McClellan Airfield (KMCC/MCC)

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3331 Peacekeeper Way
McClellan AFB, CA 95652

Formerly McClellan Air Force Base
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Runway 16/34
Dimensions: 10600 x 200 ft. / 3231 x 61 m

McClellan is composed of 3,778 acres. It has 155 industrial buildings totaling over 4 million square feet; 35 warehouses totaling 4,035,752 square feet and a single 10,600 foot runway. There are 13 dormitory buildings with a capacity of 1,113, and 109 single family housing units. There are about 200 housing units off-base and a 9-hole golf course. Unique facilities include a nuclear radiation center, a plastic media blast facility, a digital network-switching center, aircraft instrument and computer facility, technical operations division laboratory, F-111 cold proof facility, hydraulic repair facility, global high frequency radio facility, and an anechoic chamber for antenna testing.

Sacramento Air Logistics Center at McClellan AFB, California closed 13 July 2001. After the base closed, McClellan retained 1,200 federal jobs in various Department of Defense functions such as the Defense Commissary Agency's regional headquarters, Defense Department microelectronics center, and in the Veterans Administration's medical and dental clinics.

Construction of the War Department's Sacramento Air Depot began on 29 June 1936, when the Army Quartermaster Corps appointed a constructing quartermaster for the installation. On 1 December 1939 the War Department changed the new installation's name to McClellan Field. The US Air Force became an independent service in 1947, and on 3 February 1948 McClellan Field became McClellan AFB. Eventually the base became the headquarters for Sacramento Air Materiel Area and then evolved into the home of the Sacramento Air Logistics Center. What started with an investment of $7M grew in value to over two billion dollars in facilities and equipment.