KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf

Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij Interinsulair Bedrijf Batavia (KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf or simply KLM-IIB; English: Royal Dutch Interinsular Airline Services Batavia) was an airline based in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) and the predecessor to Garuda Indonesia.

KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf (KLM-IIB) was founded on 1 August 1947 at Kemayoran Airport as a KLM subsidiary (due to the dissolution of Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KNILM)),[1] and all of the aircraft in KNILM fleet were later transferred to KLM-IIB.

They also received twenty Dakota aircraft, previously operated by Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger (KNIL).

[2] Based in Java,[2] their destinations consisted of domestic routes (within Indonesia) and also international routes (such as Singapore; Penang, British Malaya; and Manila, Philippines),[3] operated by several Dakotas and nine Consolidated PBY Catalina amphibious aircraft.

[2] On 28 December 1949, KLM-IIB was nationalized by the Indonesian government, as agreed by both the Indonesian and Dutch governments during the 1949 Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference.

KLM Interinsulair Office in Waingapu , (1949)
Boarding pass of KLM-IIB
News of PK-CTC, written in Dutch
Photograph of PK-REA, as provided by the Nationaal Archief