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Sacramento McClellan Airport

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92: 444:, 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 697: 702:
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
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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
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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%
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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
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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.
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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
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airplanes were overhauled by civilian Air Service Command workers at Sacramento, California prior to being sent against the enemy.
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bombers began arriving at the field to be armed and prepared for immediate shipment overseas. In March 1942 Lieutenant Colonel
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Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, McClellan functioned as the main depot for overhauling the Air Force's
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The airport also functioned as a joint civil-military facility, providing a base for the
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Kyla Cathay (April 13, 2019). "Lodians await news from front in early 1944".
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and underwent a major expansion as a repair and overhaul facility for
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aircraft. A small contingent of F-111D and F-111F aircraft of the
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McClellan Field
McClellan-Palomar Airport
United States Air Force
McClellan Air Force Base
38°40′04″N 121°24′02″W / 38.66778°N 121.40056°W / 38.66778; -121.40056

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Sacramento, California
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McClellan Park, California
central business district
Sacramento
McClellan Air Force Base
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Calstar
Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento

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