EXHIBIT 10.19
Breeze-Eastern Corporation
December 8, 2009
Mr. Robert L.G. White
Breeze-Eastern Corporation
700 Liberty Avenue
Union, NJ 07083
Dear Bob:
Congratulations on your retirement from Breeze-Eastern Corporation (the
“Company”). This letter serves to document the agreement between you and the
company with respect to your retirement. The significant points of our agreement
are:

1.   Retirement — You will retire from the Company effective January 4, 2010.
Simultaneously you will resign in writing from your position as a corporate
officer and a director.   2.   Bonus — Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the
event the Company achieves its objectives under the management incentive plan
for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010, you will be entitled to receive a
bonus based on achievement of objectives as if you had worked the full year.  
3.   Benefits — The Company will pay your accrued benefits by making payroll
payments at your existing base pay rate until the total amount below is
exhausted. For purposes of this agreement, those benefits are agreed to be:

         
Vacation
  $ 152,431  
Comp Time
  $ 120,459  
Sabbatical
  $ 33,462  
 
     
Total
  $ 306,352  

The payment of these amounts will be subject to the usual payroll withholdings.
The Company’s agreements relating to your bonus entitlement (described above),
your stock options (described below) and indemnification (described below) are
in addition to anything of value to which you are already entitled.

4.   Non-Employee Status — During the time your benefits are paid out in item #3
above, you will be eligible to participate in group health coverage and the
Company will pay your COBRA premiums up to the cost it otherwise would have
borne had you remained in the Company’s health plan as an employee (subject to
cost-sharing). For the avoidance of doubt, you will not continue to accrue
benefits, including pension, vacation, compensatory time and sabbatical after
January 4, 2010. In addition, you will not participate in the fiscal year 2011
management incentive plan.   5.   Stock Options — Your retirement makes you
eligible for the enhanced vesting and extended exercise period under the stock
option plan. It is agreed that the three year extended exercise period will
commence on the day the last amounts are paid under the item #3 above. The
extended exercise period only applies to options that have not expired by their
terms and this accommodation in no way extends the original option expiration.

 

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6.   Consulting Agreement — The Company may request your services after
January 4, 2010. In the event you and the Company agree on the scope and timing
of these services, you will be compensated as a consultant at the rate of $1,000
per day plus out of pocket expenses.   7.   Indemnity — You will continue to be
covered under the Company’s indemnification and director’s and officer’s
insurance policies as a “former officer and director.”   8.   Release — In
consideration of the foregoing payments and the additional consideration herein
provided, you hereby forever release and discharge the Company, its parents,
subsidiaries, predecessors, successors, affiliated and related entities, its
board members, officers and agents, and its successors, heirs and assigns, of
any and all claims, charges, causes of action, grievances or liabilities of any
nature whatsoever, which you may have against any of them as of the date of this
agreement, whether known or unknown, including but not limited to claims in any
way related to your employment with the Company, including but not limited to
claims for wrongful discharge, defamation, breach of contract, express or
implied, tortious acts of any kind, employment discrimination or retaliation of
any kind (including, but not limited to, claims under Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans With
Disabilities Act, the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, and any similar
federal, New Jersey, or local statutes, regulations, or ordinances), emotional
or psychological injury, any claims for additional compensation or benefits,
compensatory or consequential damages, liquidated or punitive damages,
injunctive relief, attorney fees, and expert witness fees or costs.

You are not being asked to, and do not, release any claim which is nonwaivable
as a matter of law. You are not waiving any rights or claims that may arise
after the date this waiver is executed.
You acknowledge that you have been advised in writing to consult with an
attorney, that you have reviewed and understood the terms of this agreement, and
that all waivers contained herein are knowing and voluntary.
Please sign a copy of this agreement and return it to me. You have up to 21 days
from the date of receipt during which to consider this agreement. You may revoke
this agreement for seven (7) days after you execute it; accordingly, the
agreement will not become effective until the eighth day after you return it
signed and dated to the Company.
Bob, on behalf of the Board, I would like to congratulate you on your
retirement, thank you for your long loyal service to the Company and wish you
well in your future endeavors.

          Very truly yours,
    /s/ William Shockley     William Shockley    On behalf of the Board of
Directors
Breeze-Eastern Corporation     

Accepted and Agreed:

            By:   /s/ Robert L.G. White       Robert L.G. White Dated: December
11, 2009