Oriens Aviation Limited
Registered name: ORIENS AVIATION LIMITED
Part of Oriens Holdings Limited groupOriens Aviation Limited made £36.2m revenue and £2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Oriens Aviation Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £36.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2m profit and 9 employees. The company is classified under “agents involved in the sale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft” and is based in Westerham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Westerham, South East
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2015
- 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 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £24.7m | £36.6m | £33.8m | £36.2m |
| Cost of sales | £22.7m | £32.9m | £30.4m | £32.6m |
| Gross profit | £2m | £3.7m | £3.4m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £2.1m | £1.9m | £2m |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.9m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £2m | £1.7m | £2m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £2m | £1.7m | £2m |
| Staff costs | £612k | £718k | £856k | — |
| Employees (average) | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.9% | 5.3% | 5.1% | 5.6% |
| Gross margin | 8.3% | 10% | 10.1% | 9.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £3.1m | £4.1m | £3.8m | £4m |
| Profit per employee | £151k | £218k | £193k | £226k |
| Cash conversion | −27.4% | −187.6% | 126.1% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲47.8% | ▼7.7% | ▲7.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲62.6% | ▼11.3% | ▲17.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲12.5% | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £1.5m | £2.1m | — |
| Net assets | £2.3m | £4.3m | £6m | — |
| Fixed assets | £66.6k | £2.6m | £1.7m | — |
| Current assets | £11.4m | £9.1m | £16.2m | — |
| Debtors | £810k | £1.4m | £179k | — |
| Deferred income | £4.4m | £3.7m | £4.3m | — |
| Cash from operations | −£340k | −£3.9m | £2.4m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 9.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £4m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £226k
- 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
- 0%
- Now 9
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Oriens Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Oriens Aviation Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Oriens Aviation Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Oriens Flight Operations LtdFigures not disclosed
- Oriens Maintenance Services 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 £2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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