AIRFIELD OF FINOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003400120004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 2, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY sovieZone of Germany
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Tuly'..1949
lThe. following aircraft were parsed at the FI.ITOW (Id 53/V 08)
airfield, which was Being expanded to the ;vest, in the re
tiori of FIND FURTii (N 53p z 98) , , on 6 July 1949. Acci,:r din?
to a labor office of is is . about one tiiousand Germans were
working at the fieid~ second taxiway was alle dly to be
built: About 50 twwin-en. . ae Pe-2s and three DC-3s on the
northern border, about 50 Pe--2s and 17 biplanes on the
southern border,
bb Soldiers were e gaged itz unloading bombs, estimated at five
hundred pounds each, in the FIE'Det "Vorwerk ?" located on the
25X1X road and RR line, to SIESE ,'fiilAL (N 53/X 97).
9 and 10 ;ul 4949
3. The folio ing aircraft were parked at the FINS" airfield
on 9 and 10 ,tiny i.949:68 Pe-2s,,. three LT-2s, and 22 biplanes.
T .he FITJO'+," houses located along. the highway to BIESE NTF.AL
were occupied by Soviet Air Force soldiers. -There were also
ten canton ment buildings serving as au.arters, a hospital, and
a sr l prison, along this highway. ' Two cantonment buildings
with four radio masts and antennas were seen on the eastern
field bord;- r .
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5X1M 12 Jg 1949
5 About one hundred aircraft (about 30 PO-2s and the rest
PL-2s) ere parked at the airfield on 12 Xuly 1949.
b~ The field had an east-'??rest rwxtTay. About one thousand feet
east of t:-,s rurrr*ay there '.'ere trio =oodee cabins and 11
radio masts rfhich r!ere connected by antenna -fires either
j`?ith one another or rith the rooden cabins. A ?"'ooden
w11:iding, surrounded by a wire fence and guarded by Soviet
Air Force soldiers, -?a.s located in a roods 2,000 feet south
of the landint field. The utilization of this building
could nct be learned
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16 July 1949
8 The FILTO'''' airfield -as occupied by 21 biplanes and 127 VTinn
engine edreraft on 16 July 1949; about Ralf of the. aircraft
-are parked on the northern border, the other halt fin. the
soU.ithern field border. 1-:oet of the ttr,in-engine planes had
a duubls rudder aasseribly. All aircraft rare covered -!,ti th
tarpaul. ins.
occupation of the FI1:TU" airfield by tVro bomber regirnehtas t.:.ith
about one hundred 1'E-2s is considered to be rather definite.
The previously reported construction vork at the field indfw
castes that the field is being expanded to the rrest and that a
second taz?i ay (possibly ruw7ay) is to be Constructed:
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