CZECHOSLOVAK AIR FORCE JET-PROPELLED AIRCRAFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012200270009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
25X1A
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
25X1A
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Czechoslovak Aix Force Jet-Propelled
Aircraft
25X1A
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIOITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM 15 PROHIBITED.
CLASSIFICATION
jet aircraft in Czechoslovakia. F
I 25X1A
ARMY
DATE DISTR. 28 May 1952
NO. OF PAGES i
NO, OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
25X1X REPORT NO.
1. A few jet-propelled Messerschmidt type aircraft are being used by the Czecho-
slovak Air Force. Three or four of them were seen flying over Hranice
(P50/025) in September 1951, while participating in. the Air Force Day cele-
bration in Moravska Ostrava (P50/059).
2. Photographs of this type of plane were published in. the Air Force magazine
Was letec (Our Airman) in 1951. The accompanying article described the 25X1
craft as being produced in Czechoslovakia.
X, Commento Other observers have noted the presence of Soviet type
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