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Mahlon Sweet Field (KEUG) is Eugene, Oregon's public airport, sited some 7 miles northwest of the city in Lane County. It offers a full-length ILS-equipped runway, a tower-controlled environment with approach control from Cascade, and a range of general aviation facilities alongside its scheduled airline traffic.
Mahlon Sweet Field, generally known simply as Eugene Airport, is a public aerodrome owned and operated by the City of Eugene. It combines scheduled airline service with a busy general aviation scene, including flight training, charter operations and aircraft maintenance, making it a useful and instructive destination for the VFR or IFR simulator pilot working in the Pacific Northwest.
The airport lies in Lane County, Oregon, about 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the city of Eugene. It is a towered field, with approach and departure control provided by Cascade Approach/Departure on 119.6 MHz and clearance delivery available through Eugene Clearance Delivery on 121.7 MHz.
Eugene has two parallel hard-surfaced runways aligned 16/34. The longer, 16R/34L, is 8,007 feet long, lit, and served by an ILS on the 16R approach. The shorter parallel runway, 16L/34R, is 5,987 feet long and also lit, though without an instrument landing system.
Eugene Tower operates on 118.9 MHz, which also serves as the CTAF. Ground control is on 121.7 MHz, and Unicom is available on 122.95 MHz. Cascade Approach/Departure works traffic on 119.6 MHz, ATIS broadcasts on 125.225 MHz, and clearance delivery is on 121.7 MHz under the Eugene Clearance callsign. A remote McMinnville radio outlet is also listed on 122.3 MHz. An ILS approach is available to runway 16R.
The airport takes its name from Mahlon Sweet (1886-1947), a Eugene car dealer and aviation advocate who was instrumental in establishing the city's first airfield, Eugene Air Park, in 1919 at the southeast corner of West 18th Avenue and Chambers Street. That original strip handled all local aviation until the present Mahlon Sweet Field opened in 1943, after which the old Air Park continued limited use until closing in 1956. During the Second World War the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces. In the postwar decades Eugene became a significant regional airline stop, first served by United Airlines from June 1944 with Douglas DC-3s and later Convair 240s, followed over the years by West Coast Airlines, Air West/Hughes Airwest, Alaska Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Republic Airlines, Horizon Air, Cascade Airways, American Airlines and Pacific Southwest Airlines, among others, flying a succession of DC-9s, Boeing 727s and 737s, BAC One-Elevens and turboprop types on routes linking Eugene to Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and beyond.
Alongside its airline traffic, Mahlon Sweet Field supports an active general aviation community. A self-serve fuel station is available on the field for GA aircraft. Eugene Flight Center, based on the north end of the airport, provides flight instruction, charter and aerial photography services, and is collocated with Fairbanks Aircraft Service LLC, which offers aircraft maintenance and repair. Lane Community College's Flight Technology Center, known as the Lane Aviation Academy, is based at the southern end of the field and provides instruction for private, commercial, instrument, multi-engine and flight instructor ratings using a fleet that includes Cessna 152s, Piper Warrior IIs, a Piper Arrow IV and a Piper Seminole.
