AIR METHODS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

00547155 · ltd · incorporated 1955-04-02

Investment thesis

Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.

Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.

Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 38.6y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Dec 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 46140

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 38.6y

50/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 38.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

5 officers (5 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

123 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

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Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Average employees	16	1600

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 5 officers
• 2 persons-with-significant-control

Last 180 days

filings

• 6 officers
• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 address

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand

2026-04-15
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2025-09-03
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2025-09-03
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2025-09-03
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2025-08-31
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AULIFFE, Jonathan Peter appointed
director
2025-08-31
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SMITH, Warren Robert appointed
director
2024-09-06
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Charge satisfied #3
2004-02-16
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Michael Compton Auliffe and Graham Frederick Auliffe and Norwich Union Trustees Limited
1989-12-01
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1987-10-21
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1955-04-02
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Company incorporated
As AIR METHODS LIMITED

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

20/100

No succession signal

No meaningful acquirability indicators from public data.

SIGNALS

primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — AULIFFE, Jonathan Peter (same surname) appointed 2025-08-31. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Auliffe Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Auliffe Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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AIR METHODS LIMITED

This company · 00547155

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Auliffe Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	23/01/2026

4 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Graham Frederick John Auliffeceased 09/09/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Mr Michael Compson Auliffeceased 31/08/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Mr Michael Compson Auliffeceased 22/09/2016· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Mr Graham Frederick John Auliffeceased 22/09/2016· 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1955-04-02

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC46140 — SIC 46140

Registered office

The Bradshaws Oaken

Codsall

Wolverhampton

West Midlands

WV8 2HU

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-15

Last: 2025-10-01