Sacramento Mather Airport

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Sacramento Mather Airport
Mather AFB CA - 17 Aug 1998.jpg
USGS photo, 17 August 1998
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner Sacramento County
Serves Sacramento, California
Elevation  AMSL 98 ft / 30 m
Coordinates 38°33′14″N121°17′51″W / 38.55389°N 121.29750°W / 38.55389; -121.29750
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
04R/22L11,3013,445 Asphalt/concrete
04L/22R6,0811,853Asphalt
Helipads
NumberLengthSurface
ftm
H1309Asphalt
H210030Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Aircraft operations99,467
Based aircraft52
Source: FAA [1] and airport web page [2]

Sacramento Mather Airport( IATA : MHR, ICAO : KMHR, FAA LID : MHR) (Mather Airport) is a public airport 11 miles east of Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is on the site of Mather Air Force Base, which closed in 1993 pursuant to BRAC action.

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Facilities

Sacramento Mather Airport covers 2,875 acres (1,163  ha ) 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). [1]

For the year ending December 31, 2018, the airport had 99,467 aircraft operations, an average of 272 per day: 51% general aviation, 13% air taxi, 5% airline, and 32% military. Fifty-two aircraft were then based at this airport: 10 single-engined, 1 multiengined, and 41 military. [1]

Cargo airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Ameriflight Reno/Tahoe
DHL Aviation Cincinnati, Salt Lake City
UPS Airlines Chicago-Rockford, Louisville, Oakland, Ontario, Portland (OR), Reno/Tahoe, Sioux Falls

Incidents

On February 16, 2000 Emery Worldwide Flight 17, a DC-8 cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from this airport, killing all three crewmembers. [3] [4] This incident was profiled on the Canadian TV show Mayday (known as Air Disasters in the United States) on the Smithsonian Channel.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 FAA Airport Form 5010 for MHR PDF , effective 2008-07-31.
  2. ↑ Mather Airport, Sacramento County Airport System website.
  3. ↑ "Emery DC-8 cargo plane crashes near Sacramento, California". CNN.com, retrieved December 13, 2006.
  4. ↑ "Safety Board Finds Poor Maintenance Caused Sacramento, Calif., Airport Crash". AccessMyLibrary.com, retrieved December 13, 2006.
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