DRESDEN-KLOTZSCHE AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001600500005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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edc-e of the field, The planes had red propeller hubs
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engine low-wing rionoplane with "radi. engines atden-1-lotzbche ai.r-
field. Up to 8 -planes or this tyre were parked in line at the southern
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local training flights when the weather was 'fair. -Air activity by the three
biplanes which had been stationed at the field for sore tire was also observed.
No night flying was conducted.
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The Manes nade individual
2. On the road leading to the airfield columns of up to 20 trucks, opaarently
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3. On 13 Apri ; ive single-engine low wing nonoplal3as with
radial engines and painted green circling over the field. Truck
was observed leaving the 1;arracks installation at the field.
Air activity observed at Dresden-Klotzsche airfield betwem 7 and 11 April
includes?
7 Aril,, Bettye ti 7:15 and 9:30 p0m., Po-2s flew circles over the field,,
7 to a Ail. In the morning, the newly arrived single-engine low-wing mono-
planes with radial. engines nade local training flights.
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10 April. No air activity was observed.
11 April. Between 9 a.m. and noon, the biplanes and, between noon
and 4 p.m., the new aircraft made local training flights. At 11-030
a.m., 10 German student pilots arrived at the field by a VP truck.
They wore olive drab caps, brown leather jackets, and blue or olive
deb trousers tugged into boots. At 12:30 p.m., a sedan with two
VP majors coming fror the direction of Kanenz arrived at the fieldQ
After 11 April, a telescopic east was observed near the (Hansa bu_il-
ding. The cast was braced three tires with four cables each. A radio
truck was seen near the mast,
7 to 10 April, Driving school practices were observed near the field.
a. Between 13 and 18 April, Po-2s and the new aircraft made local
training flights. Forty VPL soldiers were seen at the fieldQ
Coriment. The report confirms the previously voiced assumption
that a training unit of the VPL is stationed at Dresden-Klotzscb.e
airfield. jdhcther the new aircraft
mentioned are of type Yak-11 or Yak- could not be deter=ineda
Beside the VPL unit, a Soviet air unit conducting training flights
with Po-2s and a motor vehicle distribution point of the Twenty-
Fourth Air Army with an attached drivinF-P school are stationed at the
field
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