Airport in California, US
38°40′04″N
121°24′02″W
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38.66778°N 121.40056°W
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38.66778; -121.40056
Sacramento McClellan Airport
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Airport type
| Private
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Owner
| McClellan Park
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Operator
| McClellan Jet Services
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Serves
| Sacramento, California
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Elevation
AMSL
| 77 ft / 23 m
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Website
| flykmcc.com
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Number
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Length
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Surface
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ft
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m
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H1
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57
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17
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Concrete
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H2
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57
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17
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Concrete
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H3
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57
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17
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Concrete
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H4
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57
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17
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Concrete
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Aircraft operations
| 10,000
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Based aircraft
| 84
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Sacramento McClellan Airport
(
IATA
:
MCC
,
ICAO
:
KMCC
,
FAA
LID
:
MCC
) is a privately-owned, public-use
airport
located in the unincorporated area of
McClellan Park, California
, six miles (9.7 km; 5.2 nmi) northeast of the
central business district
of
Sacramento
, the California state capital.
[1]
The airport is on the former site of
McClellan Air Force Base
, which existed as a military base from 1939 to 2000. It was transferred to Sacramento County in 2000, as part of its conversion into McClellan Business Park, and was purchased by McClellan Business Park in October 2017. The airport is a public-use facility which operates as an uncontrolled airfield in what the FAA designates as Class "E" Airspace. The airport is mainly used for general aviation. Current airport tenants include
CAL FIRE
,
Calstar
,
Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento
,
Dassault Falcon
,
United States Forest Service
,
PODS
, and the
Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District
. All ground handling and fueling is completed by McClellan Jet Services, a subsidiary of McClellan Business Park.
History
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]
The air force base was established in 1935. It was named after Major Hezekiah McClellan on 1 December 1939, a pioneer in arctic aeronautical tests. Born in 1894, he died on 25 May 1936 when his
Consolidated P-30
which he was flight testing, crashed near
Centerville, Ohio
.
Construction of the
Pacific Air Depot
began in 1935, and the main structures, including administrative buildings, barracks, warehouses and a hospital were completed on 18 April 1938. In 1938 the base was renamed
Sacramento Air Depot
and underwent a major expansion as a repair and overhaul facility for
P-38
and
P-39
fighter planes.
In December 1941, soon after the
attack on Pearl Harbor
, P-40s as well as
Martin B-26 Marauder
and
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
bombers began arriving at the field to be armed and prepared for immediate shipment overseas. In March 1942 Lieutenant Colonel
Jimmy Doolittle
's B-25s arrived at McClellan for arming in preparation for their famous
Tokyo raid
.
On January 3, 1944 a B-17 Flying Fortress slammed into the runway while trying to land, killing all but one of its crew and scattering wreckage over a 15-mile area.
[2]
The base was renamed McClellan Air Force Base in 1948 and its repair and overhaul mission continued throughout the Cold War as an installation of the
Air Force Logistics Command
(AFLC) and later the
Air Force Materiel Command
(AFMC), with the overhaul facility being known as the
Sacramento Air Logistics Center
.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, McClellan functioned as the main depot for overhauling the Air Force's
F-111
, FB-111 and EF-111 aircraft, as well as the
Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II
aircraft. A small contingent of F-111D and F-111F aircraft of the
431st Test and Evaluation Squadron
,
57th Fighter Weapons Wing
, Nellis AFB, Nevada was also detached to McClellan.
Facilities and aircraft
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McClellan Airfield has one
concrete
paved
runway
(16/34) measuring 10,600 x 150 ft. (3,231 x 46 m). It also has four
concrete
helipads, all measuring 57 x 57 ft. (17 x 17 m). For the 12-month period ending April 10, 2004, the airport had 10,000 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 40% military, 40%
air taxi
and 20%
general aviation
. There are 84 aircraft based at this airport: 4% single-engine, 64% multi-engine, 23% jet and 5%
helicopter
and
5% military.
[1]
The
Aerospace Museum of California
occupies a site at the north of the airfield.
Coast Guard Air Station
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The airport also functioned as a joint civil-military facility, providing a base for the
United States Coast Guard
and its
Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento
facility. Missions include
search and rescue
(
SAR
), law enforcement, aids to navigation support (such as operating
lighthouses
) and various military operations. In addition, Coast Guard helicopters assigned to the air station deploy to Coast Guard cutters.
References
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]
- ^
a
b
c
FAA Airport Form 5010 for MCC
PDF
, effective 2007-10-25
- ^
Kyla Cathay (April 13, 2019). "Lodians await news from front in early 1944".
LodiLiving
. Lodi News-Sentinel. p. 1.
External links
[
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Bell P-39 Repair Line.
To step up its delivery of Speedy Bell P-39 "Airacobra" fighter airplanes to American pilots in the South Pacific, the Army Air Forces Air Service Command put American production line methods to work in its repair docks at McClellan Field, California. Two and one-half million dollars worth of airplanes were overhauled by civilian Air Service Command workers at Sacramento, California prior to being sent against the enemy.