AEROCOMPONENTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03325122 · ltd · incorporated 1997-02-27
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 29.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Machining
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 71121Engineering design activities for industrial process and production
  • 71129Other engineering activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 83). 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 29.0y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 29.0 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: medium (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (3 active, 10 linked, 5 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
101 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
75
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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees17001700

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 address
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-09
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    change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
    address · AD02
  2. 2026-03-04
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  3. 2025-12-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-02-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-05-08
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2024-05-06
    ➖
    LANE, David resigned
    director
  7. 2023-12-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-11-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-10-11
    📄
    second-filing-of-director-appointment-with-name
    officers · RP04AP01
  10. 2022-10-05
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2022-10-04
    ➖
    LEPERE, Albert resigned
    director
  12. 2021-12-23
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-04-19
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  14. 2021-04-14
    ➕
    ROSE, Simon Gareth appointed
    director
  15. 2020-11-04
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2020-03-10
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    capital-cancellation-shares
    capital · SH06
  17. 2019-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2018-12-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2017-05-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2015-07-14
    ➕
    LANE, Susan Mary Lloyd appointed
    director
  21. 2008-07-09
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #2
  22. 2002-03-01
    ➕
    LANE, Susan Mary Lloyd appointed
    secretary
  23. 2002-03-01
    ➖
    LANE, Susan Mary Lloyd resigned
    secretary
  24. 1999-10-29
    ➕
    LANE, Susan Mary Lloyd appointed
    secretary
  25. 1999-10-29
    ➖
    ODELL, Lawrence Victor resigned
    secretary
  26. 1999-10-29
    ➖
    ODELL, Lawrence Victor resigned
    director
  27. 1999-10-25
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: State Securities PLC
  28. 1998-04-01
    ➕
    LANE, David appointed
    director
  29. 1997-06-12
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Argent Commercial Services Limited
  30. 1997-04-03
    ➕
    ODELL, Lawrence Victor appointed
    secretary
  31. 1997-04-03
    ➖
    CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  32. 1997-04-03
    ➕
    LEPERE, Albert appointed
    director
  33. 1997-04-03
    ➕
    ODELL, Lawrence Victor appointed
    director
  34. 1997-04-03
    ➖
    CHETTLEBURGH'S LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  35. 1997-02-27
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As AEROCOMPONENTS LIMITED
  36. 1997-02-27
    ➕
    CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  37. 1997-02-27
    ➕
    CHETTLEBURGH'S LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

81/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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

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
Mrs Susan Mary Lloyd Lane
Individual · British · DOB 10/1943 · age 83
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr David Laneceased 06/05/2024· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1997-02-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25620 — Machining

Registered office

Unit 3b Headley Park 10
Woodley
Reading
RG5 4SW

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-13
Last: 2026-02-27

Officers (3 active · 7 resigned)

LANE, Susan Mary Lloyd→
secretary · appointed 2002-03-01
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Active
LANE, Susan Mary Lloyd→
director · ~83y · appointed 2015-07-14
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Active
ROSE, Simon Gareth→
director · ~50y · appointed 2021-04-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LANE, Susan Mary Lloyd→
secretary · appointed 1999-10-29 · resigned 2002-03-01
Resigned
ODELL, Lawrence Victor→
secretary · appointed 1997-04-03 · resigned 1999-10-29
Resigned
CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-02-27 · resigned 1997-04-03
Resigned
LANE, David→
director · ~85y · appointed 1998-04-01 · resigned 2024-05-06
Resigned
LEPERE, Albert→
director · ~75y · appointed 1997-04-03 · resigned 2022-10-04
Resigned
ODELL, Lawrence Victor→
director · ~65y · appointed 1997-04-03 · resigned 1999-10-29
Resigned
CHETTLEBURGH'S LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-02-27 · resigned 1997-04-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
State Securities
State Securities PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property25/10/199909/07/2008
outstanding
Argent Commercial Services
Argent Commercial Services Limited
Debenture1 property12/06/1997—
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Recent filings (101 total)

change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2026-03-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-20
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-05-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-24
second-filing-of-director-appointment-with-name
officers · RP04AP01
2022-10-11
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-10-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-23