AIRCRAFT PILOT PLANT NO. 150 IN MOSCOW

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300520011-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, The Aircraft iiot ?lent in roneoy, deeignated Zaved 150 by both
Soviets and 77s, was aeparently built after 'orld 7Thr II. *
The buildings had concrete foendatiens and were brick an c'
structures ? The flat roofs ware covered with tar paner. The long
aides of the buildings had largo windowsc No details were known on. .
the equilment of the workshops, The concrete foundations for the
outer walls of the test plant were 1.3 meters deep and 1e2 meters
thick? Steel beams were set in the foundetions at 10 netor intervals.
The floor of the test olant ',as dug out to a depth of 63 emend then
filled with concrete? On the southern side of the test plant the
foundations for three test stvnds were being built They were 3,4
mi ern deep, 5 meters lone and 3,5 meters wide. The concrete side walls
of these-.foundetions were. 1 meter wide, the seace between being filled
with earth and covered with a. thin layer of cencretee, Retween July and.
;r2reptenber 1943 the Pls built the foundAions for this new workshop Ath
? erovioions for the setting up of three.now test stanf3.s. The 7:1 detail
wee then withdrawn. At the sane time Soviet forced laborers were con-
structing a new workshop, 120x1D0 meters, Except for the roof the frame-
work of the blinding was completed by September 1948. The building
was a two-story structure. All the other workshops were in operation.
2'5X1 , la large num:ber of air force officers, near and
in the -administration building. a Soviet Air Force colonel inspected
the progress of the construction work Several times. He wae manager
of the plant. About 50 117s and a forced labor detail were aesiened
construction work,. The plant/e actual work force Was estimated at
Loo men- in each of the three shifts.
The production of plywood airframe parts was seen in the pattern shop.
The finished parts were taken to the assembly hall where, according to
',30-giet workers, aircraft models were being asseMbled. Light natal parts,
profiled tubes and spars were manufactured in the other workshops.
Tur'dnes were tested almoet every day at a test stand in the northwester
corner of the assembly hall. I lactivities through
the door of the test plant ane near the hieliplene,d whine of the
engines being tested. About 25 boXes,meaeuring 300x100 cm and lotteree
with the German word "TurbineL, were soon near the aevon:bly hall.

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crtain nuner of these boxes were taken into the assembly hr,:7
a corresponding number of now boxes was added. ALout September 19481
after a lapse of several days, a turbine was tested which produced
Much louder roar than the turbines formerly tosted? The sucress'ful
running Of the new type turbine was greeted with loud cheers by the
Loviet workers,
no sour tracks in the plant yard, and nothing was
known of the power supply. The plant had a board fence on the side
parallel to Leningrad Highway and a barbed wire fence on the other
three sides. 'aatch towers were not otserved. The factory olice were
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Comment. I 'sketch indicating the plantts location and
ayou see Annex. The report seems to refer to plant previously reported
as Aircraft Development ?lant No 115, It cannot be dotortuned vhich of
the two designations, 115 or 1505 is correct. The location data givz-an
in the earlier report and in tho present one arc in areennnt? and also
the production data in the current report sceng to indicate that the -
plants are identical. According to the earlier information, jet engines
Were tested and presumably experimentally installed at t:'7is plant.
In the 1:oscow photomap of 22 August 1943, kircraft IThrine -lant No 62
(5U 7340) is entered on the site reported for Plant No 115 or 150.
However, this plant was not confiriond. Aircraft Accessories plant No 20 -
was also entered in that vicinity. The location of the plant as stated
in the present report requires confirmation since it is possibly further
to the south, nerhaps opposite the LAJ Institute,
omnent. From the information available on this installation it is
in erre that it is an iaportant test plant of one of. the leading S,wiet
'aircraft designers.
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Two sketches of Plant .No. 150
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