BRANDENBURG-BRIEST AIRFIELD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500360002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 9, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on 12 July 1951* there was no flying at Brandenburg- -
Driest airfield except for the take-off by biplanes. seventeen MIG-..-15s were
parked On the landinc field. (1) Three heavy. AA guns were seen in the AA gun
emplacement Passenger car n-Q2-!4.4 and radio truck /1:06-76 were observed at
the field0
2. On 2 July* 14 :riG-15s* including two planes of the alert flights were parked on
the landing field, At 30.5 pom. these aircraft were on the taxiway. A small red
flag was stuck into the around in front of each plane. One Vi0-15 took off at
8:25 pot!.. when the red flag is removed. The plane landed at 8230 p,mr, Another
MiG-15 took off at 837 p.m. and landed at 8:55 p.m. No other flights were made,
Between 3 and 5 July* no chanee in occupation as observed at the field. On 6
July* 20 140-15s with red nunFeers on their noses and no markinc on their rudder
assemblies were parked on the landing fiel& tuMbers observed included 216? 5580
5739 5792 501, 9371, 941, 9479 9514, 9540 956, 11280 1170, and 1170. (2) Plane
No 216 had a dark point in front of its number. The follovinc, flyinL was observed:
Aircraft Number
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3n On 7 and 3 July; 2.0 incluclin.: tho L72o alreraft of the
alert flizht were parked on the landing field, Only a fc7 aircraft
rade local flights betueen 3 arl,? and 2 p,m, cn bet1 day.nH the
occupation of th field was unchanged on. 10 July- Airc.roi and.
663 of the alert Illgt took off fron the feld. at C16 a They
landed at i,55 a,r: an 11 duly, 20 aircraft -nem 2M1 7Lri,:cd on the
lanKlinc, field. The two pianos of the alert rii{-,ht took off at 730
aGrc, and landed at C 10 a_n trwards; about eight to ten. !,TiG-15s
rade local fli4-,hts up to about 2 p.. Upon 1andth.7 the at raft were
refueled?from tank trucks -In front of the flight eontrol 1Jailedn: ?
The occupai,ion of the f;Leld wa still unchanged on 12 1uly Flying
was the same as on 11 Ju No chanres were observed at thw field
between 13 and 16 July,
At 2 p,m, on 16 Junez. about three or four soldiers vere engr.-4:ed in
painting over the numbers and morins on the rudder ass(mbiles of?
UIG-15s. (4) he numbers on planes seen after that Cate seemed to have
been newly painted. -No ner.7 marnfs were seen on the. rudr assembli. es
but the former stripe on the rudder assembly was still slightly
visible,
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(1) he'airfie.Ld is still occupied by a fiLhtcr regint equiped with
M1G-155 and some Yak-ils and P0-2s, 'floe latter were used as
trainers, 1
(2)A total of 16 Aircraft nUmUrrs of the O0 seriesdof the 200 series;
7 of the 900 series; and 3 of the 1100 series have been observe&
Since .the new aircraft numbering system has not been elarifieds, it
cannot be determined eriich of the aircraft numbers observed belong
to the fighter regiment stationed in Crandenburg-Driesto
(3)The observed flying is normal, The longest flight lasted 48 minutes,
MO observation ...indicates that tl-e aireraft are net refueled for
short flights only, Ihe type desifnation of the two-seater iliO-15s
whose appearance 'oss observed at various airfields in the nem-let
Zone 6f Germany has not been detemf,ned. he plane Is probably -a
version of the nic-15 used f.r trajnin purposos possibly for
instrument flying,
(4)This infomation confirns the preVious assumption that the new
numbers have nothin to do with a posble arrival of new planes i,
but that the old numbers were repleced by new ones,
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