AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTION AT THE VEB INDUSTRIEWERKE DRESDEN

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008200380003-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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Aircraft Construction at the
VEB Industriewerke Dresden
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1. Az of early Augu*t 195 , .he large hail of the -?orwer VEB ; ac isenwerk Viedersedlitz
which is located on the grounds of VEB Industriewerke Dreaden was completely equipped
and set up for the production of aircraft. In addition to the normal production area,
the hall contains a special depart-cent which only certain specialists may enter. Only
engineers from Pirna-Sonnenstein are employed in this department.
2. Individual parts for the MW-15 jet fighter are being produced in the former Saa hsen-
werk Niedersedlitz hallo Final assembly of the aircraft will not be made in Dresden
but in Klotzsche. The final assembly was to begin by mid-September 1955. Material
for the production of the MIO-15 comes packed in crates from Gruenhain near Karl-Marx
Stadt.
On the normal production area of the of/t VEB Sachsenwerk Niedersedlitz hall, three
two-engine aircraft, Type IL 14, were under construction in early August. These
were to serve as experimental models. In 1956, aircraft developed by the German
specialists are to be produced. These aircraft are then to be exported. The type
of aircraft in question is not known.
4. All airplanes for the defense of East Germany are to be manufactured and tested at
Klotzsehe. Preparations being made at VES Industriewerke Dresden are merely intended
to assist in getting aircraft production orndts feet, and aircraft for the defense of
East Germany will not be constructed there.
Aircraft for the VPL Volkspolizei Iuft-Air People's Police) is allegedly being
developed by German specialists at Pirna-Sonnenatein. The airplane under development
is to be produced later instead of the MIG-15.
6. The motors for the IL 14 come from Karl-Marx-Stadt (factory not known). The aluminum
plate comes from Hettstedt (factory not known).1 Unidentified factories in Thal near
Ruhla in Thuringia deliver the rivets required. Aluminum pressed parts for the I1 14
come from VEB Elektro-Chemisches Kombinat Bitterfeld. The steel which is used in
the IL 14 comes from VEB Edelstahlwerk Doehlen-Preital.
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