Ambica Airlines
Commenced operations | 10 March 1947 |
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Ceased operations | December 1949 |
Operating bases | Mumbai, India |
Fleet size | See below |
Destinations | Baroda Ahmedabad Bhuj Rajkot Jamnagar Morvi |
Parent company | Shri Ambica Steam Navigation Company |
Headquarters | Bombay, Bombay State, India |
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Ambica Airlines is a defunct airline, which was based at Bombay, India .[1][2]
Ambica Airlines began local services on 10 March 1947. The fleet consisted of DC-3s, with a three Beech 18s and other types. The airline was associated and subsidiary[3] of the Shri Ambica Steam Navigation Company,[4][5][6] a shipping company owned & established by Seth Vijaysinh Govindji & Jagmal Raja Chauhan in 1945.[7][8]
Ambica Airline operated on 944 kilometers route, twice-weekly services Bombay-Vadodara-Ahmedabad and thrice-weekly Bombay-Bhuj-Rajkot-Jamnagar-Morbi route.[1][7] The airline was started by businessman Seth Haridas Madhavdas, Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja, Seth Vithaldas Kanji and Seth Vijaysinh Govindji having its head office at Bombay.[7][9][10][11]
The airlines closed in the year 1949 due to insufficient traffic and other litigations.[9][12]
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- ↑ A history of the world's airlines by Ronald Edward George Davies. Oxford University Press, 1964. pp 391. Another short-lived company was Ambica Airlines Ltd which began local services to points north of Bombay on 10 March 1947. Operating the inevitable DC-3s, with a few Beech 18s and other types, it was associated with the Shri Ambica Steam Navigation..
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Kutch Gurjar Kshatriya Community : A brief History & Glory by Raja Pawan Jethwa. (2007). pp 12 : Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja Chauhan of Nagor, Kutch : Life-sketch
- ↑ Our seafaring in the [sic] Indian Ocean by Odayamadath Kunjappa Nambiar, 1975. pp:187
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Jagmal Raja vs Crown - Ambica Airlines
- ↑ [1] Asian and Indian Skyways, Volume 2, 1948.pp 43
- ↑ All India Reporter, Volume 3, Published by D. V. Chitaley, 1955 : pp :422
- ↑ [2]Business and government: technical notes and cases by Surinder P. S. Pruthi, Surinder P. S. Pruthi, 1972 Ambica Airlines went into liquidation in 1949 but only after damage to Air Services of India