SZOLNOK AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900360011-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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,DATE PREPAR _D 11, 12, nnmhlr 1051
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instructors rrerc attached to the officer pilot school, The trainin ; courses
there rscre rather short and the training was superficial, Fl.icht instructors
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Szolnok airfield was occupied Gi-oai D of the Kili;:n is oorcr Off` R
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51 on the construction ' of a ; ,100-ueter concrete runway
T4~ ' earirzg, o let- on. Thirty-seven YaI:-9s and 21. hj0-15s armed with ;tiro
r aChino = , and two cannons were :stationed at the field_
try rirz, is a4(, I dly, being conducted in Sil eria, wh?--re fiold ,-- rack officers
for trairis~z ^Jit:7 ,iot aircraft from Kaske- t (Y 6/r1 95) and zolnok air"ield
rospectivo1 p In ?ebruar;,r i9, 1b these officers were on le.va in :Iun::,argr. The
Abont early October 1950, sever! and nine pilots were detached to the IJ,S S.H,
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also attesi,c courses
; rincnto The i:,eport eonfirprr that a concrete s iaz rray more than 2 000 meters
4onG avai a 1e at Szzlnok nirflnida The; occ? align of the
jet aircrafta ;;incfl the ;:i_-.1 s observed in Gzo1nok, appeared to be ful --
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knowrn officer oilot, we verp, the schoolL r da. fireater of : urnit:i1-1as is rertedtf unit 'ir
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tire.. Previous reports indicated that Ilurz^arian pilots were Lein; trained ?ritli
equipped with a.ircra ft armwo t,,, they are believed tc have peen front-line equip-
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Approved For Release 2004/01/28 CIA-RDP82-00457R009900360011-6
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