ORENBURG AIRFRAME PLANT NO 47, ORENBURG, USSR

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• Publication Date: July 1, 1964
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July 1964
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE REPORT
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ORENBURG AIRFRAME PLANT N0.47
ORENBURG, USSR
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ORENBURG AIRFRAME PLANT NO 47
ORENBURG, USSR
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Orenburg Airframe Plant No 47 (BE No and is served by both roads
is located at 51-48-OON 55-06-40E and rail (Figure 1).
in the northeast suburbs of Orenburg, USSR. Orenburg Airframe Plant No 47 was ob-
The plant is adjacent to Orenburg Airfield served on photography from TALENT Mission
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FIGURE 2. ORENBURG AIRFRAME PLANT NO 47,
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Table 1. Description of Facilities. Oren1 urp Airframe Plant .\o y7
(Items are keyed to Figure 3)
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Machine shop NNork-hop
1--emhHF machine shop
1--embly machine shop
Rarehouse
Iteamplant
Hangar
Rork- hop
Foundr\
Machine shop \\ork=hop
I%ork-hop
R arehou-e
Floorspace
(sq ft)
435,600
295,925
377,-?00
55,000
13,680
27,200
114,750
117,330
141,775
83,155
37,400
Dimensions
(ft)
990 x 440
665 x 445 x 50h
620 x460 x 50h
440 x 1.25
Irregular
170 x 160
Irregular
Irregular
535 x 265
Irregular
440 x 85
Total floor=pace of numbered buildings 1,698,215
Total floor=pace of other buildings 171,525
Total floorspace of plant
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This photog-
raphy shows the plant containing approximately
1,291,340 square feet of floorspace. A compari-
son of this photography with that from KEYHOLE
Mission shows new ad-
ditions containing approximately 578,400 square
feet of floorspace (Figure 3).
The additions have been identified as a
machine shop/workshop (item 1, Figure 3), two
warehouses (items 4 and 11), and a new section
which combines two hangars to form a workshop
(item 7). The construction of the machine shop/
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the
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of the other warehouse (item 11) had be n b
and was complete by
The new section (item 7) was under construction 25X1 D
when observed on Mission and
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floorspace of the plant in was
approximately 1,869,740 square feet.
The adjacent Orenburg Airfield, which
serves the plant as a test and flyaway 'field,
has two sod-surfaced runways in the form of a
cross. The north/south runway measures ap-
proximately 3,500 by 185 feet, and the east/west
runway measures approximately 4,250 by 415
feet. No aircraft were observed at the airfield on
KEYHOLE photography; however, two COACH/
CRATE were visible in
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are ouses (Item 4)
was in evidence in (Figures 2
and 3). This warehouse was complete in-
_ and the machine shop/workshop appeared
to be complete in Construction
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SAC. CS Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0236-2AL, 4d ed, May 60, scale 1:2200,000 (SECRET)
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