RUMANIAN-BUILT AIRCRAFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001200450001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 22 May 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
25X1
REQUIREMENT
25X1
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The IAR-813, designed and produced under the supervision of a Rumanian aero-
nautical engineer, (fnu) Manicatide, is a conventional single-engine mono-
plane. Built specifically as a primary trainer, the IAR-813 may also be used
as a liaison aircraft. Since early Spring 1951, it has been produced in small
numbers at the Army No. 2 Aircraft Repair Shops (Ateliere Reparatii Material
Volant No. 2) located on the northern periphery and in the two center hangars
of Stalin Airfield. By September 1951, 25 IAR-813 aircraft had been built
at Stalin and were the first installment of an order of 50 such aircraft to
be produced for the Ministry of Armed Forces (Ministerul Fortelor Armate-MFA).
2. During 1951, the 25 aircraft were disposed of as follows: three or four
were sent to Air Cadet School No. 1 at Tecuci Airfield (4551N-2724E); three
or four were sent to Air Cadet School No. 2 at Focsani/South Airfield
(4540N-2712E); one was sent to Rumanian Air Force (RumAF) Command Hq. in
Bucharest, as liaison aircraft; and approximately 15 were believed to have
been sent to the air regiments as liaison craft, possibly to replace the
PO-2 Soviet-built biplanes. As of March 1952, the total order of 50 aircraft
was still in effect the target date for completion of the contract being the
Fall of 1952. ultimately each of the two.Air Cadet Schools
was to receive 12 such aircraft; 12 were to go to the Aviation Instruction
USAF review completed.
STATE # X ARMY #
25 YEAR RF RF /IE All
X NAVY # AIR # X FBI AEC
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Center at Buzau Airfield (4508N-2648E), and the balance assigned as liaison
craft to the Rumanian Air Regiments; possibly several were to be sent to the
civilian flying schools.
3. Specifications for the IAR-813 were as follows: It was a primary trainer
and/or liaison aircraft, had no armament and no radio; it had dual controls,
and a two-place single cockpit. It also had a single Czech-made, Walther-Minor,
4-cylinder, 110-h.p., inline, speed of 200 km/hr.; it could take off in 50 m.
It had a two-blade fixed-pitch wooden propeller. It was a monoplane, low-wing
type, moderate positive dihedral. It had non-retractable conventional landing
gear. The fuselage was of tubular truss construction with a canvas skin; the
craft had all-metal wings and tail assembly. It was painted silver-gray
the Soviets were of no assistance
and actually refused to deliver any aircraft construction materials for this
pro ect.
5. The twin-engine IAR-814, also designed by engineer Manicatide, was in the
last stages of prototype production, March 1952, in the Army No. 2 Aircraft
Repair Shops, Stalin Airfield. Manicatide expected to have the prototype
completed by July or August 1952. The IAR-814 was primarily intended to be
an advanced trainer aircraft; however, it had a passenger capacity of six
persons plus pilot and navigator and/or a utility cargo of four stretchers.
The plane had Czech-made Walther-Major 6-cylinder, inline, air-cooled engines
of 165 h.p. each. It had two-blade fixed-pitch, wooden propellers and electro-
mechanical retractable conventional landing gear. It was a low-wing, positive
dihedral monoplane. As of March 1952, no production order had been placed
for this aircraft.
6.
with the exception of the two above-named air-
craft, there was, as of March 1952, no aircraft production or aircraft
assembly activity in Rumania. All World War II production and/or assemb
facilities were discontinued shortly after the war .
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