Clinton National Airport Clinton National Airport Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport , also known as Clinton National Airport, Adams Field, or simply Little Rock Airport, is a public airport located on the east side of Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. It is operated by the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission. The largest commercial airport in Arkansas, it served more than 2.1 million passengers in the year spanning from March 2009 through to February 2010. While Clinton National Airport does not have direct international passenger flights, more than 50 flights arrive or depart at Little Rock each day, with nonstop service to 14 cities.
Cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton her after Sir Edmund Hillary, co-first mountaineer to scale Mount Everest, and that was the reason for the less-common "two L's" spelling of her name. However, the first successful Everest climb did not take place until 1953, more than five years after she was born. In October 2006, a Clinton spokeswoman said she was not named after the mountain climber. Instead, this account of her name's origin "was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add." Following her marriage to Bill Clinton in 1975, she continued to be known