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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.1


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                      FORM OF PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENT

                         Dated as of ____________, 200_

                                     between

                                 ATLAS AIR, INC.

                                       and

                            WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

                                   as Trustee


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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS


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                                                    ARTICLE I

                                                   DEFINITIONS

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Section 1.01.         Definitions.............................................................................2
Section 1.02.         Compliance Certificates and Opinions...................................................12
Section 1.03.         Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.................................................13
Section 1.04.         Directions of Certificateholders.......................................................13

                                                   ARTICLE II

                                       ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES;
                                        ACQUISITION OF THE TRUST PROPERTY

Section 2.01.         Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series...................................................15
Section 2.02.         Acquisition of Equipment Notes.........................................................17
Section 2.03.         Acceptance by Trustee..................................................................19
Section 2.04.         Limitation of Powers...................................................................19

                                                   ARTICLE III

                                                THE CERTIFICATES

Section 3.01.         Form, Denomination and Execution of  Certificates......................................19
Section 3.02.         Authentication of Certificates.........................................................20
Section 3.03.         Temporary Certificates.................................................................21
Section 3.04.         Transfer and Exchange..................................................................21
Section 3.05.         Book-Entry and Definitive Certificates.................................................22
Section 3.06.         Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates......................................24
Section 3.07.         Persons Deemed Owners..................................................................25
Section 3.08.         Cancellation...........................................................................25
Section 3.09.         Limitation of Liability for Payments...................................................25
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                                                   ARTICLE IV

                                          DISTRIBUTIONS; STATEMENTS TO
                                               CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

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Section 4.01.         Certificate Account and Special Payments Account.......................................26
Section 4.02.         Distributions from Certificate Account and Special Payments Account....................26
Section 4.03.         Statements to Certificateholders.......................................................28
Section 4.04.         Investment of Special Payment Moneys...................................................29

                                                    ARTICLE V

                                                   THE COMPANY

Section 5.01.         Maintenance of Corporate Existence.....................................................29
Section 5.02.         Consolidation, Merger, Etc.............................................................30

                                                   ARTICLE VI

                                                     DEFAULT

Section 6.01.         Events of Default......................................................................31
Section 6.02.         Incidents of Sale of Equipment Notes...................................................32
Section 6.03.         Judicial Proceedings Instituted by Trustee; Trustee May Bring Suit.....................33
Section 6.04.         Control by Certificateholders..........................................................33
Section 6.05.         Waiver of Past Defaults................................................................34
Section 6.06.         Right of Certificateholders to Receive Payments Not to Be Impaired.....................34
Section 6.07.         Certificateholders May Not Bring Suit Except Under Certain Conditions..................35
Section 6.08.         Remedies Cumulative....................................................................35
Section 6.09.         Undertaking for Costs..................................................................35

                                                   ARTICLE VII

                                                   THE TRUSTEE

Section 7.01.         Certain Duties and Responsibilities....................................................36
Section 7.02.         Notice of Defaults.....................................................................36
Section 7.03.         Certain Rights of Trustee..............................................................37
Section 7.04.         Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Certificates...............................38
Section 7.05.         May Hold Certificates..................................................................38
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Section 7.06.         Money Held in Trust....................................................................38
Section 7.07.         Compensation and Reimbursement.........................................................39
Section 7.08.         Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility................................................39
Section 7.09.         Resignation and Removal, Appointment of Successor......................................40
Section 7.10.         Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.................................................41
Section 7.11.         Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business............................42
Section 7.12.         Maintenance of Agencies................................................................42
Section 7.13.         Money for Certificate Payments to Be Held in Trust.....................................44
Section 7.14.         Registration of Equipment Notes in Trustee's Name......................................44
Section 7.15.         Representations and Warranties of Trustee..............................................44
Section 7.16.         Withholding Taxes: Information Reporting...............................................45
Section 7.17.         Trustee's Liens........................................................................46
Section 7.18.         Preferential Collection of Claims......................................................46

                                                  ARTICLE VIII

                                CERTIFICATEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE

Section 8.01.         The Company to Furnish Trustee with Names and Addresses of Certificateholders..........46
Section 8.02.         Preservation of Information, Communications to Certificateholders......................47
Section 8.03.         Reports by Trustee.....................................................................47
Section 8.04.         Reports by the Company.................................................................47

                                                   ARTICLE IX

                                             SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS

Section 9.01.         Supplemental Agreements Without Consent of Certificateholders..........................48
Section 9.02.         Supplemental Agreements with Consent of Certificateholders.............................49
Section 9.03.         Documents Affecting Immunity or Indemnity..............................................51
Section 9.04.         Execution of Supplemental Agreements...................................................51
Section 9.05.         Effect of Supplemental Agreements......................................................51
Section 9.06.         Conformity with Trust Indenture Act....................................................51
Section 9.07.         Reference in Certificates to Supplemental Agreements...................................51

                                                    ARTICLE X

                                   AMENDMENTS TO INDENTURE AND NOTE DOCUMENTS

Section 10.01.        Amendments and Supplements to Indenture and Other Note Documents.......................51
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                                                   ARTICLE XI

                                              TERMINATION OF TRUSTS

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Section 11.01.        Termination of the Trust...............................................................53

                                                   ARTICLE XII

                                            MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 12.01.        Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders.............................................54
Section 12.02.        Registration of Equipment Notes in Name of Subordination Agent.........................54
Section 12.03.        Notices................................................................................54
Section 12.04.        Governing Law..........................................................................56
Section 12.05.        Severability of Provisions.............................................................56
Section 12.06.        Trust Indenture Act Controls...........................................................56
Section 12.07.        Effect of Headings and Table of Contents...............................................56
Section 12.08.        Successors and Assigns.................................................................56
Section 12.09.        Benefits of Agreement..................................................................56
Section 12.10.        Legal Holidays.........................................................................56
Section 12.11.        Counterparts...........................................................................57
Section 12.12.        Communication by Certificateholders, with Other Certificateholders.....................57
Section 12.13.        Intention of Parties...................................................................57
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Reconciliation and tie between Atlas Air Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as
of ___________, 200_ and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. This reconciliation
does not constitute part of the Pass Through Trust Agreement.


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                     of 1939 Section                                          Agreement Section
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                        310(a)(1)                                                7.07
                           (a)(2)                                                7.07
                        312(a)                                                   3.05; 8.01; 8.02
                        313(a)                                                   7.07
                        314(a)                                                   8.04(a)-(c)
                           (a)(4)                                                8.04(d)
                           (c)(1)                                                1.02
                           (c)(2)                                                1.02
                           (d)(1)                                                7.13; 11.01
                           (d)(2)                                                7.13; 11.01
                           (d)(3)                                                2.01
                           (e)                                                   1.02
                        315(b)                                                   7.02
                        316(a)(last sentence)                                    1.01(c)
                           (a)(1)(A)                                             6.04
                           (a)(1)(B)                                             6.05
                           (b)                                                   6.06
                           (c)                                                   1.04(d)
                        317(a)(1)                                                6.03
                           (b)                                                   7.13
                        318(a)                                                  12.05
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                          PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENT


                  This PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of _________,
200_, the ("Basic Agreement"), between ATLAS AIR, INC., a Delaware corporation
(the "Company"), and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation,
as Trustee, is made with respect to the formation from time to time of separate
Atlas Air Pass Through Trusts and the issuance from time to time of separate
series of Pass Through Certificates representing fractional undivided interests
in the Trusts.

