Little Rock National Airport 2014: simMarket’s 28th best-seller that nobody ever wrote about

Somebody called Jon left a five-star review on simMarket on 9 April 2014, the day after Little Rock went on sale. He wrote that it "looks good, performs very well", praised the modelling, and singled out the "wonderful night lighting". Twenty days later a blog called ARNZX published a review of the same scenery. Same sentences. Same order. Then on 26 March 2020, a customer named Igor left another five-star review that opens with Jon's first two sentences, word for word, before adding that his copy was a gift — simMarket had just given the airport away free for a week to cheer people up during the first Covid lockdown.

That is not a scandal. It is a measurement problem. Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, KLIT, is the twenty-eighth best-selling product in simMarket's entire history, and the number of distinct human beings who have ever put their impressions of it in writing is somewhere around a dozen. The official trailer has 4,700 views in twelve years. AVSIM's two threads about it total four posts. There is no FSElite review, no Threshold review, no video walkthrough. A product that outsold almost everything simMarket has ever listed is, in discussion terms, nearly invisible.

Both halves of that are explicable and both matter to a buyer. It sold because for eleven and a half years it was the only commercial Little Rock in existence, in any simulator — a customer named Robert said exactly that in April 2014 and it stayed true until November 2025. It sold a lot of extra copies in one week of March 2020 for nothing. And nobody wrote about it because it is a mid-size regional field in Arkansas made by a two-airport-a-year French studio, which is the least newsworthy combination in the hobby.

The studio, incidentally, is fine. JetStream Designs are not some ghost outfit — they shipped Geneva LSGG for MSFS in September 2024, patched it to v1.1.5 on 3 January 2026, and in June 2025 FSElite announced they are building Phoenix Sky Harbor in partnership with FlightBeam. Which is a small joke at this product's expense, because the only one-star review Little Rock ever received, from a buyer called DONALD on 5 May 2014, complained that it fell short of "FSDT, Fly Tampa or Flightbeam". Twelve years later the developer is co-building an airport with Flightbeam. Little Rock is not getting any of that. Its last update was 22 December 2020.

We read 25 sources for this review: the simMarket listing and all nine of its customer ratings, the developer's own product, catalogue and support pages, three AVSIM threads, a French forum thread that carries the launch dates, the official trailer, the MSFS forum bug thread for the default KLIT, and the full press record around the successor that finally arrived in November 2025. Reddit is refused by every tool in our research environment, so the usual sentiment-at-a-glance check is absent — which stings more than usual here, because "is this still worth it" is exactly the question Reddit answers and this product has no other venue where it gets asked.

What you are actually buying

One product, one store, one price. There is no bundle, no upgrade path and no second edition.

Product	Little Rock National Airport 2014 (KLIT / LIT)
Developer	JetStream Designs
Price	€16.76 at simMarket — the only place it is sold
Launch price	€19.94 on 8 April 2014
Simulators	FSX (SP2 or Acceleration), P3D v1 and v2 via the original 2014 installers, P3D v3, v4 and v5 via update 1.1
Not supported	P3D v6, MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, X-Plane, FS2004
Download	496.70 MB
Last update	22 December 2020 (v1.1, P3D v5 compatibility)

Two things about that table deserve spelling out.

First, the store name says "FSX P3D" and the real answer is more generous than that and less generous at the same time. More generous, because this thing spans five generations of Prepar3D — v1 through v5 — which almost no 2014 scenery does. Less generous, because the headline features are not in the FSX build. SODE animated jetways, volumetric apron lights: P3D v3, v4 and v5 only. Dynamic lights: P3D v4 and v5 only. The developer's parentheses say so plainly on the product page, to their credit, but an FSX buyer paying €16.76 is buying the 2014 product with static jetways and no dynamic lighting.

Second, P3D v6 is not on the list and there is no sign it ever will be. The one interesting wrinkle is that the most recent customer review, from Raul on 7 February 2025, reports the opposite of what you would expect: elevation problems in P3D v4 and v5, on a clean install with no Orbx and no mesh add-ons, and no problem at all in P3D v6. He still recommended the developer. Nobody has corroborated that, and nobody at JetStream has ever commented on it, because there is nowhere for them to. The old support forum at forum.iflysimx.com — which hosted a dedicated Little Rock sub-forum — no longer resolves in DNS. The developer's current support page carries troubleshooting entries for the FSX and P3D builds of Nantes, Linate, Palermo, Metz-Nancy, Orly and Marseille. There is no entry for Little Rock. It is the one legacy product that fell off the list.

