Sacramento Executive Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Sacramento County | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Sacramento, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 24 ft / 7 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°30′45″N 121°29′36″W / 38.51250°N 121.49333°WCoordinates: 38°30′45″N 121°29′36″W / 38.51250°N 121.49333°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sacramento Executive Airport (IATA: SAC, ICAO: KSAC, FAA LID: SAC) is a public airport three miles (5 km) south of downtown Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California. The airport covers 540 acres (219 ha) and has three runways (2 lit) and a helipad.
When it opened in 1930, Executive Airport was known as Sutterville Aerodrome. As the city-owned facility expanded, in 1941 construction was underway to pave and extend the airport's three runways.
The U.S. Army Air Corps took over the airport during World War II. After the war, control was returned to the city and the facility was renamed Sacramento Municipal Airport. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, improvements were made to parking and taxiway paving, water and sewer systems, and runway/taxiway lighting. The terminal building was built in 1955 along with some navigational aids and T-hangars.
During the airport's last summer of airline operations, the August 1967 Official Airline Guide (OAG) lists 22 weekday nonstops to San Francisco, 11 to Los Angeles, 7 to Reno, 2 to Medford, 2 to Marysville, and one each to Lake Tahoe, Klamath Falls and Oakland. Flights by Pacific Air Lines to the north continued to Chico, Eureka/Arcata, Crescent City and Portland, OR. Pacific Air Lines flight 771 (a Fairchild F-27) flew Reno-Lake Tahoe-Sacramento-San Francisco-San Jose-Fresno-Bakersfield-Burbank-Los Angeles-San Diego. United Airlines flight 224 was a Boeing 727-100 San Francisco-Sacramento-Reno-Denver-Chicago-New York La Guardia. Aircraft included Martin 4-0-4s and Fairchild F-27s (on Pacific Air Lines), Lockheed L-188 Electras (on Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) and Western Airlines), Boeing 727-100s (on PSA and United Airlines) and Boeing 720Bs (on Western); Western had one B720B nonstop a day to LAX.
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