Sarah Huckabee Sanders's King Air N390SP returns to Little Rock from Russellville in 13 minutes

Sarah Huckabee Sanders's Beechcraft King Air B200, tail number N390SP, landed at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock on Sunday, November 15, 2026. The flight departed Russellville Regional Airport at 04:26 UTC and touched down at 04:38 UTC. The trip took 13 minutes in the air.

The great-circle distance between Russellville and Little Rock is 50 nautical miles, or 58 miles. The King Air flew at an average ground speed of 237 knots and reached a top speed of 264 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 6,650 feet. Based on our estimate, the aircraft burned about 21 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 202 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 501 miles. 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 18th landing at Little Rock tracked for this aircraft since July 30, 2026. The previous landing at the home base was on November 3, 12 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 10 flights, covering about 2,356 nautical miles. The aircraft had been on the ground at Danville for about 0 hours before this flight, following a previous tracked landing there earlier on November 15.

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 A state audit found that the agency underreported flight costs by using outdated hourly rates, and it later raised the rate from $1,015 to $1,839 per hour.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, according to the Arkansas Times.

The King Air returned to its home base at Little Rock, where it remains. This was the aircraft's 18th landing at the airport in the tracked window since late July.

The aircraft's longest tracked leg in the 30 days before this flight was a 662-nautical-mile trip from Lakeland to Little Rock on November 3. That same day, the King Air also flew from Little Rock to Lakeland, covering 661 nautical miles. In the tracked window since July 30, the plane made 40 flights total. Its most common destinations were Little Rock with 17 landings, followed by Springdale and Bentonville with two landings each.

Earlier on November 15, the King Air flew from Little Rock to Dallas Love Field, a 256-nautical-mile trip lasting 1 hour and 17 minutes. It then continued from Dallas to Danville, covering 218 nautical miles in 51 minutes. The departure airport for this flight, Russellville Regional, has a longest runway of 5,505 feet and sits at an elevation of 404 feet. The arrival airport, Bill and Hillary Clinton National, has a longest runway of 8,273 feet and an elevation of 262 feet.