He always came across as such a thoroughly descent guy
And he was. Met him when I was 12 or 13 year old, in the old cafeteria below Salzburg Tower, where now the GAT is. He had IIRC 2 Fokker 27 at the time. Very nice guy and he signed a card for me.
Met him again about 30 years later at the old GAT in EDDK and he still was a nice guy, we had a chat about the Challi 300 we both flew at the time.