                                   WITNESSETH:

                  WHEREAS, from time to time, the Company and the Trustee may
enter into a Trust Supplement (this and certain other defined terms used herein
are defined in Section 1.01) pursuant to which the Trustee shall declare the
creation of a separate Trust for the benefit of the Holders of the series of
Certificates to be issued in respect of such Trust, and the initial Holders of
the Certificates of such series, as the grantors of such Trust, by their
respective acceptance of the Certificates of such series, shall join in the
creation of such Trust with the Trustee;

                  WHEREAS, all Certificates to be issued in respect of each
separate Trust will be issued as a separate series pursuant to this Agreement,
will evidence fractional undivided interests in such Trust and will have no
rights, benefits or interests in respect of any other separate Trust or the
property held therein, subject, however, to the provisions of any Intercreditor
Agreement to which one or more Trusts may be a party;

                  WHEREAS, from time to time, pursuant to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement with respect to each separate Trust formed
hereunder, the Trustee on behalf of such Trust shall purchase one or more issues
of Equipment Notes having the same interest rate as, and final maturity dates
not later than the final Regular Distribution Date of, the series of
Certificates issued in respect of such Trust and, subject to the terms of any
related Intercreditor Agreement, shall hold such Equipment Notes in trust for
the benefit of the Certificateholders of such Trust;

                  WHEREAS, to facilitate the sale of Equipment Notes to, and the
purchase of Equipment Notes by, the Trustee on behalf of each Trust created from
time to time pursuant to this Agreement, the Company as the "Issuer", as such
term is defined in and solely for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, of the Certificates to be issued in respect of each Trust and as the
"Obligor", as such term is defined in and solely for purposes of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, has duly authorized the execution and
delivery of this Basic Agreement and each Trust Supplement with respect to all
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undertaking to perform certain administrative and ministerial duties hereunder
and is also undertaking to pay the fees and expenses of the Trustee; and

                  WHEREAS, this Basic Agreement, as supplemented from time to
time, shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions;

                  NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements
herein contained, and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and
adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

                                    ARTICLE I

                                   DEFINITIONS

                  Section 1.01. Definitions. For all purposes of this Basic
Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise requires:

                  (a) the terms used herein that are defined in this Article I
         have the meanings assigned to them in this Article I, and include the
         plural as well as the singular;

                  (b) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
         Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, or by the rules
         promulgated under the Trust Indenture Act, have the meanings assigned
         to them therein;

                  (c) all references in this Basic Agreement to designated
         "Articles", "Sections", "Subsections" and other subdivisions are to the
         designated Articles, Sections, Subsections and other subdivisions of
         this Agreement;

                  (d) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
         words of similar import refer to this Basic Agreement as a whole and
         not to any particular Article, Section, Subsection or other
         subdivision;

                  (e) unless the context otherwise requires, whenever the words
         "including" "include" or "includes" are used herein, it shall be deemed
         to be followed by the phrase "without limitation"; and


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                  (f) the term "this Agreement" (as distinguished from "this
         Basic Agreement") refers, unless the context otherwise requires, to
         this Basic Agreement as supplemented by the Trust Supplement creating a
         particular Trust and establishing the series of Certificates issued or
         to be issued in respect thereof, with reference to such Trust and such
         series of Certificates, as this Basic Agreement as so supplemented may
         be further supplemented with respect to such Trust and such series of
         Certificates.

                  "Act" has the meaning, with respect to any Certificateholder,
specified in Section 1.04(a).

                  "Affiliate" means, with respect to any specified Person, any
other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct
or indirect common control with such Person. For the purposes of this
definition, "control", when used with respect to any specified Person, means the
power, directly or indirectly, to direct the management and policies of such
Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or
otherwise, and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings
correlative to the foregoing.

                  "Aircraft" means one or more aircraft, including engines
therefor, owned by or leased to the Company and securing one or more Equipment
Notes.

                  "Authorized Agent" means, with respect to the Certificates of
any series, any Paying Agent or Registrar for the Certificates of such series.

                  "Basic Agreement" means this Pass Through Trust Agreement, as
the same may from time to time be supplemented, amended or modified, but does
not include any Trust Supplement.

                  "Book-Entry Certificates" means, with respect to the
Certificates of any series, a beneficial interest in the Certificates of such
series, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries as
described in Section 3.05.

                  "Business Day" means, with respect to the Certificates, any
day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which commercial banks are
required or authorized to close in Denver, Colorado, New York, New York,
______________ or, so long as any Certificate is outstanding, the city and state
in which the Trustee or any related Loan Trustee maintains its Corporate Trust
Office or receives and disburses funds.

                  "Certificate" means any one of the Certificates executed and
authenticated by the Trustee, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.


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                  "Certificate Account" means, with respect to the Certificates
of any series, the account or accounts created and maintained for such series
pursuant to Section 4.01(a) and the related Trust Supplement.

                  "Certificate Owner" means, with respect to the Certificates of
any series, for purposes of Section 3.05, the Person who owns a Book-Entry
Certificate of such series.

                  "Certificateholder" or "Holder" means, with respect to the
Certificates of any series, the Person in whose name a Certificate of such
series is registered in the Register for Certificates of such series.

                  "Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a
"clearing agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended.

                  "Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank,
other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a
Clearing Agency effects, directly or indirectly, book-entry transfers and
pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.

                  "Company" means Atlas Air, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or
its successor in interest pursuant to Section 5.02, or (only in the context of
provisions hereof, if any, when such reference is required for purposes of
compliance with the Trust Indenture Act) any other "obligor" (within the meaning
of the Trust Indenture Act) with respect to the Certificates of any series.

                  "Controlling Party" means the Person entitled to act as such
pursuant to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.

                  "Corporate Trust Office" means, with respect to the Trustee or
any Loan Trustee, the office of such trustee in the city at which at any
particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered.

                  "Cut-Off Date" means, with respect to the Certificates of any
series, the date designated as such in the Trust Supplement establishing such
series.

                  "Definitive Certificates" has the meaning, with respect to the
Certificates of any series, specified in Section 3.05.

                  "Direction" has the meaning specified in Section 1.04(a).

                  "Equipment Notes" means, with respect to the Certificates of
any series, all of the equipment notes issued under the Indentures related to
such series of Certificates.


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                  "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended from time to time, or any successor federal statute.

                  "Escrow Account" has the meaning, with respect to the
Certificates of any series, specified in Section 2.02(b).

                  "Escrowed Funds" has the meaning, with respect to any Trust,
specified in Section 2.02(b).

                  "Event of Default" means, in respect of any Trust, an
Indenture Event of Default under any Indenture pursuant to which Equipment Notes
held by such Trust were issued.

                  "Fractional Undivided Interest" means the fractional undivided
interest in a Trust that is evidenced by a Certificate relating to such Trust.

                  "Indenture" means, with respect to any Trust, each of the one
or more separate trust indenture and security agreements or trust indenture and
mortgages or similar documents described in, or on a schedule attached to, the
Trust Supplement and an indenture having substantially the same terms and
conditions which relates to a Substitute Aircraft, as each such indenture may be
amended or supplemented in accordance with its respective terms; and
"Indentures" means all of such agreements.

                  "Indenture Event of Default" means, with respect to any
Indenture, any Indenture Event of Default (as such term is defined in such
Indenture).

                  "Initial Regular Distribution Date" means, with respect to the
Certificate of any series, the first Regular Distribution Date on which a
Scheduled Payment is to be made.

                  "Intercreditor Agreement" means any agreement by and among the
Trustee, as trustee hereunder with respect to one or more Trusts, one or more
Liquidity Providers and a Subordination Agent providing, among other things, for
the distribution of payments made in respect of Equipment Notes held by such
Trusts.

