ALT LOENNEWITZ AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007500510011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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C.0.:;NTRY Germany: (Soviet 7011p) REPORT
TOPIC Al+ LoPnrowitz
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'DATE PREPARED 90 March 1951 -
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
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COUNTRY: Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT:
Alt Loennewitz Airfield
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di On 2 March 1951, seven MiG-15s were parked in a single row in the northeastern .
section of Alt Tioennewitz airfield. No markings were Observed on thesaanes..At
9 a.m. a truck carried fourteen men to the jet aircraft. The soldiers removed
the snow from the planes and took off the red sheet metal covers from the air
intake ahd air exhaust apertures, lbut the engines were nnt started. *
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2. The field was covered with snow about 10 Cm deep. At 9:15 a.m.' a sOldier laid a ?
landing T on the rahaay.' At 10 a.m. a closed truck with a rod antenna about 3.5: '
meters high was perked near the runway, at about one-third of the total runway
length from the eastern end of the runway. About 25 men were standing around the
radio truck. One hangar was opened and twosingle-engine,abw-wihgmOnoplanes
taxied out of-the hangar. The engines of the planes. were :warmed up. :Then the'air-
craft taxied to the take-off point and'took'off-at I0:50-a.M. for local flights:
The aitcraft had trapezOidal.wings, radial engines, ana114roPeller.hub,. landing
gear which retracted inward, taiX,wheels, two;-Seater.cockpits With .seats .n.
tandem, antenna rod, on cockpit with antenna leading to theioval-shaped rudder
assembly. **'The snow was not removed from the runway.
Two tank trucks, two closed trucks, one or two open trucks; and one closed trai- ?
ler painted blue were parked close to .a wooden watchtower,A4 meters high, Which %.
was in the vicinity of the jet planes. A row of spotlights each 35'cm in diameter
were still along the southern edge of the.hard-surface.runway. The spur track
seemed to be used, although no. railroad cars were seen.
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I. The radio installation, consisting of a radio-mast braced on all sides and one
large and two or three small wooden shacks, was still east of the field in the
extension of the rmnway. ihree men were seen near the radio installation. An -
overhead line led from the radio installation to a vacated building.' or the .
southern edge of the field near Alt Loennewitz. About 6 to 8 men; probably "a:
guard detail, were quartered in this building. *** ? 50X1-HUM
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** Comment. The.aircraf?escribed areprobably Yaki-11 fighter triers.
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Comment. The radio installat r a landing beacon. A previous ?
report stated that the telephone lin beacon westward to an Adcock
DF, located south of the western end L It ?
is believed that tie line leads from th the house in Alt
Loennewitz, as desaribed in the present n to the Adcock DF at the
western end of the runway.
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