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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
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Sacramento Mather Airport (IATA:MHR,ICAO:KMHR,FAALID:MHR) (Mather Airport) is a public airport 11 miles east ofSacramento, inSacramento County, California, United States. It is on the site ofMather Air Force Base, which closed in 1993 pursuant toBRAC action.
Sacramento Mather Airport covers 2,875acres (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 twohelipads: 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]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| DHL Aviation | Cincinnati,Salt Lake City |
| UPS Airlines | Chicago-Rockford,Louisville,Oakland,Ontario,Portland (OR),Reno/Tahoe,Sioux Falls |
On February 16, 2000Emery WorldwideFlight 17, aDC-8 cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from this airport, killing all three crewmembers.[3][4] This incident was profiled on the Canadian TV showMayday (known asAir Disasters in the United States) on theSmithsonian Channel.