                  "Issuance Date" means, with respect to the Certificates of any
series, the date of the issuance of such Certificates.


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                  "Lease" means any lease between an Owner Trustee, as the
lessor, and the Company, as the lessee, referred to in the related Indenture, as
such lease may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with
its terms; and "Leases" means all such Leases.

                  "Letter of Representations" means, with respect to the
Certificates of any series, an agreement among the Company, the Trustee of any
series and the initial Clearing Agency.

                  "Liquidity Facility" means, with respect to the Certificates
of any series, any revolving credit agreement, letter of credit or similar
facility relating to the Certificates of such series between a bank or other
financial institution and a Subordination Agent, as amended, replaced,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its
terms and the terms of any Intercreditor Agreement.

                  "Liquidity Provider" means, with respect to the Certificates
of any series, a bank or other financial institution that agrees to provide a
Liquidity Facility for the benefit of the holders of Certificates of such
series.

                  "Loan Trustee" means, with respect to any Equipment Note or
the Indenture applicable thereto, the bank or trust company designated as loan
or indenture trustee under such Indenture, and any successor to such Loan
Trustee as such trustee; and "Loan Trustees" means all of the Loan Trustees
under the Indentures.

                  "Note Documents" means, with respect to the Certificates of
any series, the Equipment Notes with respect to such Certificates and, with
respect to such Equipment Notes, the related Indenture, Note Purchase Agreement
and, if the related Aircraft is leased to the Company, the related Lease and the
related Owner Trustee's Purchase Agreement.

                  "Note Purchase Agreement" means, with respect to the
Certificates of any series, any note purchase, refunding, participation or
similar agreement providing for, among other things, the purchase of Equipment
Notes by the Trustee on behalf of the relevant Trust; and "Note Purchase
Agreements" means all such agreements.

                  "Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed, (a) in the
case of the Company, by the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors,
the President, any Vice President or the Treasurer of the Company, signing
alone, or (b) in the case of the Trustee or an Owner Trustee or a Loan Trustee,
a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or such Owner Trustee or such Loan Trustee,
as the case may be.

                  "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of legal counsel
who (a) in the case of counsel for the Company may be (i) a senior attorney of
the Company one of whose


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principal duties is furnishing advice as to legal matters, (ii) Cahill Gordon &
Reindel or (iii) such other counsel designated by the Company and reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee and (b) in the case of any Owner Trustee or any Loan
Trustee, may be such counsel as may be designated by any of them whether or not
such counsel is an employee of any of them, and who shall be reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee.

                  "Other Agreements" has the meaning specified in Section
6.01(b).

                  "Outstanding" when used with respect to Certificates of any
series, means, as of the date of determination, all Certificates of such series
therefore authenticated and delivered under this Agreement, except:

                  (i) Certificates of such series theretofore canceled by the
         Registrar or delivered to the Trustee or the Registrar for
         cancellation;

                  (ii) All of the Certificates of such series if money in the
         full amount required to make the final distribution with respect to
         such series pursuant to Section 11.01 hereof has been theretofore
         deposited with the Trustee in trust for the Holders of the Certificates
         as provided in Section 4.01 pending distribution of such money to such
         Certificateholders pursuant to payment of such final distribution
         payment; and

                 (iii) Certificates of such series in exchange for or in lieu of
         which other Certificates of such series have been authenticated and
         delivered pursuant to this Agreement.

                  "Owner Participant" means, with respect to any Equipment Note,
the "Owner Participant", if any, as referred to in the Indenture pursuant to
which such Equipment Note is issued and any permitted successor or assign of
such Owner Participant; and "Owner Participants" at any time of determination
means all of the Owner Participants thus referred to in the Indentures.

                  "Owner Trustee" means, with respect to any Equipment Note, the
"Owner Trustee", if any, as referred to in the Indenture pursuant to which such
Equipment Note is issued, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee;
and "Owner Trustees" means all of the Owner Trustees party to any of the related
Indentures.

                  "Owner Trustee's Purchase Agreement" has the meaning, with
respect to the Certificates of any series if the related Aircraft is leased to
the Company, specified therefor in the related Lease.

                  "Paying Agent" means, with respect to the Certificates of any
series, the paying agent maintained and appointed for the Certificates pursuant
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                  "Permitted Investments" means obligations of the United States
of America or agencies or instrumentalities thereof for the payment of which the
full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged, maturing in
not more than 60 days after the date of acquisition thereof or such lesser time
as is required for the distribution of any Special Payments on a Special
Distribution Date.

                  "Person" means any person, including any individual,
corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association,
joint-stock company, trust, trustee, unincorporated organization, or government
or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

                  "Pool Balance" means, with respect to the Certificates of any
series as of any date, (i) the original aggregate face amount of the
Certificates of any series less (ii) the aggregate amount of all payments made
in respect of such Certificates other than payments made in respect of interest
or premium thereon or reimbursement of any costs or expenses incurred in
connection therewith. The Pool Balance as of any Distribution Date shall be
computed after giving effect to the payment of principal, if any, on the
Equipment Notes or other Trust Property held in the Trust and the distribution
thereof to be made on such Distribution Date.

                  "Pool Factor" means, with respect to any series of
Certificates as of any date, the quotient (rounded to the seventh decimal place)
computed by dividing (i) the Pool Balance of such series as at such date by (ii)
the original aggregate face amount of the Certificates of such series. The Pool
Factor as of any Distribution Date shall be computed after giving effect to the
payment of principal, if any, on the Equipment Notes or other Trust Property
held in the Trust and the distribution thereof to be made on such Distribution
Date.

                  "Postponed Notes" means, with respect to any Trust or the
related series of Certificates, the Equipment Notes to be held in such Trust as
to which a Postponement Notice shall have been delivered pursuant to Section
2.02(b).

                  "Postponement Notice" means, with respect to any Trust or the
related series of Certificates, an Officer's Certificate of the Company signed
by an officer of the Company (1) requesting that the Trustee temporarily
postpone purchase of the related Equipment Notes to a date later than the
Issuance Date of such series of Certificates, (2) identifying the amount of the
purchase price of each such Equipment Note and the aggregate purchase price for
all such Equipment Notes, (3) setting forth the reasons for such postponement
and (4) with respect to each such Equipment Note, either (a) setting or
resetting a new Transfer Date (which shall be on or prior to the applicable
Cut-off Date) for payment by the Trustee of such purchase price and issuance of
the related Equipment Note (subject to subsequent change from time to time in
accordance with the relevant Note Purchase Agreement), or (b) indicating that
such new Transfer Date (which shall be on or prior to the applicable Cut-off
Date) will be set by subsequent written notice not less than one Business Day
prior to such new Transfer Date (subject


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to subsequent change from time to time in accordance with the relevant Note
Purchase Agreement).

                  "Potential Purchaser" has the meaning, with respect to any
Certificateholder, specified in Section 6.01(b).

                  "PTC Event of Default" means, with respect to the Certificates
of any series, any failure to pay within 10 Business Days of the due date
thereof: (i) the outstanding Pool Balance of such series of Certificates on the
date specified in any Trust Supplement for such payment or (ii) interest due on
the Certificates of such series on any Distribution Date (unless the related
Subordination Agent shall have made an Interest Drawing or Drawings (as defined
in the related Intercreditor Agreement), or a withdrawal or withdrawals pursuant
to a cash collateral account under such Intercreditor Agreement, with respect
thereto in an aggregate amount sufficient to pay such interest and shall have
distributed such amount to the Trustee).

