ARCAIRCREW LTD

🏛️Establishedactive

11950233 · ltd · incorporated 2019-04-16

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.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£44.5k

book net assets

Opportunity

77/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 51101

Sector: Transportation & storage

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

51102SIC 51102
52230SIC 52230

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. 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, 3 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

2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

18 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

77/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £44,460

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£44k

↑ 218% YoY

Current Assets

£2k

↓ 11% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£44.5k	£-37.7k
Current assets	£2.4k	£2.7k
Cash	—	£2.5k
Debtors	—	£260
Net assets	£44.5k	£-37.7k

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (13 events)Click to expand

2025-12-22
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accounts · AA
2024-11-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-07-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-08-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-05-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-06-13
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accounts · AA01
2019-04-25
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officers · AP01
2019-04-25
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2019-04-16
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Company incorporated
As ARCAIRCREW LTD
2019-04-16
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ARKWRIGHT, Darren appointed
director
2019-04-16
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UPTON, Coralie Juliet appointed
director
2019-04-16
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incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

78/100

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 65 — succession pressure is live.
+No director turnover: Company is 7 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

56/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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 Darren Arkwright Individual · British · DOB 02/1961 · age 65	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	16/04/2019
Mrs Coralie Juliet Upton Individual · British · DOB 01/1964 · age 62	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	16/04/2019

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

Incorporated2019-04-16

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC51101 — SIC 51101

Registered office

47 Lockeridge

Marlborough

Wiltshire

SN8 4EL

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-11

Last: 2026-04-27

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

ARKWRIGHT, Darren→

director · ~65y · appointed 2019-04-16

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UPTON, Coralie Juliet→

director · ~62y · appointed 2019-04-16

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