WIENER NEUSTADT AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700220003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. According to local residents, there was eir activity by I iG-l5s at
Wiener Neustadt (0 48/X 34) airfield betuee>n about 7 a.m. and 3
p ai . on 31 January 1953. No aircraft were observ ad aloft between
3:45 and 5 p.m., while there was a 6/10 ovorcast and a sou'thwesterl
wind of about 5 y h. Drivers' training was gIvenF_ Y-1 25X1 B
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About 90 percent of the drivers more black-bordered blue epaulet"
and the regaining 10 percent sore red,-bor prod black and black
bordered red epaulets., Two then were obse v J e c i in the drive I s cabi.n
and 4 to 6 nen on the individual trucks.1
2. Between 10 and 11:30 a.m. on 1 February; the field was occupied by
about 20 ?9.G-15s parked near the flight control stations 9 iG-15s
parked on Badener Strasse in line with the road sign, 6 Mir -15s on
the edge of the wood near the pyrotechnic plant, and 6 single-engine
planes with two-bladed c,:?opellers, which were rift of the tfi.G.-158
near the flight control station. No twin-4 - st planes were obser-Ted.2
There vas individual fl_r:ing by MiG-15s which frequently flew in the
clouds. There was an overcast of 4/30 to 7/10 degrees, an about 10
km/h wind and a visibility of about 30 km? Some planes circled
twice, while the other planes circled once and more widely. The
planes taxied under their own power .from the dispersal areas to the
runway. After the landing, they were towed back to the dispersal
area by weapon-carriers. At 11:05 a.m.s a 17i1G.,45 with a towed sleeve
target took off. Before thee ta': o'-off 9 the sleeve target lay on the
ground 350 to 400 meters aft c:? the plane,. The tow rope was apparently
fixed in the middle of the bottom side of the fuselage. T f 1,11,3-15s
simultaneously took off by side at 11:07 a,m. and another ViG-15
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.took off abut 30 seconds afterward, The a ~.ror oft flew individually
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:`,To attacks at the air sleeve toured by the `1(13-11 were adc., Source
,lis-continued his ob,.orvations at 11:30 a.r. The rc+.tsr plane; mentioned
did not land at the field up to that t3.1me., 3
-%, The AA in the e. ;lacer tints on B~tdener Strasse were covered with
tarpaulins. neither sentries nor so i d:+ ers ore observed near the
erplacer ents, A tank dung, about 50 cm lcrq.,, and 40 em high was
located next to the erpiacement o
4. Between 4 and 5-030 p .n. on 4 Feuer individual flights were made
by 1`iG-15s which taxied under their o7 m 1o :ter to the take-off point,
after the landing, and wore towed to the dP.spexsal area by weapons-
carriers. Thera were no clouds and a west.e orthkresterly wind of
about 15 i/h. The AA, guns in the enplacerents were covered Vri th
tarpaulinss. Sorie soldiers were observed ne_n, the emplacements Thr
trucks, loaded with crushed stones, Including one with 25X1 B
and with a driver woo wore black-bordered 61ae epaulets, left the
field and need toward Bad. Fischau,
5. Between 4 and 5 p,rz. on 5 February, the fa'.mowing aircraft were
observed at, the field: 22 1`iG-15s parked irregular intarvals
betwee;:, the flignt control station and the railroad stop at Waellerr
dorfer a rasse, 6 11G-15s on the edge of the woods near the pyroteohni:
lant,, about 14 11G-15e in frog of the pyrotechnic plant, 2 XiG-155
on the landing field v and 5 single-engine aircraft with vi-bladed
propellers near the flight control station. No twin-jet planes were
ident f'1 end