                  "Purchasing Certificateholder" has the meaning, with respect
to any Certificateholder, specified in Section 6.01(b).

                  "Record Date" means, with respect to any Trust or the related
series of Certificates, (i) for Scheduled Payments to be distributed on any
Regular Distribution Date, other than the final distribution with respect to
such series, the 15th day (whether or not a Business Day) preceding such Regular
Distribution Date, and (ii) for Special Payments to be distributed on any
Special Distribution Date, other than the final distribution with respect to
such series, the 15th day (whether or not a Business Day) preceding such Special
Distribution Date.

                  "Register" and "Registrar" means, each with respect to the
Certificates of any series, the register maintained and the registrar appointed
pursuant to Sections 3.04 and 7.12.

                  "Regular Distribution Date" means, with respect to
distributions of Scheduled Payments in respect of any series of Certificates,
each date designated as such in this Agreement, until payment of all the
Scheduled Payments to be made under the Equipment Notes held in the Trust have
been made.

                  "Request" means a request by the Company setting forth the
subject matter of the request accompanied by an Officer's Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel as provided in Section 1.02 of this Basic Agreement.

                  "Responsible Officer" means, with respect to any Trustee, any
Loan Trustee and any Owner Trustee, any officer in the Corporate Trust
Department of the Trustee, Loan Trustee or Owner Trustee or any other officer
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who
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whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of and
familiarity with a particular subject.

                  "Responsible Party" means, with respect to the Certificates of
any series, the person designated as such in the related Trust Supplement.

                  "Scheduled Payment" means, with respect to any Equipment Note,
(i) any payment of principal or interest on such Equipment Note (other than any
such payment which is not in fact received by the Trustee or any Subordination
Agent within five days of the date on which such payment is scheduled to be
made) or (ii) any payment of interest on the Certificates with funds drawn under
the Liquidity Facility for such series, which payment represents the installment
of principal on such Equipment Note at the stated maturity of such installment,
the payment of regularly scheduled interest accrued on the unpaid principal
amount of such Equipment Note, or both; provided, however, that any payment of
principal, premium, if any, or interest resulting from the redemption or
purchase of any Equipment Note shall not constitute a Scheduled Payment.

                  "SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted or created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under
the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date.

                  "Selling Certificateholder" has the meaning, with respect to
any Certificateholder, specified in Section 6.01(b).

                  "Special Distribution Date" means, with respect to the
Certificates of any series, each date on which a Special Payment is to be
distributed as specified in this Agreement.

                  "Special Payment" means (i) any payment (other than a
Scheduled Payment) in respect of, or any proceeds of, any Equipment Note or
Trust Indenture Estate (as defined in each Indenture), (ii) the amounts required
to be distributed pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 2.02(b) or (iii) the
amounts required to be distributed pursuant to the penultimate paragraph of
Section 2.02(b).

                  "Special Payments Account" means, with respect to the
Certificates of any series, the account or accounts created and maintained for
such series pursuant to Section 4.01(b) and the related Trust Supplement.

                  "Specified Investments" means, with respect to any Trust,
unless otherwise specified in the related Trust Supplement, (i) obligations of,
or guaranteed by, the United States Government or agencies thereof, (ii) open
market commercial paper of any corporation


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incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof
rated at least P-2 or its equivalent by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or at
least A-2 or its equivalent by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., (iii) certificates of deposit issued by
commercial banks organized under the laws of the United States or of any
political subdivision thereof having a combined capital and surplus in excess of
$100,000,000 which banks or their holding companies have a rating of A or its
equivalent by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or Standard & Poor's Ratings
Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.; provided, however, that
the aggregate amount at any one time so invested in certificates of deposit
issued by any one bank shall not exceed 5 % of such bank's capital and surplus,
(iv) U.S. dollar-denominated offshore certificates of deposit issued by, or
offshore time deposits with, any commercial bank described in clause (iii) above
or any subsidiary thereof and (v) repurchase agreements with any financial
institution having combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 with
any of the obligations described in clauses (i) through (iv) above as
collateral; provided, further, that if all of the above investments are
unavailable, the entire amounts to be invested may be used to purchase federal
funds from an entity described in clause (iii) above.

                  "Subordination Agent" has the meaning specified therefor in
any Intercreditor Agreement.

                  "Substitute Aircraft" means, with respect to any Trust, any
Aircraft of a type specified in this Agreement and, at the election of the
Company, substituted prior to the applicable Cut-off Date, if any, pursuant to
the terms of this Agreement.

                  "Transfer Date" has the meaning assigned to that term or any
of the terms "Delivery Date", "Funding Date" or "Closing Date" in a Note
Purchase Agreement, and in any event refers to any such date as it may be
changed from time to time in accordance with the terms of such Note Purchase
Agreement.

                  "Triggering Event" has the meaning specified therefor in any
Intercreditor Agreement.

                  "Trust" means, with respect to the Certificates of any series,
the trust under this Agreement.

                  "Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, or its successor in
interest, and any successor or other trustee appointed as provided herein.

                  "Trust Indenture Act", except as otherwise provided in Section
9.06, means, with respect to any particular Trust, the United States Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as in force at the date as of which the related Trust
Supplement was executed.


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                  "Trust Property" means, with respect to any Trust, (i) subject
to any related Intercreditor Agreement, the Equipment Notes held as the property
of the Trust, all monies at any time paid thereon and all monies due and to
become due thereunder, (ii) funds from time to time deposited in the related
Escrow Account, the related Certificate Account and the related Special Payments
Account and, subject to the related Intercreditor Agreement, any proceeds from
the sale by the Trustee pursuant to Article VI hereof of any such Equipment
Note, (iii) all rights of the Trust and the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust,
under the Intercreditor Agreement, including, without limitation, all monies
receivable in respect of such rights and (iv) all monies receivable under any
Liquidity Facility for such Trust.

                  "Trust Supplement" means an agreement supplemental hereto
pursuant to which (i) a separate Trust is created for the benefit of the Holders
of the Certificates of a series, (ii) the issuance of the Certificates of such
series representing fractional undivided interests in such Trust is authorized
and (iii) the terms of the Certificates of such series are established.

                  Section 1.02. Compliance Certificates and Opinions. Upon any
application or request (except with respect to matters set forth in Article II),
by the Company, any Owner Trustee or any Loan Trustee to the Trustee to take any
action under any provision of this Basic Agreement, or, in respect of the
Certificates of any series, this Agreement, the Company, such Owner Trustee or
such Loan Trustee, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee (i) an
Officer's Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Basic Agreement or this
Agreement relating to the proposed action have been complied with and (ii) an
Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Basic Agreement or this
Agreement relating to such particular application or request, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.

                  Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Basic Agreement or, in respect of the
Certificate of any series, this Agreement (other than a certificate provided
pursuant to Section 8.04(d)) or any Trust Supplement shall include:

                  (a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
         or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions in
         this Basic Agreement or this Agreement relating thereto;

                  (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
         examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
         contained in such certificate or opinion are based;


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                  (c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
         he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
         him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant
         or condition has been complied with; and

                  (d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
         individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

                  Section 1.03. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be
certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they
be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify
or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such
Persons as to other matters and any such Person may certify or give an opinion
as to such matters in one or several documents.

