SOVIET AIRCRAFT PRESERVATION METHODS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 31, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEWGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT soviet Aircraft Preservation !iethods
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Soviet airceaft are generally stored at military depots? which are mostly
located neon airfields,, At :1ilitary Depot No. 14 in Balashikha (55-49N,
57-57B), fon instance about 100 to 150 new aircraft, single-seater fighters,
covered onl aith tarpaulins were parked at the airfield. These were
probably aiecraft replacements, Which were parked in the open at least
during the gamer months. From work occasionally observed on these planes,
it appeared that aircraft loft and arrived at the depot. Observations
made at Plant No, 301 in Waimki and other installations indicate that
fuselagee, which were not packed, and wings and rudder assemblies, packed
in wooden ceates, were stored in hangars. Trains loaded with unpacked
? fuselages and crated wings were repeatedly observed in the USSR, for example
near Vologda, on the Ufa-Revda railroad lino, near Saratov. Kuibyshev,
Kiev and ?tier places. The fuselages and wings seen in warehouses didnot
appear to have been specially preserved. Only the paper-wrapped connecting
pieces were probably greased. These observations refer to conventional
aircraft.
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situation in the USSR, it is highly amprobabie that operations of that type
should have been executed there.
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It is belieeed that only a relatively seall number of aircraft in being
stored indoors since storage facilities available appear to be limited.
No details sre available concerning heating and ventilation facilities at
these warehouses, which are mostly one-story brick structures.
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0. Storage and shipping procedures followed for jet aircraft differ from those
observed fox conventional airoraft. A crate is manufactured for each plane
at the manufacturiag plant. This crate is lined with an impregnated
insulating material knaan as tarred oardboard. After being partly dis-
assembled, the jet planes are packed, not all of them being test flown.
Reports received on the Tbilisi aircraft plant contain the following data
on the shipping of Yak-15s: The disassembly team for each plane consists
of eit;it to ten men, Disassembling takes four to five hours and packing
about tour hours, Aircraft weapone and radio sets are packed in neecial
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boxes whieh are shipped in the crates. It WU5 not observed, t.ii tic air-
oraft sent in thia my were epeelaily preserved, but the movable rede
were fastened byrwire or leather straps and the connectin pointe were
greased and wrapped.
4, NIG414 type pianos are packed in a similar way. The xidoadiur, proeees
and esseMbly of those aircraft have been repeatedly obaorved in the Soviet
Zone of Germany. A tow' ofeuelve men was assigned to the aeeembly oe ode
A1G-16 plane? Including its removal from the crate. The aseombly work man
performed by means of mobile ?ranee which lifted the fueelages. 'ihe wings
and, tail asseribileo wore removed fr.= the orates and then placed en wooden
supports next to the fuselage. In order te give better access to the jet
onginoe? their cowlings were removed. The fuel tanks of a elane assembled
in such a way were filled it the late afternoon, an observation which
indicates that the assembly of one 71G-1.6 plane by a twelve elan crew took
about cue day. .e.ewever* at leart one reore day must he added for the
installation of the aircraft armnnnnt and the raAie set, including opera-
tional tosts, the installation of the jet engine and the required test
flight From observation of these activities it wao inferrod that extensive
work for the reaoval of protective groasee, etc., is not required aad that
the crates used for -des s1ip9ing of aircraft are believed to provide ade-
quate protection against rut and corrosion.
Sc. !!*ere details are known concerning the &Upping of the RD-46 jot eni;ine,
the Soviet version of the Rene power plant. These encinoe aro shipped in
solid crate lined with insulatinc material,
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date of preservation and a two-year preservation period were particularly
etated un tags attached to RD-4n type euElnus stored at the StrauzberE
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Itho jet enGines and
the stated date of preservat'ion that the preservinE io done at the manu-
facturing plant prior to the crating of the engines.. eicton oncines are
aloe delivered in a preserved stato to the air roreo del;ots.
25X1 177.1-11 onginee stored iA Strausberg carried the inscription "De-presorv d
by applicatIon of TS-58 type 6rease fur the duration of six ilenths".
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parte such as landing flaps* ailerons, etc., were delivered by the manu-
facturing plantre to the supply depots with the renark "Preserved ior a
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7. Particularly strict regulations are in force fer the preaervation of air-
craft armament the installation
and maintenance of weapons that the first measure nroscrebod is the removal
or protective creases and the subsequent application or oils or greases.
Storage tags for weapons have net as yet been obtained.
8. Preservative procedures are laid down by the construction deeartmento of
the mumuracturing plants with detailed ineorastion Oa the protective aEcnts
to be applied and the rules to be followed after relleval of the protoctive
greaces prior to reactivation of the aircraft In 'Irie ret Soviet
plants fellow the general instructions issued by the TaMI and VIA;.: Irati-
tutes in coordination witJ). the :inistry of itc Aircraft Industry.
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',Cho ;Jertinent inXer-lation aliodlabio .yroL;ents tIAG follewin oicl;ure:
Aircraft )roduetior lans are drawn v.0 by the Air Ariament inistry in
accordance with dorenas put forth by ,he ;:;oviot Air ,:orce, ilir:11
Corliand of the air force decades on the number of direrai't to be delivered
to front line formations or reserve peols? The aircraft stora;:,e depots
are sif2;ned to the Aii;11 CO.L1WIci?, which thns is responsible for the storage
and pmservation of the equiL)ment concerned. The 'Anistry of the Afxeraft
Ine.ostry is msponsiblo only for '..he acceptance of the oc-Adment. acoordiag
to orderJ given to that industry it has ori;enized ror. 2ur
special. ncaeptance colm)ssions attached to individual :11ant. Thou f;en-
misions are also respoasiele for the appropriate pack.in:, ana proservation
of the shipped equiment, a rosponsibility noted on the k;outrol clips s6Jilt
aierw witb the spar.: ::girts concerned.
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