About

Founded in 2005 by two Royal Air Force pilots, Andy Offer and Chris Norton, 2Excel is an innovation company delivering aviation solutions.

2Excel Aviation Ltd delivers bespoke, innovative solutions to difficult problems in the aviation sector by leveraging the skills of its hundred-strong, exceptionally experienced workforce. It operates across diverse sectors including: defence, security, survey, engineering, agriculture, events, travel, and disaster response for the oil and gas industry. Customers include: Government Departments (including the MoD and the Home Office), the major oil companies, the Defence Industrial Base, airlines and blue chip corporations.

2Excel’s work includes: conceiving solutions to challenging aviation problems; research and development; aerospace design, production and certification; flight test and trials; training; airliner maintenance, repair, modification and overhaul; and delivering commercial air transport and public transport aviation services for fare-paying passengers and cargo.

From a team of 5 people and 4 aircraft, 2Excel has grown significantly in size and is managing a fleet of 24 aircraft, 30 longterm contractors and currently 161 staff across 8 sites. 2Excel continues to grow on a daily basis.

2Excel is a matrix organisation cross fertilising its vertical lines of business to produce agility and efficiencies across its people and assets. Having minimised third party risk by either procuring or developing supporting lines of business, 2Excel is able to control its costs and time and therefore over deliver to its customer base. 

• T2, Providing aviation solutions to the oil and gas industry.
• Engineering, refer to www.2excelengineering.com
• Scimitar, a developmental test and evaluation unit with unique flying laboratories.
• Sabre, providing contract-air services.
• BroadSword, a private aviation company.
• Leading Edge, design and production organisation.
• Geospatial, taking military skills into agriculture and the environment.
  
• The Blades, formation aerobatic display team – the world’s only aerobatic airline.

Our Philosophy

Since 2005 2Excel has grown organically on a bed-rock of good ideas, professionalism, exceptional flying skills, sensible business-risk management and a philosophy of over-delivery, that means our clients’ expectations are invariably exceeded. 2Excel focus on areas where others fear to tread, are unable to, or cannot operate.

We concentrate on our core strengths in aviation and partner people, and companies with the similar values to ourselves. We embrace the changing world, seeing it as an opportunity to evolve and diversify.

2Excel’s Values

• World-Class Team. 2Excel has taken the best people from the best teams in the world and blended their skills and culture together to create a world-class team in its own right.
• Professionalism. In one of the safest and highly regulated professions in the world, 2Excel leaps over the bar.
• Innovation. Innovating at every level, from what we do, to how we do it, means we start ahead of the rest and accelerate away.
• Reliability. If we say we’re going to do something, we do it, properly.
• Trust. Having put our lives in each other’s hands in peace and war, whether it’s in the air or on the ground, we trust each other to deliver each part of the plan.
• Excitement. What we do is exciting!
• Passion. If we weren’t passionate about it, we’d never have made what we do a success.
• Agility. In this swiftly changing world, our agility is a fundamental differentiator and our strength.
• Partnership. We actively seek out like-minded experts in their own fields to support our business. Similarly, we see ourselves as partners to our customers with a vested interest in achieving their aims.
• Excellence. We strive to be second to none in our field. We’re reminded of that every time we hear our name.