Air & spacecraft
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
1624
Active companies
1145
Formed in latest 12 months
276
Median active-company age
3.1 years
Revenue known
29
Importers
180
Exporters
153
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 1,624 |
| Active companies | 1,145 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 276 |
| Importers | 180 |
| Exporters | 153 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 29 known, 1116 unknown (2.5%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11 | 16 | 18 |
| 2025-12 | 8 | 12 |
| 2026-01 | 21 | 9 |
| 2026-02 | 8 | 20 |
| 2026-03 | 20 | 23 |
| 2026-04 | 17 | 21 |
| 2026-05 | 12 | 19 |
| 2026-06 | 25 | 16 |
| 2026-07 | 19 | 30 |
| 2026-08 | 9 | 17 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-08.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 1,003 |
| Dissolved | 459 |
| Dormant | 142 |
| Liquidation | 17 |
| In Administration | 3 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | 273 |
| Inner London - West | 103 |
| Inner London - East | 67 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 53 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 52 |
| Greater Manchester | 41 |
| North Somerset, Somerset and Dorset | 39 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 36 |
| Gloucestershire and Wiltshire | 30 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 28 |
Geography coverage: 1139 known, 6 unknown (99.5%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 453 |
| 1m-15m | 98 |
| 15m-54m | 10 |
| 54m+ | 60 |
Revenue-range coverage: 621 known, 524 unknown (54.2%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 308 |
| Small | 196 |
| Medium | 4 |
| Large | 82 |
| Holding | 8 |
| Dormant | 142 |
Company-size coverage: 740 known, 405 unknown (64.6%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 219 |
| 1–9 | 251 |
| 10–49 | 41 |
| 50–249 | 15 |
| 250+ | 3 |
Employee coverage: 529 known, 616 unknown (46.2%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 265 |
| 1–3 years | 306 |
| 3–5 years | 94 |
| 5–10 years | 168 |
| 10–20 years | 161 |
| 20+ years | 151 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 1145 known, 0 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Directly assigned to this segment | 1,145 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 36 |
| Exporter only | 9 |
| Both | 144 |
| Neither | 956 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 140 | £99,726,322,783 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 139 | £77,747,661,750 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 88 — Aircraft, spacecraft, and their parts | 133 | £22,948,687,052 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 124 | £16,069,977,240 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 97 | £7,712,030,365 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 89 | £4,367,734,602 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 75 | £10,075,488,628 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 70 | £5,720,285,276 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 69 | £8,820,411,163 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 67 | £866,026,775 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88 — Aircraft, spacecraft, and their parts | 129 | £48,731,515,178 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 118 | £61,804,862,514 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 118 | £28,423,319,517 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 112 | £17,221,648,096 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 79 | £4,467,029,270 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 79 | £4,003,721,038 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 69 | £3,135,311,764 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 67 | £1,364,246,152 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 66 | £1,044,561,245 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 62 | £476,549,484 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 40 | 943 | 202 | 82.4% |
| Holding company | 2 | 943 | 202 | 82.4% |
| Solo founder | 630 | 943 | 202 | 82.4% |
| Ecommerce | 10 | 112 | 1,033 | 9.8% |
| Website | 151 | 159 | 986 | 13.9% |
| 141 | 159 | 986 | 13.9% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Preci-spark Limited | £43,525,647 |
| Mcbraida Plc | £31,789,000 |
| Nasmyth Bulwell Limited | £28,889,000 |
| Avia Technique Limited | £27,607,773 |
| 2 Excel Engineering Limited | £22,441,491 |
| Slingsby Advanced Composites Limited | £22,401,407 |
| Accrofab (derby) Limited | £14,913,997 |
| Lander Aerospace Ltd | £14,002,000 |
| Bromford Precision Solutions Limited | £13,564,353 |
| Nasmyth Coventry Limited | £10,833,000 |
Revenue coverage: 29 known, 1116 unknown (2.5%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Metal products | 25,070 |
| Foods | 24,449 |
| Other manufacturing n.e.c. | 19,696 |
| Wood products (ex furniture) | 12,012 |
| Printing | 11,870 |
| Furniture | 10,690 |
| Apparel | 10,563 |
| Machinery | 10,295 |
| Chemical products | 9,027 |
| Vehicles | 7,373 |
| Textiles | 7,345 |
| Beverages | 7,084 |
| Electrical equipment | 6,917 |
| Rubber & plastic products | 6,552 |
| Jewellery | 4,490 |
| Medical and dental instruments & supplies | 3,358 |
| Paper products | 3,116 |
| Measuring and testing equipment | 2,751 |
| Sports goods | 2,369 |
| Games and toys | 2,353 |
| Other | 23,788 |
SIC classification
SIC 30300 — Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery
Includes
manufacture of aeroplanes for the transport of goods or passengers, for use by the defence forces, for sport or other purposes, manufacture of helicopters, manufacture of gliders, hang-gliders, manufacture of dirigibles and hot air balloons, manufacture of parts and accessories of the aircraft of this class:, major assemblies such as fuselages, wings, doors, control surfaces, landing gear, fuel tanks, nacelles etc., airscrews, helicopter rotors and propelled rotor blades, motors and engines of a kind typically found on aircraft, parts of turbojets and turboprops for aircraft, manufacture of ground flying trainers, manufacture of spacecraft and launch vehicles, satellites, planetary probes, orbital stations, shuttles, manufacture of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), overhaul and conversion of aircraft or aircraft engines, manufacture of aircraft seats
Excludes
manufacture of parachutes, see ##13.92, manufacture of military ordnance and ammunition, see ##25.40, manufacture of telecommunication equipment for satellites, see ##26.30, manufacture of aircraft instrumentation and aeronautical instruments, see ##26.51, manufacture of air navigation systems, see ##26.51, manufacture of lighting equipment for aircraft, see ##27.40, manufacture of ignition parts and other electrical parts for internal combustion engines, see ##27.90, manufacture of pistons, piston rings and carburettors, see ##28.11, manufacture of aircraft launching gear, aircraft carrier catapults and related equipment, see ##28.99