1. AIR FORCE WAREHOUSES AT STENOVICE 2. SMALL ARMS AND AIRCRAFT GUNNERY RANGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000200210008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT 1. Air Force Warehouses at Stenovice
2. Small Arms and Aircraft Gunnery
Ranges
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED B
DATE OF INF
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
I. Identification Data:
Reference to Enol. 1, Overlay
Pinpointing the Air Frroe Warehouse Area at Stenovioe-ff 49-46,8
E 13-29; Small Arms .Range;,and Aircraft Firing Range,
1. S .eno vi ae Wart*-hoiiaga these Line Airfield 5 49-kO. E 1
REPORT
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DATE DISTR. a.7 8'ct - 53
NO. OF PAGES 3
NO. OF ENCLS. 1
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO. 25X1
. The warehouses were or eer y
located in Dobrany E 13-187 and were moved to Steno-
vice in March of 1 .
were of r rev stuoooed brick,
USAF review completed.
L4'_TI)Z1TSAL
The buildings
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wings, aircraft and automobile tires and MIG-15 ammunition,
the warehouses were moved from Dobrany in March 1953. Some of
the friends were personnel that helped move the warehouse sup-
plies. The warehouses contained conventional aircraft engines
(type and number unknown), jet engines for the MIG-15, 20-23 mm.
machine guns, 45.50 cm. cannons, for the MIG ? s, rifles$ sub-
machine guns, pistols, light machine guns, pistols, aircraft
2. Hi hwa ; Stary Pizenec through Stenovice to Cizice,.,approxi-
aa eyfi.ve meters wide and in good condition,
3. Small Arms Rook e: approximately 300 m, long x 100 m. wide, and
was use iy an unknown infantry unit (s) and Line Airfield per-
sonnel,
Aircraft Gunner, n e,: wooded area approximately four kilo-
mets long north to and four kilometers east to west
used for gunnery practice with live ammunition. Target sleeves
towed by MIG aircraft and Siebels were fired upon by aircraft
from 1,000-1;'500 ,m. altitudes over the firing range (Pt. 5,
Encl. 1) is were towed from 600-700 in, behind aircraft.
wide. This range was used for practice firing by Line Airfield
aircraft. This range contained ground targets (ground targets
consisted of a circle approximately 10 m. in diameter with a
plane withhin the circle. The circle and aircraft were created
of white sand. Planes would dive to approximately 100 m. above
the ground, and fire their weapons). (Live ammunition was used.)
Jet Aircraft Firin Rain e: approximately 1 km. long x 600 m.
a Siebel towing -a target in about May 1953.
the MIG'a approached the target from the sides
6.
a so approached the MIG-towed target sleeve from the sides.
a MIG towing a target sleeve in June 1953
In this instance the MIG'
Hi hwa o Pilsen to Prentice ff 49--34, E 13-197, as halt a rex-
v eters wide and in good condition.
Enclosure:
1. Overlay of I I the Air Force
Warehouse Area at Stenovice; Small Arms Range and Aircraft
Firing Range
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ENCLOSURE 1:
Overlay of the Air Force Warehouse
Area at Stenovice; Small Arms Range ano rcraft Firing Range
3o 30` E
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