Littlest Higgs model predicts some extra particles beyond the Standard Model. Among them, an extra neutral gauge boson AH is lightest and its mass could be a few hundred GeV. We study production and decay of AH at future e + e − linear collider and compare them with those of Z ′ bosons in supersymmetric (SUSY) E6 models. We find that, if the extra gauge boson mass is smaller than √ s of the linear collider, the forward-backward asymmetries of b-and c-quarks at the AH pole differ significantly from those given by the Z ′ bosons, and are useful to test the littlest Higgs model and SUSY E6 models.Little Higgs [1,2,3] is an attractive idea to solve the gauge hierarchy problem. In this class of models, the electroweak Higgs boson appears as a pseudo-goldstone boson of a certain global symmetry breaking at a scale Λ ∼ 10 TeV so that the Higgs boson mass can be as light as O(100 GeV). The light Higgs boson mass is protected from the 1-loop quadratic divergence by gauging a part of global symmetry, and introducing a few extra heavy particles whose typical mass scale is of order f ≡ Λ/4π, where f is a decay constant of the pseudo-goldstone boson.One of the simplest models based on this idea is known as Littlest Higgs Model [4], which has a global SU(5) and gauged [SU(2) × U(1)] 2 symmetries at ultra-violet regime. At the scale Λ, the global symmetry is broken to SO(5) while the gauge symmetry is broken to that of the Standard Model (SM), SU(2) L ×U(1) Y . Such symmetry breaking allows that the littlest Higgs model has four massive gauge bosons below Λ, and they are mixed with the SM gauge bosons after the electroweak symmetry breaking. As a result, the set of extra gauge bosons at the weak scale consists of electrically neutral states (A H , Z H ) and charged states (W ± H ). The mass scale of the extra gauge bosons are given by m AH ∼ g Y f and m ZH ≈ m WH ∼ gf , where g Y and g are U(1) Y and SU(2) L gauge couplings, respectively. In addition to the extra gauge bosons, the littlest Higgs model predicts a triplet scalar Φ and a vector-like quark T in order to stabilize the Higgs boson mass against the radiative corrections. The scalar Φ cancels the 1-loop quadratic divergence by the Higgs self-interaction, while the extra quark T cancels one by the top-quark Yukawa interaction. Up to the order one coefficients, the masses of Φ and T are roughly given by the decay constant f [5]. Among the extra particles in the littlest Higgs model, therefore, A H is lightest one, so that it is expected to be discovered at future collider experiments rather early. In hadron collider experiments, A H is produced in the Drell-Yan process, pp (or pp) → A H → µ + µ − X, and shows a peak of the invariant mass distribution of muon pair in the final state [5,6].Since such an experimental signature of the A H boson is quite similar to a Z ′ boson in models which have an extra U(1) gauge symmetry, it is very important to identify the models if an extra neutral gauge boson is discovered in hadron collider experiments such as Tevatron Run-II or LH...