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Sacramento Airport
Airport Directory » United States » Sacramento » Sacramento AirportSacramento International Airport (IATA: SMF, ICAO: KSMF, FAA LID: SMF) is a public airport turn up ten land mile (16 kilometre) northwest of the central downtown (CBD) of Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California, USA. It is run by Sacramento County. Southwest Airlines now accounts for approximately one-half of all airline rider traffic.
History
Due to the vast housing development around Sacramento Executive Airport, the City of Sacramento Planning Department and the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors commissioned a survey to travel big commercial air functioning to a small populated area . Choosing on a place adjacent to the then being build Interstate five in the farming area to the northwest of the town, the airport 1st opened on October 21, 1967 as Sacramento Metropolitan Airport. On June 24, 1988, it went the 1st airport on the west seashore to host a Concorde, cooccurring with the activating of the airports 2nd landing track. In 1998 with the opening of a new depot construction, it was renamed Sacramento International Airport; though it didn't have its 1st international voyages until 2002 when Mexicana started nonstop service to Guadalajara. The airport was officially denominated a port of entry on October 5, 2006.
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