Charles Lord Camster

ROGER BYRON-COLLINS and WELBECK ESTATE GROUP Airline owner and military property investor Roger Byron-Collins was born in Cardiff in March 1946 - the son of a Royal Air Force Navigator and his mother a member of the Women's Royal Air Force whilst they were stationed at nearby RAF St Athan. His first home was a Warrant Officer's quarter at RAF Driffield Yorkshire until 1949 and he moved to RAF Waddington, Lincoln. In July 1953 he moved to RAF Marham Norfolk until March 1954 when his father was sent to Australia for Atom bomb trials at RAAF Toowoomba so returned to Cardiff. After his father returned to the UK, he moved to RAF Waterbeach near Cambridge in 1955 and for two years was the lead treble chorister with Kings College Cambridge, also attending Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. In 1957 moved to RAF Watton Norfolk attending Hammonds Grammar School Swaffham and in 1958 he moved to RAF Tangmere Chichester, attending Chichester High School. In 1959 his father moved to RAF Khormaksar Aden South Yemen and Byron-Collins remained in the UK as a boarder at King Edwards School Witley Surrey. In 1962 he secured a place on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Land Survey Course at the Southwest Essex College in Walthamstow to study as a Chartered Surveyor whilst living at RAF Northolt.

After qualifying he went into the property business starting with Snell and Company Chartered Surveyors in Maida Vale London and this was followed by two years with Mullett Booker Estate Agents on the Hyde Park Estate. In 1967, at the personal invitation of David Rowland he joined him as his PA following Roger's negotiations in acquiring the former plantation company, Bandar Holdings PLC leading to a reverse take-over of Rowland's company, Fordham Investments, giving them public company status. Whilst based in Upper Grosvenor Street Mayfair London he acquired 18 blocks of flats. In 1970 he formed his first property investment company at Capital House Craven Road Paddington. His first major acquisition was the purchase of the Grand Junction housing estate comprising 540 freehold houses between Praed Street, Sussex Gardens and Edgware Road just 1km from Marble Arch. The estate was purchased from Amalgamated Investments plc and funded by the Midland Bank.

On the Aviation side of his business early in 1972 he formed Macedonian Aviation. He started his entry into the world of aviation whilst living at RAF Northolt with his parents in 1963/64. AIRLINE FLEET of 12 Aircraft: De Havilland DH104 Dove 6 G-APZU (04511) De Havilland DH104 Sea Devon G-RNAS (04473) De Havilland DH 104 Devon G-HBBC (04211) Douglas Dakota G-AMPO (16437/33185), Douglas Dakota G-AMPZ (16124/32872), Douglas Dakota G-AMHJ (13468) Douglas Dakota G-AMRA (15290/26735), Douglas Dakota G-AMSV (16072/32830), 4 Cessna 150 & 172 Training Aircraft

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