EAST GERMAN INTEREST IN GLIDERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003900110004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 13, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL-U.S.OFFICIALS ONLY
DATE OF INFO.
East Germany
East German Interest in Gliders
SEPORT
DATE DISTR.
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REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
13 April 1954
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In the middle of November 1953, Czechoslovakian sport and training aircraft were
demonstrated in Sehoenhagen near Trebbin with the aim of selling them to the Volks-
polizei and the Dresden Technische Hochschule. One of each of the following three
types of aircraft was exhibited:
(a) Twin-engined, 4-seater, mid-wing plane with retractable undercarriage,
(b) Single-engined, 2-seater trainer, with retractable undercarriage.
(c) Single-engined, 3-seater sport aircraft, with retractable undercarriage.
The aircraft were flown by Czechoslovakian pilots attached to the Volkspolizei
and by two professors and an experienced senior student of the Dresden Technische
Hochschule.
2. VEB "Waggonbau Gotha" built about 160 gliders of type SG 38 in series production
up tq the beginning of December 1953. At the present time, a 2-seater machine is
being developed for glider instruction and practice. It can also be adapted for
blind flying.
3. The VEB' Nagema Muehlenbau of Bad Schmiedeberg, about 30 kras south of Dresden,
built SG 38 gliders in series production up to 1 August 1953. At the end of
December 1953, the company was building Gruenau Baby 2 B'glider in series pro-
duction.
Some time before late December 1953, an association (Interessengemeinschaft)
located near Leipzig submitted a design for a stunt-flying glider (Segel-Kunst-
flugmaschine) to the Technical Acceptance Commission in Berlin. This commission
did not consider itself competent to deal with the matter and delegated its
authority to "Waggonbau Gotha". The proposed design was found to be unserviceable.
in a subsequent test.
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