On the price, and on the store you cannot compare it to

There is no cheaper channel. JetStream Designs run no webshop of their own — the "Buy scenery" button on their KLIT page points straight at simMarket. Contrail sells eight JetStream titles, all MSFS. Orbx carries none of the legacy line. simMarket's own catalogue page shows Little Rock at €16.76, the same as Marseille and below every other JetStream legacy airport except Metz-Nancy at €12.56. Note that simMarket's displayed prices "include the respectively applicable value added tax", which for a logged-out session means no VAT at all — so €16.76 is what a non-EU buyer pays, and a European buyer will see more at checkout.

What the community consistently praises

Performance. This is the one finding that repeats across every independent source and every year of the record, and it is the reason to consider the product at all. Robert, buying into P3D v2.2 on 19 April 2014, called it "frame rate friendly". Jon called it good on frames the same month. Johnny, coming back to it on 10 June 2017 after the P3Dv3 and v4 updates, wrote that it was "easy on frames". The developer's own claim — "fully optimized with the latest techniques for better performance" — is the rare piece of scenery marketing the record actually backs. For anyone flying a heavy tube out of a mid-size field on ten-year-old hardware, that matters more than polygon counts.

Night lighting. Named specifically and admiringly by two of the earliest reviewers, and it is the feature the developer kept investing in: the 1.1 update added volumetric apron lights and, for P3D v4 and v5, dynamic lights. Combined with the transparent terminal windows showing modelled passengers inside, the airport reads better after dark than it does at noon.

It is a proper mixed-use field, not just gates. Little Rock hosts Dassault's completion centre — the largest Dassault facility in the world — alongside twelve airline gates and the 189th Airlift Wing. The scenery models the general aviation and corporate side rather than treating it as background, which is what several buyers latched onto. Todd, on AVSIM's Prepar3D forum in April 2014, called it "the perfect airport for GA, Corporate, 737, Q400, and CRJ flights". Jon made the same point independently: lots to explore precisely because it is both commercial and GA.

Little Rock the city. The hand-placed autogen and modelled downtown skyline turn up in the praise repeatedly, and they are visible in the developer's own hero shot — the Simmons Tower and the state capitol dome sitting behind the terminal roofline. For a scenery at this price that is unusual generosity.

The developer was responsive. Todd's April 2014 post records JetStream agreeing to adjust the photoreal colouring to blend better with FTX Global, unprompted, and he called it "above and beyond what he has to do given the pricepoint". That was twelve years ago and it is the historical record rather than a promise about today, but it is why the studio has a 4.57 average across 276 votes on Contrail.

What keeps coming up as a problem

It was never top-tier, and one buyer said so on day one. Still open. DONALD's one-star review of 5 May 2014 is the most useful thing anyone ever wrote about this product: he compared it directly to FSDreamTeam, FlyTampa and Flightbeam, found it wanting, and rated it level with freeware from four or five years earlier. He was overharsh — a free KPHL is not a fair yardstick for a €19.94 payware regional — but he was not wrong about the tier. Robert, who liked it, placed it in the same position from the other direction: "a little below the top tier (Fly Tampa, FSDreamteam, Flightbeam …) and a little better than your average Imagine Sim, Tropical Sim". Two independent buyers, opposite conclusions, identical placement. That is where it sits.

Orbx conflicts. Mitigated, by you, manually. Two separate 2014 sources raise it. Ryan's simMarket review of 23 April 2014 reports a "minor conflict with FTX vector" and tells you to disable the AFCAD in the Vector configurator. Todd's AVSIM post the same month is about the photoreal ground not matching FTX Global's colouring. The AFCAD fix is a thirty-second job and still the correct one; the colour blend was addressed at the time. Neither is a reason not to buy, but a buyer with a full Orbx stack should expect a configurator visit.

Elevation problems, unresolved and unanswerable. Still open. Raul, 7 February 2025, could not get correct elevation in P3D v4 or v5 even on a clean install. That is a single report, so by this site's own rules it is not yet a finding — except that it is also the only piece of evidence about this product from the last five years, and there is no support forum left to check whether it is common. The absence of counter-evidence is not reassurance. It is silence.

The 2014 in the name is not decoration. Still open, by design. The product page states, honestly, "As of April 2014, the airport is connected with direct flights to 13 cities in the US" and lists them. Twelve years on that route map has moved, US Airways no longer exists, and the static aircraft in the developer's own screenshots wear the Southwest Canyon Blue scheme that started being replaced in 2014 and one hangar is signed "Hawker Beechcraft", a company that stopped existing in 2013. The good news for a prospective buyer is that KLIT itself has barely moved: still twelve gates, still three runways, and the $300 million terminal redevelopment is not expected to break ground until after the airport's new utility plant completes in 2028. The scenery is frozen; so, largely, is the airport.

