OBSERVATION OF AIRCRAFT IN THE AREA OF MORAVSKA OSTRAVA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000900810006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Observation of Aircraft in the Area o~ t~'toravska Ostrava
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lA Aircraft obsu~rved p ~ Marav;a. Ostrava (P 50/0 597 airfield between ~Su1V
- 1.951 and I?ecemb=r X951, inclt3deci canuasrcial planes flying daily at
sehedulec3. times ara' during favorable weath~~r anly, ir~ivldual, short,
thick sin~;1~: exi~~.ne law wi.~; monoplanes and occasionally some biplaneso
There were never .more than t'r_ree planes of the same type aloftp
At an sir show :,f the Czechog.:~vakian Air Farce in Augea.st 1951, parachuting
from. two~engin~: aircraft was s.townn The show also included 20 to 30
aircrsft simiZ~r to the ones s~r~1 during the daily flying ~.ahich passed
over the fieli. in several forr~,,i,i.ons, aerobatics flown by individual
planes of ~.:hE sametype, a.nd fin~l.ly, several formations of het a_~.rcraft
with swept brci~ wings flying abreret Brice aver the field. There was
a total of `''J to 25 `et aircraft. National insi tiia were riot deterininao'e
source loa~?r.ed that these planes were
het e,ircrtf'. which the Czech Air Farce had recr~ived from the Saviets~
~~,~i~~c~~nt~ Acenrding to previous information covering about tha same 25X1A
pcriof: of o7~servation, 2~~oravska Ostr:.~ra airfield is of minor importance
only,, becruse thc~ dimensions, 500 x g.'O meters, do not uoet the
;nary fielud
The present rep?~ suirpar prey ous ass~~ap pans
accord~.s~; to w~7ich a airfield was use ~ for intermediate landi=lgs by
Czech cr~mere~zal p:i.anes and for sport f lyinga
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Approved For Release 2002/07/23 :CIA-RDP80-00810A000900810006-7
nerc daGOeocn 16 rlarch 1953