AIR FORCE TRAINING SCHOOL AT SZOLNOK

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASS! F I CAT I ON
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECRIV/COVIVOL U.13, CriltIALS.ONIT
SEC UR )TY I NFORMAT I
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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Air Force Trairi ng School at Szolnok
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DATE DISTR. 16 September 1952
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THIS DOCUMENT 'CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED. STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE,1B, SECTIONS ZS,
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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)ff1eeP mrainirg School is located at the Szolnok airfield;
Only volunteers are Flitted to this school. ilihrollment is limited to candidates
25X1 who have been members Of parami.litary- organizations - either of the SZHSZ
(Fight*s for Freedom) or of the OM .(tirlion of Hungarian Aviators) and who have
had preliminary training in eithertliders dr motor aircraft. The political
reliability of the candidates is examined by a COMILtEitlital of the Conmiunist Party,
41 which also thecks the reliability of the e oyers of the factory or industry
where the candidites have been employed. sons of bourgeois families sre
rarely admitted. Air Force personnel P' Showing promise as aviators, are 400
eligible for admission to the school.
The training is theoretical as well as praetical and. atafor one year. During
this period., the students take examinations labeled A, B, C, Ind AB.
After one year at the :SzcAnok school, the successful candidates are sent for another
year to the airfields, of Szekesfeh4r-srar, Budabrs, Kecskemet, and Kuumadaras, where
they will receive train'trz as .fizhkiiiie?,,oz-rier,oxplajasange_gpilots. The-staffs of
?.-instruct4ral, iare-mizetti eot8istittg".611batitlititstan- artd--HuzatEiVian offiewm.
25X15N The superintendent of the Szolnok school is Major Istvan Ian
officer of the old BUngarian Air Force. The following officers are sJ.soon the
staff:
Lieutenantih1y Gonda, 4" instructor
Lieutenant Dela Debrecerti). instructor
Lieutenant Imre Fekete,, informaLion officer.
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Altogether the school consiits of 250 faculty member and stu enta. The pupils
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belong to the classes of 1930, 1931, and 1-9321,
The Szoinokgailfield has the following aircraft for the use ofthe Killian school;
1, 46!,(Fischler-Storch)
4? P0-2
6 "Feczkoe (litteher-Bestman)
2 "Nrarjun (Arado 96-A)
25 rFecsken (rT-2).
Th commanding officer of the-Zzpinok air. .base is, Major GYargy Hombry. The ground
personnel of the school, including a platoon of guards, number about 120 men and
are under Major Homery's jurisdiction.
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