Major General Karl Albert Byron Amundson (KABA) (29 November 1873 – 21 February 1938) was a Swedish Air Force officer, ballooner and military attaché.

[1] From 1911 to 1915 he was the Swedish military attaché in Paris and from 1912 to 1918 the one in Brussels,[1] where he followed on the French side the operations during the World War I, the beginning and the end.

[2] Amundson was promoted in 1915 to major and was elected the same year as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences.

In December the same year he took part in the founding of a Swedish Aeronautic Society – or SAS – where he was the chairman from 1906 to 1911 and again 1930 to 1932.

He was the Swedish representative at the aeronautic conferences in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Copenhagen and Kristiania.