RUMANIAN AIRFIELDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A062600250001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 49
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 11, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title50X1-HUM
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Rumanian Airfields DATE DISTR. 11 April 1962
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
three
reports containing information on the following Rumanian
airfields:
A 9-page report, containing legend keyed to a sketch
of the airfield, which was the base of the interceptor
aircraft responsible for the defense of Bucharest.
b. Otopeni Airfield.
a. Military Airfield at Craiova.
22-page report, including legend keyed
to a sketch of the airfield, giving details of the
277th Jet Fighter Regiment, and information on other
components of the 66th Jet Fighter Division.
c. Militar Airfield at Craiora
A 1, --page report, inc ludin; legend
keyed to a sketch of the airfield, giving details of
the 158th Jet fighter Regiment.
S-E-C-R-E-T
ARMY IX I NAVY
(Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".)
I NSA
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1IN4,ORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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The Military Airfield at Craiova
1. The Craiova airfield, located about five kilometers east of
the city, was the only airfield in the vicinity and was there-
fore used by both military and civil aircraft. Stationed at
the airfield were the 66th Jet Fighter Division, the 158th
and the 277th Fighter Regiments, the divisional workshops
(Atelier Central Reparat Aviosne - ACRA), and an airfield
service battalion (Batalion Deservire Aerodrom) which served
the 66th Division and its units but which was not subordinate
to the Division. The third fighter regiment of the 66th
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Division, whose number was the 1314th, was
based at Devesel airfield.
2. Subordinate to the divisional technical engineer were the
technical engineers of the three regiments and the divisional
workshop (designated ACRA-14). ACRA-4 was headed by an engineer
who had four engineers (ordnance, electricity, radio, and flight
instruments) and 15 to 20 enlisted men.
3. The 277th Fighter Regiment included a headquarters, three
squadrons (Escedrile de Sbor) of 12 aircraft each, a technical
squadron, and the regimental workshops (designated A.CRA-1).
The headquarters consisted of the regimental commander (a
pilot), the political deputy to the commander (a pilot), the
chief of staff, a flying officer, a gunnery officer (a pilot),
a meteorology officer, a technical officer, and an CBR officer.
Each squadron included a headquarters, three flights (Patrule)
of four aircraft each, and a TAB-11 or Fieseler liaison air-
craft. Squadron headquarters consisted of the commander,
political deputy, flying officer, and engineer (the first
three were pilots). Each flight was divided into two sections
(Celule) of two aircraft each.
4. The squadron engineer was in charge of the squadron technical
group (Grupa Tehnica de Escadrile), which consisted of a
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headquarters and three flight technical groups. Me headquarters
included an ordnance officer, an electricity officer, radio
officer, an instruments and oxygen officer, and three flij:;ht
~,n;-lneers. The three technical groups -ere subordinate to the
flight engineers and included an ordnance officer, an elec-
tricity officer, a radio officer, an engines and fuselage
officer, and four technical officers, each assigned to an
aircraft. Each of the above-named officers was assisted by
an enlisted man up to a sergeant first class in rank.
The strength of each squadron was approximately l,l, officers
2,4
Fns'/enlisted men. Officer strength consisted of 12 pilots,
12 technical officers assigned to aircraft, 16 other technical
officers, and four officers at squadron headquarters. Enlisted
strength consisted of 12 assistants to the technical officers
assigned to aircraft and 12 assistants to the other technical
officers.
6. The three squadron engineers, the technical squadron, and the
regimental workshops were subordinate to the regimental technical
engineer. The technical squadron, which had a strength of
about 28 to 30, was divided into a fuselage group, a radio
group, an electricity group, an ordnance group, an instru-
ments and oxygen group, and a compressed-air group. The
first five groups consisted of an officer and three to four
enlisted men, while the last group had only one officer or sergeant-
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major and two enlisted men. The regimental workshops was
headed by an officer who had six or seven enlisted speci