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McClellan Air Force Base (1935–2001) is a former United States Air Force base in California, located in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County, seven miles (11 km) northeast of Sacramento. [ 1 ]
McClellan Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California. [3] McClellan Park sits at an elevation of 69 feet (21 m). [3] The 2010 United States Census reported that McClellan Park's population was 743. It is the site of the former McClellan Air Force Base, closed by the federal government
After the war McClellan became a storage center of several types of aircraft including B-29 bombers. 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 Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) and later the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), with the ...
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 .
Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento is an Air Station of the United States Coast Guard, located in Sacramento County, California.The station has 189 personnel assigned and operates 6 Alenia C-27J Spartan aircraft on medium-range patrol and search-and-rescue missions. [2]
Was: McClellan Air Force Base (1947–2001) Now: McClellan Airfield (IATA: MCC, ICAO: KMCC, FAA LID: MCC) Also: Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento Winter-Davis Flight Strip Redding Army Airfield. San Bernardino Army Airfield, 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of San Bernardino; 499th Army Air Force Base Unit San Bernardino Air Depot Was: Norton Air ...
A former Air Force base responsible for potentially exposing hundreds of thousands to toxic chemicals is now a desolate wasteland that has remained abandoned in California for 32 years.
The Aerospace Museum of California is a private non-profit aviation museum located in McClellan, California, outside of Sacramento, California, on the grounds of the former McClellan Air Force Base. History