                  Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Basic Agreement or this Agreement, they may, but
need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

                  Section 1.04. Directions of Certificateholders. (a) Any
direction, consent, request, demand, authorization, notice, waiver or other
action provided by this Agreement in respect of the Certificates of any series
to be given or taken by Certificateholders (a "Direction") may be embodied in
and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed
by such Certificateholders in person or by an agent or proxy duly appointed in
writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Trustee and, when it is hereby expressly required pursuant to this Agreement, to
the Company or any Loan Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Certificateholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent or
proxy shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and conclusive
in favor of the Trustee, the Company and the related Loan Trustee, if made in
the manner provided in this Section 1.04.

                  (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved by the certificate of any notary public
or other officer of any jurisdiction authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds
or administer oaths that the Person executing such instrument acknowledged to
him the execution thereof, or by an affidavit of a witness to such execution
sworn to before any such notary or such other officer, and where such execution
is by an officer of a corporation or association or a member of a partnership,
on behalf of such corporation, association or partnership, such certificate or
affidavit shall also


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constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution
of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the
same, may also be proved in any other reasonable manner which the Trustee deems
sufficient.

                  (c) In determining whether the Certificateholders of the
requisite Fractional Undivided Interests of Certificates of any series
Outstanding have given any Direction under this Agreement, Certificates owned by
the Company or any Affiliate thereof shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding for purposes of any such determination. In determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such Direction, only Certificates
which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, (i) if any such Person owns 100% of the Certificates of any
series Outstanding, such Certificates shall not be so disregarded, and (ii) if
any amount of Certificates of any series so owned by any such Person have been
pledged in good faith, such Certificates shall not be disregarded if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Certificates and that the pledgee is not the Company or any
Affiliate thereof.

                  (d) The Company may, at its option, by delivery of an
Officer's Certificate to the Trustee, set a record date to determine the
Certificateholders in respect of the Certificates of any series, entitled to
give any Direction. Notwithstanding Section 316(c) of the Trust Indenture Act,
such record date shall be the record date specified in such Officer's
Certificate, which shall be a date not more than 30 days prior to the first
solicitation of Certificateholders of the applicable series in connection
therewith. If such a record date is fixed, such Direction may be given before or
after such record date, but only the Certificateholders of record of the
applicable series at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed
to be Certificateholders for the purposes of determining whether
Certificateholders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Certificates of
such series have authorized or agreed or consented to such Direction, and for
that purpose the Outstanding Certificates shall be computed as of such record
date; provided, however, that no such Direction by the Certificateholders on
such record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective
pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement not later than one year after such
record date.

                  (e) Any Direction by the Holder of any Certificate shall bind
the Holder of every Certificate issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof, whether or not notation of such Direction is made
upon such Certificate.

                  (f) Except as otherwise provided in Section 1.04(c),
Certificates owned by or pledged to any Person shall have an equal and
proportionate benefit under the provisions of this Agreement, without
preference, priority or distinction as among all of the Certificates of such
series.



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                                   ARTICLE II

                       ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES;
                        ACQUISITION OF THE TRUST PROPERTY

                  Section 2.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. (a) The
aggregate principal amount of Certificates which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Basic Agreement is unlimited. The Certificates may be
issued from time to time in one or more series and shall be designated generally
as the "Pass Through Certificates", with such further designations added or
incorporated in such title for the Certificates of each series as specified in
the related Trust Supplement. Each Certificate shall bear upon its face the
designation so selected for the series to which it belongs. All Certificates of
the same series shall be substantially identical except that the Certificates of
a series may differ as to denomination and as may otherwise be provided in the
Trust Supplement establishing the Certificates of such series. Each series of
Certificates issued pursuant to this Agreement will evidence fractional
undivided interests in the related Trust and, except as may be contained in any
Intercreditor Agreement, will have no rights, benefits or interests in respect
of any other Trust or the Trust Property held therein. All Certificates of the
same series shall be in all respects equally and ratably entitled to the
benefits of this Agreement without preference, priority or distinction on
account of the actual time or times of authentication and delivery, all in
accordance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.

                  (b) The following matters shall be established with respect to
the Certificates of each series issued hereunder by a Trust Supplement executed
and delivered by and among the Company and the Trustee:

                  (1) the formation of the Trust as to which the Certificates of
         such series represent fractional undivided interests and its
         designation (which designation shall distinguish such Trust from each
         other Trust created under this Basic Agreement and a Trust Supplement);

                  (2) the specific title of the Certificates of such series
         (which title shall distinguish the Certificates of such series from
         each other series of Certificates created under this Basic Agreement
         and a Trust Supplement);

                  (3) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
         Certificates of such series which may be authenticated and delivered
         (which limit shall not pertain to Certificates authenticated and
         delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in
         lieu of, other Certificates of the series pursuant to Sections 3.03,
         3.04 and 3.06);


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                  (4) the Cut-off Date with respect to the Certificates of such
         series;

                  (5) the Regular Distribution Dates applicable to the
         Certificates of such series;

                  (6) the Special Distribution Dates applicable to the
         Certificates of such series;

                  (7) if other than as provided in Section 7.12(b), the
         Registrar or the Paying Agent for the Certificates of such series,
         including any Co-Registrar or additional Paying Agent;

                  (8) if other than as provided in Section 3.02, the
         denominations in which the Certificates of such series shall be
         issuable;

                  (9) if other than United States dollars, the currency or
         currencies (including currency units) in which the Certificates of such
         series shall be denominated;

                  (10) the specific form of the Certificates of such series
         (including the interest rate applicable thereto) and whether or not
         Certificates of such series are to be issued as Book-Entry Certificates
         and, if such Certificates are to be Book-Entry Certificates, the form
         of Letter of Representations, if any (or, in the case of any
         Certificates denominated in a currency other than United States dollars
         and if other than as provided in Section 3.05, whether and the
         circumstances under which beneficial owners of interests in such
         Certificates in permanent global form may exchange such interests for
         Certificates of such series and of like tenor of any authorized form
         and denomination);

                  (11) a description of the Equipment Notes to be acquired and
         held in the related Trust and of the related Aircraft and Note
         Documents;

                  (12) provisions with respect to the terms for which the
         definitions set forth in Article I hereof or the terms of Section 11.01
         hereof permit or require further specification in the related Trust
         Supplement;

                  (13) any restrictions (including legends) in respect of ERISA;

                  (14) whether such series will be subject to an Intercreditor
         Agreement and, if so, the specific designation of such Intercreditor
         Agreement;

                  (15) whether such series will have the benefit of a Liquidity
         Facility and, if so, any terms appropriate thereto;


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                  (16) whether there will be a deposit agreement or other
         arrangement prior to the delivery of one or more Aircraft and, if so,
         any terms appropriate thereto; and

                  (17) any other terms of the Certificates of such series (which
         terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of the Trust
         Indenture Act), including any terms of the Certificates of such series
         which may be required or advisable under United States laws or
         regulations or advisable in connection with the marketing of
         Certificates of the series.

                  (c) At any time and from time to time after the execution and
delivery of this Basic Agreement and a Trust Supplement forming a Trust and
establishing the terms of Certificates of a series, Certificates of such series
shall be executed, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee to the Person or
Persons specified by the Company upon request of the Company and upon
satisfaction or waiver of any conditions precedent set forth in such Trust
Supplement or in any other document to which a Trustee is a party relating to
the issuance of the Certificates of such series.

