Sacramento Airport Mc - Clellan Airfield Mc - Clellan Air Force Base - CA 9 May 2002.jpg
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 Calstar, the California Department of Forestry, United States Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento, Dassault Falcon, United States Forest Service, PODS, Surf Air, and the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
All ground handling and fueling is instead of by Mc - Clellan Jet Services, a subsidiary of Mc - Clellan Business Park.
In 1938 the base was retitled Sacramento Air Depot and underwent a primary expansion as a repair and overhaul facility for P-38 and P-39 fighter planes.
The base was retitled Mc - Clellan Air Force Base in 1948 and its repair and overhaul mission continued throughout the Cold War as an installation of the Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) and later the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), with the overhaul facility being known as the Sacramento Air Logistics Center.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Mc - Clellan functioned as the chief depot for overhauling the Air Force's F-111, FB-111 and EF-111 airplane , as well as the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II airplane .
There are 84 airplane based at this airport: 4% single-engine, 64% multi-engine, 23% jet and 5% helicopter and 5% military. To step up its bringy of Speedy Bell P-39 "Airacobra" fighter aircraft s to American pilots in the South Pacific, the Army Air Forces Air Service Command put American manufacturing line methods to work in its repair docks at Mc - Clellan Field, California.
Two and one-half million dollars worth of aircraft s were overhauled by civilian Air Service Command workers at Sacramento, California before to being sent against the enemy.
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