BULGARIA AVIATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300170012-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 17, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. S I-4A
SEP1.1848
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Bulgarian.' Aviation
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF IN
W$ DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTINOTNT NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OP THE ESPIONAGE ACT 50
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DATE 0I $TR. 1' 7 Feb 1949
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1. Airdromes which serve the Bulgjrian Air Force exclusively are reported as
follows : 1h
a. Tel.is h
b. tJolna T itropoli ja
c. 'Gorria Orehovica
d. Kazanlik
e. Dobricll, This is a permanent headquarters of an Air Force regiment
(. squadrons)
f. Karlovo
g:. Silistra
h. Vr4zhdebna (Sofia subur')
tr, ishte (Sofia suburb)
j. Plovdiv. Permanent he4dcjtarters of an Air Force regiment.
irdrome-s and bases for s .lanes:
a. Bale , serving both airplanes and seaplanes. Permanent headquarters
St. Konstantin, north of Varna, serving both airplanes and seaplanes.
Auxilliary airfields (without air installations) serving the Soviet Air
Force are as follows
.ol
a siadron of seaplanes.
a,gag,, serving both airplanes and seaplanes.
}-abrovnic . Ferdinand County )
Bat~,ti (Orehovo Courty)
o.
d.
lava (Bela Slating County)
KoloJanovo
>. Airdromes where Soviet planes are stationed are listed as follavmli-
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b.
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Plovdiv
prna Q r'ehoviGa
Stara Zagora
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5. Parachute schools are located in the following regions.-
a. Bozhurishte (near Sofia). Location of one parachutist regiment with
850 men in training. Only Bulgarian Air Force officers serve as
b. instruct6rs,
b. Vrazhdebna (near Sofia). Location of one parachutist regiment with.
$50 men in training.- : Only Bulgarian officers instruct,
Plovdiv. Location"df one, parachutist regiment of 850 men. Only
Soviet Air Force;cficers serve as instructors.
airfield is located between the towns of Ruse and Trstenik near the
in.n hnr- ' nnA t,
situated on a plain. Large hangars areunder construction. one held is
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