Clinton National Airport, Little Rock AR | Nearby Businesses

Clinton National Airport, officially Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field, is a public use airport two miles east of Little Rock in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. The airport is owned by the City of Little Rock; it was formerly Little Rock National Airport or Adams Field.Clinton National is Arkansas's largest commercial airport with more than 2.1 million passengers in the year March 2009 through February 2010. The airport does not have direct international passenger flights, but more than 50 flights arrive or depart at Little Rock each day, with non-stop jets to 13 cities.It is in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which called it a primary commercial service airport. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,181,846 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 1,108,603 in 2009 and 1,097,403 in 2010.HistoryAdams Field was named after Captain George Geyer Adams, 154th Observation Squadron, Arkansas National Guard, who was killed in the line of duty on September 4, 1937. He was a strong advocate for the airport, and also a Little Rock city councilor.American Airlines was the first airline to serve Little Rock when it first landed at Adams Field in June 1931.During World War II the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces Third Air Force for antisubmarine patrols and training.