Cecil S Robinson

"One of the few airline-owned airports in the nation, the Cornell-Robinson field in the Town of Lansing is now in operation. It will meet all federal requirements for Robinson Airlines operation under a Civil Aeronautics Board certificate.
The field went into service for the first time at 5:30 p.m. Sunday when Flight 6 from Buffalo to Ithaca, Triple Cities and New York, landed on schedule before several hundred spectators.
The plane carried three passengers bound from Buffalo to Triple Cities.... A nine-place Beechcraft D-18S, the transport was flown in over Cayuga Lake to a landing by Capt. John Ganley and First Officer Donald Washburn.
C. S. Robinson, president of the airlines corporation, and the spectators noted that the plane used less than half the runway, the northwest-southwest strip, for the landing. Robinson greeted the passengers from Buffalo and he also welcomed the four local passengers who boarded the flight after brief ceremonies....
Three landings took place later in the evening. A Beechcraft came in from the late round-trip to Albany and two of the Robinson 21-passenger transports arrived from New York, one of them being an extra section. The final landing took place at 7:40 p.m. The big DC-3s, like the Beechcraft, used less than half of the runway for the landing.
Constructed by Robinson Airlines Corporation with the co-operation of Cornell University, the airport has two 3,800-foot runways, and a taxi strip to the new hangar and office quarters and the highway.
These facilities will be used for night landings until the Robinson organization can complete the extensive task of moving all operations to the new field. Arrangements are being made to accomplish this without any interruption or delay in flight service.
First use of the field for airline passenger service marks another milestone in the history of Robinson Airlines and airline service for this area. The present service has developed from the efforts of Robinson and other local men to obtain airline service here.
An established line refused several years ago to serve Ithaca with the result that Robinson operation was begun nearly 3 years ago. Since then, the company has expanded steadily, passengers are being carried at the rate of 30,000 annually, a perfect operational record has been maintained and 5,000,000 passenger miles soon will be completed."

"Airlines' New Airport Goes Into Service," Ithaca Journal, September 29, 1947, 5.

By 1952, Cecil S Robinson was no longer affiliated with Robinson Airlines.

"Robinson Airlines of Ithaca Wednesday asked the civil aeronautics board to approve a change of name to Mohawk Airlines Inc. Robinson revealed earlier in the week that it would be making the request. John R. Carver, vicepresident, said the change was sought because Cecil Robinson, for whom the firm was named, no longer is connected with the airline, and because the board of directors felt a personal name was not suitable for a public utility. CAB officials have indicated that the board will approve the change of name. The board may act within about 2 weeks, officials said."

"Airline Formally Asks Name Change," Ithaca Journal, August 7, 1952, 3.

"Taking off shortly before 10 a.m. today in crisp, sunny weather over Ithaca Airport, 2 airplanes of Robinson Aviation Inc., headed southeast to inaugurate non-stop air service between Ithaca and New York....
The opening of passenger service brings to Ithaca an airline designed solely to meet the air transportation needs of this one community, Robinson said today.
...It is hoped, Robinson explained, that the New York run will be only one of a number of spokes radiating directly from Ithaca to other areas within the State of New York. A need for direct service from Ithaca to Albany is developing, [C. S.] Robinson said....
The service provided by Robinson Airlines also is quite different from the great long-distance high-speed operations employing the huge air transports of the future which have lately fired the imagination of the public, Robinson said. In contrast, Robinson Airlines has been developed exclusively to meet the equally great need existing for nonstop direct service over comparatively short distances to bring the advantages of air transportation closer to the everyday requirements of the average business man."

"Airline Opens Inter-City Plane Service," Ithaca Journal, April 6, 1945, 3.