FINOW AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700620006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, The .rollewing aircraft ed eir activity were observed at Fiuow airfield
between 23 December and 2e Jaeuary 1953 ?
:;41-?ItINMkar.z. About 38 HIG-15 and type-29 planes were parked at the field, ier:
these planes 28 were counted, Source be:f ieved that somo additional HiG-15 ee
type-29 planes were probabTief parked in elm hangars or revetments.25X11
Thera was individual flying by swept -back jet fighters throughout
the deye The Sky was overcast and visibelity was clear,
4,,,,jvawary_z, There was the same weather es on 13 January, lir activity by
MA3-15 and type-29 planes Was observed,
1mart,, No air activity was observed. An estimated total of 36 MiG-15 end
ty9e-29 planes and 3 single-engine airceaft were observed at, the field.. Of the
et planes 25 were counted:. No aircraft were observed Ln the ehrapnelproef
eirceaft revetments, 1
Forty-one MiG-15 and type-29 planes, including 36 (In the nortbeen.
ed 0 of the nal& were counted at the .natellation., let additional 10 4ile,:e5
ne typo-29 planes were estimated there I
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112 Jarns:ry,, the AA gun empIecement in the southeastern corner of tbe field ete
otifl oecupied by .stx 37-nua guns, Three guns were beinc cleaned on 23 Decoobeee
Inetrectioe as given on an uncovered gon on 28 Januar, Six teucke were
observed in a nev motor vehicle shed abeut 20 meters weet of the kitchen
he:Aiding near the AA lun emplacement? Merth of the shed, there was a low
w-iden building with three windowsL ?
Oe 23 January, source observed that the interior and sidewalls of the
ehreeineproof aircreft :revetments were Axed with lightedweight s1abs,2
? In jenueryl? a total of about 200 bombs -Fere stacked in four groups in the
bomb. dump in the northeastern eorner or the field The dump was guarded by e
nentey who wore redeborderad black epeeists? Poles were being set up alorg to
cenetAere edge of the fuel dump:.
The leader oet previously located in Postatrasse in Finow was not observed ettees
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Sammt; Pinow airfield is occuoied by the headquartern of a filiver
V171SLOU end two fighter reEiments, wIdch are equipped with an averate o
44 to 46 Mj0-15s, _Aircraft numbers 1089 apd 2465 are reported for the
first time, No 2463 was previously o'n;erved in Necruppin.
C gat. The information that he inner walls of shrapnelproof circrzft-
reve-iments were lined with concrete &,abs was received from other airfields
According to a previous reporti, 22 ca:-.s with concrete slabs were dispatched -
from Rredersdorf to Finow between 27 ;Ind 31 October 1952.
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