Aerotron Limited
Registered name: AEROTRON LIMITED
Part of Aerotron Group (Holdings) Limited groupAerotron Limited made £52m revenue and a £2.8m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Aerotron Limited’s revenue fell 16% to £52m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £2.8m. The company is classified under “operation of warehousing and storage facilities for air transport activities” and is based in Crawley; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Crawley, South East
- Age
- 53 yrs · since 1973
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £32.9m | £53.8m | £60.1m | £62m | £52m |
| Cost of sales | £27.8m | £41.8m | −£52.1m | −£51.9m | −£48m |
| Gross profit | £5.1m | £12m | £8m | £10.1m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £2.4m | £15.5m | £3.1m | £4.4m | −£6.2m |
| Profit before tax | £3.3m | £17.7m | £7.8m | £9.3m | −£2.5m |
| Profit after tax | £3.1m | £17m | £3.3m | £7.7m | −£2.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.1m | £17m | £3.3m | £7.7m | −£2.8m |
| Staff costs | £4.1m | £4.7m | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 56 | 55 | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 9.3% | 31.5% | 5.5% | 12.5% | −5.4% |
| Gross margin | 15.4% | 22.3% | 13.2% | 16.3% | 7.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £587k | £979k | — | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £54.8k | £308k | — | — | — |
| Cash conversion | −365.6% | −118.2% | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲63.9% | ▲11.6% | ▲3.2% | ▼16.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲452.2% | ▼80.6% | ▲134.4% | ▼136.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.8% | — | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £51.1m | £70.4m | — | — | — |
| Net assets | £64.1m | £79.1m | — | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £5.6m | £5.3m | — | — | — |
| Current assets | £83.5m | £105m | — | — | — |
| Debtors | £4.4m | £7.5m | — | — | — |
| Deferred income | £11.7m | £17.6m | — | — | — |
| Cash from operations | −£8.6m | −£18.4m | — | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −5.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 7.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Aerotron Group (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Aerotron Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Aerotron Leasing Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (3)
- Aerotron Avotec LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Aerotron Composites LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Aerotron Rotary LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£2.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 18 Oct 2026
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