THE UTVA AIRCRAFT FACTORY IN PANCEVO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100110001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 9, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
VNFORMATAON REPORT CD NO.,
COUNTRY ups: avia
SUBJECT The Utva Aircraft Factory in Pancevo
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Prior to V"orid V.ar II the Utva Factory in Pancevo, then known as "Utve,
Zlatokrmiia" (TJtva Gold'Dings), produced gliders. The factory began
powered aircraft production in 1947 when the factory was enlarged, new
machinery installed and the number of workers increased. Utva4 along
with tha Ikarus plant, is presently one of Yugoslavia's largest aircraft
factories.
The first models to be produced by the factory in 1947 were the "251"
try in:ing planets? The Trojka, another training plane, was turned out in
19/&. Production of the "212" training plane was 'begun in the latter
p t of 1948 and early 1949 from the blueprint made by Major Luba Il1c,
who i..) formerly in the Royal Yugoslav Army and who reportedly has escaped
abroad, Production of the so-called Vihor 902139 plane, the invention of
Engineer Sostari.ca, was planned for 1950.
3., PUan.s for 1948 called for the production of eighty "2519 planes but only
twenty models vfere actually produced because of a lack of material,, and
labor. In 1949 forty "251" models were prodt"ced, twenty of which remained
without motors, Although the original 1949 plan called for one hundred
"21299 models,, only two such craft were produced by August 1950. The 1950
plan called for the construction of an original production of ten "213" craft.
Factor,,,r personnel totals approximately one thousand workers and employees,
with 4'D engaged in actual production. Of the latter group only between
120 ana`= 150 report for work daily. Frequent absences and lack of interest
on the part of both workers and technical personnel decrease factory output.
~~ith favorable cona1tions Utva could produce from eighty to one hundred
v'anes ennuailv.,
hl: mnc~: ,rrry Ainstn 'el. in the factory has been imported, particularly the
better machines which came from Germany as war reparations,, The machines
are in excellent repair. Upon Import from Germany, the machines were first
sent to the "21 May" Factory in Pancevo from where distribution to the Utva,
Ikaru.s4, Aar"ovica, and Tretenik plants was made. The Pancevo factory was
the receiving center where the machinery was tested, necessary repairs
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bo The raw materials utilized are special steel, light alloys, fabrics
varnishes and pipes of which there is a eat scarcit o
Utva has been supplied with two Rendzer model
"0 HP sic motors and they are installed on two "212P craft.
7c, The following personnel are employed by Utvax
Factory Director
Chief Engineer
Secretary, Ci organization
Personnel Chief
KOS Representative
Assistant to the KOS
Representative
Chief, Construction Bureau
Chief, Planning Section
Chief, Operational Section
Chief, Production Section
Chief, Factory Control
11ilitary Control Chief
Member, P?ilitary Control
Section
Member, l ilitary Control
Section
Chief Dispatching Officer
W Edvard Id jakovic, P"a j or and C P member.
Radoslav Jarevica
Steven Kirseta
Captain Ostojic, a C? member,,
Major Jc a>3.p 57j sez cnomn as "Lika".
(He was reported to have transferred to
the advanced Party school in the latter
part of 1950. He is a former UDB chief
in %eman.)
A certain Al.eksic, a miiitaz tech' t.ical.
employee.
Engineer Pater Kersic
Engineer Cermak, a former Royal. Naval
Officer, non-Party member, reportedly
transferred from Htva?
Srbol jub Paric
A certain Prosaic
Captain Arie Curie
Lt, P