King Air N390SP returns to Little Rock after 29-minute flight from Fort Smith

Sarah Huckabee Sanders's Beechcraft King Air B200, tail number N390SP, landed at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The flight departed Fort Smith Regional Airport at 00:42 UTC and touched down at 01:11 UTC. The trip took 29 minutes in the air. The aircraft is registered to the State of Arkansas, Arkansas State Police Air Support Unit.

The great-circle distance between Fort Smith and Little Rock is 108 nautical miles, or 125 miles. The King Air flew at an average ground speed of 227 knots and reached a top speed of 276 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 10,775 feet. Based on our estimate, the aircraft burned about 48 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 457 kilograms of CO2. The Beechcraft King Air B200 is a turboprop built for short regional trips, with a typical range of about 1,700 nautical miles, seating for up to 13 people, and a service ceiling around 35,000 feet.

This was the 16th landing at Little Rock tracked for this aircraft since June 30, 2026. The previous landing at the home base was on October 8, 13 days earlier. The aircraft's home base is Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, and its usual destinations include Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Chicago O'Hare, Dallas Love Field, Memphis, Tulsa, and Fort Smith. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 14 flights, covering about 1,596 nautical miles. Another tracked aircraft, a Dassault Falcon 50EX registered to PACCAR, landed at Little Rock about 10 hours before this King Air.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the 47th Governor of Arkansas, inaugurated on January 10, 2023. She is the first woman elected governor of the state and previously served as White House Press Secretary from 2017 to 2019. The Arkansas State Police Air Support Unit provides executive transport, and the King Air has been a source of political controversy. A state audit found that the agency underreported flight costs by using outdated hourly rates, and it later raised the rate from $1,015 to $1,839 per hour. The audit also showed that the governor and her predecessor accounted for 57% of the airplane's flight time between June 2022 and December 2023.

Fort Smith is a regular stop for this aircraft, with at least one other flight to the airport in the past week. The King Air flew from Little Rock to Fort Smith on October 21, the day before this return trip. The aircraft had been on the ground at Fort Smith for about 11 hours before departing back to Little Rock. No public events or appearances by Governor Sanders in Little Rock were found in our search, but the flight fits the pattern of frequent short trips between the state capital and other Arkansas cities.

The King Air returned to its home base at Little Rock, where it remains. This was the aircraft's 15th landing at the airport in the tracked window since late June. The flight was a routine short hop between two Arkansas airports. If Sarah Huckabee Sanders was aboard, the trip would have been a quick return to the capital after an overnight stay in Fort Smith. The aircraft is now parked at its usual base, ready for the next executive flight.