                  Section 2.02. Acquisition of Equipment Notes. (a) Unless
otherwise specified in the related Trust Supplement, on or prior to the Issuance
Date of the Certificates of a series, the Trustee shall execute and deliver the
related Note Purchase Agreements in the form delivered to the Trustee by the
Company and shall, subject to the respective terms thereof, perform its
obligations under such Note Purchase Agreements. The Trustee shall issue and
sell such Certificates, in authorized denominations and in such Fractional
Undivided Interests, so as to result in the receipt of consideration in an
amount equal to the aggregate purchase price of the Equipment Notes contemplated
to be purchased by the Trustee under the related Note Purchase Agreements and,
concurrently therewith, the Trustee shall purchase, pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the Note Purchase Agreements, such Equipment Notes at a purchase
price equal to the amount of such consideration so received. Except as provided
in Sections 3.03, 3.04 and 3.06 hereof, the Trustee shall not execute,
authenticate or deliver Certificates of such series in excess of the aggregate
amount specified in this paragraph. The provisions of this Subsection (a) are
subject to the provisions of Subsection (b) below.

                  (b) If on or prior to the Issuance Date with respect to a
series of Certificates the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a Postponement
Notice relating to one or more Postponed Notes, the Trustee shall postpone the
purchase of such Postponed Notes and shall deposit into an escrow account (as to
such Trust, the "Escrow Account") to be maintained as part of the related Trust
an amount equal to the purchase price of such Postponed Notes (the "Escrowed
Funds"). The portion of the Escrowed Funds so deposited with respect to any
particular Postponed Notes shall be invested by the Trustee at the written
direction and risk of, and for the benefit of, the Responsible Party in
Specified Investments (i) maturing no later than any scheduled Transfer Date
relating to such Postponed Notes or (ii) if no such Transfer


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                                      -18-


Date has been scheduled, maturing on the next Business Day, or (iii) if the
Company has given notice to the Trustee that such Postponed Notes will not be
issued, maturing on the next applicable Special Distribution Date, if such
investments are reasonably available for purchase. The Trustee shall make
withdrawals from the Escrow Account only as provided in this Agreement. Upon
request of the Company on one or more occasions and the satisfaction or waiver
of the closing conditions specified in the applicable Note Purchase Agreements
on or prior to the related Cut-off Date, the Trustee shall purchase the
applicable Postponed Notes with the Escrowed Funds withdrawn from the Escrow
Account. The purchase price shall equal the principal amount of such Postponed
Notes.

                  The Trustee shall hold all Specified Investments until the
maturity thereof and will not sell or otherwise transfer Specified Investments.
If Specified Investments held in an Escrow Account mature prior to any
applicable Transfer Date, any proceeds received on the maturity of such
Specified Investments (other than any earnings thereon) shall be reinvested by
the Trustee at the written direction and risk of, and for the benefit of, the
Responsible Party in Specified Investments maturing as provided in the preceding
paragraph.

                  Any earnings on Specified Investments received from time to
time by the Trustee shall be promptly distributed to the Responsible Party. The
Responsible Party shall pay to the Trustee for deposit to the relevant Escrow
Account an amount equal to any losses on such Specified Investments as incurred.
On the Initial Regular Distribution Date in respect of the Certificates of any
series, the Responsible Party will pay (in immediately available funds) to the
Trustee an amount equal to the interest that would have accrued on any Postponed
Notes with respect to such Certificates, if any, purchased after the Issuance
Date if such Postponed Notes had been purchased on the Issuance Date, from the
Issuance Date to, but not including, the date of the purchase of such Postponed
Notes by the Trustee.

                  If, in respect of the Certificates of any series, the Company
notifies the Trustee prior to the Cut-off Date that any Postponed Notes will not
be issued on or prior to the Cut-off Date for any reason, on the next Special
Distribution Date for such Certificates occurring not less than 15 days
following the date of such notice, (i) the Responsible Party shall pay to the
Trustee for deposit in the related Special Payments Account, in immediately
available funds, an amount equal to the interest that would have accrued on the
Postponed Notes designated in such notice at a rate equal to the interest rate
applicable to such Certificates from the Issuance Date to, but not including,
such Special Distribution Date and (ii) the Trustee shall transfer an amount
equal to that amount of Escrowed Funds that would have been used to purchase the
Postponed Notes designated in such notice and the amount paid by the Responsible
Party pursuant to the immediately preceding clause (i) to the related Special
Payments Account for distribution as a Special Payment in accordance with the
provisions hereof.


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                  If, on such Cut-off Date, an amount equal to less than all of
the Escrowed Funds (other than Escrowed Funds referred to in the immediately
preceding paragraph) has been used to purchase Postponed Notes, on the next such
Special Distribution Date occurring not less than 15 days following such Cut-off
Date (i) the Responsible Party shall pay to the Trustee for deposit in such
Special Payments Account, in immediately available funds, an amount equal to the
interest that would have accrued on such Postponed Notes contemplated to be
purchased with such unused Escrowed Funds (other than Escrowed Funds referred to
in the immediately preceding paragraph) but not so purchased at a rate equal to
the interest rate applicable to such Certificates from the Issuance Date to, but
not including, such Special Distribution Date and (ii) the Trustee shall
transfer such unused Escrowed Funds and the amount paid by the Responsible Party
pursuant to the immediately preceding clause (i) to such Special Payments
Account for distribution as a Special Payment in accordance with the provisions
hereof.

                  Section 2.03. Acceptance by Trustee. The Trustee, upon the
execution and delivery of a Trust Supplement creating a Trust and establishing a
series of Certificates, shall acknowledge its acceptance of all right, title and
interest in and to the Trust Property to be acquired pursuant to Section 2.02
hereof and the related Note Purchase Agreements and shall declare that the
Trustee holds and will hold all such right, title and interest for the benefit
of all then present and future Certificateholders of such series, upon the
trusts herein and in such Trust Supplement set forth. By the acceptance of each
Certificate of such series issued to it under this Agreement, each initial
Holder of such series as grantor of such Trust shall thereby join in the
creation and declaration of such Trust.

                  Section 2.04. Limitation of Powers. The Trust is constituted
solely for the purpose of making the investment in the Equipment Notes provided
for in the related Trust Supplement, and, except as set forth herein, the
Trustee shall not be authorized or empowered to acquire any other investments or
engage in any other activities and, in particular, the Trustee shall not be
authorized or empowered to do anything that would cause such Trust to fail to
qualify as a "grantor trust" for federal income tax purposes (including, as
subject to this restriction, acquiring any Aircraft (as defined in the
respective Indentures) by bidding such Equipment Notes or otherwise, or taking
any action with respect to any such Aircraft once acquired).

                                   ARTICLE III

                                THE CERTIFICATES

                  Section 3.01. Form, Denomination and Execution of
Certificates. The Certificates of each series shall be issued in fully
registered form without coupons and shall be


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substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, with such omissions,
variations and insertions as are permitted by this Agreement, and may have such
letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange on which such Certificates may be listed or to conform to
any usage in respect thereof, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by
the Trustee or the officers executing such Certificates, as evidenced by the
Trustee's or respective officers' execution of the Certificates.

                  Except as provided in Section 3.05, the definitive
Certificates of such series shall be typed, printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods or may be produced in any other
manner permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the
Certificates may be listed, all as determined by the officers executing such
Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of such Certificates.

                  Except as otherwise provided in the related Trust Supplement,
the Certificates of each series shall be issued in minimum denominations of
$1,000 or integral multiples thereof except that one Certificate of such series
may be issued in a different denomination.

                  The Certificates of such series shall be executed on behalf of
the Trustee by manual or facsimile signature of a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee. Certificates of any series bearing the manual or facsimile signature of
an individual who was, at the time when such signature was affixed, authorized
to sign on behalf of the Trustee shall be valid and binding obligations of the
Trustee, notwithstanding that such individual has ceased to be so authorized
prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did not hold
such office at the date of such Certificates.

