YEREVAN AIRFIELD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009000200012-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENT iL I LLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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MFORM TION REPORT
, UKTRY USSR (Armenian SSR)
SUi3JECT Yerevan Airfield
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Armenian SSR, vest of the r--:ilroad line.
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1,, The jai:-field is about 4 km south of Yerevan (44?30?0/40011,N) s
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24 A now concrete runway of about 2,000-meters had been built by the
Soviets.
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There was a semicircular hangar (about l00 x 60 meters) v:ith an ad-
Q scent adainistration building (20 x 30 meters) at the field.
- 40 The fuel damp consisted of a large number of tanks 3 to 4 meters in
d.aneter and projecting about 4 meters above the ground.
5. The airfield was being expanded by Soviet convicts o
i~hty to g0 fighters r~it = in-line engines and fitted with nose whee,!
were stationed at the airfield 0
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Deport agrees with other reports on the Yerevan airfield covering the
I same period of observation,, A sketch of the field was received fo'W?
the first timed
A:.t,1n 'u. h information on the occupation of the airfield ranges from
40 to IOC aircra~'t9 t ho prosance of a single-seater fighter eq ped
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v ith in-line engine is stated in all rc.ports. The ::ct that this
:'i:- hter : ns allo;odly fitted vAth a nose ':,heel ^as ne tic'ned for
the .first tiro in this report- an,' thus rer hires conffirr ation, This
type vas r^ossibly a i..ing Cobra F-63 in use' at j:h"at time for traininE~
rurposese On the b sis of available :inf'orri tion. i 'iht^r regiment
or '11i-hter rilot school is asst7nod to ".,e stationed at this airfield,
Fron a r ,port of October 1947 it rns. believed that a rarachute trair.l.nry
center .?:as also 1..ocated in Yerevan.
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