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Licensed to sponsor the Skilled Worker route from Belfast, according to the Home Office register.
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Claim this pageShort Brothers PLC is a public limited company (Companies House number NI001062), incorporated in June 1936, with its registered office in Belfast. Companies House lists its business as manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery, repair and maintenance of aircraft and spacecraft and engineering design activities for industrial process and production. It is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker route with an A rating. It has been on the register since January 2025.
From Companies House and the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, checked 23 Oct 2026.
On the register since January 2025, the earliest copy of the register we have that lists it. No changes to its licence since then.
Built by comparing daily copies of the Home Office register from January 2023.
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Yes. Short Brothers PLC is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker route.
It holds an active sponsor licence for the Skilled Worker route. Whether a particular role is sponsored is up to the employer; the licence only means it is allowed to.
The register lists Short Brothers PLC for one route: Skilled Worker (A rating).
Short Brothers PLC has been on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors since January 2025, the first copy of the register that lists it.
Short Brothers PLC is registered with Companies House under company number NI001062, with its registered office in Belfast.
The register lists Short Brothers PLC with an A rating on the Skilled Worker route.
Companies House lists Short Brothers PLC under manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery, repair and maintenance of aircraft and spacecraft, engineering design activities for industrial process and production and other engineering activities.
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1 other licensed sponsor in Belfast has the same industry code: manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery (30300).
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