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 use of this faciity before 2001, see McClellan Air Force Base

McClellan Air Force Base

McClellan Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base located in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County, northeast of Sacramento, California...

McClellan Airfield , known officially as McClellan Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport

Airport

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 located six miles (10 km) northeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Sacramento

Sacramento, California

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, a city in Sacramento County

Sacramento County, California

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, California

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, United States

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The airport is on the former site of McClellan Air Force Base

McClellan Air Force Base

McClellan Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base located in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County, northeast of Sacramento, California...

, 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. The airport is a public-use facility which operates as an uncontrolled airfield in what the FAA designates as Class "E" Airspace. Current airport tenants include the California Department of Forestry, United States Coast Guard

United States Coast Guard

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 Air Station Sacramento

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento

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 and the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.

Facilities and aircraft

McClellan Airfield has one concrete

Concrete

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 paved runway

Runway

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 (16/34) measuring 10,600 x 200 ft. (3,231 x 61 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

Air taxi

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 and 20% general aviation

General aviation

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. There are 84 aircraft based at this airport: 4% single-engine, 64% multi-engine, 23% jet and 5% helicopter

Helicopter

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 and
5% military.

External links

• County of Sacramento, Department of Economic Development: McClellan
• McClellan Jet Services, FBO (fixed base operator
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