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{{Infobox airline
| airline =Ambica Airlines
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| IATA =
| ICAO =
| callsign =
| founded = 
| commenced =10 March 1947
| ceased = December 1949
| bases =[[Mumbai]], [[India]]
| fleet_size =See below
| destinations =[[Baroda]] [[Ahmedabad]] [[Bhuj]] [[Rajkot]] [[Jamnagar]] [[Morvi]]
| parent =Shri Ambica Steam Navigation Company
| headquarters =[[Bombay]], [[Bombay State]], [[India]]
| key_people =
* Haridas Madhavdas
* [[Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja]]
* Vijaysinh Govindji
* Vithaldas Kanji
}}

'''Ambica Airlines''' is a defunct [[airline]], which was based at [[Bombay]], [[India]] .<ref name=a>{{cite book|title=Aeronautics , Volumes 18–19|year=1947|pages=13, 14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V-sfAAAAMAAJ&q=ambica+airlines}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Economic History of India: 1857–1956 edited by V. B. Singh|year=1975|pages=361|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xeJEXFnGS6AC&pg=PA361}}</ref>

Ambica Airlines began local services on 10 March 1947. The fleet consisted of [[DC-3]]s, with a three [[Beech 18]]s and other types. The airline was associated and subsidiary<ref>{{cite book|title=Aviation Daily, Including International Aviation , Volume 48 Front Cover|year=1946|publisher=American Aviation Publications, Incorporated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k849AQAAIAAJ&q=Shri+Ambica+Steam+Navigation+Company}}</ref> of the [[Shri Ambica Steam Navigation Company]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Airlines of Asia since 1920|year=1997|publisher=Putnam|pages=28|isbn=9780851778556|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IhPAAAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Aviation Management: Global Perspectives By K.C. KHURANA|year=2009|pages=295|isbn=9789380228396|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ESWo4Zl5g1IC&dq=ambica+airlines&pg=PA295|last1=Khurana|first1=K. C.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=A history of the world's airlines | first=Ronald Edward George | last=Davies | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=1964 | page=391 | quote=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}}</ref> a shipping company owned & established by Seth Vijaysinh Govindji & Jagmal Raja Chauhan in 1945.<ref name=b/><ref>Our seafaring in the [sic] Indian Ocean by Odayamadath Kunjappa Nambiar, 1975. pp:187</ref>

Ambica Airline operated on 944 kilometers route, twice-weekly services Bombay-[[Vadodara]]-[[Ahmedabad]] and thrice-weekly Bombay-[[Bhuj]]-[[Rajkot]]-[[Jamnagar]]-[[Morbi]] route.<ref name=a/><ref name=b/>
The airline was started by businessman [[Haridas Madhavdas Amersey|Seth Haridas Madhavdas]], [[Vithaldas Kanji|Seth Vithaldas Kanji]], [[Vijaysinh Govindji|Seth Vijaysinh Govindji]] and [[Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja]], having its head office at Bombay.<ref name=b>''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</ref><ref name=c>[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/76683/ Jagmal Raja vs Crown – Ambica Airlines]</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Asian and Indian Skyways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nHUPAAAAIAAJ|volume=2|date=January 1948|page=43}}</ref><ref>All India Reporter, Volume 3, Published by D. V. Chitaley, 1955 : pp :422</ref>

The airlines closed in the year 1949 due to insufficient traffic and other litigations.<ref name=c/><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1IqAQAAMAAJ | title=Business and government: technical notes and cases | first1=Surinder P. S. | last1=Pruthi | date=1972 | quote=Ambica Airlines went into liquidation in 1949 but only after damage to Air Services of India}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Airlines of India}}

[[Category:Defunct airlines of India]]
[[Category:Airlines established in 1947]]
[[Category:Airlines disestablished in 1949]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 1947]]
[[Category:1949 disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:Companies based in Mumbai]]

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