AIRFIELDS NEAR HRADCANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200200011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. There -ras an airfield about 2 km southwest of Uvezdev (0 51/i? 95), about
1,500 eeters southwest of the road junction at the western exit of Plouz-
nice (o 51/17 )5). The field which extended about 4,000 meters from north-
west t) southeast, wan surrounded by woods. * The area of the field was
/lama but t.any tree stumps were still seen. The field was uneven
and re:3e slightly toward the i_mon-Kurivody (0 51/F 94) hirhway. The soil
was sandy. Yost of the construction work was done by civilian workers only,
while the heavy work was done by the 51st Tech Dri (Ponocny Technicky Propor)
PTO. A surfaced runway, which, according to construction workers, was
2,500 motors long and the viith of which was estimated by source at CO
meters,, was under construction. The runway was covered by concrete slabs
the jonts of which were filled with asphalt. A concrete drainage system
consis-Ang of pipes CO cm in diameter with receptacles placed at 1C3 meters
intervnls led along the north side of the runway. A concrete site about
600 x 50 meters was north of the runway. .)rainaee ditches about 3 r)ters
deep and 1,2 metes nide were being dug betenen this concrete site and the
runway.
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No banners were ebdervee at the field. The only buildings seen were 10
to 12 Dow wooden buildings in the northwestern corner of the installation.**
These buildings quartered civilian norkers and the soldiers of the east
Tech Dn. No equipment storaees, excavation work, or staking off of build-
ing sites were seen. A road from the west and another one from al-eui, due
north cntcred the area of the field. 'oth were dirt roads. The postal
address of soldiers of the 51st, Tech Bn in Ilvwdov was rilitary Administration
rimon? Tont Office rox Z.
!Iradcarleaiefield (0 51A. 94) near }HEM (0 51& 95) was being enlarged
during the sumer of 1951, Concrete taxiways, some leading directly into
the words, were being built, Large concrete nixinn machines loere seen.
Up to 1950 a p=raehute trainInn center had reportedly been located at
the f."eeld. In 1951 elements of a pilot school were said to have been trans-
feered from Slovakia to the field. ***
r'or location and Asti* of the field see AllrlaKc
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hangars are be this fields, villa vas formerly known as
/bur airfield, indicates that the field is being used as
Et training base for jet pilots.
This statement refer. to the airfield used
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The field seems to be identical with the installation
described in paragraphs 1 through 2. The reported transfer of a
Bohm:a to this field appears probable.
Anners / sketch on ditto.
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