Airport

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire responded when the aircraft crashed around 9:45 Thursday morning.

[Updated 12:29 p.m.] Two men in a small, experimental aircraft were injured when the plane skidded, ran off the runway at Rancho Murieta Airport and flipped over about 9:45 a.m. Thursday. One man was critically injured and was airlifted to UC Davis Medical Center, according to Capt. Christian Pebbles of Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District. The other man, who had lesser injuries, was transported by ambulance, he said.  Read more »

A plan to add storage for recreational vehicles and boats on 15 acres of unused property at Rancho Murieta Airport made its debut at the Cosumnes Community Planning Advisory Council Wednesday evening. The council also heard a proposal intended to divide the historic Sloughhouse Inn property to help sell it and a request for a use permit authorizing the present scope of operations at the Davis Ranch produce stand.  Read more »

“I’m here for the long haul," says Brad Beer, the new owner of Rancho Murieta Airport. "Little by little we’ll bring her back to life.”

Saturday morning, Brad Beer stood on the tarmac at Rancho Murieta Airport. Squinting in the bright sunlight, he took in the parked planes dotting the asphalt, the thousands of feet of runway, a cluster of cavernous hangars and remarked with a grin, “How many people own an airport?”  Read more »

Rancho Murieta Airport was the first community development, 40 years ago.

After years on the market, Rancho Murieta Airport has been sold by the estate of businessman Fred Anderson.  Read more »

Sunday was a big day at Rancho Murieta Airport, with a display of vintage airplanes and an Experimental Aircraft Association Young Eagles event. While waiting for their ride in an airplane, Kylee, 7, and Jared Bettger, 10, along with their father, Bob Bettger, examined a 1944 Taylorcraft DCO-65 restored by Murieta pilot Dick Valladao. The Rancho Murieta EAA chapter holds several Young Eagles events each year, offering free rides to children between the ages of 7 and 17 to introduce them to aviation. Zac Bowers, who piloted one of the three planes that took children up into the clear blue skies, was once a Young Eagle himself. About 40 children participated in the event, organizers said.

Sacramento County will mitigate the loss of 13 acres of woodlands and grasslands due to a court-ordered tree-cutting project at Rancho Murieta Airport last year by purchasing 26 acres of similar property in the area, according to county Deputy Parks Director Jill Ritzman.  Read more »

A plane that disappeared Thursday during a flight out of Rancho Murieta Airport was piloted by Wally Boeck, a Murietan who staged an aviation summer camp for youth this year and headed a group of local pilots at Murieta Airport.  Read more »

The felling of 148 trees on county parkland next to the runway at Rancho Murieta Airport began Wednesday morning.

The tree-cutting at the Rancho Murieta Airport was already under way Wednesday morning when Sacramento County Deputy Parks Director Jill Ritzman led a media contingent from the airport parking lot to county parkland between the runway and the Cosumnes River. A backhoe was loading huge logs and leafy debris from felled black walnut trees into a truck on the dusty levee road as the group arrived.  Read more »

After years of legal wrangling, on Aug. 15 Sacramento County will begin cutting down more than 100 trees at Rancho Murieta Airport to comply with a court order.  Read more »

Rancho Murieta children between the ages of 8 and 17 again have the opportunity to take a free plane ride and join the ranks of the Young Eagles on Sunday, April 6, from 9 a.m. to noon, during the airport?s monthly open house for the public. A free pancake breakfast will be served by the Flying Vikings Club and vintage aircraft will be on display.  Read more »