Private Jet Airports in Little Rock
Choosing an airfield here
What drives the choice in this area: where the traffic goes, where you can clear, and what you can land.
Overview
40 airfields serve Little Rock. Bill and Hillary Clinton National / Adams Field (KLIT) handles the most business aviation traffic, with 44% of the area's business jet movements , followed by Memorial Field and Conway Regional . The area spans central Arkansas and reaches south into Louisiana, covering a mix of dense airports near Little Rock and outlying fields scattered across farm country and the Ouachita foothills. Bill and Hillary Clinton National/Adams Field holds the area's only customs clearance and its longest paved runway. Elevations stay modest across most of the area, though Holley Mountain Airpark rises to 1,270 ft in the western hills. Traffic builds through the fall, with November outpacing the winter low by more than a thousand movements, a seasonal swing worth factoring into ramp and handling plans.
Comparison
Ten of the 40 airfields serving Little Rock handle 89% of the area's business jet movements. Distance is measured from the area center, and runway length is the longest paved surface on the field.
Headline figures cover public airports only. Military and private fields stay in the list below but are excluded from the counts.
Source: FAA Form 5010 and CBP list of ports of entry.
All airfields
All 40 airfields serving Little Rock, grouped by distance from the area center. Each tier carries its own scale in nautical miles, and every mark is one airfield.
Distance is measured from the area center, not from another airfield.
Source: Skystar calculation from official coordinates.
Seasonality
Business jet traffic across Little Rock peaks in November and is lowest in February. Six months run above the yearly average.
Source: FAA TFMSC, 46,806 business jet movements across the area, 2025.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is the only customs entry point in the Little Rock area?
Customs clearance in the Little Rock area is handled at Bill and Hillary Clinton National/Adams Field (KLIT), which offers CBP inspection services along with a USDA compliance agreement. None of the other airports in the area, including Memorial Field (KHOT) and South Arkansas Regional at Goodwin Field (KELD), carry an onsite customs capability. Operators flying an international leg into the area need to route their arrival through KLIT for that reason. This single point of entry is worth noting when sequencing a multi-stop itinerary, since any aircraft requiring clearance must touch KLIT before or after visiting other area airports.
How does business jet traffic in the Little Rock area vary across the year?
Business jet movements across the Little Rock area totaled 46,806 in 2025, with November as the peak month at 4,236 operations and February as the low month at 3,168. Six months of the year ran above the average of 3,901 monthly operations, with the stronger stretch falling between May and December. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is over a thousand movements, which is a meaningful swing for scheduling ground handling or crew availability. Dispatchers planning fourth-quarter trips into the area should expect fuller ramps and schedules than a February arrival would suggest.
Which Little Rock area airports can accept the longest jets on the ramp?
Eight airports in the Little Rock area have paved runways of 6,000 ft or more, led by Bill and Hillary Clinton National/Adams Field (KLIT) at 8,273 ft. Memorial Field (KHOT) in Hot Springs offers 6,595 ft, and South Arkansas Regional at Goodwin Field (KELD) in El Dorado offers 6,601 ft, both of which sit well outside the immediate Little Rock area. This spread matters for operators running larger cabin aircraft that need runway margin beyond what the shorter municipal fields, many around 4,000 to 5,500 ft, can provide. Matching aircraft performance figures against each runway length remains the operator's own calculation.
How far apart are Bill and Hillary Clinton National/Adams Field and Ruston Regional?
Bill and Hillary Clinton National/Adams Field (KLIT) and Ruston Regional (KRSN) sit 134 NM apart, the largest gap between any two airports tracked in the Little Rock area dataset. KRSN itself lies in Ruston, Louisiana, well outside the Arkansas cluster that makes up most of the area's airports. This distance is relevant for operators considering KRSN as an alternate or overflow field relative to KLIT, since it represents a genuine repositioning leg rather than a short hop. Fuel planning and crew duty time should account for this separation rather than treating KRSN as a nearby option to KLIT.
What share of business jet activity in the Little Rock area runs through Bill and Hillary Clinton National/Adams Field?
Bill and Hillary Clinton National/Adams Field (KLIT) recorded 20,385 business jet movements against an area total of 46,806, putting its share at 43%. The remaining airports in the Little Rock area split the balance across smaller fields such as Memorial Field (KHOT) with 4,738 movements and Conway Regional (KCXW) with 3,132. This concentration reflects KLIT's status as the only towered, customs-equipped field with the longest runway in the area. Operators weighing a diversion or secondary base should note that the rest of the area's traffic is distributed thinly across more than thirty smaller public airports.