OBSERVATIONS AT THE RUDY LETOV II AIRCRAFT FACTORY VODOCHODY

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2008
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• Publication Date: June 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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Observations at the Rudy Letov II DATE DISTR. 17 June 1955
Aircraft Factory, Vodochody
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Observations
1. The site of the Rudy Letov Aircraft Factory at Vodochody was observed
18,2G, and 214 January 1955. The following observations were mades
12 (sic) January
1 MIG-15, type unidentified, on the runway opposite the control tower.
1 line of 8 HIGs in front of the revetments; type unidentified.
1 HIG, single seat, covered with canvas, and 1 Is two-seater, at the
extreme east of the revetments.
3 MIG two-seaters under a sort of portico, at the eastern extremity behind
the revetments; thenagain in back of these, 1 MIG trio-seater.
2 MIG single-seaters and 1 MIG of which the back of the fuselage had been
removed, making visible the back part of the engine.
The total number of aircraft seen outside the buildings that day was 17 (sic).
20 January
1 MIG, type not identified, on the runway opposite the control tower.
A line of more than 5 HIGs, type not identified, in front of the revetments,
then 3 HIGs at the and of these.
In back of the hangars 5 HIG two-seaters, then 3 HIGa, type not identified.
Between the hangars and the workshop 2 HIGa, type not identified.
A total of at least 19 aircraft seen outside.
21, January
2 HIG type ype unidentified, on the runwiLy opposite the control tower.
A line of HIGs, type unidentified
but at least 5 aircraft in front of the revetments; at the eastern
extremity of these, 3 HIGs, two-seater, and one one-seater. Four two-seater
MIGs on the east taxiway, being tested; in back of the revetments 4 two-
seater KGs; then 5 others of an unidentified type.
A total of at 1e t 24 aircraft on the outside.
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General Remarks
2. Certain buildings of the factory have been painted a light green color
all over. This is certainly a color for camouflage, because since about
the middle 'of December 1954 a number of buildings, barracks or factories have
been painted the same color.
3. A pipeline is being laid in the east of the field. It cuts the main
Prague-Teresin road at right angles 750 meters north of the village of
K] ioany.
4. A new road has been laid out connecting the factory directly with the northwest.
The work is temporarily interrupted and the road leads nowhere. The purpose
of the establishsmt of this new route of access is unknown.
5. The production of the factory at Vodochody, which at the moment appows to
consist only of taro-Mtmr YIGa for pilot training, seems less compared with
the spring of 1954, when it was not unusual to see 60 or 70 aircraft outside
the hangars.
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