Sacramento Mather Airport (Mather Airport) is a public airport 11 miles east of

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, in

Sacramento County, California Sacramento County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 1,585,055. Its county seat is Sacramento, California, Sacramento, which has been the List of capital ...

, United States. It is on the site of

Mather Air Force Base Mather Air Force Base (Mather AFB) was a United States Air Force Base, which was closed in 1993 pursuant to a post-Cold War BRAC decision. It was located east of Sacramento, on the south side of U.S. Route 50 in Sacramento County, Californ ...

, which closed in 1993 pursuant to BRAC action.

Facilities

Sacramento Mather Airport covers at an elevation of 98 feet (30 m). It has two runways: 04L/22R is 6,081 by 150 feet (1,853 x 46 m) asphalt; 04R/22L is 11,301 by 150 feet (3,445 x 46 m) concrete/asphalt. The airport has two helipads: H1 is 30 x 30 ft. (9 x 9 m); H2 is 100 x 100 ft. (30 x 30 m). For the year ending December 31, 2018, the airport had 99,467 aircraft operations, an average of 272 per day: 51%

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, 13%

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, 5% airline, and 32% military. Fifty-two aircraft were then based at this airport: 10 single-engined, 1 multiengined, and 41 military.

Cargo airlines

Incidents

On February 16, 2000

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Flight 17, a

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cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from this airport, killing all three crewmembers.Safety Board Finds Poor Maintenance Caused Sacramento, Calif., Airport Crash
. AccessMyLibrary.com, retrieved December 13, 2006. This incident was profiled on the Canadian TV show '' Mayday'', also known, in the United States, as ''Air Disasters'' on the

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References

External links

* * {{US-airport-ga, MHR Airports in Sacramento County, California