Company: AIRTP
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000353184-25-000044
Chunk: 44

Company: AIR T INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 44
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 Funding has insufficient funds to pay distributions on the Trust Preferred Securities (i.e., if the Company has failed to make required payments under the Junior Subordinated Debentures), a holder of the Trust Preferred Securities would have the right to institute a legal proceeding directly against the Company for enforcement of payment to such holder of the principal of or interest on such Junior Subordinated Debentures having a principal amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of such holder (a “Direct Action”). Except as described herein, holders of the Trust Preferred Securities will not be able to exercise directly any other remedy available to the holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures or assert directly any other rights in respect of the Junior Subordinated Debentures.

Under the Guarantee, Delaware Trust Company will act as indenture trustee (the “Guarantee Trustee”). The holders of not less than a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of the Guarantee or to direct the exercise of any trust power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under the Guarantee Agreement. Any holder of the Trust Preferred Securities may institute a legal proceeding directly against the Company to enforce its rights under the Guarantee without first instituting a legal proceeding against Air T Funding, the Guarantee Trustee or any other person or entity. The Trust Agreement provides that each holder of the Trust Preferred Securities by acceptance thereof agrees to the provisions of the Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture. 

The covenants in the Indenture are limited.

The covenants in the Indenture are limited, and there are no covenants relating to the Company in the Trust Agreement. As a result, neither the Indenture nor the Trust Agreement protects holders of Junior Subordinated Debentures, or Trust Preferred Securities, respectively, in the event of a material adverse change in the Company’s financial condition or results of operations or limits the ability of the Company or any subsidiary to incur additional indebtedness. Therefore, the provisions of these governing instruments should not be considered a significant factor in evaluating whether the Company will be able to comply with its obligations under the Junior Subordinated Debentures or the Guarantee.

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Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities will generally have limited voting rights.

Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities will generally have limited voting rights relating only to the modification of the Trust Preferred Securities and certain other matters described herein. In the event that (i)