Draft:ROGERCOLLINS of WELBECK ESTATE GROUP ad MACEDONIAN AVUATION

ROGER COLLINS AIRLINE OPERATOR - MILITARY and RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE INVESTOR Roger Collins was born in Cardiff on 19 March 1946. He attended Cambridge 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 and attended Chichester High School.

After qualifying he went into the property business starting with Snell and Company Chartered Surveyors in Maida Vale London, followed by two years with Mullett Booker Estate Agents on the Hyde Park Estate. In 1967 he joined David Rowland at his Fordham Investments in Upper Grosvenor Street Mayfair London and 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. In 1970, Collins acting for Jack Dellal of Dalton Barton Bank, Peter Crane of Country and Municipal Properties in a consortium controlled by Hanson Trust acquired the Pimlico Estate, covering 27 acres in Victoria, including 480 homes from Holland Hanen and Cubitt after being introduced to their Chairman Lord Ashcombe by Colin Tennant, the then owner of Mustique West Indies at that time. https://www.twsg.co.uk

Whilst living at RAF Northolt he made friends with a senior USAF military neighbour and as a result in 1979 in the USA he opened an office at 1200 Arlington Ridge Road Arlington Virginia opposite The Pentagon. Within 6 months he purchased two apartment blocks of 500 apartments named The Cavendish and The Lancaster adjacent to the Pentagon and US Navy Annex and occupied mainly by the US military. He acquired numerous ex MOD sites over the following 40 years.

Out of an original list of 100 approved bidders his Group and Japanese bank Nomura were the final two approved buyers. Despite severe criticism by former and serving military personnel at that time HM Government awarded the sale to Nomura and their Consortium fully funded offer lost out by less than 0.2% of the sale's price. Nomura quickly decided to create an English sounding company to manage the estate and Annington Homes was formed. https://www.twsg.co.uk

ROGER COLLINS and AVIATION    MACEDONIAN AVIATION and BBC AIR

ROGER COLLINS FLEET of 12 Aircraft:

DH104 Dove 6 G-APZU (04511)

DH104 Sea Devon G-RNAS (04473)

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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Personal  Married Kaye Margaret Heller 11 August 1970 Divorced May 1973  Married Sylvi Staal 17 December 1973 Colston Hall Westminster-  Son Alexander

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