APOLLO AIR SERVICES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
08489950 · ltd · incorporated 2013-04-16
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 9.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
76/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 51102
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 76/100 (strong), bankability 70/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
5 live charges · oldest 9.4y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 9.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (81/100)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
5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
35 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
76/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
82
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 | 2025-04-30 | 2024-04-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 1000 | 1000 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
3 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
1
filing
- • 1 mortgage
Last 90 days
2
filings
- • 1 mortgage
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
- • 1 mortgage
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-13📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2026-05-12🔒Charge registered #5Lender: Lombard North Central PLC
- 2026-01-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-01-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-11-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-04-28📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2021-04-28📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2021-03-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-01-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-08-19📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-03-26📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2019-03-20🔒Charge registered #4Lender: Lombard North Central PLC
- 2019-01-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-12-11📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2018-12-10🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Lombard North Central PLC
- 2017-09-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-01-27🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Lombard North Central PLC
- 2017-01-06🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Lombard North Central PLC
- 2013-04-16🏢Company incorporatedAs APOLLO AIR SERVICES LIMITED
- 2013-04-16➕FEARON, Kathleen appointeddirector
- 2013-04-16➕GRAHAM, Stephen Kelly appointeddirector
Owner dependency
78/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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 70 — succession pressure is live.
- +No director turnover: Company is 13 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong 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.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 13 years.
- supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.
Red flags
1 low5 live charges
lowHeavily leveraged with multiple live security positions — understand the capital structure before proceeding.
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr William Andrew Tinkler Individual · British · DOB 07/1963 · age 63 | 75–100% | — | 75-100% shares | 16/04/2021 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mrs Kathleen Fearonceased 16/04/2021· significant influence
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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| ANDREW DRYDEN LTD→ 08438427 · est 2013 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 13y | — | — |
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| ANTHONY BELL LTD→ 16950202 · est 2026 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2013-04-16
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC51102 — SIC 51102
Registered office
Fifteen Montgomery Way
Rosehill Industrial Estate
Carlisle
CA1 2RW
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last: 2026-04-16
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
FEARON, Kathleen→
Activedirector · ~70y · appointed 2013-04-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
GRAHAM, Stephen Kelly→
Activedirector · ~66y · appointed 2013-04-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
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Mortgages & charges
5
Total charges
5
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:5 of 5 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lombard North Central Lombard North Central PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 12/05/2026 | — | |
| outstanding | Lombard North Central Lombard North Central PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 20/03/2019 | — | |
| outstanding | Lombard North Central Lombard North Central PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 10/12/2018 | — | |
| outstanding | Lombard North Central Lombard North Central PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 27/01/2017 | — | |
| outstanding | Lombard North Central Lombard North Central PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 06/01/2017 | — |
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Recent filings (35 total)
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2026-05-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-28
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-04-28
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-11