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KLM Aerocarto

Defunct Dutch airline

KLM Aerocarto was a Dutch airline that was the phototechnical and cartographic division of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines that carried out extensive international aerial survey and mapping projects.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1954Founded1
  • HeadquartersAmsterdam Schiphol Airport1
  • Legal formbesloten vennootschap, naamloze vennootschap1

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Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain KLM Aerocarto, GRQ Groningen (Eelde), Netherlands PP1078148051
Photo: Peter Bakema, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons3

KLM Aerocarto was a Dutch airline that was the phototechnical and cartographic division of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines that carried out extensive international aerial survey and mapping projects. Aerocarto contributed to the early development of modern aerial surveying and mapping through international projects and collaboration with Dutch universities, integrating aerial photography with scientific research in photogrammetry, geography, and agricultural science for applications in land-use analysis, resource mapping, and topographic and cadastral cartography.2

Corporate structure

KLM Aerocarto is part of a group headed by Air France-KLM. 60 entities, 11 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded by Arcadis1

Timeline

  1. 1954Founded Founded1

Sources

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