AVIATION SPIRIT LTD

🌳Matureactive

04297776 · ltd · incorporated 2001-10-02

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Oct 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

59 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

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 · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-10-31	2023-10-31

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-07-31
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2024-07-23
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2023-07-26
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2022-07-28
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2021-08-19
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2020-08-20
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2019-08-06
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2018-08-03
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2017-07-31
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2016-07-25
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2015-11-18
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2015-07-30
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2014-11-18
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2001-10-02
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Company incorporated
As AVIATION SPIRIT LTD
2001-10-02
➕
OWEN, Elizabeth Maud appointed
secretary
2001-10-02
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OWEN, Elizabeth Maud appointed
director
2001-10-02
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OWEN, Nicholas Richard appointed
director
2001-10-02
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CHANCERY BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS LTD appointed
corporate-secretary
2001-10-02
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CHANCERY BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS LTD resigned
corporate-secretary
2001-10-02
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COWAN, Judy Rosalie appointed
director
2001-10-02
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COWAN, Judy Rosalie resigned
director

Owner dependency

91/100

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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100

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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Nicholas Richard Owen Individual · British · DOB 04/1956 · age 70	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mrs Elizabeth Maud Owen Individual · British · DOB 02/1958 · age 68	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2001-10-02

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC74909 — Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Yew Tree Top

Clee Hill

Ludlow

Shropshire

SY8 3PD

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-07-31

Last made up to: 2024-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-26

Last: 2025-11-12

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

OWEN, Elizabeth Maud→

secretary · appointed 2001-10-02

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Active

OWEN, Elizabeth Maud→

director · ~68y · appointed 2001-10-02

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Active

OWEN, Nicholas Richard→

director · ~70y · appointed 2001-10-02

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Active

CHANCERY BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS LTD→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2001-10-02 · resigned 2001-10-02

Resigned

COWAN, Judy Rosalie→

director · ~87y · appointed 2001-10-02 · resigned 2001-10-02

Resigned

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