                  Section 3.02. Authentication of Certificates. (a) On the
Issuance Date, the Trustee shall duly execute, authenticate and deliver
Certificates of each series in authorized denominations equalling in the
aggregate the aggregate principal amount of the Equipment Notes that may be
purchased by the Trustee pursuant to the related Note Purchase Agreements, and
evidencing the entire ownership of the related Trust. Thereafter, the Trustee
shall duly execute, authenticate and deliver the Certificates of such series as
herein provided.

                  (b) No Certificate of any series shall be entitled to any
benefit under this Agreement or be valid for any purpose, unless there appears
on such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
set forth in Exhibit A hereto executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of
one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate of authentication upon
any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All
Certificates of any series shall be dated the date of their authentication.


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                  Section 3.03. Temporary Certificates. Until definitive
Certificates are ready for delivery, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and
deliver temporary Certificates of each series. Temporary Certificates of each
series shall be substantially in the form of definitive Certificates of each
series but may have insertions, substitutions, omissions and other variations
determined to be appropriate by the officers executing the temporary
Certificates of each series, as evidenced by their execution of such temporary
Certificates. If temporary Certificates of any series are issued, the Trustee
will cause definitive Certificates of each series to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Certificates of each
series, the temporary Certificates shall be exchangeable for definitive
Certificates upon surrender of the temporary Certificates at the office or
agency of the Trustee designated for such purpose pursuant to Section 7.12,
without charge to the Certificateholder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any
one or more temporary Certificates, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a like face amount of definitive Certificates of
like series, in authorized denominations and of a like Fractional Undivided
Interest. Until so exchanged, the temporary Certificates shall be entitled to
the same benefits under this Agreement as definitive Certificates.

                  Section 3.04. Transfer and Exchange. The Trustee shall cause
to be kept at the office or agency to be maintained by it in accordance with the
provisions of Section 7.12 of this Agreement a register (the "Register") for
each series of Certificates in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as
it may prescribe, the Trustee shall provide for the registration of the
Certificates of such series and of transfers and exchanges of such Certificates
as herein provided. The Trustee shall initially be the registrar (the
"Registrar") for the purpose of registering such Certificates of each series and
transfers and exchanges of such Certificates as herein provided.

                  All Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or
exchange of Certificate of any series shall be valid obligations of the
applicable Trust, evidencing the same interest therein, and entitled to the same
benefits under this Agreement, as the Certificates of such series surrendered
upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

                  Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate
at the Corporate Trust Office or such other office or agency, the Trustee shall
execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Certificates of like series, in authorized
denominations of a like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest.

                  At the option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be
exchanged for other Certificates of like series, in authorized denominations and
of a like aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest, upon surrender of the
Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency. Whenever any
Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute,
authenticate and deliver the Certificates that the Certificateholder making the
exchange is


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                                      -22-


entitled to receive. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Registrar
duly executed by the Certificateholder thereof or its attorney duly authorized
in writing.

                  No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any
registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Trustee shall
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or similar governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of
Certificates. Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be canceled and subsequently destroyed by the Trustee.

                  Section 3.05. Book-Entry and Definitive Certificates.

                  (a) The Certificates of any series may be issued in the form
of one or more typewritten Certificates representing the Book-Entry Certificates
of such series, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial
Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Company. In such case, the
Certificates of such series delivered to The Depository Trust Company shall
initially be registered on the Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee
of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Certificate Owner will receive a
definitive certificate representing such Certificate Owner's interest in the
Certificates of such series, except as provided above and in Subsection (d)
below. As to the Certificates of any series, unless and until definitive, fully
registered Certificates (the "Definitive Certificates") have been issued
pursuant to Subsection (d) below:

                  (i) the provisions of this Section 3.05 shall be in full force
         and effect;

                  (ii) the Company, the Paying Agent, the Registrar and the
         Trustee may deal with the Clearing Agency Participants for all purposes
         (including the making of distributions on the Certificates) as the
         authorized representatives of the Certificate Owners;

                 (iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 3.05
         conflict with any other provisions of this Agreement (other than the
         provisions of any Trust Supplement expressly amending this Section 3.05
         as permitted by this Basic Agreement), the provisions of this Section
         3.05 shall control;


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                  (iv) the rights of Certificate Owners shall be exercised only
         through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established
         by law and agreements between such Certificate Owners and the Clearing
         Agency Participants; and until Definitive Certificates are issued
         pursuant to Subsection (d) below, the Clearing Agency will make
         book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive
         and transmit distributions of principal, interest and premium, if any,
         on the Certificates to such Clearing Agency Participants; and

                   (v) whenever this Agreement requires or permits actions to be
         taken based upon instructions or directions of Certificateholders of
         such series holding Certificates of such series evidencing a specified
         percentage of the Fractional Undivided Interests in the related Trust,
         the Clearing Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only
         to the extent that it has received instructions to such effect from
         Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such
         required percentage of the beneficial interest in Certificates of such
         series and has delivered such instructions to the Trustee. The Trustee
         shall have no obligation to determine whether the Clearing Agency has
         in fact received any such instructions.

                  (b) Whenever notice or other communication to the
Certificateholders of such series is required under this Agreement, unless and
until Definitive Certificates shall have been issued pursuant to Subsection (d)
below, the Trustee shall give all such notices and communications specified
herein to be given to Certificateholders of such series to the Clearing Agency.

                  (c) Unless and until Definitive Certificates of a series are
issued pursuant to Subsection (d) below, on the Record Date prior to each
applicable Regular Distribution Date and Special Distribution Date, the Trustee
will request from the Clearing Agency a securities position listing setting
forth the names of all Clearing Agency Participants reflected on the Clearing
Agency's books as holding interests in the Certificates on such Record Date.

                  (d) If with respect to the Certificates of any series (i) the
Company advises the Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer
willing or able to discharge properly its responsibilities and the Trustee or
the Company is unable to locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Company, at its
option, advises the Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the
book-entry system through the Clearing Agency or (iii) after the occurrence of
an Event of Default, Certificate Owners of Book-Entry Certificates of such
series evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a
majority in interest in the related Trust, by Act of such Certificate Owners
delivered to the Company and the Trustee, advise the Company, the Trustee and
the Clearing Agency through the Clearing Agency Participants in writing that the
continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency Participants is
no longer in the best interests of the Certificate Owners of such series, then
the Trustee shall notify all


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Certificate Owners of such series, through the Clearing Agency, of the
occurrence of any such event and of the availability of Definitive Certificates.
Upon surrender to the Trustee of all the Certificates of such series held by the
Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions from the Clearing
Agency Participants for registration of Definitive Certificates in the names of
Certificate Owners of such series, the Trustee shall issue and deliver the
Definitive Certificates of such series in accordance with the instructions of
the Clearing Agency. Neither the Company, the Registrar, the Paying Agent nor
the Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and
may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
registration instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Certificates of such
series, the Trustee shall recognize the Person in whose name the Definitive
Certificates are registered in the Register as Certificateholders hereunder.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be liable if the Trustee or the
Company is unable to locate a qualified successor Clearing Agency.

                  (e) Except as otherwise provided in the related Trust
Supplement, the Trustee shall enter into the applicable Letter of
Representations with respect to such series of Certificates and fulfill its
responsibilities thereunder.

                  (f) The provisions of this Section 3.05 may be made
inapplicable to any series or may be amended with respect to any series in the
related Trust Supplement.

