Amboy Airport

Before the current Hancock airport was built, there was Amboy Airport and that's were Syracuse's first scheduled air services operated. Amboy Airport was located just north of Camilllus, just west of the New York State Fairgrounds (which are west of the city itself). According to Paul Freeman's, Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields page about Amboy Airport also known as Syracuse Municipal (http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_Centr.htm#syracusemuni), It was opened 1927 and closed in 1949. It had 3 intersecting runways and was bordered by rail tracks (which are still in use as the main line that goes from Albany to Buffalo). It was closed when the current airport opened and subsequently became a chemical waste bed with almost no trace of the airfield existing today. There are a few reminders of it with one of them being Airport Road that skirts the western edge of the site and a an old hanger that's now in use as a storage shed along that road. A third reminder is small portion of one of the runways is still in existence although it almost impossible to reach due to the swampy surroundings (I've tried to get to it myself). Another site that has some pictures of it is ONPIX, a digital collection of images form the Onondaga County Public Library local history collection which has a transportation page (http://drew.syr.edu/onpix/main.php?g2_itemId=2260).