Conn. Gen. Stat. § 15-120j
Purposes and powers. Airport runway.
(b) The authority shall have full control of the operation and management of the airport, including land, buildings and easements by means of a lease to the authority by the city of New Haven and the town of East Haven.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, Runway 2-20 of the airport shall not exceed the existing paved runway length of five thousand six hundred linear feet.
Subsec. (b):
Court reads lease provision as, by necessary implication, containing proviso, “insofar as either municipality possesses land, buildings or easements used for operation and management of the airport,” or words to that effect. 47 CS 594.