AIRFIELDS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200180008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Kunovice (P 50/T 09) airfield The airfieldb':no from- Ut?.areko I rwd .:te
T __1 CSI-T - 0 9T,~ hac a rse, y cfiE `ed at the time of the Goccupation. In
the spring of 1951,, expansion work at the airfield was started by the
3 km in lenCth and 2 km in width,, Sixteen lame installations such as
hangars, repair shops etc. wera also to be constructed there. The concrete
landing area vrhych was to be laved out in the shape of an 1.4 was to be
provided with a 60 .cm subgrade. The field borders wooded areas on all
sides. ~"ork at the installation is to be completed in 1952, *
ing about 200 convicts were employed. The field was to be extended about
The construction of a new airfield in Ilolesov (P 50/C 12) started in
the spring of 1951. .:'ore is to be completed in 1952. **
t?,?r. Ostrava (P 50/0 59) airfield,, The airfield is located south of ?'_ vi
Ostra; a, uet~teyen the reads ~Q %3 a iuvka (P 50/0 58),, to Bola (P 50/0 58)
and to Vlyskovice (P 50/0 58), The landing field was a,_-out 300 x 1,,200
meters. It was not provided with concrete runway or taxiways6 The follow-,
ing installations were available at the fields 1 empty hangar on the
southern edge, which was to be torn dorm; 2 hangars, about 10 x 20 meters.
of steel. and brick, I hangar about 1 x 30 meters; a l au building with
a Tooden rod',., and a flight control station with radio equipment. Seven
sports planes and 16 gliders ere parked in the hangars,
Cor . nt.s This is the first report on improvserien.t cork on I;un.ovice
airc~l his believed that the terrain which surrounds the field
permits an enlargement of the installation. The concrete landing "ield
mentioned is probably a runvray with two taxiwTays0
construction of a new airfield in I;olesov was previous--
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re--or- 07.. icates that this field is used by the Aeroclub
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