Which airline from the Netherlands did Ivan Vasilyevich Smirnov pilot for?
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Ivan Vasilyevich Smirnov Ivan Vasilyevich Smirnov or Iwan Smirnoff (Russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич Смирно́в ; January 30, 1895 – October 28, 1956) was a Russian World War I flying ace and naturalized Dutch aviator who pioneered the Europe to South East Asia routes. He was born to a poor peasant family, but through courage and good fortune managed to become an officer in the Imperial Russian Air Service. After surviving extremely dangerous infantry combat, he trained as a pilot, and was subsequently credited with 11 aerial victories during World War I. When the October Revolution ended his participation in the war, he deserted and became an itinerant pilot. He would serve short spells in the Royal Air Force, the Volunteer Army of Anton Denikin, Handley Page and SNETA. The Russian emigrant subsequently piloted for KLM for the next 25 years, pioneering air routes to the Dutch East Indies in the process. In December 1941, Smirnov returned to military flying during the frenzied air evacuation of Dutch nationals. After the Dutch East Indies were overrun by the Japanese, he joined the U.S. Air Transport Command. Despite official attempts to ground the aged and oft wounded pilot, he served through war's end. He then returned to KLM. After the inevitable grounding (after 30,000+ flying hours), he continued with the company as its chief advisor.
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KLM KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, legally "Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.", is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is part of the Air France–KLM group, and is a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance. KLM was founded in 1919; it is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name and had 32,505 employees as of 2013 . KLM operates scheduled passenger and cargo services to 145 destinations.
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Mordovia Airlines Saransk Air Enterprise (Saranskoe aviapredpriatie) was an airline based in Saransk, Mordovia, Russia. It operated regional scheduled and charter passenger services, as well as aerial work.
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Yak-Service Yak-Service (Russian: ЗАО «Авиационная компания «Як-Сервис» ) was an airline based in Moscow, Russia. It operated executive passenger charters. It was established on 12 February 1993 and started operations on 25 November 1993. The airline was banned from operating within the EU from 24 July 2009 to November 2009.
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Aviacon Zitotrans JSC "Aviacon Zitotrans" (Russian: ОАО Авиакомпания «Авиакон Цитотранс» , "OAO Aviakompaniya «Aviakon Tsitotrans»") is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It was established and started operations in June 1995 and operates charter cargo flights worldwide including Canada where it operates on behalf of the Canadian Military. It has 250 employees and its main base is Koltsovo International Airport, Yekaterinburg. In 2008 the name of the company was changed to Aviacon Air Cargo.
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Ukraine International Airlines Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), PJSC (Ukrainian: Приватне акціонерне товариство «Авіакомпанія Міжнародні Авіалінії України» (МАУ), "Aviakompaniya Mizhnarodni Avialiniyi Ukrayiny", ] ) is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Ukraine, with its head office in Kiev with its main hub at Boryspil International Airport outside of Kiev. It operates domestic and international passenger flights and cargo services to Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Asia.
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Smuravyevo Smuravyevo (also Gdov or Smurav'yevo) is an air base in Pskov Oblast, Russia located 14 km northeast of Gdov. This medium-sized base is located 63 km south of Ivangorod. It was home to 722 BAP (722nd Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24 aircraft until at least the 1990s.
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Nikolay Ivanovich Smirnov Nikolay Ivanovich Smirnov (Russian Никола́й Ива́нович Смирно́в) (22 September 1917 – 8 July 1992) was a Soviet Navy Admiral and a Hero of the Soviet Union (1984).
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Belgorod International Airport Belgorod International Airport (Russian: Международный Аэропорт Белгород ) (IATA: EGO, ICAO: UUOB) is an airport in Russia located 4 km north of Belgorod. It services narrow-body airliners (such as the Tupolev Tu-154, Tupolev Tu-204, Ilyushin Il-76, Boeing 737, Airbus A320, Boeing 757 etc.) and wide-body airliner Boeing 767. It conducts 24-hour flight operations. The airport was founded in 1954.
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Norwegian Air Lines Det Norske Luftfartselskap A/S (literally "The Norwegian Aviation Company") or DNL, trading internationally as Norwegian Air Lines, was an airline and flag carrier of Norway. Founded in 1927, it operated domestic and international routes from 1935 to 1941 and from 1946 to 1951. It became one of the three founders of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and became one of its three holding companies from 1951, with a 28% stake and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. DNL was renamed SAS Norge ASA in 1996 and was merged in 2001 to create the SAS Group.
