Sacramento McClellan Airport

MCC originated in 1935, and it was established and named after Major Hezekiah McClellan (a pioneer in arctic aeronautical tests who died in 1936 when his Consolidated P-30 that he was testing crashed) on December 1st, 1939. Before that, MCC was known as the Pacific Air Depot, and construction began in 1935 (anticipating the possibility of WWII). As such, the administrative buildings, barracks, warehouses, and hospital were all constructed during that time, and in 1938 the base was renamed Sacramento Air Depot, as it underwent significant expansion as a repair and overhaul facility for P-38 and P-39 fighter planes (before being renamed the following year again). Starting in December 1941 (shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor), P-40s, Martin B-26 Marauders, and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers began arriving at the airfield to be armed for battle and prepared for shipment overseas. Furthermore, in 1942 Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's B-25s arrived at McClellan in preparation for the famous Tokyo Raid. In 1948, the base was renamed McClellan Air Force Base. Throughout the Cold War, it continued its mission as a repair and overhaul facility as an installation of the Air Force Logistics Command and (later) the Air Force Material Command. The overhaul facility was known as the Sacramento Air Logistics Center. By and large, throughout the 1980s and 1990s, McClellan functioned as the main depot for overhauling the Air Force's F-111, FB-111, and EF-111 aircraft, along with the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft. McClellan Air Force base was closed in 1995. In 2000, the base was transferred to Sacramento County and converted to McClellan Park, which is now home to hundreds of private companies and state, federal, and local government agencies. With over $580 million in investments, it is considered one of the country's most successful conversions of a former military base.

The airport is located six miles northeast of the central business district of Sacramento. 

• Current airport tenants include Calstar, the California Department of Forestry, the United States Coast Guard, Air Station Sacramento, Dassault Falcon, the United States Forest Service, PODS, and the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District. 
• The FBO is McClellan Jet Services (a subsidiary of McClellan Business Park), responsible for all ground handling, fueling, catering, and more. 
• The Aerospace Museum of California is located on the north side of the airfield.