"The hum of itinerant airplanes is sounding in the ears of the aviation committee of the Chamber of Commerce nowadays as the probability of Ithaca's becoming a government established airport draws nearer.
The committee is today in receipt of a complete file of bulletins from the aviation division of the United States Department of Commerce at Washington. It includes description of every aviation landing field in the country, and data which is considered valuable to the local committee in making improvements at the Thomas-Morse flying field preparatory to establishing it as a regular port on a national air route.
The immediate plans in this direction call for painting a marker on the top of the high gas storage tanks of the new plant of the New York State Gas & Electric Corporation at the foot of Cascadilla Creek."

"Ithaca As Airport Receives Impetus; Committee Active," Ithaca Journal, April 14, 1927, 5.