Aerospace & Automotive Manufacturing Businesses for Sale.

The equipment and facility are obvious, but the real value in a precision shop lives in the quality certifications and long-term purchase orders that competitors without them simply cannot walk in and take.

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Rejigg lists 29 aerospace & automotive manufacturing businesses for sale. The median asking price is $2.0M. 1 of them was listed in the last 30 days. The states with the most aerospace & automotive manufacturing listings are California with 8 listings.

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What to know

What to know about buying an aerospace & automotive manufacturing business

How aerospace & automotive manufacturing businesses are valued

Asking prices are set as a multiple of earnings: 3x–8x annual profit, depending on equipment, certifications, team, and customer mix.

Where you land in that range depends on the condition of your equipment, whether you have quality certifications, how many customers you serve, and whether the shop runs without you on the floor every day.

Long-term customer orders
Quality certifications already in place
Revenue spread across many customers
Experienced machinists and programmers who stay

What buyers of aerospace & automotive manufacturing businesses look for

Manufacturing companies looking to add specialized capabilities or expand into your area
Larger shops that want to add your customer base and equipment to their operation
First-time buyers with engineering or operations backgrounds who want a business with steady demand
Companies in related industries like defense, fabrication, or automation looking to add machining capacity

The first questions buyers ask:

Program Exposure. Can you break revenue down by platform, program, and part family?
Quality Reality. What does your quality track record look like when it’s not a slide deck?
Margin Drivers. Where do your margins actually come from: process capability or firefighting?

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Across 42 closed deals on Rejigg, the median time from first pitch to close is 177.5 days.

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Due diligence

What to Look For

Practical guidance from hundreds of real acquisition conversations.

Customer Order Book

Ask to see the customer list, how many active accounts the shop serves, and whether there are any long-term purchase orders with committed volumes.
Shops where a significant portion of revenue comes from scheduled orders with customers who have committed for multiple years give you real visibility into what business looks like after you take over.
Understanding whether any single customer represents a large concentration of revenue is equally important.
Ask how long the top three customers have been ordering and whether any of those relationships are under contract.

Equipment Condition and Capacity

Get a clear picture of the major equipment: what machines are in the shop, how old they are, and whether there's been consistent maintenance.
A shop with well-maintained CNC machines, inspection equipment, and documented setup procedures is a very different starting point than one where key equipment is aging and deferred.
Understanding current capacity utilization and where the ceiling is also tells you a lot about growth potential.
Ask for a maintenance log on any major machine that represents a significant share of shop revenue.

Quality Certifications

Certifications like AS9100, IATF 16949, or NADCAP take years and significant investment to earn and open doors with customers who require them.
A shop that already has the relevant certifications in place is offering you something extremely expensive and time-consuming to build from scratch.
Understand which certifications the business holds, which are company-held versus individually held, and how they transfer as part of the sale.

Skilled Workforce Stability

The machinists, programmers, and quality technicians who understand the equipment and the customers are the core of the business.
Ask how long the key people have been with the shop, whether setup documentation exists for major jobs, and whether institutional knowledge lives in written form or only in people's heads.
Shops with tenured, documented teams transfer far more reliably than those dependent on one or two key individuals.
Find out whether any key operators have indicated they plan to stay after a sale.

Revenue Concentration by Customer

Understand what percentage of revenue comes from your top three or four customers.
Shops with work spread across many accounts in different industries and end markets are more resilient to a single customer pulling back.
If there is a large anchor customer, understanding the length of that relationship and whether there are long-term contracts is worth spending time on early.

Valuation

What Should You Expect to Pay?

3x-5x

SDE

Owner-operated, stable customer base

5x-8x

EBITDA

Quality certifications, long-term orders, experienced team

The spread is driven by certification status, the length and stability of customer relationships, the condition of equipment relative to replacement cost, and how much the shop runs on documented processes versus the owner's direct involvement.

What drives a premium

Long-term purchase orders from customers with multi-year commitments across different end markets

Quality certifications like AS9100 or IATF 16949 already in place and transferable with the business

Well-maintained equipment with documented capacity above current utilization

Experienced machinists and programmers with job setup documentation and tenure of five or more years

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Aerospace & Automotive Manufacturing Business Acquisition

How do I contact the owner of a business I found on Rejigg?

Create a free Rejigg account; owners, and the brokers who run some sales, only hear from buyers through the platform. Open the listing to see the full profile: city, team size, financials, what is for sale, and the reason for selling. Sign Rejigg's standard Fee & Confidentiality Agreement for that business; it is the same form for every deal. Verify your phone, then send your pitch from the listing. Replies, meetings, and documents all run through Rejigg.

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No. Rejigg does not forward emails to owners or brokers, so a note to support@ or hello@ with a listing link will not reach them. Create a free account, open the listing, sign the agreement for that business, verify your phone, and send your pitch; that reaches them in a few minutes.

Can you break revenue down by platform, program, and part family?

Buyers want to see concentration the way automotive actually behaves, at the program and part-family level, not just by customer name. They are modeling what happens when build schedules change, a part gets dual-sourced, or an annual price-down hits your highest-volume family. If you cannot tie revenue to programs and sourcing status, most buyers underwrite the downside case and pay less.

What does your quality track record look like when it’s not a slide deck?

In automotive, quality is your license to ship, and buyers know the difference between a certificate and a system that works under stress. They look for your real history of scrap, rework, customer returns, sorting, containment, and chargebacks, plus whether corrective actions actually prevent repeats. They also want to see if quality holds when leadership changes or if it depends on a few people policing everything.

Where do your margins actually come from: process capability or firefighting?

Buyers are trying to decide if your earnings will survive new ownership. In automotive, margin gets eaten by overtime, premium freight, scrap spikes, extra inspection, and schedule churn that never shows up in a glossy summary. When you can show which part families make money and why, buyers trust the earnings. When the explanation is hustle and heroics, they assume the margin is fragile.

How do you quote and re-quote work when reality changes?

Automotive suppliers get hurt when the quote assumes perfect cycle time, yield, and inspection, then launches and engineering changes turn the job into something else. Buyers want to see a feedback loop from real run data back into standards, routings, and pricing. They also want to know you can defend margin when customers push price-downs, add inspection steps, or shift outside processing. Quoting that lives in one estimator’s head is a key-person risk.

How fragile is your special-process chain, and what happens when your approved processor is booked out?

Outside processes like heat treat, plating, anodize, paint, and NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) often set your real lead time and your ability to ship conforming parts. Buyers check whether approvals are current, cert packages are clean, and traceability survives handoffs. They also want to see what you do when a processor slips, including second sources, reserved capacity, or a real expedite plan. If one vendor delay stops shipments, that hits valuation and working capital needs.

How do orders land for you, and how much of backlog is released work you can ship profitably?

Buyers discount backlog that is really forecast, verbal demand, or work priced below today’s material and labor costs. They want to see releases, how often customers push out or cancel, and whether you can ship without living on overtime and premium freight. This also tells them how lumpy cash flow will be and how much inventory and work-in-process you will need after close.

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