AMADEUS AVIATION LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
04387483 · ltd · incorporated 2002-03-05
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 Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Non-trading company
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Dormant / non-trading with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (1 active, 5 linked, 1 with DOB)
74
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
62 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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees200200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-30
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  2. 2026-01-25
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  3. 2026-01-15
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    GORDON, Katharine Jane resigned
    secretary
  4. 2025-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-06-28
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  6. 2023-06-30
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  7. 2022-06-29
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  8. 2021-06-29
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  9. 2020-06-30
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  10. 2019-06-29
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  11. 2018-06-22
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  12. 2017-06-08
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  13. 2016-03-07
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  14. 2016-01-25
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  15. 2015-04-14
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  16. 2015-03-16
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    annual-return · AR01
  17. 2003-03-01
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    GORDON, Katharine Jane appointed
    secretary
  18. 2003-03-01
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    STOTT, Peter David resigned
    secretary
  19. 2002-03-05
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    Company incorporated
    As AMADEUS AVIATION LIMITED
  20. 2002-03-05
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    AMADEUS, Philip Louis appointed
    director
  21. 2002-03-05
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    STOTT, Peter David appointed
    secretary
  22. 2002-03-05
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    LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2002-03-05
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    LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2002-03-05
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    LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  25. 2002-03-05
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    LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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 name in company name: Company name contains director surname "AMADEUS" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
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 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Philip Louis Amadeus
Individual · English · DOB 03/1954 · age 72
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control05/03/2017

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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
Incorporated2002-03-05
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

Tiger Lily Froggetts Lane
Walliswood
Dorking
Surrey
RH5 5RJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-07
Last: 2026-02-21

Officers (1 active · 4 resigned)

AMADEUS, Philip Louis→
director · ~72y · appointed 2002-03-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GORDON, Katharine Jane→
secretary · appointed 2003-03-01 · resigned 2026-01-15
Resigned
STOTT, Peter David→
secretary · appointed 2002-03-05 · resigned 2003-03-01
Resigned
LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-03-05 · resigned 2002-03-05
Resigned
LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-03-05 · resigned 2002-03-05
Resigned

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Recent filings (62 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-23
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2026-01-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-06