CHINESE COMMUNIST AIR ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300530009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO,
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO..
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Chinese Communist Air Activities
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raft are f'rorm a Chiamussu training school and their technique* is not good,
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44 ; IG aircraft arrived at Changchun.
56 ...IG aircraft and 28 heavy bombers arrivea at Lukden
via the Chinese Changchun Railroad. most of the pilots for these
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Shanghai: Twenty-one fighters and five bombers flew target and forma-
tion rraotice.
. Nanking: Eight bombers flew training- mission.
d. Yangts? un (117-05, 39-23) : Twenty..ei ght YIG-94 s flew a training mission.
o. V aiyuan (125-05,,42-36): Tweaty..two IL-10's of the Chinese Communist
13 Air Regiment flew a gaining mission under the direction of wENG Li.
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b. Anshan: Five b.I G-159 s, one YAK-17, and three other aircraft flew a
training mission under the airo3ticn of alei-shih-ya-klo-fug
Chinese Communist air activities were as follows:**
X1Antunxg: Two air. raid alaL?RLS were sounded, one from 5:25 to 5:50 a.m..
and another from 6:05 to 6:36 a.m.
4.. In mid-March the construction of an airfi_:1d at hhampoa was completed
under the supervision of Soviet air force engineers,
5. In early Larch three anti-aircraft guns and four anti-aircraft machine
guns were mounted in the rihari~poa area.
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6. In early Karol approximately 1,100 workers were constructing runways at
Mahsi.ang (118-14, 24-40) Airfield.***
12 Japanese-type 2iF:htors, 3 American-type planes, and. a
number of training planes were at Sanya (109-30, 18-16) Airfield; all
are being used by Viet Zainh pilots.****
50 Chinese Communist Air Force planes were at Lunghua Air-
field. Of these, 6 were ,je,a flown by Soviet pilots,,. and the remainder
were either Japanese or German planes flown by Chinese Communist pilots.
Red stars are painted on both wings of all. these planes. There were 30
air force transport planes at Chiangwan Airfield.,
approximately 200 Soviet technicians were at Shanghai air-
fields,, Approximately 60 of these were billetea at Broadway ruan.sionsa
and the remainder were billeted at various places in the Iiongkew and
Yangtzepoo Districts, Shanghai.
* Comment. Presumably "fl "in technique" is meant.
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at. and references, for recent
reports on air activities at these fields
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meent. paragraph 15, reported accelerated
recons ruction at Mahsiang as of late February.
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**** Comment. paragraph 8, for a report on
the number of aircraft at Hainan airfields as of late February.
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