LANDING FIELD NEAR POVAZSKA BYSTRICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005800830006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEWGENCE, AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contain informatloa aleolta the Na-
tional Defense of the United DMMs within the maaa-
ins of the iplamap laws. no* 11. 0.S.O. gem 7N
and 791. the tranouNslom or rasdatbm W whbk In
any manner to an unautboHwd poison Is pohtb$Md
by law.
SECRET/U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
Czechoslovakia
Landing Field near Povazska
Bystrica
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 28 March 1955
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
HE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
1. A landing field located north of Povazska Bystrica.. (N 4+9-07, E 18-27) was
established in 1950. The landing field has a grass surface covering an-area
600x600 m. The southern boundary of the landing field is formed by a field track
running parallel to and about 400 m. north of the river Vah. The western boundary
is formed by another field track running along the eastern slopes of Horka Hill
(elevation point 471) and leading from the village of Orlovv (N 49-51, E 18-26)
to Povazake Podhradie :('N 49-09, E 18-28). Approximately at the center of the
southern boundary is a hangar with a curved roof. Next to the hangar is a mast
flying a wind sock. The landing field is bordered on the north and east by open
fields The boundaries are marked at intervals with red and white wooden ground
markers.
-- ~-_- r ~~~ ??rs??Ies-~+~ a u, llg _u_jcAat mi~.i%sry. earcrait, participlited in
an air display. Since then, the landing field has been used for sporting events
and air displays put on by the Czechoslovak Air Force, during which single-engine
piston aircraft and twin-engine Biebel aircraft landed and took off.
The management of the Povazska Bystrica engineering plant' is taking over the landing
field and plans its extension in the northeastern direction.
Comment: Probably the Vah Machinery Works (Povazake Strojarne)
National Enterprise, Povazska Mystrica. ,
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1. Boundary
2. Hangar
POVAZSKA BYSTRICA
SCALE 1125000
SHEET 4361/1w is 876
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