GAUK licensed sponsor · Luton, Bedfordshire · Manufacturing and engineering
GKN Aerospace Services
GKN Aerospace Services, Luton, Bedfordshire, holds a Home Office sponsor licence for Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker. It is on the current register and has been since at least 4 September 2026. Companies House lists it as Gkn Aerospace Services Limited (00355922), active, incorporated in 1939 (87 years ago), registered for manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery.
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Companies House
Who GKN Aerospace Services actually is
- Company number
- 00355922
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 12 August 1939 · 87 years old
- What they do
30300Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery
- Previously
- Gkn Westland Aerospace Limited (until 2001)
Westland Aerospace Limited (until 1996)
Westland Aerostructures Limited (until 1992)
British Hovercraft Corporation Limited (until 1987)
Vickers (aviation) Limited (until 1966) - Registered office
- 11th Floor The Colmore Building, Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6AT
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The registered office is where the company files its paperwork, not necessarily where it trades. Matched 10 September 2026.
Read the register
A gate, not a guarantee
The register tells you the gate is there. It says nothing about vacancies. For that, GKN Aerospace Services's own careers page and the job boards are the source, and they change with the season.
How to approach them
Lead with the role, not the visa
Apply through the careers page or the job boards with a UK-style CV, say early that you would need sponsorship, and make the skill and the years the first thing they read.
The register
GKN Aerospace Services, Luton, Bedfordshire, holds a Home Office sponsor licence covering 2 routes: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker and Skilled Worker. It has been on the register since at least 2026. Its rating on the register is Worker (A rating).
Gkn Aerospace Services Limited is the registered name (Companies House number 00355922), a private limited company on the register since 1939. Registered office: 11th Floor The Colmore Building, Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6AT, B4 6AT. Its filed activity puts it in manufacturing and engineering. It has traded under other names before, including Gkn Westland Aerospace Limited, Westland Aerospace Limited.
For a candidate this means one less obstacle: GKN Aerospace Services already has the licence most employers would have to apply for. The rest is the ordinary job of getting the interview.
Nearby
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- ApplianceTEK London LimitedDunstable
- Joyes Chicken LimitedBedford
- Mirage CareLuton
- Wiz Motors LimitedLuton
- Kokni Community LutonLuton
- Sssf Care LtdLuton
- Fat Fish Digital LtdDunstable
For candidates
What you need to work here
- A confirmed job offer from a UK employer that holds a Home Office sponsor licence. The employers in this directory all hold one.
- A Certificate of Sponsorship from that employer describing the role.
- A job on the Home Office list of eligible occupations, paid at least the minimum salary for that role and route.
Register with Sama
Want to work for GKN Aerospace Services, or somewhere like it?
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For employers
Using your sponsor licence again soon?
Next time you are recruiting, talk to us first. We supply trade tested drivers, mechanics, welders and fitters, can organise a trip to see candidates tested at our centres, and handle the Certificate of Sponsorship paperwork with you.
- No retainer. Nothing to sign until you have met people.
- Trade tested before you see them, not after.
- Nothing is ever charged to the candidate.
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Source: UK Visas and Immigration, Register of licensed sponsors: workers. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Being on the register means an organisation holds a sponsor licence. It does not mean it has a vacancy or that it will sponsor you.
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