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► de Kroonduif ⇑Garuda Indonesia ⇓Merpati
♦ de Kroonduif (Nederlands Nieuw Guinea Luchtvaart Maatschappij) was established on 14Jul1955 as a subsidiary of Dutch airline KLM, to provide air services within the Dutch territory of Netherlands New Guinea. As Western New Guinea was being incorporated into Indonesian territory on 01Jan1963, the operations of De Kroonduif were absorbed by Indonesian airline Garuda, which shortly afterwards assigned them to Merpati Nusantara Airlines, a company that since 1978 was fully owned by Garuda ♦
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