King Air N390SP returns to Little Rock after 31-minute flight from Mountain Home

Sarah Huckabee Sanders's Beechcraft King Air B200, tail number N390SP, landed at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The flight departed Ozark Regional Airport in Mountain Home at 00:47 UTC and touched down at 01:19 UTC. The trip took 31 minutes in the air. The aircraft is registered to the State of Arkansas, Arkansas State Police Air Support Unit.

The great-circle distance between Mountain Home and Little Rock is 99 nautical miles, or 114 miles. The King Air flew at an average ground speed of 190 knots and reached a top speed of 268 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 9,775 feet. Based on our estimate, the aircraft burned about 52 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 501 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 17th landing at Little Rock tracked for this aircraft since June 30, 2026. The previous landing at the home base was on October 22, 6 days before this flight. 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 13 flights, covering about 1,566 nautical miles. The aircraft had been on the ground at Mountain Home for about 5 hours before departing back to Little Rock.

The aircraft's departure airport, Ozark Regional, has a longest runway of 5,000 feet at an elevation of 928 feet. Little Rock's longest runway is 8,273 feet at 262 feet elevation. In the tracked window from June 30 to October 27, the aircraft made 40 flights. The most common destinations were Little Rock with 16 landings, Bentonville with 3, and Springdale with 2. The longest leg in that period was from Baton Rouge to Little Rock on September 30, covering 262 nautical miles.

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.

Recent flights before this one included a trip from Fort Smith to Little Rock on October 22, covering 108 nautical miles in 29 minutes. On October 15, the aircraft flew from Little Rock to Camden, 74 nautical miles in 23 minutes. Two flights on October 8 went between Springdale and Little Rock, and on October 7, it flew from Camden to Little Rock and from Little Rock to Fordyce. The estimated fuel burn for the King Air is 100 US gallons per hour.

The King Air returned to its home base at Little Rock, where it remains. This was the aircraft's 17th landing at the airport in the tracked window since late June. The flight was a routine short hop between two Arkansas airports. The aircraft is now parked at its usual base, ready for the next executive flight.