NEUBRANDENBURG-TROLLENHAGEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000180009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, After 1 p.m. on 25 December 1952, a 2-ti.G-15 plane made local flights 25X1
of about 10 minutes over Neubranden g-Trroaienha en airy' . d. The
sky was overcast. At about 3:30 p.an., nine MiG--15s landed in three
formations of 4, 3 and 2 planes respectively at short intervals
After taxying a stop, the planes were towed away by jeeps. A
radio truck with two rod antenznas, a sedan and the starting carriage
were parked on the landing field.
2. On '25 Decwnber, the Adcock DF station and the 25X1
radio installation which consisted of a mast about 7 meters high
were at their previous locations.
3. A barbed wire fence,., 1.5 to 2 meters high and consisting of 6 or 7
strands surrounded the field0 On 25 December, walls of earth were
observed between the firing range and the Neubrandenburg teveri n
highway. About 100 meters west of this road, about in the extension
of the runway, construction work was under way on a wooden raxnp, which
was about 6 meters to maters wide and 1.5 meters high. Truck
and ambulance were observed entering and levi? 25X1
the field.
~. The following air activity was observed at the field between 6
January and 14 February:
6 japy At about 2:2O p.m , the noise of running 25X1
jet engines. After a short time,, two jet, planes took Gaff and landed
after about 5 minutes.
1 Januu? , Natweer 1 and .Ln there was nix e.etivitY sw t-
bask et fi titers
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1. Air activity was b r ~ peon 10 a,r,?? and 3s3O por...
nre identified on fim
Between 9 and 10 a.n. e f 1yinwwas vracticod by s ate
back jet fighters
32 . anu Contrary to the rrecedi.ng days,, forri.tion flying was
practicedf 2 5 planes e
_J a azar There was local flying, One plane had
Four s ept-ba,ok let fighters were parked south of the western half
of the runway,
=' JNKA After 500 pin. there was Y31 = -..t flying by ti. p lane
The radio installation was lighted dur-.1 g night flying a
2 uaLy:N There wan night flying between 5:30 P.n. and rildnigh.t.
, n ry Botwe n 900 a zi ,, and is 333 r. n, ,, local . `1it ht ,, were
nade by in ividual pl nes.
j ... `et rua ?; ,, During the horning,, planes circled eVerr' tape fielr.&~ At
1100 ax.,,, an U-2 -2 plane landed and stayed "'o a s? ,.ort tircco at the
field 0
6 Februar , Between 10 a .n . and 4 r ri a local fl khis ct rc n de by
i.ndiv3.ciaa.~:T x~lane;~
&.] _ PkgjM, At 900 a.r.,., 14 planes took off at short intervals.
An Li.-2 plane landed at 1.1 a0e-., and took off at, noon heading north.
14 ua l,, a A U-2 plane landed and took Off after, a short ti rm e
5" Motor vehicles
in January,,
entered and left the field
Wiring the z~ rning of 17 Fohr iry and or 1 zacl 9 February 'the--
was air activity l sweat-bacTk jet fighters,
Con ent, I It is believed that p.*vuzr?a. 7etc'~,afi~ airfield is
oc ed by one of. the two fighter rbgix amts w .?? cla vvo.:re ovio-un7y
Stationed in }isetnitz ., According to avall.able in'orp. ati. n ,
?,?:.ich Is now in Neutaranden` ;
The esence of a reg.tnont i.s alsta
eunpor?ted by the observation that the xj stations w?Te r o-crested
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' ~a previously r -ported arrival of 15 railroad tank care with
so? ~ 23 ecerber 2 .953 also suprorts the a sou ptio a that the
Meld is occupied 'y an entire regfren?. F ?evious.iy,. it u ms
believed that only a training detail was stationed there.,,
0t* the alipc___ roportedd3
L~~ved for t a--6 first time in
It is believed that the f 1?rht
rep;3r:? nt in ~1eu n~?enkx ? ; was equipped with jot aircraft from
various fighter rc gi _ zeta of the 24th Air P ;y
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