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AIS Airlines AIS Airlines is a Dutch charter, wet lease, and scheduled airline headquartered at Lelystad Airport in the Netherlands, operating Jetstream 32 aircraft.
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Holland Herald Holland Herald is the inflight magazine of the Dutch airline KLM. It is the oldest inflight magazine.
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HollandExel HollandExel (IATA: YZ, ICAO: HXL, Call sign: HollandExel) was an airline based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It operated charter services for tour operators. It ceased operations in 2005.
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Fokker F.XVIII The Fokker F.XVIII was an airliner produced in the Netherlands in the early 1930s, essentially a scaled-up version of the Fokker F.XII intended for long-distance flights. Like its predecessor, it was a conventional high-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Its cabin could seat 12 passengers, or four-to-six on seats convertible to sleeping berths. Only five were built, all for KLM, and registered as PH-AIO, 'AIP, 'AIQ, 'AIR and 'AIS, all of which were named after birds. Used by KLM on its Amsterdam-Batavia route, the F.XVIII became celebrated in the Netherlands due to two especially noteworthy flights. In December 1933, one aircraft (registration "PH-AIP", "Pelikaan" - "Pelican") was used to make a special Christmas mail flight to Batavia, completing the round trip in a flight time of 73 hours 34 minutes. The following Christmas, another F.XVIII (registration "PH-AIS", "Snip" - "Snipe") made a similar flight to Curaçao in 55 hours 58 minutes after having been specially re-engined for the journey.
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Air Sweden (1991–93) Air Sweden, also known as Time Air Sweden was a short-lived airline from Sweden, which was operational between 1991 and 1993. The airline was set up as a charter airline as the airline market in Sweden was not deregulated at the time being. The airline operated cargo flights with its single Douglas DC-8-71F on the route Ostend-Stockholm-Delhi. Parts of the airline was used to form West Air Sweden, namely the single IAI Westwind left after the crash of the first one. There is no connection to the nowadays Air Sweden. The airlines was owned by the Swedish businessman Thomas Johansson, the former owner of Transwede with the main creditor being GE Capital. When GE Capital canceled the credits for the airline in 1993 it went bankrupt. This was due to the high losses related to the economic downturn in Sweden as well as the purchase of the TriStars.
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Azimuth (airline) Azimuth is a Russian airline, airline based at Rostov-on-Don Airport in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The airline plans to operate from the new Platov International Airport in Rostov-on-Don when it opens in December 2017..
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Tuva Airlines Tuva Airlines (Russian: ОАО «Тувинские Авиалинии», "OAO «Tuvinskije Avialinii»" ) is an airline based in Kyzyl, in the Russian federal republic of Tuva.
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SW Business Aviation Silk Way Business Aviation is an airline and handling company based in Baku, Azerbaijan and also represented in all Azerbaijan airports.
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Malév Hungarian Airlines MALÉV Ltd. (Hungarian: Malév Zrt. ), which did business as MALÉV Hungarian Airlines (Hungarian: "Magyar Légiközlekedési Vállalat" , abbreviated "MALÉV", ] ), was the flag carrier and principal airline of Hungary from 1946 to 2012. It had its head office in Budapest, with its main operations at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport. From there, the airline flew to 50 cities in 34 countries with a fleet of 22 aircraft. Malév joined the Oneworld alliance on 29 March 2007. On 3 February 2012, Malév stopped flying and on 14 February 2012 was declared insolvent and ordered liquidated by the Metropolitan Court of Budapest.
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Luftverkehr Friesland-Harle Luftverkehr Friesland-Harle, commonly abbreviated LFH, was a small airline based in Wangerland, Germany, that was established in 1983 and had 30 employees (at March 2007). It operated scheduled and chartered passenger and cargo flights, linking Harle Airfield () to the East Frisian Islands. In 2011, LFH was acquired by FLN Frisia Luftverkehr, which continues to use the brand.
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Sky Greenland Sky Greenland (formerly known as "Greenland Express") is a virtual airline headquartered in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland which started operations in June 2014, using a sole Fokker 100 leased from Denim Air ACMI.
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ALROSA (airline) CJSC "Air Company ALROSA" (Russian: ЗАО «Авиакомпания АЛРОСА», "ZAO «Aviakompanija ALROSA»" ), formerly Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise (Alrosa Air Company Limited) is an airline from Mirny, Russia. Its bases are at Mirny Airport and Polyarny Airport, with a focus city at Lensk Airport. The airline operates scheduled and chartered domestic flights.