and Texarkana as well as direct, one stop service from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Jonesboro, AR all operated with Convair 600 turboprops. This same OAG also lists a Texas International Douglas DC-9-10 jet flight which operated on Saturdays only with an international service of a sorts as it flew a one way routing of Little Rock - Hot Springs - Dallas/Fort Worth - Houston Intercontinental Airport - Monterey, Mexico. Texas International was also operating a Saturdays only DC-9 jet flight on a one way routing of Austin, TX - Dallas/Fort Worth - Hot Springs - Little Rock at this same time according to the OAG. With the passing of the Airline Deregulation Act, Frontier and Texas International both discontinued service by 1979 at which time commuter airlines began serving Hot Springs with direct propjet flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Memphis and Tulsa. Rio Airways served the airport from 1979 through 1983, Scheduled Skyways from 1983 through 1985, Air Midwest from 1985 through 1986, and Lone Star Airlines from 1989 through 1998. All flew Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners. Rio previously flew Beechcraft 99 turboprops nonstop to Dallas/Fort Worth and Memphis and Lone Star operated Dornier 328 propjets on the DFW route as well. Lone Star first operated as Exec Express II using Piper Navajo twin prop aircraft to DFW and was operating as Aspen Mountain Air at the end of their service. From early 1999 through September, 2002, Big Sky Airlines served Hot Springs followed by Mesa Airlines from October, 2002 through May, 2008. SeaPort Airlines began flights in March, 2010 using Pilatus PC-12 aircraft but went out of business in September, 2016. The current provider, Southern Airways Express, began service in March 2017 with nonstop flights to DFW using single engine Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft. Memorial Airport had several periods in between carriers where there was no airline service. Most passengers now use the Clinton National Airport (LIT) located in Little Rock, Arkansas. Accidents involving HOT On August 25, 1992, a Lone Star Airlines Swearingen SA227-AC Metro III on a test flight crashed after takeoff 1km SE of Memorial Field Airport due to improper maintenance of all primary flight control cables. All three occupants were killed. References Other sources Essential Air Service documents (Docket OST-1997-2935) from the U.S. Department of Transportation: Order 2005-1-14: selecting Air Midwest, Inc., to provide essential air service at El Dorado/Camden, Jonesboro, Harrison and