In 1927, Syracuse mayor Charles Hanna felt his city needed an airport. Land in the Amboy section of the nearby town of Camillus was purchased for $50,000, and by 1928, the “Syracuse City Airport at Amboy” was handling airmail.

With the start of World War II, the airport was pressed into service as a flight training center for the Army Air Forces. By 1942, it had become apparent that Amboy Airport was not large enough to handle military needs, and as a replacement, the AAF opened Syracuse Army Air Base in the suburb of Mattydale, New York. At the end of World War II, the AAF leased the base to the city. On September 17, 1949, the Clarence E. Hancock Airport (named for the area’s Congressman) opened to the public using a renovated machine shop as a terminal and replaced the airport at Amboy.  The airport had three concrete runways, 5,500 feet (1,700 m) long and 300 feet (91 m) wide.

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