AVICA AEROSPACE DUCTING LIMITED
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Cash
£1.6M
+854.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£7.6M
+13% vs 2023
Employees
103
+10.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1.5M
+381.6% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Charges registered
Companies House lists one or more registered charges (e.g. mortgages or debentures). Some may since have been satisfied — see the official charges register for current status.
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5 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £11,738,672 | £17,710,420 | +50.9% | |
| Operating profit | -£358,167 | £1,664,762 | +564.8% | |
| Profit before tax | -£526,001 | £1,481,434 | +381.6% | |
| Net profit | -£429,667 | £876,291 | +303.9% | |
| Cash | £172,186 | £1,644,090 | +854.8% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,297,349 | £7,915,636 | +8.5% | |
| Net assets | £6,744,826 | £7,621,117 | +13% | |
| Equity | £6,744,826 | £7,621,117 | +13% | |
| Average employees | 93 | 103 | +10.8% | |
| Wages | £4,047,385 | £4,796,591 | +18.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -3.1% | 9.4% | |
| Net margin | -3.7% | 4.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -4.9% | 21.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.83x | 2.61x | |
| Interest cover | -2.13x | 9.08x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- AVICA AEROSPACE DUCTING LIMITED 2020-09-24 → present
- MEGGITT (SAND) LIMITED 2020-09-07 → 2020-09-24
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“the directors are satisfied that the company has adequate resources to continue to operate for the foreseeable future and, for this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis for preparing these financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Avica Aerospace Ducting have received an order from Ariane to provide a further 26 space launcher shipsets worth an additional £24m sales over the next four years.”
- “On 29 August 2025, Tinicum Inc acquired the Leggett & Platt Aerospace division, of which the company is a member, and renamed the division as AeroFlow Technologies.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRENNAN, Tom Christopher | Secretary | 2025-11-21 | — | — |
| BOARDMAN, Richard James | Director | 2025-08-29 | Jan 1987 | British |
| BRENNAN, Tom Christopher | Director | 2025-08-29 | Sep 1978 | Canadian |
| KOLODZIEJ, Lori | Director | 2025-11-21 | Jan 1973 | American |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRANT, Simon Robert | Secretary | 2020-09-07 | 2021-01-30 |
| KOCH, Shonna Lea | Secretary | 2021-01-30 | 2025-08-29 |
| PRIOR, Simon | Secretary | 2025-08-29 | 2025-11-21 |
| ALMANDINGER, Travis James | Director | 2021-01-30 | 2024-05-08 |
| BURDETT, Louisa Sachiko | Director | 2020-09-07 | 2021-01-30 |
| GARARD, Andrew Sheldon | Director | 2020-09-07 | 2021-01-30 |
| KOCH, Shonna Lea | Director | 2021-01-30 | 2025-08-29 |
| LEWIS, Katie | Director | 2020-09-07 | 2021-01-30 |
| LUTON, Stanley Scott | Director | 2024-05-20 | 2025-08-29 |
| PARGETER, Ian Keith | Director | 2020-09-07 | 2021-01-30 |
| PRIOR, Simon Robert Cairns | Director | 2021-01-30 | 2025-11-21 |
| THOMAS, Marina Louise | Director | 2020-09-07 | 2021-01-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Hart Aerospace Pipes Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2021-01-30 | Active |
| Meggitt (Uk) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-09-07 | Ceased 2021-01-30 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 49 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-09-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-09-15 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-07 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-06 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2026-01-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-12-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-26 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2025-09-26 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2025-09-25 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-09-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-09-15 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-09-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-12 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-09-12 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 18
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- Officers resigned
- 5
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.