Cello Aviation of Birmingham, UK, is celebrating its fourth birthday after spending several weeks working on a client's European music tour. The company marked the occasion with a cake made in the shape of one of its aircraft.

Four years ago Raj Gill, who founded Cello's parent the Gill Group, decided to further his aviation passion by initiating a vip charter operation.

Cello, which also undertakes work for scheduled operators, has gone from strength to strength in that time and now has two aircraft with plans to add more in the future.

“The Gill Group does a lot of work on airfields all over the world and so there is a synergy with us as an operator,” says Gill.

“Many people thought I was taking a huge risk as our core services had been in civil engineering and construction but my passion was in aviation and I felt there was a niche in the market to start an airline that would operate vip charter. So we launched in July 2010. Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined how successful we would be.”

Cello Aviation has flown countless celebrities and vip passengers from all over the UK and beyond.