AIRLINE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
02200536 · ltd · incorporated 1987-11-30
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 24.5y 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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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 22290
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 58). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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
1 live charge · oldest 24.5y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 24.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · 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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
113 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
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 accountsCash
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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 | 1800 | 1800 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-07-01📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-09-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-11-23📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AAMD
- 2023-09-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-04-27📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2022-04-27📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-04-27📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-02-16📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-01-05📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2022-01-01➕DEANS, Victoria Joanne appointeddirector
- 2021-09-11➖DEANS, Ian resigneddirector
- 2021-08-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-09-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-01-16📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-01-03📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-09-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-03-30➖DEANS, Jennifer resignedsecretary
- 2017-03-30➖DEANS, Jennifer resigneddirector
- 2003-06-01➕DEANS, James Alexander Neville appointeddirector
- 2001-12-12🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 1987-11-30🏢Company incorporatedAs AIRLINE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Owner dependency
84/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 58 — approaching natural succession window.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
76/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 58. Early succession window.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 39 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
- supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr James Alexander Neville Deans Individual · British · DOB 08/1968 · age 58 | 50–75% | 50–75% | 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Victoria Joanne Deans Individual · British · DOB 02/1971 · age 55 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 25/04/2022 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1987-11-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC22290 — SIC 22290
Registered office
2 Communications Road
Greenham Business Park
Newbury
Berkshire
RG19 6AB
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-11
Last: 2026-04-27
Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)
DEANS, James Alexander Neville→
Activedirector · ~58y · appointed 2003-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
DEANS, Victoria Joanne→
Activedirector · ~55y · appointed 2022-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
DEANS, Jennifer→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2017-03-30
DEANS, Ian→
Resigneddirector · ~96y · resigned 2021-09-11
DEANS, Jennifer→
Resigneddirector · ~92y · resigned 2017-03-30
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 12/12/2001 | — |
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Recent filings (113 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-30
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2023-11-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-04-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-04-27
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-04-27
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-02-16