STAAKEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004700370010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 29, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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l On 27 January 1950 nine green twin-engine low-:ring rrono-
planes with single rudder assembly and white figures and
another plane with silver sheen were parked in front of
the flight control station of the Stasken (N 53/Z 6F) air-
field? The yellow lateral stripe previously seen on the
rudder assembly was not noticed. A twin-engine low-wing
monoplane made continual local flights between 2 and 2 p~m"
in cloudless but hazy weather. During the flying the plane
occasionally taxied to the northern edge of the field where
some tank trucks and other motor vehicles were parked, or
it zoomed off without landing though be in . olo; a above the
.round
2E, There was flying with two biplanes, two high-wing monoplanes
and two twin-engine low-wing monoplanes with single rudder
assembly between 11 a.m6 and 1 p.,m, on 3 February l9r,0 in
cloudless weather and a 14-km visibility range.
a. Light to ten twin-engine low-wing monoplanes with red
propeller hubs, one with a silver sheen and ti~'rhax`~x in
color, were parked in front of the flight control strut one.
b4> The first twin-engine low-wing monoplane with the figure
7 on the rudder assembly, seven windows and a door at the
right side, took off at 11 aoma Shortly afterwards the
second pplane with the figure 10 on the rudder assembly and
the following distinguishing features took off
Six windows and a door at the left side and two white
9ue r atera s ea nted on the ud-ai- assem ya one sa ova
other. The planes stayed in the air for 1 to 20 minutes,,
The two biplanes, U-2s, which had a two-man crew, and tandem
seats, made local flights,
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C, Descri rtion of high--wing monoplanes: Closed glass
cockpit under wings, box-like fuselage, cockpit sloping to
the rear, leading edge of wing notched over cockpit,,
lending ear in line with leading edge of wings. The
planes took off from west to east. 6everel tank trucks
an ambulance and too trucks sere standing at the take-off
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Six to eight twin-engine low,wing monoplanes were parked
in Wont of the flight control station on 10 February 1950;.
The planes made local flights between 12:30 and 2 p.mr, A
silver: craft of the same type was boarded by 15 to 20 men,
taxied to the eastern edge of the field, took off and,
shortly after lifting off the ground, touched ground again
and to:cied along the field beyond its border far into the
adjacent fields, It then taxied back to the take.-off
point a:-nd s, after the landing gear was checks da-took off
without difficulties about 1:30 p.m. heading west-southwest,
The j,lune had seven windows at the left side, six windows
and a door at the right side x and a red figure on the rudder
a s se rat iy .
1 The E-7-! runway was marked by 24 branches, about 50 maters
apart, stuck inln the grounds
5. On 10 lebruary 1950 six twin-engine DG-3 transpd' is with
red }.hope 11e r hubs and a stripe about lOx4.O centimeters on
the novable section of the rudder assembly, were parked in
front of the closed hangars of the field, The planes made
flights in the morning at long intervals n They climbed to
an a:.titude of about 1,000 meters, headed westward, returned
30 to 35 minutes later, made a landing approach and zoomed
upwayd again a This was repeated. (This information was
veri:'ied by the observation of. the figures on the planes.)
During flying, soldiers moved between the two radio stations
west of the field. Local flights were practiced
in cc nnection with radio corn unication0
6-, Two ?4-3s without paint landed at the field and parked in
front of the hangars. A high-wing rionop_1ane with glazed
cockpit, conspicuously high landing gear and in-line
eneir;o was also parked there. The fuel dump on the
northern edge of the field wos strictly guarded, The field
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railroad spur track was rusty.
the field was occupied by
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t1e.in-enCine aircraft, some 1O.2s and some, Li :!-winC
mono;jlines, tlccording; to previous irformstion, tte
twin-engine aircraft are assi .ned to a trinsi ort unit
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.previously stationed in 3c, oenwald e,
bn The twin-engine planes are, accordine. to the
given description, LI-2s,, The Manes with the doorf
on the left side are possibly Yak -16s and the high-
wing monoplanes Yak-14s.,
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