Sacramento Mather Airport
Sacramento Mather Airport (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. Facilities. Sacramento Mather Airport covers 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). 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. 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. This incident was profiled on the Canadian TV show "Mayday", also known, in the United States, as "Air Disasters" on the Smithsonian Channel