LJUBLJANA AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001400540009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 13, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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fighter planes (type wispecified) were parked in hangar 317; and three
Rn%sian tbree engine passenger or transport planes (type unspecified)
and two U.S. four-engine bombers (type unspecified) were parked in hangar
408.
In one of the hangars were ten Fiesler~Stor'ch? s and four JW-889s
No Soviet airforea personnel or Instructors' were attached to this airfield
as of February 1948.
Two MG companies equipped with IS double-barreled Zbrojevka (Czech.) r chine
gas arc attached and placed in unspecified locations on the airfield,.
There are two tom. batteries, one located along the Ljubljana= nii r railroad
line, close to the village of Jesica, and the second on Golovec Hill at a
sits known as Crni-Hr=d,.
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The airfield has a mobile captured German radio gonioraeter. There is a
siren installed on top of each of the two barracks, and two reflector24 an,
the hangar roof. The airfield receives its electrical power from the
Slovene State power line.
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The Ljubljana airfield has only one large hangar which was rebuilt by the
Italian forces in 194-41 after it had been destroyed by the retreating `ugo-
slavs in 194-1. The hangar is approximately 250 z 60 meters and is divided
into eight sections. Each section has its own entrance which faces south.
Two of the sections are shoes for minor aircraft repair s, and another
section Is used as a depot for spare parts and tools.
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An unspecified amount of S0-gallon drums are located in the tool and air"
craft spare parts depot, while the airfield POL dump Is located in the nearby
woods about 200 yards north of the hangars
Two barracks located on the airfield are one-story brick and tgcoden builds a.
They house approximately 150 personnel each, including pilots and mec.banics,
as well as the office of the airfield commander. Personnel of the two MG
coax i.es who are in charge of guarding the airfield, are billeted about
yards northeast of the hear in three small barracks.
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