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• Publication Date: September 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO .
MAY 1949
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CENTI9CL' f~J` fLt" `" ' 'E`NCY R PORTL
INFORMATION REPORT
CD N0.
Yugo slav7.a
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 50
U. S. C., 31 AND 32 AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO-
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In 1949 the Yugoslav Goo erre ent vas qu at _ the
be
Couia,nformist natLorB on her border and the it
planning aggressive action Yugoslavia. This i"of founded an 50X1-HUM
tie intensified propaganda campaign of the
danger represented by Yugosla.via against the +
pointing to the necessity of eliminating the Uto4Wrq
Yi, ot? av
As a macti an to this pr ;ys sur a from the C n of c tile
Government ordered that the maneuvers of the Yuva v q a .for the
fi III;;
year 1949 should be held in the boarder region >a a?%L iy and
R miaiia? This wad done not only to show the Co a st ~s e3
x ?
that Yugoslavia was ready ter any contingency, but a,
It 1'4 aly",
begin the a rateti c and tae ucal reassignment of t ugos av
Azmed Forces. Up to that time, $he YugoslJv forced 'acre so deployed
as to conduct operations against the West
a matter of fat t, after the maneuve
number of ground forces were transf erred to the 49
effected the following chanFges2
Trie units located in Vie rtheastern zone w
toward the West;
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'.fine 'fighter planes units were transferred to the new bases in
the rear amass.
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LJUBLJANA
This change was effected so that these units would not be subjected
to a sudden attack from the I st and so that they would at the same time
be in a position to engage the attacking `f cress of the enemy.
The airfields listed belt r were abandoned by t h- Air Force and wre
taken over by ground troops t
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PANCEVO
The pilots were instructed to familiarize themselves with the
new objectives at ante.
operating its
Military Trangjort PUN ( REGIMENT BELGRADE 50X1-HUM
Z, MUM -
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The headquarters of t eg
ZEMUM-BEI 3RADE.
Planes at its disposal t
German "JU52" three-motor planes;,
"DC 3 DAKOTA" two-motor planes; u$e ~p Is 'how e% : f av
Soviet two-motor planes t;jpe undeterminede eh'
f,mm transport gliders..
Commanding Officers Colonel Viado SIUIC? a pilo4
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PLANE
Nex Tlanea- -
fighter plane. This plane w ,-s deed and constructed in,
Yugoslavia , copied from the *I It-3" Yugoslav prep war model, with
modifications taken over frm the Soiiet 0 YAK 3" and from the
German a M.E.109e.
In .1939 the air craft factory IWtTJS, of Z WJM., turned out the first
been the aeronatit3.ca1 engineers
model Which hadnplanned and constru=ted by
ILIC, KOSTA SIVCEV) and ZERNIC.
The initials I K--3 siand for:
INF. -IKARUS
3 - 3 designers.
Armament of the IX -3
1 mall cannon
2 machine guns of ur tetennined caliber
in-line engine.
out 20 of these planes were built at that time, but they were
destroyed in 19- After the War, the engineers KOSTA SIVCEV and
ZERNIC resumed their studies of this plans and incorporated some changes
copied from the AK -3 and the ME-i09 and installed one of these
engines Vg -105,?FF 2 or vK-2A7-?F2 taken over from the Soviet
YAK. The new plane was then oal]ed the, &.49+
turned ont on an assembly-line basis by the
it is not being
IKQ.R.US plant.
righter plane.
This plane is pptterned after the 11-3, but diff era from it in that
it is completely s:anstructed of vetall... Moreoveq, it mounts in-line,
later-cooled enginws
supplies from
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Fol1owing the teak with the Ct,mi.nform, the t echnical
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USM came to an end, and therefore the IKAR.US: once again turned ir>
~ngin.es which originally had
been installed on the IK-3 aul which later had been supplanted by
the VK-105-PF2 or VK-107-PF2 or the 5.49.
