OTROKOVICE AIRFIELD

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 11, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SOURCE:
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of, the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Otrokovice Airfield
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DATE DISTR. 26 Nov 1954
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This report was prepared by a USAFE interrogator and is being
disseminated within the Department of the Air Force as Report
No. 606-D-SAS-748. It is being forwarded as received.
Identification Data:
1. Reference is made to page 3, an overlay on GSGS 4416, Scale 1:100,000,
Sheet V-12, Uherske Hradiste, on which source identified:
1. Road. Eight meters wide, gravel-packed. surface. Led from
Gottwaldov south to Napajedla (N 49-10, E 17-32)0
2. Road. Ten meters wide, cobblestone. Led from Prerov (N 49-27,
E 17-27) to Otrok
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ce (N
9-12, E 17-32).
Double-Track Rail Line. Standard European gauge. Prerov to
Breclav (N 48-46, E 16-53).
4. Otrokovice Airfield (N 49-12 E 17-31). (Alternate names:
Zlin, Gottwaldov, and Batov.j
5. Morava River. Twenty meters wide, one meter deep, flowed south.
6. Town of Otrokovice.
7. Road. Four meters wide, gravel-packed surface. Led from
0trokovice south to the airfield.
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Repair Shop, A former hangar, brick, 60 x 30 x 11 in., metal
sliding doors. Used as a glider repair shop in June 1953.
10. Double-Track Rail Line. (Same as point 3, paragraph l.)
11. Road. (Same as point 7, paragraph i.)
12. Otrokovice Railroad Station.
13. Airfield Runway area. Grass surface, measured 1,800 in. north
to south and 800 m. east to west. Area was level, well kept.
Runway was laid out in north-south direction,
14. Morava River. (Same as point 5, paragraph 1.)
Additional Information:
3.
Site Layout:
2. Reference is made to page 4, a memory sketch of the Otrokovice
airfield, on which source identified:
1. Fence. Wire mesh, one meter high. Enclosed an area 40 x 30 m.
on the south, west, and north sides. Area belonged to civilian
airlines.
2. Building. Brick, 15 x 6 x 5 m,, tile, low-pitched.gable roof.
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n a ne a restaurant and passenger waiting room.
Apron. Concrete, 20 x 8 m., civilian airlines aircraft-
parking ramp for passenger service.
4. Road. (Same as road, point 7, paragraph 1.)
Factory. Name unknown, brick. 100 x In a ",_
aeroclub in Prerov that this factor was
y producing LG-25
(SohoJ), LG-125 (better model of Sohaj), Krajanek, Galanka,
and Kmotr gliders. In March 1953 members of the aeroclub in
Prerov were told to take good care of their gliders because
this . factor discontinued glider production, F- I
launching. winches for aliders ware duced
Hangar. Old, brick, 50 x 20 x 9 m., wooden sliding doors.
Source was never inside,
7. Hangar. Brick structure, 30 x 15 x 9 in., wooden sliding doors.
Hangar belonged to the Zlin Svazarm Aeroolub, Placed above
the hangar door was a somewhat illegible sign reading "Vitame
nase Mile z New Yorku" (Welcome our New York guests)..
five Sohaj, one Galanka, five Krajanek, and
one Kmotr gliders in this hangar.
8. Civilian Houses. These were built by the. Bata shoe-manufacturing
firm to house families of employees. Two families occupied
each unit.
This airfield was operated under civilian authority. There was
limited extensibility on all sides of the irregularly shaped airfield
Hills were located about six kilometers northeast, southeast, and 1.5 km. west.
fuel storage,
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Flying Activity:
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glider flying and the landing of one civilian a ne DC-.3 for
passenger service, In August 1953 the Aeroclub
in Prerov that glider fl inion thi r e
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road (point 11, paragraph 2) in August 1954. Airborne Siebel
type aircraft were not observed at that time. Glider flying again resumed in summer 1954.
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Overlay on GSGS 4416
Scale 1:100,000
Sheet V-12
Uherske Hradiste
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