[2][3] In January 1918, the Department of War sent a cadre of officers to the Lonoke, Arkansas area to survey sites for an aviation school.

The group decided on a location northwest of Lonoke, and an agreement to lease the land for the Army was concluded, and the construction of some 50 buildings began.

Eberts Field opened in March 1918 as a World War I basic aviators school, approximately 2,500 enlisted men and officers were stationed there between 1918 and 1919.

Primary training took eight weeks and consisted of pilots learning basic flight skills under dual and solo instruction with a student capacity of 300.

Only a few U.S. Army Air Service aircraft arrived with the 181st Aero Squadron, Most of the Curtiss JN-4 Jennys to be used for flight training were shipped in wooden crates by railcar.

Primary training took eight weeks and consisted of pilots learning basic flight skills under dual and solo instruction with a student capacity of 300.

Many local officials speculated that the U.S. government would keep the field open because of the outstanding combat record established by Eberts-trained pilots in Europe.

On June 18, 1919, Lieutenant C. E. Johnson of Eberts Field delivered 300 papers to Lonoke in his plane to demonstrate the possibilities of aviation.

The War Department had ordered the small caretaker force at Eberts Field to dismantle all remaining structures and to sell them as surplus.

Eberts Field was reopened by the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 as a contract glider training airfield.

The lobby of Little Rock's Aerospace Education Center houses a Flying Jenny that was flown at Eberts Field in that period.