STENDAL AIRFIELD

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 30, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORMATION INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage L-ws, Title
18. U.S.A. Sea. 70.3 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person Is -prohibited by law.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT . Stendal Airfield
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30 JAM 1958
URCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
report on
1.5tendal airfield which gives information under the following headings;
\H71) Eastern End of Runway and Taxiways, (2) Connecting Road between
The 50-Meter-Wide Hardstanding and the Old POL Store, (3) Track Leading
Westward from 50-Meter-Wide Hardstanding, (4) Electric Power, (5) Airfield
Perimeter Fence, (6) Rail Spur, (7) Concreting Work, (8) Aircraft State, and
(9) New Contract for ITB (Ingenieur Tiefbau) Brandenburg at Colbitz:.] Two
sketches are also included: One shows the eastern end of the runway and taxi-
ways, and the other shows the northern link road to the old POL store.
[STATE
NOW
ARMY IX NAVY X AIR EV X Fat
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EAST GERMANY
AIR/MILITARY
APPENDICES - Attached at Appendix "A" is a sketch of the eastern end
of the runway and taxiways.
Attached at Appendix "B" is a sketch of the northern
link road to the old POL store.
EASTERN END OF RUNWAY AND TAXIWAYS
1. The 28 m. wide eastern conerete apron is constructed of 3.5 m. wide,
hand-laid, concrete sections (see Sketch at Appendix "All).
09 ,-PTUM ROAD 13B"'Mm THE 50 M. WIDE HAI7ASTANDING AND THE OLD P O'1., ; ICF_E
2. The junction of this road with the clinkered area adjacent to the
old POL store has been filleted on the east side only. (See Sketch at
Appendix "B"). It is unlikely that any filleting will take place on the west
side of the junction since all concreting has ceased in that area and, indeed,
all over the airfield except for the patching and improvement work on the runways
and taxiways.
TRACK LEADING WESTWARDS FROM 50 M. VIDE HARDSTANDING
3. The 14 metre wide track leading westwards from the 50 m. wide
hardstanding has now been completed. This track makes a further short bend in a
north westerly direction immediately before joining the existing clinkered road.
(See Appendix "B").
ELECTRIC POWER
4. An overhead high voltage power line which runs in a north-south
direction about 600 - 800 m. west of the western end of the main run-c.y is to be
replaced by an underground cable. It is said locally that the lanth to be
placed underground will total 2c km. viz: 10 km. each way north cm:_ south of
the airfield. The cable laying and dismantling of the high voltage line will
probably be crrried out by the firm of STARKSTROMLEITUNGSBAU, RUDOLF FFt Y,
ALTENBURG (THURINGEN) who will have extra labour provided in the form of
GermaA prisoners serving hard labour sentences, who will dig the cable trench.
AIRFIELD PERIMETER FENCE
5. The whole airfield area is now surrou.ded by a barbed wire fenee
of approximately 2.5 m. height. It r i as follows:
(i) Along the southwesternfe.ge of the wooded area which flanks
the airfield to the nuryh,
(ii) Then it turns westward from the edger of the mood along a line
about 250 in. north of the runway, and parallel to the latter,
until it reaches a point about 100 in. east of the footpath
which passes the pig farm.
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(iii) It then runs for about 100 m. parallel to the footpath
mentioned in (ii) above, in a north-south direction.
(iv) When it is about level with the pig farm it branches e.ist7 rd
in the direction of the old firing range,(it is not knonn
whether the old firing range is, in fact, enclosed by the fence).
Further east the new fence links up with the old existing
b,rbed wire fence.
(v) At approximately 31.5 km along the STENDAL/BORSTEL road tho
fence reaches the road, coming from a due south direction.
(vi) From this meeting point the fence runs along the west side
of the STENDAL/BORSTEL road as far as the main entrance of the
airfield.
(vii) It then turns westward to run along the southern edge of the
main entrance road into the airfield.
Fencing work is being carried out by a Soviet working party.
RAIL SPUR
6. The rail spur serving the airfield runs along the north side of the
emtraaee road to the airfield.
CONCRETING V7ORX
7. A total of about 100 concreting sections 5 x 3.75 m. are having to be
remade or .tched. Up to 6 Dec .bout 30 of these had been completed. All this
work is being done by hand.
AIR` STATE
8. 6 Dec 57. Only one helicopter was left on the airfield. It is not
known where the other two have gone. There were no other aircraft on the
airfield.
NEW CONTRACT FOR ITB BRANDENBM AT COI,BITZ
9. It is rumoured that ITB BRANDENBURG will start in February or March 1958,
on completion of their ,.ork on STENDAL airfield, a 2 to 3 year construction
programme, details of which are at present lacking, at COLBITZ. COLBITZ lies
on main road No. 189 MAGDEBURG - STENDAL, east of NEUIIALDENSLEBEN.
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Re Para 5: The course of the fence described in sub-paras (i) to (vii) should,
for the time being, be taken as approximate only, e.g. if the fence crer: to follow
the course implied in sub-paras (iii) and (iy) it would appear to out acrnAa thn
end of the runway.
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