KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf (KLM-IIB) is an airline based Netherlands East Indies (present-day Indonesia),and also the precursor to Garuda Indonesia.
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It was founded on 1 August 1947 as a KLM subsidiary (due to the dissolution of KNILM),and all of the aircraft in KNILM fleet were later transferred to KLM-IIB.Besides than that,they also received 20 Dakota aircraft,previously operated by KNIL.
Based in Java, their destinations consist of domestic routes (within Indonesia) and also international routes (such as Singapore, Malaya,and Philippines),operated by several Dakotas and 9 Consolidated PBY Catalina amphibious aircraft.
On 28 December 1949,KLM-IIB was nationalized by the Indonesian Government,as agreed by both Indonesian and Dutch Government during the 1949 Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference.Upon the nationalization,it was renamed as Garuda Indonesian Airways,and it remains to this day.
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