Sacramento Mather Airport


Sacramento Mather Airport , is a public airport 11 miles east of Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California. It is on the site of Mather Air Force Base which closed in 1993 pursuant to BRAC action.

Facilities

Sacramento Mather Airport covers at an elevation of 98 feet. It has two runways: 4L/22R is 6,081 by 150 feet asphalt; 4R/22L is 11,301 by 150 feet concrete/asphalt. The airport has two helipads: H1 is 30 x 30 ft. ; H2 is 100 x 100 ft..
For the year ending December 31, 2018 the airport had 99,467 aircraft operations, average 272 per day: 51% general aviation, 13% air taxi, 5% airline and 32% military. 52 aircraft were then based at this airport: 10 single-engine, 1 multi-engine, and 41 military.

Cargo airlines

Incidents

On February 16, 2000 Emery Worldwide Flight 17, a DC-8 cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from this airport, killing all 3 crewmembers. This incident was profiled on the Canadian TV show Mayday, also known, in the United States, as Air Disasters on the Smithsonian Channel.