Sacramento McClellan airport - Wikipedia Sacramento McClellan airport Not to be confused with McClellan - Palomar Airport. Coordinates : 38 ° 40 ′ 04 '' N 121 ° 24 ′ 02 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 38.66778 ° N 121.40056 ° W ﻿ / 38.66778 ; - 121.40056 Sacramento McClellan Airport IATA : MCC ICAO : KMCC FAA LID : MCC Summary Airport type Private Owner McClellan Park Operator McClellan Jet Services Serves Sacramento, California Elevation AMSL 77 ft / 23 m Website flykmcc.com Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 16 / 34 10,599 3,231 Concrete Helipads Number Length Surface ft m H1 57 17 Concrete H2 57 17 Concrete H3 57 17 Concrete H4 57 17 Concrete Statistics ( 2004 ) Aircraft operations 10,000 Based aircraft 84 Source : Federal Aviation Administration For the United States Air Force use of this faciity before 2001, see McClellan Air Force Base Sacramento McClellan Airport ( IATA : MCC, ICAO : KMCC, FAA LID : MCC ) is a privately - owned public - use airport located six miles ( 10 km ) northeast of the central business district of Sacramento ( a city in Sacramento County, California, United States ). 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 Calstar, the California Department of Forestry, United States 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. Contents 1 History 2 Facilities and aircraft 3 References 4 External links History 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. 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 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. The Aerospace Museum of California occupies a site at the north of the airfield. References ^ Jump up to : FAA Airport Master Record for MCC ( Form 5010 PDF ), effective 2007 - 10 - 25 External links 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. McClellan Park McClellan Jet Services, FBO ( fixed - base operator ) FAA Airport Diagram ( PDF ), effective March 29, 2018 Aerospace Museum of California Resources for this airport : FAA airport information for MCC AirNav airport information for KMCC ASN accident history for MCC FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker NOAA / NWS latest weather observations SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures This article about a California airport is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacramento_McClellan_Airport&oldid=822464035 '' Categories : Airports in Sacramento County, California California airport stubs Talk Contents About Wikipedia فارسی Тоҷикӣ اردو Edit links This page was last edited on 26 January 2018, at 14 : 41. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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Question: who was mcclellan air force base named after
Answer: Major Hezekiah McClellan