ZERBST AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002700590004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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T OPIC.,.~ Zerbst Airfield
'AL-UATIOaN PL.ACE OBTAINED__.. J ,
DATE OF CONTENT 28 August to 11 September loi5'3
DATE OBTAINED-- -DATE PREPARED
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Some aircraft have been withdrawn from the field since early August 1953.1
On 2 September, there was no air activity. The hangars were closed. Only-
five MG-15s and U-MiG-15s were parked in the northeastern section of tIe
-field. The preparations for night flying activity started at 6 p.m.
3. A wooden shed, 6 meters square, which was under construction, and three
small tents were observed next to a set in the radar station northwest
of the field.2
The following air activity and aircraft were observed at the field between
4 and 8 Septembe;x
&Ltember. At 4 p.m,, four 1:iG-15 s were observed aloft. One aircraft
towed a sleeve target which was fired at by the other three aircraft,
Three additional swept-back jet fighters took off at 4:15 p.m. One of them
towed a sleeve target. Northwest of the field, attacks were made at the
sleeve target. Discharges of aircraft armament could also be heard. ;
total of 23 NIG-1 and U $iGAl5s including the alert flight were parked at
the field.
Sestemberv Between 10 p.m. and 11 porn., 12 take-offs and landings by
swept-back jet fighters were made. There was good visibility. The aircraft
flew individually at large intervals. Their position lights were switched
on. When the aircraft returned to the field, a searchlight located at the
southern end of the runway illuminated the runway. Lamps were observed on
both sides of the runway.
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Approved For Release 2003/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA002700590004-4
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'.:.%.G-15s arrf'. j aj.x ,. ?s .ier?. ,awr'Cer . at the field.
'X w:ith .- A+ k:uiis were o served i onS the southern &C e of
the woods in the northwestern section of the field, between the, run-,
way and. the hir-:hbia: to Dt} t VA o'? :.r force officers ~.nd the2r depe . -
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`F o betiwiee:"l on 11 Se'.S tf r::berg no air activity was
observed at the R.ield-,, Here were int..; ziittent rain showers, Arh-t
MOO, piobably the alert ilight, were paz i:ed at the f"iteIN The
'i`a:dio install ti.o'' with tall nasty on the weiutera cd ~?e of the field was
ro;;,,oved. No c}rsrt