1. ARAD AIRFIELD 2. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AIRFIELD AT SALUKAT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R016200040001-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION E~ PLACE OBTAINED
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Arad atfield had an east-west surfaced runway, do taxiways were available, The
flight control station and tw9 concrete hangars with corrugated sheet metal
roof: were observed on the northeast side of the field, Four singlecstory
barracks buildings occupied by about 1400 Rumanian Air Force soldiers 250 of
whom were allegedly pilot students9 were available in the southeastern corner
of the installation,, Aircraft dispersal areas were seer between the hangars and
at the, southern ed;?e of the field, Two fuel standpipe: were seen south of the
hangars, Radio trucks fitted with rod antennes about L meters hi?h were parked
on the east side of the flight control station.
The field was occupied by 15 twin-?en:ine and about 17 singlet-engine Rumanian
,aircraft, The twin'en ine Planes were fitted w..th nose wheelr and 5 to 6 cabin
windows each. The single-en!gine aircraft probat:iy wee biplanes; Ttdin-engine
commercial planes daily landed at the field0 bovict courier "lane would land
once or twice every week. The Rumanian air unit stationed at the field daily
practiced flying with sing le-,engine aircraft, :Tie air force soldiers wore
Rumanian Army uniforms with light blue bordered epaulets,
3,. In the fall of 1950 and 19519 a Soviet 1ir Force unit was observed at Arad
airfield,, Hotrever,9 no Soviet planes were station:.d there in ictober 1951Q
} The kumanign air unit which was permanently stationed at the field was quartered
in several singio story temporary buildings at xhe southern edge of the
installation, The unit numbered about 400 men; half of them we'e ground
personnel and half pilots. The ranking- officer at the field reportedly was a
majors Airline passengers were subjected to a body search executed by m( mbers of
the Rumanian militia,
25X1 50 an airf.eld. was under construction on
the northern edge o u a . e e s run-aj (R 16.1`15) about 1. km east of .{ radul .
Nou, Surveying was started by 20 to 25 Soviet civilians. in the late summer of 19L9.)
This work was interrupted in t:"e, late fall but was restiiied in the sprint of 1950(.
In the late sumner of 19509 all fields that had been surveyed were confiscated0
The fields adjacent to the northeast were scheduled to be confiscated in 1951,
In the summer of 10509 low wooden buildin;s were set urc by 0 to 50 Rumanian
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construction workers field railway equipment and construction tools
arrived on the sited In the spring of 1951, leveling and excavation work
was done by a Rumanian labor 'battalion of about 300 men from. Arad and 30
to 1~0 "ovict civilian workerse Construction supplies were also unloaded's
In the summer of 1951 g the construction site was repeatedly inspected by
the commanding general of the Soviet military post and occa$ionally by
Soviet Air Force officer:. In the summer of 1950 and 1951; individual
biplanos LTaded east of the construction cite? In October 1.951., the field
was stil1 unoccupied.
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Rumr.,nian nilot school is stationed at the field9 which is also temporary
used for training- purposes by soviet .round attack and bomber unitso From the
data contained in the reporty the tyres of the planes stationed at the field
cannot be determined However,,, the student pilots probably train with Po, ?p-s
and later with Dips or 11,-28s while the soviet units occasionally % is aining
at the field are equip; .ea. with II-2a or 11-10s acrd Pe -2s or T'u--2s?
25X1 2a romr-enta An emergency airfield was known to be located near SalukatQ
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