CIVIL AVIATION AND THE RUMANIAN AIR FORCE

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• Publication Date: November 29, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18. U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
SUBJECT Civil Aviation and the Rumanian
Air Force
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 29 November 1960
NO. PAGES 7
REFERENCES
INFO.
PLACE &
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1. The PRnistry of Transport and Telecommunicatigns is responsible for al2
phases of civil aviation in Rumania. This responsibility is delegated to
two parallel groups within the NH.nistrya
a. The Civil Aviation Directorate (D.T.A. - Directia Transporturi Aeriene);
be The national air transport company., TARONO
These two groups function under a common director- Various bodies within
the Industrial Directorate (Directia Industriala) of the Ministry are also
concerned with civil aviation (e.,,., the company for the construction and
repair of aeronautical equipment m I.C.R.M.A. - Intreprinderea de Con-
structii Si Reparatii Material Aeronautic).
2. TAROM and the Civil Aviation Directorate are run by two deputy directors-.
a. The commercial deputy director who administers the commercial aspects
of TAROK only;
b. The technical deputy director who is responsible for the technical
departments of both TAROM and DTA.
3. The Civil Aviation Directorate has the following functions-:
a. Testing the airworthiness of aircraft;
b. Licensing of aircraft;
c. Advising on aircraft under design;
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d, Advising on the capability of an enterprise to serve the aeronautics industry
on the basis of the enterprises experiences and technical facilities;
e. Supervising the construction of aircraft and new airfields,
40 In order to carry out these duties,, the DTA maintains three technical departments.-
a, The Department of Navigation and Airfields (Serviciul Navigatie Aeriana - SNA)
which licenses civil aviation and inspects and classifies airfields serving
civil aviation on the basis of their general condition,, ground installations,,
etc,;
b, The Ground Installations Department (Serviciul Infrastructura) which constructs
the ground installations at the airfields;
c, The Technical Aeronautics Department (Serviciul Tehnic Aeronautic) which
fulfills all the other functions of the Directorate,
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The Technical Department of TAROK is responsible for,-
a,
b,
c,
d.
Regulating the periodic check-ups and repairs of aircraft (Reparatii Periodice);
Ordering equipment and spare parts from the Ministry;
Research into canmercial profitableness;
Maintenance of the company's mechanical equipment,
6,
The Director of the DTA has, under his immediate control,, a fleet of service air-
craft (Aeroflota Utilitara) which belong to other bodies which do not have the
personnel necessary to operate them and therefore are flown by TARO1. These
bodies are:
a. AVIASAN, the air-service of the Ministry of Health;
b, The Ministry of Agriculture (part ownership);
c, The Ministry of Transport (aircraft for special cargoes and passengers),
7. This above-mentioned fleet of aircraft is based at Otopeni at what is called the
"Aerobaza Utilitara" and consists of the following aircraft.-
a. About 60 Fieseler Storch's and other Fieseler aircraft manufactured in Rumania
before World War II and Soviet PO-2's,, all veterans of long service with the
Rumanian air force and after many repairs;
b, Five AFRO-45's, built in the CSR between 1949 and 1953 and used for medical50X1-HUM
agricultural and special flights. Each plane has a capacity of four, iincluding th pilot.
c, 10 Rumanian MR-2's produced at the Stalin (Brasov) plant in 1957-1958. They
can accommodate six persons and are later (though slower) models of the IARR
814's supplied to the Rumanian Air Force, The are used for medical and
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d, About 30 IAR-117's, all used by AVIASAN. Each aircraft can accamnodate a
stretcher and an attendant besides the pilot,
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left without an a cra or its own.
8o TAROM employs between 900 and 1,000 workers in all its departments. Its
commercial agent is in Bucharest, but all other offices are in the terminal
(built 1949-1951 at the Baneasa airfield. The TAROM fleet consists of
the following aircraft:
a. One IL-12 used mostly on international runs, marked IIX and formerly
the private plane of the Party CCo It was replaced by an IL=14, but
since the crash the CC has been
Sixteen IL-14's:
1) Four Model "P""3 marked II1a to ILD and supplied by the USSR in November,
19560 Later the aircraft were altered and strengthened according
to Soviet instructions so as to raise their capacity from 18 to 24
passengers each.
2) Three Model "M' a received from the USSR at the end of 1956 and
marked IIE,. ILF and II& early in 19570
3) Nine IL-14's produced in East Germany as Model "P'Bs though they
are almost identical with the Soviet model "M"o The can seat 26
or 28 passengers as r iced
9.
