas native, J. Lynn Helms is appointed as director of the FAA, serving through the 1981 Controller strike

    • Aircraft Manufacturers

  • Dassault Aviation maintains a final assembly facility in Little Rock, Arkansas for its Falcon series of jets.

    • Airports

  • List of Airports in Arkansas

    • Organizations

  • The Arkansas Aerospace Alliance is part of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

    • Government and Military

  • All flight operations in Arkansas are conducted within FAA oversight.
  • The Arkansas Department of Aeronautics was founded in 1966.

    • Museums

  • Arkansas Air Museum, Fayetteville, Arkansas
  • Fort Smith Air Museum, Fort Smith, Arkansas

    • References

    Aviation in Arkansas Wikipedia
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