WIENER NEUSTADT AIRFIELD
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP80-00810A001100470006-2
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RIPPUB
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S
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
December 15, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 15, 2003
Sequence Number:
6
Case Number:
Publication Date:
April 7, 1953
Content Type:
REPORT
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Wiener Noustadt Airfield
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED_.I
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PAGES- 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
7 April 1953
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1. On 2" February 1953, only a portion of the total occupation at .wiener
1Ieustadt (0 48/X 34) airfield was observed. Six MiG-15s pointing to
the southwest were parked in a row from northwest to southeast about
200 meters nort.west of the AA gun emplacements along Badener Strasse.
A bus trailer, 3 trucks, 1 van-like truck and 1 jeep were parked at a
small distance from the northernriost plane. No air activity was
observed. There was a 10/10 overcast at an altit=ude of about 1,200
meters and a northwesterly wind of about 35 km/h. The soldiers
quartered in the cantonment west of Wiener Neustadt and the sentries
there wore red-bordered black epaulets. Sixteen trucks were parked
in the barracks and and the garages. No guns or weapons were observed.
25X1 B Trucks I Iwith drivers wearing red-bordered black
epaulets hauled the garbage away. The waste paper was burned under the
supervision of an officer.1
2@ Between 9 and 11 a.m. on 1 Mr4rch, no air activity was observed. at the
field. There was a .northwesterly w` nd of about 10 km/h, visibility of
15 km and light rain. An antenna mast, about 12 meters high with four
cone-sha, ed bracings, was observed northwest of Felixdorf (0 48/X 35).
Near this mast, there were a brick building, about 8 meters square, a
radio truck and a rod about 6 i..eters high with an unidentified device.
The 12-meter-high Past had about ten antenna wires fixed at its end,
which terminated on the ground in a circle about 150 meters in diariater.
Four additional wares, fixed at the u-.-.per end of the mast, extended along
the mast down to the ground and led to the radio truck and the brick
building. 1. and 2
3. Up to about 10 p.m. on 2 March, air activity by MIG-15s and-
apparently by individual single-engine planes, which had set position
lifhts.l
4. Between 6:30.and 7:40 p,m. on 4 March, there was moderate air activity
by M1G-15s. There was a 8/10 overcast, a westerly wind of 10 to 15 S