Nineteen LT -2 aircraft (the Soviet version of the D(l1)
aea to 22 passengers each and are used
pr or ome c flights. Until Several years ago, the TAB:,
TAE and the TAM were used for cargo transport only,
do One DC-3 that has been in service since 1937 and is used 50X1-HUM
for cargo of o has undergone so many repairs and refittings that
it is almost an 11-2, since many of the original parts (engines, landing
gear, instruments) have been replaced by equipment from the Soviet model.
eo -2's are used for short range fl is 50X1-HUM
and seat from eight to ten. se or agricultural 50X1-HUM
sprayj-ng and -- _3 LIL e other tw ed as passenger carriers.
A fourth ens transferred to the fleet of the amateur 50X1-HUM
aviation club ere 1 is used for parachute training.
Rumania must import approximately five turbo-jets with 40 to 50-passenger
capacities in order to satisfy TAROMes need for aircraft capable of flying
long domestic lines. Despite the need for these aircraft, in 1960 one of
the CEMA committees decided that Rumania must absorb 11 IL-18's (manufacturer
unknown). This decision was made over the protests of the Rumanian representatives,
who tried to lower the number to four or five, and an official announcement
was made that "Rumania had succeeded in acquiring 11 IL-18 aircraft," The planes
will be supplied gradually until 19659 but their arrival will not invalidate the
need for the smaller aircraft mentioned above.
10. The Rumanian authorities plan to concentrate the aircraft industry (repair
shops included) at several points throughout the country. The center is planned
for Baneasa airfield where the "Aerobaza Ut ilitara" occupies the northern part
of the field and the repair shops, the sourthern part. After these installations
are completed, the airfield will serve domestic flights only. All international
runs will be directed to the Otopeni field where all the POL stores have already
been placed under the Ministry of Transport.
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11. The workshops at Baneasa9 which are
occupy the buildings at the field which m TAROM ?nd ICRMA
macs N nu build' (see Paragraph 1),
in 1961 twos are as yet being constructed forttheashons air-navigation
s metal hangars, each 18200 square meters p a but
there from one of the fields that will in area W? probably
shops is: be abandoned. area,, be transferred
The annual capacity of these
a. Overhaul (R%) of 12 I L 2's;
b. Overhaul of 120 PO_2es;
C- Overhaul of 100-120 AZ-62 engines.
The man-hours put into this work are worth 41
12o The projected annual ,000 9000 lei at 32-35 lei per hour,
completed and working program, to be put into effect when the workshops are
at their full capacity, will be. -
a* Overhaul of 26 IL-l4es;
b. Overhaul of 120 PO-2'a;
co Overhaul of 360 AZ-62 engines;
d, Construction of 50 IAR-8178s;
e, Construction of 50 gliders for aviation clubs.
13? The projected program is based on the following calc
a? The overhaul of an 11, 14 14 requires 20,000 man hours;
b? The overhaul of a PO-2 requires 3,000 man-hours;
co The overhaul of an AZ-62 engine requires 700 man-hours;
d? The overhaul of an SLR-g17 requires 59000 mar-hour?s;
e, The construction of an IAR-81
79 requires 219000 man-hours.
14? The IFIL
l
p
ant in Reghin is still
on gliders for aviation clubs, of wahaur~ng although
suitable machine tools it concentrates mainly
9 but on the other handoducea 25 yearly. This plant lacks
1956 the plantts engineers turned th a its carpenters are of h?
engined-powered aircraft and eir attention to the construction ofaliber.
wooden tpowered b produced the prototype of the RG->
toot trainer
this craft were a 150 horse-Power Walter 7 e a gwo-seater,
trotuctfon is successful and ten Minor (Czech] engine. The
probably continuing, units have already been built; with the design of an all_ Since 1957, the engineers have been struggling their
be in the test i.an helicopter designated > m > niggling
ing stages, H 1 9 which may by now
15? In practice, the initiative
and not in those of aeroplane design is i
n the hands of
aircraft design CU4 institute charged with this re individuals
Telec is Within the sphere of the sfor the la In principle
cmmunicationa and Land Sea Institute for the Plannin
anspo
Telecomunicatie Si and Le d9 and Air Lanes (Institutui de Proiectari Tranportur
of lack of trained omunicatie)e but its Aviation De T?a
uri,
personnel. This i
partme
Resear
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ecaus
of
c
Institute,
s idle because
s also true of the
Ministry of Transportea
16? The Rumanian Ate. Force is a
is based on the followin pfor tiy undergoing serious reductions.
