AIR Service Training (Engineering) Limited (SC163769): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2025-04-10
- Administrators
- Shona Joanne Campbell
- Administrators' firm
- Menzies
- Formerly
- AIR Services Training (Engineering) Limited; Bushchain Limited
- Incorporated
- 1996-02-28
- Location
- Dundee
- Industry
- 85421 First-degree level higher education
Why it went into administration
- Sustained trading losses
- Competition / price pressure
- Rising costs / inflation
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
From the administrators' statement
Air Service Training (Engineering) Limited (“AST”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of UHI Perth, providing specialist aviation engineering training under UK CAA and EASA Part 147 approvals. Established in 1931 and relocated to Perth in 1960, AST is internationally recognised as one of the longest-operating civil aviation training organisations in the world.
Historically delivering both pilot and engineer training, the business has focused exclusively on engineering since 1996, offering a range of domestic and international programmes including Category A and B courses in fixed and rotary wing aircraft, BSc degree delivery in partnership with UHI Perth, and consultancy services to overseas training partners.
AST has served a global client base including national airlines, military bodies, and commercial maintenance organisations, delivering training from facilities at Perth Airport and the UHI Perth campus. Despite a strong reputation and legacy, in recent years the business experienced declining revenues, driven by a fall in international student numbers, loss of key contracts, and constrained investment from its parent institution.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2025-06-04) · Companies House register