1. BAUTZEN-LITTEN AIRFIELD 2. HUSAREN KASERNE IN BAUTZEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003200570009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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_DATE PREPA2RED1 11, DecemreriA' ILLEGI
1.. The following air activity was observed at I3autzer_-Litten airfield between
25 October and 14 November 1953:
25 Oct ber. During the noon hours, local fights were made by trainer0
over the field. The aircraft took off on tl e runway, remained aloft for
about 5 minutes and laded on the sodded landing field.
Two radio trucks were parked at the take-
off points
10 October. Local alights and acrobatics wire practioed over the field.
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31 October I noise of aircraft engines.
I, November,
craft at the fie 1U.
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2 to l4 November. No air activity or aircraft were observed at the field.
2. Two of the three hangars under construction on the field ;etueen kil peter
markers 4.2 and 4.4 of the road leading south of. the field were completed
and lighted at night, The framework of the third hangar was completed0 About
half of the road east of the airfield was completed by mid-i ovemrer.
During the first half of November, a dredger was located between the flight
control station and the hangars and two concrete mixing machines were observed
near the cement storage sheds. Gravel from Nadelwitz arrived on 5 or 6 dump
trucks
On 25 October, a, radio mast, about 4 meters high, with a disk-like device on
top was observed about 20 meters west of the flight control station. The two
radio trucks were parked near 'chic radio mast when there was no air activity,
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49 on '31 O be or 1 November, about 120 men on busses
of the Huseren K Berne for an uncete
Comment. The report confirms previous observations
According to tAis report, the
3d VPL Fegt, now de ;igna ued 3d Lepir-Lnent of Aeroclub, discontinued
air activity which had been resumed in mid-October. The present
location of the aircraft has not, been determined. The observation
that VP yehi let left the UTusare Kaserne is probally connected with
the transfer of the s li-o-e eft,. :tt is believed that flight training
was transferred to mother airfield because of construction work at
Fautzen-Litterf s-irf eld or because the auxtliarv mat rux y
is not suita'-le for this activi v,-, Flight training was probably
resumed at Cattlus ,.-' Drewi tc ae_rfield4o
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