CALEDONIAN AIRBORNE SYSTEMS LIMITED
Company number 02207626 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Caledonian Airborne Systems possesses genuinely differentiated technology and integration credentials in a specialised defence market segment, with a 37-year heritage, strong gross margins, and a secured pipeline through 2025. However, the dramatic contraction in both revenue and profitability in FY2024, combined with persistent cash erosion, signals that the company's niche positioning is insufficient to offset the structural challenges of sub-scale operations in a capital-intensive industry. Immediate strategic priorities must include stabilising the revenue trajectory through ADELT and radar upgrade pipeline conversion, formalising aftermarket support revenue, and critically evaluating whether the current cost base is sustainable at current revenue levels.
Shareholders' funds
£769
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
Aircraft Engineers
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1987-12-21
- Employees
- 10 (2024 accounts · was 12 in 2023)
- Registered office
- 6th Floor 99 Gresham Street, London, United Kingdom, EC2V 7NG
- Postcode
- EC2V 7NG
- Capital
- 125,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-05
- Next due by
- 2027-08-19
Nature of business (SIC)
- 30300 Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery
Officers 3 current · 3 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by BEGINEXTRA LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| RAPID 5031 LIMITED | 1988-08-01 |
Previous registered addresses 7
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 5TH FLOOR, 17 HANOVER SQUARE, LONDON, W1S 1HU | 2016-04-22 |
| MARCOL HOUSE, 293 REGENT STREET, LONDON, W1R 7PD | 1998-08-04 |
| 64 QUEEN STREET, LONDON, EC4R 1AD | 1991-12-11 |
| AER LINGUS HOUSE, 83 STAINES ROAD, HOUNSLOW, MIDDLESEX,TW3 3JB | 1991-01-17 |
| 52 POLAND STREET, LONDON, W1V 3DF | 1990-02-27 |
| MARCOL HOUSE, 293 REGENT STREET, LONDON, W1R 7PD | 1988-07-21 |
| 124-128 CITY RD, LONDON, EC1V 2NJ | 1988-04-11 |
Among its peers
2nd largest employer
of 8 similar companies in EC, with 10 staff. The oldest of its local peers.
Competitors London
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2. ALFAIOMI LTD
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3. IEROM LTD
This company ranks 7 among manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery in London.
The class of 1987
51%
of the 20,106 companies incorporated in 1987 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.