TRENC BISKUPICE AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400270005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, In July 1952, preliminary work for tLe construction of a north-south concrete
runway,, about 50 meters wide, was observed at Trenc, Biekupice (P 49 f 58) airfieldL.
It was r pored that the field was to be expanded to the south and southwest,, Work
was apparently not continued on the extension of the field or on the planned
runway during the winter of l952/I.953.e1 A tower, about 16 meters high, about 6
meters square, with a glazed. upper section was being erected on the eastern edge
of the field,
2. The field was occupied by a pilot school with about 400 students who were quartered
in the buildings on the northern edge of the field. From 1952 to about April 19539
about 50 twin-engine aircraft with double rudder assemblies., radial engines and
small windows in the upper section of the fuselage and about 8, single--seater
low-wing monoplanes with radial engines,, referred to as-fighters, were observed
at the field, Occasionally, there were more than 8 fighters,, Almost every day
during the sura;-er months,, twin-engine aircraft practiced flying in stagger
formations of 3A 4 or 8 aircraft Occasionally, up to 18 and more aircraft were
observed aloft at the same time, Sometimes,, 2 or 3 twin-engine aircraft dived, and
apparently fired at a point in the terrain. Occasionally,, the twin-engine aircraft
were escorted by single-engine fighters. Sometimes,, the fighters made feint
attacks against the twin-engine aircrafta2
3~ After January 1951, parachute training, courses for civilians were held at the
field. Each course numbered about 75 men
Milan Pastorek
The students r ns c c1n, trained in jujitsu and also in
parachuting from a Dakota aircraft from altitudes between 400 and 1,,200 meters.
The parachutes, of the parachute factories Merina and Nehera in Trencin, were
tested at the field. They opened automatically after the parachutist jumped
out of the aircraft;,3
~.. Cam ment Improvement work and construction work on the runway were
re rted reviousi 3
meat The information that Trencin airfield is occupied by a flying
school is probable. The school possibly is a service school for bomber or ground
attack pilots and for fighter pilots. The single-engine aircraft were -reviously
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reported and are believed to be of the le-type or Yak.lls,, The twin-engine
aircraft are believed to be Sieber-204a with the Czech designation C 2O3?
3n I is The parachute training courses are probably held within the
framework of pre-Edlitary training in the satellite countries.,
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