OSTRAVA (HRABUVKA) AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700920003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/04/18: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005700920003-8
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PREPARED 15 December 1954
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REMARKS
This is UNEVALUATED Information
1 o From the summer of 1953 to January 1954, glfding was practiced 'o -r? 25X1
kae.hrisch-Os*rau ( Ostrava) (4950 N/1817 E) afrf? :eid., '..~
gliders were towed by single-engine monoplanes to an altitude of
about 600 meters, circled over the field and then landed. at tha
airfields. This procedure was repeated. Training flights were a-~icarentldr
being made. ? + * '
2. Beginning in June or July 195 0wft-e airC"rbft wwe `seen` t:.kin4 off
from,, cireidng. over, and' lend l1- to 'ff din 'aidi"ticn to a commercial
plane which daily took off +on'schedule.' The twin-engine aircraft 'repeatedly
flew between approximately 2000 and 24CQ. During the 'take`=offs and 'landings,
the lamp at the nose compartment of the aircraft was lit. The aircraft flew
individually, remained aloft for a short tike and: apparently practiced
taking off, and landing. Civilian flight training` was pre sumab,.y'coonductad.
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3. No form tion flights or parachute jump's wbr radT duS-ing the daytie'e or a.t
night. Only on one day in September 1953 was parachuting practiced by
civilians. the field was a civ_t :i.an training 25X1
airfield.. No military air activity was observed nor were jet :.ir:,.raft seen?
omment. The airfield south of is known to be
Erabuvka airfield. A_c.:ording to previous information, the field is a cc:.s:erciai
installation at which-military flight training is ccnauct d,
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