SCHOENWALDE AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007500010007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. On 2 and 3 March 1951, about 30 single-engine, ground attack aircraft were parked
in front of the closed hangers at Schoonwalde (N 53/Z 66) airfield. (1) There was
no flying between 4 and 5 p.m. on 2 March. A biplane made local flights between
11 a.m. and noon on 3 March in clear weather. The biplane towed a sleeve target.
Aiming was practiced with three 'A guns, each manned by five men, but no shot.-
were fired. Another biplane and a single-engine high-wing monoplane also made
local fli:hts. A one-digit white nember was the only narking observed on the rud-
der assembly of the high-wing monoplane. At 1 p.m. on 3 Larch, biplanes were
observed making local flights. 3inele-engine ground attack aircraft were aloft
throughout the day. Some of them practiced formation flying in squadron forma-
tion approaching the field from the southwest.
2. The radio truck with the directional aerial Was not set up. (2) The radio instal-
lation with four masts was still at its previous location. The diagonal distance
between the masts was the same as the height of the masts, whereas the
distance between two nasts located side-by-side seemed to be less than their
height. The wooden hut in the riddle of the square ha(' a flat, sloping roof. It
was almost one third as hi h as the masts. An insulator was fitted at the top and
the middle of each mast. The radio installation was surrounded by a lattice fence
and it coeld not be determined whether e third insulator was fitted at the lower
section of the masts. (3)
3. Air force motor vehicies seen entering and leaving the field
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(1) rhe-7-E9rbener end tepe of aircraft observed indicates that the airfield is still occupied
by one ground attack regiment. It is believed that an air reconnaissance regiment,
equipped with T.-2s and Pe-2s? is also stationed at the Schoenwalde airfield.
(2) The installation was a racer set Of the RU3-2 type.
1(3) The radio installation is probably an Adcock DF.
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