Sacramento Mather Airport

For the military use of this facility before 1993, see Mather Air Force Base.

Sacramento Mather Airport (IATA: MHR, ICAO: KMHR, FAA LID: MHR) (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.

Sacramento Mather Airport
USGS photo, 17 August 1998
IATA: MHR ICAO: KMHR FAA LID: MHR
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Sacramento County
Serves	Sacramento, California
Elevation AMSL	98 ft / 30 m
Coordinates	38°33′14″N 121°17′51″W / 38.55389°N 121.29750°W / 38.55389; -121.29750
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 04R/22L 11,301 3,445 Asphalt/concrete 04L/22R 6,081 1,853 Asphalt
Helipads
Number Length Surface ft m H1 30 9 Asphalt H2 100 30 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Aircraft operations 99,467 Based aircraft 52
Source: FAA^[1] and airport web page^[2]

Facilities

Sacramento Mather Airport covers 2,875 acres (1,163 ha) 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).^[1]

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.^[1]

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
Ameriflight	Reno/Tahoe
DHL Aviation	Cincinnati, Salt Lake City
UPS Airlines	Chicago-Rockford, Louisville, Oakland, Ontario, Portland (OR), Sioux Falls, Reno/Tahoe

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.^[3][4] This incident was profiled on the Canadian TV show Mayday, also known, in the United States, as Air Disasters on the Smithsonian Channel.

References

1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for MHR PDF, effective 2008-07-31.
2. Mather Airport, Sacramento County Airport System website.
3. "Emery DC-8 cargo plane crashes near Sacramento, California". CNN.com, retrieved December 13, 2006.
4. "Safety Board Finds Poor Maintenance Caused Sacramento, Calif., Airport Crash". AccessMyLibrary.com, retrieved December 13, 2006.

External links

• FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective December 29, 2022
• FAA Terminal Procedures for MHR, effective December 29, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for MHR
  • AirNav airport information for KMHR
  • ASN accident history for MHR
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures