Sacramento Mather Airport

For the military use of this facility before 1993, seeMather Air Force Base.

Sacramento Mather Airport (IATA:MHR,ICAO:KMHR,FAA LID: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.

USGS photo, 17 August 1998

IATA:MHR
ICAO:KMHR
FAA LID:MHR

Summary

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

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
04R/22L	11,301	3,445	Asphalt/concrete
04L/22R	6,081	1,853	Asphalt

Helipads

Number	Length		Surface
Number	ft	m	Surface
H1	30	9	Asphalt
H2	100	30	Asphalt

Statistics (2018)

Aircraft operations	99,467
Based aircraft	52

Source:FAA^[1] and airport web page^[2]

Facilities

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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]

Cargo airlines

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

Incidents

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On February 16, 2000Emery Worldwide Flight 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.