COTTBUS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500580007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 20, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Cottbds Airfield
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The follot4 .54 adti'+rity ;rrs observed ata Cd'`t'etf*r* id t en
26 3nvember ? `Mere was ai> act'ivity by Yak-180. The weather.
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.yin; by Yak--11s The' ve ther was, cloudless
2 De e; bor . '._ak.J1s and Yi k: - s e; ire seen e lost
lp ce fb i. `El "here was air c t rtii y by Yak-11 as
Dec einbi .` There was f-ly g n)r-tak-l1s.
ant_ ;G I7ee91_bex. Yak-1&&, pf?aeticed flying.
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3. The follovf ng . ait activity ts oboarved at the field between 1 and 9
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![rh ax ?i~`., 11 a.r!., f .ve "aka .ls were observed at the we. teri. .d c the
un y. The - :.craft took. c,s'f individually for flight o? about $'i_' xiutes
dura~;ion clirnbl.ng to an alt '1u o n about 1,500 nieters.? -Take-tiffs and landings
were bade on the runway. E~ c-.h of the Yaks had a two--nn crew. Eighteen Yak??1ls
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10 Yak-18s and. 2 biplanes were parked in front of the hangars.
2 Decenbea. Fcctween 11 e..m. and 11:30 a,.r there was flying by Yak-18s,
The aircraft shortly
touched ground on the runway after one local light and then zoomed off
agAin. They landed after having rarade three local flights.
3 c J r. Between 11 aao. and 11:30 a.r:_,, Yak-lls practiced flying.
Decer r?.. Between 11 a.r:i. and 11:30 a.m. Yak-18s practiced flying in a
sirilar way as observed on 2 December.
8 December. Between 12:30 p.rs. and 1 p.a::., there was air activity by
Yak-18s. "Up to three aircraft were seen aloft at the same tine.
11 Deceas&& r Between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a,rm,, there was flying by Yak-lie.
Some of the aircraft flew with retracted landing gears.
During the first half of December construction work on the fence around
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Cottbus was occupied by VPL.
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the types stationed at the field, namely biplanes and single-engine
monoplanes of two different sizes, practiced flying during the first
half of Decemiber.
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E omrent. Since late November, the units in Cottbus of the VFZ,
re erred to as Aero--0iub, also practiced. flying with Yak,-llq- For
information on the ssr.ient of these aircraft to the field,
Prirary flight training is being conducted in Yak-18s as well as in Yak--lie.
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