ALTENBURG AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008200720005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, The twin-enf!ine transports stationed at Altenburg airfield made many flights bet-woo:I
16 and 18 May 1951. Jet fighters repeatedly- flew over the field,, There was no flying
at the field on 19 1:ay. Take-offs and landings were practiced on 20 and 21 ''y.,, On
the mornincs of 22 and 23 Lay, practice take-offs and landings -;ere nades and in
the evening night flights were made while the boundary lights woro switched on and
spotlights illuminated the landing strip. On the morning. of 24 11447.1 individual 25X1C
parachute jumps were made from three aircraft, * At 6 p.a. s one parachutist each
jumped from five planes. On 25 14y0 3 transports and 1 single-ongine highaing ,25X1
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monoplane practiced taking offs and landings. At 10 a., on 26 T:.ay? seven transports
took off. Ten minutes later, three parachutists jmaped from each piano over the field. '
There was no flying on 27 Lay. At 0:45 p.m. on 28 'ays nine transports practiced night
f 1 'Nri n r* whi 1 p thrt bourui Any. ii r,Iltr; ?arNro In and the rummy t.Tas j1 17i 4T i',iltEin
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2 On 2 June, two squadrons of trans:le-Tx, left the field in fornat:Lo They did not 25X1C
return until 4 June?
3. On 2h and 29 :ay and 1 and 8 June, night flints were Linde. Two planes reoe2tedly
took off at short intervals. The take-offs and landings wore node while searchlights
on the ground flashed up for a short periodr, in addition to red boundary lic;hts ard a
rotary searchliht mounted on a truck, which were switched on dnring flyingactivit.?
Live piles of woods three on the left side and two on the right side at the end of -
the runway were burning,
Between 24 Lay. and 11 June, the field was occupied byabou 25 to 28 twin-e ,
transports, The company whichhad about 200 recruits was no longer seen and vas
probably transferred?
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During the period of observation, uwept-back jet fielters in foriaa'6ions o two to six
planes flew over the field almost daily. Ihe aircraft did not land at the field On
9 June, a flight of twin-engine semi-hi7h-q7in:5 nonoplaneo with double riu'leer assemblies
landed at the field and took off again two hours later.
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Class. Changed To: TS sa.
Auth.: HR 70-2
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Oomnent, Parachuting 4as repeatedly-reported? '):he MnwIleT
probaoly performd by soldirn of army units who we detn,ched to the
air transport regiment stattoned in Ar;enburg?-Theairtransport rogimett
is equipped with about 30 and sono P0-2s0
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