FERIHEGY AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700610001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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-CENTRAL INTELL1_G.E-N_CE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This merit aoeitams ~~ation aSeeling the As-
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COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Ferihegy .AirfUld
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DATE OF INFO.
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30 March 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITNE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Ferihegy airport at Budapest is used by the Maszovlet Airlines. The
Maszovlet personnel comprised: administration, 30 People; technical personnel,
120; weather service, 71 radio station, 19; goniometric station, ].a.. The
Ministry of Communications has a control and maintenance personnel of 17 at
the field,
2. The airplane park of theMaszovlet comprisesa
a, 15 Russian low-wing, all metal LI-2 planes, equipped with two 1,000 h.p.
engines (9-cylinder, radial), which are said to be copies of the American
DC-3 Plane . A plane crew consists of two pilots, a radio man, and a
mechanic. The planes-have accommodation for 2]. passengers.
b. One Czech-low wing, all-metal. "Aero 45" plane, with two Walter engines.
The crew consists of a pilot, radio man, and an assistant pilot who is
also a mechanic. The plan* can accommodate six passengers.
wi c "kpits. The crew and passenger
c, Five Russian P0-2~ e
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capacity are
d. One P0-2 plane with open cockpit, for training purposes.
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Air Routes.
a. Domestic air routesa
Budapest-Szeged Bekescsaba; Budapest-GMT-Bz01Nbathe3.7; Budapest-- Miskolc-
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Debrecen; Budapest-Siofok (summer season only)-Nagykanizsa; Budapest-Pecs.
b. Foreign air routes:
Budapest-Prague; Budapest-Warsaw; Budapest-Bucharest-Sofia. Budapest-
Prague is a joint Maszovlet-Czech service. Budapest-Bucharest-Sofia is
a latszovlet-Rumanian-Bulgarian pool. Budapest-Warsaw is flown only by
the Soviet Airlines Compa , with connections at Warsaw to Moscow. Hungar-
ian planes do not fly over the Soviet Union.
5. Assembly and Repair Shops.
These consist of a carpenter shop, fitter's shop and engine assembly shop,
equipped with modern machinery. Electric current is supplied by the
Budapest power system. The airport also has its own power plant. The men
work a 48-hour week, in two shifts. A mechanic gets 1,000 forints a month,
from which there are deductions of 100 to 120 forints.? The 14th and 29th
of each month are paydays.
6. The Fighters for Freedom Association (Szabadssgharcos Szovetseg) has its quarters
at the. airport, where preparatory parachute training is given. The Maszovlet
LI-2 machines are used for this.
7. The military airfield at Szeged has been isolated from the commercial field.
The runways are the same and are used in common, but the military field is a
restricted area and commercial planes may not pass over it.
Annex: Sketch of the Ferijaegy Airport, 1 page.
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