Y u g o s l a v - B u i l t Airplanes Assi ed to Fighter Groups
On 21 May 1950 Marshal Tito presented officially to the Yugoslav
Air Force 30 fighter planes cm structed by the IKAiUS plant of
Z1 MUM.
erimental. Planes
The engineer SIMA MILUTIN?VICJ
has designed a sPeccfal 2-motor fighter-bomber
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which the IKARUS plant manufactured. When the first test flight
was held in the fall of 1950, the playa fell to the -ground and the
pilot was killed*
inexperience of the test pilot rather than defects in the plane itself.
Another planes, almost s mila ' to the ppreeeding ones is nearly
completed. The IKARUS plant .s manufacturing it and it was designed
by another professor at the 0rteehaLc Institute of Belgrade., the
engineer STANKOV.
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d? ,AMONAUTICAL IADUSTRY
a~ Military Agencies
Belgrade
Military Aso6echnical Institute
This agency is part of the Air `orce Headquarters and studies
and plans for the construction of ai?planesy engines, equipment
and armaments, and any modifications thereto.
Director & L%;?Col? KOSTA SIVCEV( an engineer) who designed and
constructed the first 'III- 3e fighter plane mentioned previously.
Asst. Directors Ehgineer CIM
AERON&UTICAL INSTITUTE
It is located in the suburb of Belgrade called
Belgrade
ZARKOVO
ZARKOVO.~'Ehis agency is the organ of the Air Force Headquarters
VRnd I
assigned to experim'nts and tests. It has a malarsshift~ aerodynamic
tunnel. The director is Lt. O olor el POLJANACs, who is also a pilot..
b? Fr ENE FACTORIES
`here %re only 3 airplane factories in Yugoslavia which either
manufacture airplanes or plane pWs.
IKAitUS of ZF LWL ( BELGW+DE
U.T.V.k. of PANCEVO ( BELGRADE
PRVA PETOLJETKA of TRST E)( KRUSEVA
AIxpLANE FACTaRy CW IKAR,i1in ZEMUM
Three groups of designers work in this plant.
This gragp designs and builds monoplanes to be adapted to
purs&t planes and to STC ULC C fighter planes.
The chief of this group is the
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raining planes.
Group II - This group studies changes and modifications in
The chief of this group is the engineer 50X1-HUM
SBSTAtIG, a Slovene, and his assistants are the engineer Stanko
a Serb and :d= a Da-2matian engineer
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Groff III- This group designs and constructs fighter planes.
The chief of this group is the engineer ZERNIC ( who designed and
constructed the fighter plane I F-3 mentioned above ).
( The numbering of the gro
for the sake of convenience,
does not necessarily c
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orresp and with
the official designation of these groups.)
PXoduction
The 5.50 fighter plane is being produced on an assembly-line basis, but
his is to longer the case with the S.i9.
2. U.T.V.A. Aircraft Factory of PA MEVO
This plant turns out training planes wtich have been designed and
coup I,
whose construction is supervised by the designers of the IKARUS Plant
mentioned above.
34, PRVA PETOLJETA Aircraft lagr of TItESTENIK.
This is a new factory wt ioh will manufacture multi- rotor planes.
So far, however, the plant it- only ganufacturing landing gears and
tail wheels for the airplanes= turned out by the 2 factories mentioned
abovee
d. Ai e_ I'hgine{~~Factories
-liIRt1USTR11-., MOT_ U RAKDVICA
This plant repafts and does general overhauls
of plane engines.
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Belgrade
Ra kovio:
Jim - _d=
Rakovi ~
This plant is quite nen and is located about 1 kilometer
south of the I.M. RAKOVICA plant mentioned above. At present it is
the
turning out engines for training planes and for/civilian planes
,M' and RIPSY M JCQ.
The technical section cbf the plant is run by your engineers and
technicians who received th-ir training in CzechollovakLa.
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Prior to the break with the Caainforms, the Yugoslav
aeronautical industry depended on yd:he' supplies 8 wing in from
the U slid on the technicaal direction of Soviet engineers. Later.,
of course,, the Soviet engineers went Kane and as a result, the
Yugoslav engineers were left to the4selves. I' he Sup lay of
.For the time beings th irefores the Yugoslav aeronautical is
turning out only training plan ess, of antiquated designs, and the
S-50 fighter plane*
spare parts also soon came to an end.
