It is on the site of Mather Air Force Base, which closed in 1993 pursuant to BRAC action.

Sacramento Mather Airport covers 2,875 acres (1,163 ha) at an elevation of 98 feet (30 m).

[1] For the year ending December 31, 2018, the airport had 99,467 aircraft operations, an average of 272 per day: 51% general aviation, 13% air taxi, 5% airline, and 32% military.

[1] On February 16, 2000 Emery Worldwide Flight 17, a DC-8 cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from this airport, killing all three crewmembers.

[3][4] This incident was profiled on the Canadian TV show Mayday (known as Air Disasters in the United States) on the Smithsonian Channel.