The record is thin and two of the nine ratings are the same text. simMarket's headline "4" is rounded down from an arithmetic 4.11 across nine ratings — four fives, four fours, no threes, no twos, one one. Nine ratings across twelve years is very little to hang a purchase on, and Igor's March 2020 five-star opens with Jon's April 2014 sentences verbatim, on a copy that was given to him. Treat the 4.11 as directionally right and statistically meaningless.

Performance and stability

There is no stability story here, which is itself the story. Across twelve years, nine store ratings, three AVSIM threads and a French forum thread, nobody reports a crash to desktop, an OOM, a broken installer or a missing texture. The two technical complaints on record are an Orbx AFCAD clash with a documented workaround and one 2025 elevation report.

Frame rate is the standout and it always was. The scenery leans on 2048-pixel texture atlases specifically to cut draw calls, which was the right optimisation for FSX and the P3D v1–v3 era and remains harmless in v4 and v5. Three separate buyers across three separate years independently used the phrase "performs very well" or its equivalent. On a modern machine running P3D v5 this airport will not be your bottleneck; the aircraft you fly into it will.

The one caveat worth stating plainly: SODE is a hard dependency for the animated jetways on P3D v3 and above, and dynamic lights on P3D v4 and v5 carry the usual v4/v5 dynamic lighting cost, which on older GPUs is not trivial. Both are optional. Turn them off and you are back to a 2014 frame rate profile, which is to say a very good one.

Who should buy it

The Prepar3D v3, v4 or v5 pilot who flies US regionals. Buy it. €16.76 is fair for the only KLIT your simulator will ever get, the performance is genuinely good, and the airport suits exactly the aircraft — CRJ, Q400, E-Jet, 737 — that the P3D fleet is strongest in. Go in knowing it is a competent 2014 airport, not a 2020 one.

The P3D flyer who wants a showpiece. Do not buy it. This is not the airport you park a PMDG at to take screenshots. Two independent buyers, one hostile and one friendly, placed it in the same second tier, and nothing has happened since 2020 to move it. Spend the money on a FlyTampa or Flightbeam field and fly to Little Rock in default scenery.

The MSFS 2020 or 2024 pilot. Do not buy it — it does not work in your simulator and never will. Propair Flight released Bill and Hillary Clinton National for MSFS 2020 and 2024 in early November 2025 at around $18, with a native MSFS 2024 version following on 14 May 2026 at $20, sold through Propair's own shop, Orbx Direct and the in-sim Marketplace. That is the modern KLIT. There is no cross-grade, no discount and no relationship between the two products — different developer, different platform, different decade. If you only want the default airport's worst flaw fixed, aleca01's free "KLIT Bridge Fix for Taxiway U and T" on flightsim.to repairs the terrain trench that has made taxiways Uniform and Tango impassable since 2021 and that Asobo has still not fixed in either sim.

The P3D v6 owner. Hold off unless you are willing to gamble. The product is not sold as v6-compatible and has had no update since 2020. One customer reports it works better in v6 than in the versions it is sold for, which is encouraging and completely unverified, and there is no support channel to fall back on.

The person who wants Little Rock in a simulator, full stop. In 2026 that answer is MSFS and Propair, not P3D and JetStream. Buy this one only if P3D is where you actually fly.

Where it stands today

For eleven and a half years this was the only commercial Little Rock anyone could buy, and that monopoly, plus one free week in March 2020, is most of the explanation for a #28 all-time ranking that its four-post AVSIM footprint cannot support on its own. simMarket's bestseller list counts units, and a giveaway week produces a great many units. The rating is a separate question and mostly survives the giveaway: eight of the nine ratings were left by paying customers, and the giveaway recipient's five-star is one of four, so 4.11 would not move far without it. Rank inflated; rating broadly intact.

What has changed is that the monopoly is over. Propair Flight shipped a modern KLIT in November 2025 and a native MSFS 2024 build in May 2026, built around the same landmarks this one chose — the twelve-gate terminal, the Dassault completion centre — with PBR ground polygons and an up-to-date taxiway network. A commenter on flightsim.to in August 2025 wrote that his home airport "gets no love" and that he was "still waiting for someone to make a realistic version of KLIT". Three months later somebody did. Nothing about that is JetStream's fault; they made their bet on FSX and Prepar3D in 2013 and honoured it with free compatibility updates through to P3D v5 in December 2020, which is longer than most 2014 sceneries got.

So the honest position is narrow but real. If you fly Prepar3D v3 to v5 and you want Little Rock, this is the only way to have it, it costs €16.76, it runs beautifully, it looks its age, and nobody is coming to update it. If you fly anything else, this review is a history lesson. Buy it for the simulator it was made for, or do not buy it at all.