Ambica Airlines is a defunct airline, which was based at Bombay, India.
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 of the Shri Ambica Steam Navigation Company, a shipping company owned & established by Seth Vijaysinh Govindji & Jagmal Raja Chauhan in 1945.Our seafaring in the [sic] Indian Ocean by Odayamadath Kunjappa Nambiar, 1975. pp:187
Ambica Airline operated on 944 kilometers route, twice-weekly services Bombay-Vadodara-Ahmedabad and thrice-weekly Bombay-Bhuj-Rajkot-Jamnagar-Morbi route. The airline was started by businessman Seth Haridas Madhavdas, Seth Vithaldas Kanji, Seth Vijaysinh Govindji and Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja, having its head office at Bombay.Kutch Gurjar Kshatriya Community : A brief History & Glory by Raja Pawan Jethwa. (2007). pp 12 : Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja Chauhan of Nagor, Kutch : Life-sketchJagmal Raja vs Crown – Ambica AirlinesAll India Reporter, Volume 3, Published by D. V. Chitaley, 1955 : pp :422
The airlines closed in the year 1949 due to insufficient traffic and other litigations.
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