8 infrmationo Ibis assessment
ao The Air Force used to repair Stalin and its light its IL-l0vs at the IAR repair shops Stammer of 1 reconnaissance planes at the Pi era airfield In the
In the
959, the former shops were closed, their aircraft construction
machinery was transferred.to the Baneasa workshops, and the Steagul
Rosa
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b, With the closing of the Pipera workshops and their transfer to Baneasa, the Air
Force cancelled all its orders connected with the repairing of its YAK-Ills. The
only contribution of the new shops to the maintenance of jet aircraft is the
production of reserve fuel tanks for MIG-159 -17 and -19 aircraft,
c, In February 1960 a coordinating committee of civilian and military representatives,,
in which Colonels Motoc and Soima represented the Air Force,, met to decide upon
the gradual transfer of military installations to civilian authority. The
military tended to force onto the civilian body more than the latter was ready
to accept. One of these installations was the URA plant in Bacau, which now
deals exclusively with the repair of MIGws that fly under their own power
from their units or (new) from the USSR to the plant. By 1960, no MIG`~=19's had
yet arrived at the plant for repairso
d, In previous meetings of the cceunittee, the fields at Bacau,, Craiova9 Timisoara
and Arad were transferred to civilian authority; however, the former two
continue to serve both military and civil aircraft and only the latter two are
used by civil aircraft only. The military representatives suggested that the
civilian authorities also take over the airfield at Kogilniceanu, near Constanta
but the latter declined to do so since the field is too far from Constanta to
make its use economically4worthwhile.
e. The air force officers onathe committee gave the impression that the Air Force
was interested in executing these cuts speedily and that possibly only two of
its fields, the MIG bases at Caracal and Ianca, would be retained.
f. The airfield at Popesti-Leordeni near Bucharest has been dismantled. The
Ministry of the Interior (MAI) air-service that was stationed there moved to
Otopeni, but will have to move again when this field begins to serve international
lines,
g, Around 1957, the National AA Defense headquarters (C.A.A.T. - Comandamentul
Aparatii Anti Aeriene Teritoriale) was organized to supervise the Anti Aircraft
defenses of the country. The dominant sector of this body is the Anti-Aircraft
artillery. Simultaneously,, the power of the air force was diminished and Air
Force headquarters (CFAM- Comandamentul Fortelor Aeriene Militare) was abolished.
170 Rumania has only two helicopters:
a. A Soviet model LI-4 used for military purposes;
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b. A Polish-manufactured SM-l, (the Soviet MI-1), owned by the Ministry of Chemicals,
Petroleum, Paper and Reeds, which was imported specifically for use in reed
18. Some of the personalities in the Rumanian Civil Aviation are as follows
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a. Eilg, Constantin Agiu is, the director of TAROM's Aircraft Operations Department
bearings plant installed in their places The Pipera shops which carried out
the repairs of jets, began to close down at the end of 1959 and by March, 1960,
a furniture factory and an agricultural experimental station were all that
remained at the field.
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(Serviciul E7cploatara).
Eng. Stefan Andrei was the chief engineer of TAROM until June 1959
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co &g. Constantin Catanescu has been the director
since 1955,
do Cola Vasile Cozaa is the director of the Civil Aviation Directorate (DTAi))o
the Ministry of Transport.
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e. Radu Cristea is the director of the fleet of service aircraft (Aeroflota Utilitara)
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fo Eng. Alexandru Davidovici has been the coordinating director of the technical
go Ganea (fnu) is the director of the cadres department of the Ministry of
and secretary of the Ministry's Party Cello
Ion Gheorghe is the director of cadres at TAROM.
io &g. Mai Ivanciu has been the director of the Technical Department at TAROM
since 1956.
3. Inca (fnu) is the assistant-director of the Aeroflota Utilitara.
k. Lungu (fnu) is the director of the Technical Department of the Ministry9s Indust-
rial Directorate.
1. Radu Nanicatide is the deputy director of ICRMAMs aircraft construction and repair
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m. Carmel Nihailovici has been the director G eneral of the to of
the Ministry of Transport since 1959,
no Neantu (fnu) is the director of TAROWs agency in Bucharest.
. Constantin Nenoiv is the ccnmercial deputy-director of TAROM,
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Vasile Pandrea is the director of the DTABs ground installations department0
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qo bmg. Petra Patrascu is the director of the ICRMA plant for the construction anct
repair of aircraf't0
ro IM, Nicolae Pone
smer of 1959
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on was the assistant technical director of the DTA until the
tg. Vladimir Stangaciu was the director of TAROM until the summer of 1959
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t. Marius Teod escu is the director of the navigation and airfields department of
the DTA.
Vasile Scortea has been the secretary of the TAROM Party cell since 195$0
Gh.orghe Vaduva has been the director of the Baneasa airfield since 19590
WO big. Nicolae Vidviski is the technical deputy director of the DTA and acting
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Rumanian Ministry"' if Transport and Telecommunications involved in Civil Aviation0
organizational chart of the bodies within the
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Production Division
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carpentry shop, a annual
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