A single person in Folsom complained to Sacramento County nearly 2,000 times last year about noise from Mather Airport.
Complaint logs from Sacramento County show that in total, the Department of Airports received 2,181 complaints in 2024 for all the aircraft facilities it oversees: the Sacramento International Airport, Sacramento Executive Airport, McClellan Airport near North Highlands and Mather Airport just outside of Rancho Cordova.
The logs, released to The Sacramento Bee in response to a Public Records Act request, show that 1,969 of the noise complaints came from one ZIP code in Folsom. All but one of those reports were regarding aircraft at Mather Airport; one was about McClellan. All but five of the Mather comments from the Folsom ZIP code — 95630 — had the same general format and used similar language…