{"id":27833,"date":"2016-02-04T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/?p=27833"},"modified":"2025-03-14T18:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T18:55:26","slug":"klrf-little-rock-air-force-base-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/military-airports\/klrf-little-rock-air-force-base-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"KLRF &#8211; Little Rock Air Force Base Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27920\" style=\"width:350px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image.png 656w, http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Little Rock Air Force Base was authorized by Congress in 1953 and construction began on 6 November 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The base opened on 24 January 1955 with 6,100 acres donated by landowners, valued at $1.2 million in 1952.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Rock_Air_Force_Base#cite_note-af.mil-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Communications and several storage buildings, JATO facility, ordnance igloos, track and loading platform were completed by 30 June 1955, and the base was opened to limited air traffic on 9 September 1955. In 1960, the Air Force announced that Little Rock Air Force Base would house 18\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LGM-25C_Titan_II\">Titan II<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intercontinental_Ballistic_Missile\">Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles<\/a>\u00a0located throughout the state of Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arkansas","category-military-airports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27921,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions\/27921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}