<P> Sacramento McClellan Airport (IATA: MCC, ICAO: KMCC, FAA LID: MCC) is a privately - owned public - use airport located six miles (10 km) northeast of the central business district of Sacramento (a city in Sacramento County, California, United States). </P> <P> The airport is on the former site of McClellan Air Force Base, 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 Calstar, the California Department of Forestry, United States Coast Guard, Air Station Sacramento, Dassault Falcon, United States Forest Service, PODS, and the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District . All ground handling and fueling is completed by McClellan Jet Services, a subsidiary of McClellan Business Park . </P> <P> 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 Consolidated P - 30 which he was flight testing, crashed near Centerville, Ohio . </P> <P> Construction of the Pacific Air Depot 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 Sacramento Air Depot and underwent a major expansion as a repair and overhaul facility for P - 38 and P - 39 fighter planes . </P>

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