BAE SYSTEMS PLC

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Overview

Company type
Public Limited Company
Incorporated
1979-12-31
Registered office
6 Carlton Gardens, London, SW1Y 5AD
Postcode
SW1Y 5AD
Capital
86,686,002 GBP
Accounts category
Group
Charges
1 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-12-31
Next due by
2027-06-30
Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2025-09-29
Next due by
2026-10-13
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 25400 Manufacture of weapons and ammunition
  • 29100 Manufacture of motor vehicles
  • 30110 Building of ships and floating structures
  • 30300 Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery

Officers 16 current · 58 resigned

Appointed 2026-02-23
Anthony CLARKE Secretary
Appointed 2024-05-09
Appointed 2023-11-06
Appointed 2022-11-01
Company Director Appointed 2022-11-01

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Group structure 43 subsidiaries

Showing 12 of 43.

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Public contracts won 4

£15,905,068 total awarded value where published.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder).

Patents 3,833

Patent publications naming BAE SYSTEMS plc as applicant.

Showing the 5 most recent — all 3,833 on Espacenet.

Patent data from the European Patent Office (Open Patent Services).

Licensed visa sponsor

Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee (Temporary Worker (A rating)), Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (Worker (A rating)), Government Authorised Exchange (Temporary Worker (A rating)), Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).

Matched by registered name to the register of licensed sponsors (Home Office, updated daily) — check the register itself before relying on it. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Modern slavery statement

Registered a modern slavery statement for 2026 (period to 2025-12-31) — 6 years on the registry.

Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z5682726 (Tier 3), registered since 2001.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Gender pay gap

6.7%

Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity

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Contact details

Website
baesystemsplc.co.uk
Phone
+44 7423169656

Previous company names

NameDate changed
BRITISH AEROSPACE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY2000-05-05
BRITISH AEROSPACE LIMITED1981-12-31

Previous registered addresses 8

AddressChanged on
WARWICK HOUSE,PO BOX 87, FARNBOROUGH AEROSPACE CENTRE, FARNBOROUGH,HANTS, GU14 6YU2001-08-31
RWICK HOUSE,PO BOX 87, FARNBOROUGH AEROSPACE CENTRE, FARNBOROUGH,HANTS, GU14 6YU2001-08-31
STRAND, LONDON, WC2N 5JT1992-08-28
11 STRAND, LONDON, WC2N 5JT1992-08-28
100 PALL MALL, LONDON SW1Y 5HR1986-08-04
0 PALL MALL, LONDON SW1Y 5HR1986-08-04
GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED1980-12-29
REGISTERED OFFICE CHANGED1980-12-29

Among its peers

Among the oldest 25%

of 74 similar companies in SW — measured against the wider sector, trading since 1979

146 companies are registered at this postcode →

The class of 1979

49%

of the 8,388 companies incorporated in 1979 are still active today; 43% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

Survival rates for every incorporation year →

Property in England & Wales 24 titles

Freehold
18
Leasehold
6
Most recent registration
2023-08-15
Where
Lancashire (8), South Gloucestershire (4), Greater London (3)
Title numberCounty Tenure RegisteredPrice paid
SY897143 Surrey Leasehold 2023-08-15
GR467232 South Gloucestershire Freehold 2022-08-18
NGL975729 Greater London Leasehold 2017-12-21
NGL973981 Greater London Leasehold 2017-10-25
NGL973982 Greater London Leasehold 2017-10-25
HP763598 Hampshire Leasehold 2013-08-30
GR352422 South Gloucestershire Freehold 2011-03-01
LAN113603 Lancashire Freehold 2011-01-25
LAN34712 Lancashire Freehold 2006-06-29
GR264518 South Gloucestershire Freehold 2003-09-05
HP378778 Hampshire Leasehold 1995-09-22
LA530317 Lancashire Freehold 1994-08-17
LA560503 Lancashire Freehold 1989-12-07
LA507781 Lancashire Freehold 1989-10-23
AV133146 South Gloucestershire Freehold 1987-01-20
DN156014 City Of Plymouth Freehold 1984-02-01
LA450987 Lancashire Freehold 1980-09-15
BL22814 City Of Bristol Freehold 1979-06-12
NT102940 Nottinghamshire Freehold 1979-04-18
GM178106 Greater Manchester Freehold 1979-04-11

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