In order to meet the immef:iiate needs of the operating unitsa
J
which were using Soviet planes exclusively ( YASTO1 LO)TICKrPE 2)$-
all sorts of engineers were xWMr pressed into service for the
production of badly needed spare parts. A large percentage cf
this proddction was defective, and ]a rge amounts of capital were
wasted as well as large auaunts of materials rich were not
suitable for thh work at hand.
Some spare parts could not be built at all, and since none
sound. be obtained fron the US.'R , very soon
Jmmw comes - the entire
Yugoslav aeronautical industr, , was forced to readjust ~itself to
drastic changes. As a matter of facts fifts S.1-9 fighter plane,
vhioh is powered by the Soviet engines of the YAK -3 t was abandoned
and the IKARUS factory began to tum out . on an assembly line basis
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engine.
the SJG plane whirrs. is powered by the
The PRVA PETOLJETKA plait of TRESTENIK, which had been constructbd
in order to manufacture the Soviet fighter plane P E-2., bad to renounce
to this idea, and instead is now turning out landing gear for the planes
manufactured by the IKARUS and the U.T.V.A.
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The Yugoslav aviation industry is in a critical condition,,
lading spe vial sed personnel and materiel, and not only it cannot
build a modern air force, it cannot even service the one that alreae y
is in exiUtenceg'? Unless the technic'-,l aid premised by the United
all the operating
Staters, both in men and in materiel, arrives
kcroe will be groundeds as most of the Planes
planes of the Yugoslav Air soon
will lack essential spare parts or will be completely` worn out.
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we have already mentioned
two are living in Yugoslavia,, as
see under paragraph ap'
Yyg plane Designer
first I K-3
the 3 men Rho designed and. ccnstructed the -3 plan
attached to the
OfSic :rs
Conformist S0m t1 - of
of
colonel CQTE # -o is a Pilot and an observer (he is also a
vaimati1,
i,n l9:b ,a-s sen enced to 8 y"'ar
Air Force Headquarters of ZWJMs
prison for having e;pressed his C rainformjst views.
Esc a into H ga ? & 5~.or Offiwit h Cc ninf
Ideae
onnist
assistant of the
Colonel POPIVODL, a pilot, who was the political
Co ,~ander in ief of the Yugoslav Ajr Force,, General. ULFPIC ZDENKO,
fled to Rumania in February` 1950?
parachute Jumping exibitinn, at
The :flight took place duri g a t A K
per. ce at the
wLi ch he was in charge of the j ?mPin gtp A
ZE tUM Airfield. He was piloting a two-motor Soviet plane, of
chutist had jumpeds he
undetermined type, and after th .~ last Pam
c i.nued with the plane toward Rurnani. with the crew still a boards,
and landed at a* unknown place.
(3 or 4 men )
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.Be CIVIL AVIATION
2'he director of civil aviation is the engineer ARSNJEVIC.
Planes in Use
A ?erman ?JU 52" -hree-inotcred plane. A second plane fell dM
during the summer of 1950 near 31W 4L
Then there is an undetermined number of te6-motored Dakotas and DC 3.
Crews
Most of the pilots on the civilian airlines are pilots from
the prewar era, and most of then are not particularly loyal to the regime.
Three special courses for the new camrnmist pilots were held in order
to qualify thew as civilian Iilotae jhe courses were even extended, but
not ore of them was able to qualify as a first pilots they were le
only hoo -quONNy as second pilots.
oyed an the civilian airlines
Names cf lst pilots now Lag
Romeo ADU
back at his regular nob?
Ylk M- A--C( Am o~
a civil lot ?)ilot since June 195L.
L j bisa VASIC,
1kakulic MILOS*
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let Pilot Under Arrest
let pilot DIMCEVIC was acre ted and accused of having attempted
deliberately to fly out of the country vith the plane entrusted to his
Precautions Taken to Prevsat the Escape of Planes Across the Border
The 2nd pilot and the wireless operator are loyal and trusted
suppoitters of the regimes and wtile the plate is in flight, they are
- -_azme d, and make sure that the lst, pilot does not deviate from his
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