FINOW AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006200380013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY Soviet 'Zone of Gorrnart
TOPIC "not^r Airfioll
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EVALUATION PLACE OBTAINED
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25 AtFE OBTAINED DATE PREPARED 17 October 19950
259FERENCES
-]RE twill IV
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO.& TYPE T11 IL_ ff"Al
REMARKS
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1. Twelve gray-brown jet fi ghtors of an unknown ty_ao, 20 silver jet
fighters . ith swept-back wings, 5 gray-green sin: e-engine fighters
with in-line engines, 4 stool-blue sine-engine fighters with radial
engines, and 2 biplanes wore scan at the Finow (N S3/V 0-3) airfield
on 19 Zeptembor 1950. (1)
20 Description of aircraft:
a. Jet f i hter of an unknown types Air intake in nose, air exhau: t ir.
tail, 'raid win; monoplane, leading and trailing edges of .rings set
at same angle, tapering wings, not swept 1:?ack, wing tips rounded,
very high rudder assembly set in tail -pointing upward and to the
rear, swept-back elevator assembly set in upper third of rudder
assembly, nose wheel,, tortoise-shaped cockpit beg inning fore'ard of
leading edge of wings and extending; about as far as m i.d-fuselage,
front section of fuselage slightly shorter than tail section,
weapon or antenna not identified. (2)
b. Jet fighter with swept-back ti.izngs: .fir intake in nose, air exhaust
in tail, 'Lid-vrin monoplane, leading; an6i trai in; edges of wings
parallel to the rear., tips rounded, very :nigh ru der ar somb1y
pointing upward to the rear and sot above tail, s:7ept-back elevator
ac:sonib1y in upper third, nose wheel, tortoise-shaped cockpit be-
ginning forward of leading edge of wings arie:d extending about as far
as mid-fuselage, front section of fuselage slightly shorter than
roar section; weapon or antenna not identified. (3)
c. Loring 'enplanes In-line en ine, ;slags to aering, leading and
trailing edges set at sane: angle, spade-shaped rudder assembly,
tortoise-shaped cockpit between s'awn'*s. (4)
d. Low-wing monoplane: In line engine, 'rings tapering, leading and
trailing edges sot at same an le, shape of rudder assembly not
definitely identified, tortoise-shaped cockpit beginning in mid-Firing
and extending as far as behind trailing edges of swings, (5)
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The jet fighters with cropt back Frt is wraeticed flyiri at an
altitude of about 2,033 r:lot.'.?rs be';;I7oon 10 a,,,: and 5 in
cloudy skies with a visibility of about 5 kcm. (6) The "'.ilanos
took off in elements of two at interns1s of al out 13 minutes
using a runway length of about 330 rnetors, The a a.v ora,;e fly ing
time 'nat4 35, 'x:riraut s. `iytn y started before 1.0 a.a,aa and was
still ?:.oi zl'" on at o i The flights ore always ri ide by the
same planeo. T.70 aircraft were refueled from one tank truck
'ithin about r mdruates,,
day Una" j :t :ilane of the new type took off about 11. a.m. It was
n.iti,e-id that t!-le lane was n-torc ria.ne*u1e
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of the. turbine waa s considerat rly louder than tai.. t of the ot.-Jer
jet fig1'aterso white vapor elm emanated from the middle of the
trailing edges of the .i.n:?s .chile the ,al,.aane sea:; flya.nn.. 10okets
or other devices were not identified. in the
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was observed near the radar set is arossonhii_n. Tho purpose of the
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t` /c lTH-1_!L/ S OF f'ICI&TS OTILY
Tank trucks Iwere in the eastern section
of the landing field a --,otor vehicle left the field
A radar set with t oro cars w,a: in -)osi Lion north of the Licald. (7)
The net 'id not rotate c'lu~ei Z; 1'1yira~;p to er.abut 10 meters
high, was about 100 rioters southwest of the sot, (~8) Cables thigh
connected the radar set with the tower were not distinguished,
Comments
ac ,_?)Or cc: .r the occupation of the field by fighters a It is
laorrn that two fighter regiments are stationed there b The two
regiments were last confirmed in Finow on 27 and. 23 aeptenber 1950
by other inform,;a.tion, To I ate the two ref i. ents have been equipped
with LA-9s, Yak-3s or Yak-9s, Liz-15s and a few toe 16 Urnaseater, jet planes? The nui hor of ?;ag?-1,rs is estimated to hho at least 5)0.
The exact number of conventional fighters is not
known but was a x)aroritly recently reduced and it is believed that
most aircraft of this type .core transferred. F
(2) ? e" plane o e ype described has not appeared before in the
Soviet ,one of German:ay, If the description is fairly correct the
}:..ane is probably type 15o
(3) The plane is a ' i&s,-15
(4) The Mane is probably a Yak -3 or Yak-98 The location of the pilot's
cabin wad: not accurately observed..
(,) r roi iably a LA-7
(6) Flying by one fighter regiment between 10 a?m., and 5 p.na4 on 19 tomboy 1950 was confirmd by other information,.
(7) The radar set north of the landin field has been repeatedly ro-
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