AIRCRAFT CONVERSIONS (U.K.) LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
01641050 · ltd · incorporated 1982-06-03
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Machining
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 30120SIC 30120
  • 30300SIC 30300
  • 71129Other engineering activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 66). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · oldest 38.2y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 38.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Company profile
address, 4 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (1 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
117 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Average employees00

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-05-09
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  5. 2023-05-09
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2023-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-03-31
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    ANGIER, Margaret Mary resigned
    secretary
  8. 2023-03-31
    ➖
    ANGIER, Margaret Mary resigned
    director
  9. 2022-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-07-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-06-03
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    ANGIER, Richard resigned
    director
  12. 2021-06-03
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  13. 2020-07-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-07-31
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2019-08-22
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2019-07-28
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    ANGIER, Paul appointed
    director
  17. 2019-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  18. 2018-05-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  19. 2017-04-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  20. 2015-04-12
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    ANGIER, Elizabeth Ann resigned
    director
  21. 1998-12-07
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    ANGIER, Margaret Mary appointed
    secretary
  22. 1998-08-21
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  23. 1998-06-13
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    Charge satisfied #3
  24. 1994-11-12
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    Charge satisfied #2
  25. 1994-08-01
    ➖
    ANGIER, Richard resigned
    director
  26. 1994-07-31
    ➖
    GIBBS, Llewellyn resigned
    secretary
  27. 1994-07-31
    ➕
    ANGIER, Richard appointed
    director
  28. 1994-07-31
    ➖
    GIBBS, Llewellyn resigned
    director
  29. 1994-02-04
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  30. 1994-02-04
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  31. 1988-04-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  32. 1982-06-03
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As AIRCRAFT CONVERSIONS (U.K.) LIMITED

Owner dependency

90/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

75/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 44 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Richard Angier
Individual · British · DOB 08/1934 · age 92
——sig. influencesignificant influence31/12/2016

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

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8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1982-06-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25620 — Machining

Registered office

298 Grays Inn Road
London
WC1X 8DX
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-12
Last: 2026-02-26

Officers (1 active · 7 resigned)

ANGIER, Paul→
director · ~66y · appointed 2019-07-28
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Active
ANGIER, Margaret Mary→
secretary · appointed 1998-12-07 · resigned 2023-03-31
Resigned
GIBBS, Llewellyn→
secretary · resigned 1994-07-31
Resigned
ANGIER, Elizabeth Ann→
director · ~61y · resigned 2015-04-12
Resigned
ANGIER, Margaret Mary→
director · ~92y · resigned 2023-03-31
Resigned
ANGIER, Richard→
director · ~92y · appointed 1994-07-31 · resigned 2021-06-03
Resigned
ANGIER, Richard→
director · ~92y · resigned 1994-08-01
Resigned
GIBBS, Llewellyn→
director · ~98y · resigned 1994-07-31
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Mortgage deed1 property21/08/1998—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property04/02/199413/06/1998
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property04/02/199412/11/1994
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Mortgage1 property26/04/1988—
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Recent filings (117 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-04-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-27
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-05-09
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-05-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-07-26
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-06-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-26