                  Section 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Certificates. If (a) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Registrar
or the Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss
or theft of any Certificate and (b) there is delivered to the Registrar and the
Trustee such security, indemnity or bond, as may be required by them to save
each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Registrar or the
Trustee that such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate has been acquired by a
bona fide purchaser, and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the
Uniform Commercial Code in effect in any applicable jurisdiction are met, the
Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of
any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate or
Certificates of like series, in authorized denominations and of like Fractional
Undivided Interest and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

                  In connection with the issuance of any new Certificate under
this Section 3.06, the Trustee may require the payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee
and the Registrar) connected therewith.

                  Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 3.06
shall constitute conclusive evidence of the appropriate Fractional Undivided
Interest in the related Trust, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost,
stolen or destroyed Certificate shall be found at any time.


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                  The provisions of this Section 3.06 are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates.

                  Section 3.07. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment
of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the Trustee, the Registrar and
any Paying Agent may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate is
registered (as of the day of determination) as the owner of such Certificate for
the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Article IV and for all other
purposes whatsoever, and none of the Trustee, the Registrar or any Paying Agent
shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

                  Section 3.08. Cancellation. All Certificates surrendered for
payment or transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to the Trustee or any
agent of the Trustee other than the Registrar, be delivered to the Registrar for
cancellation and shall promptly be canceled by it. No Certificates shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Certificates cancelled as
provided in this Section 3.08, except as expressly permitted by this Agreement.
All cancelled Certificates held by the Registrar shall be destroyed and a
certification of their destruction delivered to the Trustee.

                  Section 3.09. Limitation of Liability for Payments. All
payments and distributions made to Certificateholders of any series in respect
of the Certificates of such series shall be made only from the Trust Property of
the related Trust and only to the extent that the Trustee shall have sufficient
income or proceeds from the Trust Property to make such payments in accordance
with the terms of Article IV of this Agreement. Each Certificateholder, by its
acceptance of a Certificate, agrees that it will look solely to the income and
proceeds from the Trust Property of the related Trust for any payment or
distribution due to such Certificateholder pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement and that it will not have any recourse to the Company, the Trustee,
the Loan Trustees, the Liquidity Providers, the Owner Trustees or the Owner
Participants, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the
Intercreditor Agreement.

                  The Company is a party to this Agreement solely for purposes
of meeting the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act, and therefore shall not
have any right, obligation or liability hereunder (except as otherwise expressly
provided herein).



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                                   ARTICLE IV

                          DISTRIBUTIONS; STATEMENTS TO
                               CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

                  Section 4.01. Certificate Account and Special Payments
Account. (a) The Trustee shall establish and maintain on behalf of the
Certificateholders of each series a Certificate Account as one or more
non-interest-bearing accounts. The Trustee shall hold such Certificate Account
in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders of such series, and shall
make or permit withdrawals therefrom only as provided in this Agreement. On each
day when a Scheduled Payment is made to the Trustee (under the Intercreditor
Agreement, if applicable) with respect to the Certificates of such series, the
Trustee, upon receipt thereof, shall immediately deposit the aggregate amount of
such Scheduled Payment in such Certificate Account.

                  (b) The Trustee shall establish and maintain on behalf of the
Certificateholders of each series a Special Payments Account as one or more
accounts, which shall be non-interest bearing except as provided in Section
4.04. The Trustee shall hold the Special Payments Account in trust for the
benefit of the Certificateholders of such series and shall make or permit
withdrawals therefrom only as provided in this Agreement. On each day when one
or more Special Payments are made to the Trustee (under the Intercreditor
Agreement, if applicable) with respect to the Certificates of such series, the
Trustee, upon receipt thereof, shall immediately deposit the aggregate amount of
such Special Payments in such Special Payments Account.

                  (c) The Trustee shall present (or, if applicable, cause the
Subordination Agent to present) to the related Loan Trustee of each Equipment
Note such Equipment Note on the date of its stated final maturity or, in the
case of any Equipment Note which is to be redeemed in whole pursuant to the
related Indenture, on the applicable redemption date under such Indenture.

                  Section 4.02. Distributions from Certificate Account and
Special Payments Account. (a) On each Regular Distribution Date with respect to
a series of Certificates or as soon thereafter as the Trustee has confined
receipt of the payment of all or any part of the Scheduled Payments due on the
Equipment Notes held (subject to the Intercreditor Agreement) in the related
Trust on such date, the Trustee shall distribute out of the applicable
Certificate Account the entire amount deposited therein pursuant to Section
4.01(a). There shall be so distributed to each Certificateholder of record of
such series on the Record Date with respect to such Regular Distribution Date
(other than as provided in Section 11.01 concerning the final distribution) by
check mailed to such Certificateholder, at the address appearing in the
Register, such Certificateholder's pro rata share (based on the Fractional
Undivided Interest in the Trust held by such Certificateholder) of the total
amount in the applicable Certificate Account, except that, with respect to
Certificates registered on the Record Date in the name of a Clearing Agency (or
its nominee), such distribution shall be made by wire transfer in immediately
available funds to the account designated by such Clearing Agency (or such
nominee).


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                  (b) On each Special Distribution Date with respect to any
Special Payment with respect to a series of Certificates or as soon thereafter
as the Trustee has confirmed receipt of any Special Payments due on the
Equipment Notes held (subject to the Intercreditor Agreement) in the related
Trust or realized upon the sale of such Equipment Notes, the Trustee shall
distribute out of the applicable Special Payments Account the entire amount of
such applicable Special Payment deposited therein pursuant to Section 4.01(b).
There shall be so distributed to each Certificateholder of record of such series
on the Record Date with respect to such Special Distribution Date (other than as
provided in Section 11.01 concerning the final distribution) by check mailed to
such Certificateholder, at the address appearing in the Register, such
Certificateholder's pro rata share (based on the Fractional Undivided Interest
in the related Trust held by such Certificateholder) of the total amount in the
applicable Special Payments Account on account of such Special Payment, except
that, with respect to Certificates registered on the Record Date in the name of
a Clearing Agency (or its nominee), such distribution shall be made by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such
Clearing Agency (or such nominee).

                  (c) The Trustee shall, at the expense of the Company, cause
notice of each Special Payment with respect to a series of Certificates to be
mailed to each Certificateholder at his address as it appears in the Register.
In the event of redemption or purchase of Equipment Notes held in the related
Trust, such notice shall be mailed not less than 15 days prior to the Special
Distribution Date for the Special Payment resulting from such redemption or
purchase, which Special Distribution Date shall be the date of such redemption
or purchase. In the event that the Trustee receives a notice from the Company
that Postponed Notes will not be purchased by the Trustee pursuant to Section
2.02, such notice of Special Payment shall be mailed as soon as practicable
after receipt of such notice from the Company and shall state the Special
Distribution Date for such Special Payment, which shall occur 15 days after the
date of such notice of Special Payment or (if such 15th day is not practicable)
as soon as practicable thereafter. In the event that any Special Payment is to
be made pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 2.02(b) hereof, there shall be
mailed on the Cut-off Date (or, if such mailing on the Cut-off Date is not
practicable, as soon as practicable after the Cut-off Date), notice of such
Special Payment stating the Special Distribution Date for such Special Payment,
which shall occur 15 days after the date of such notice of such Special Payment
(or, if such 15th day is not practicable, as soon as practicable thereafter). In
the case of any other Special Payments, such notice shall be mailed as soon as
practicable after the Trustee has confirmed that it has received funds for such
Special Payment, stating the Special Distribution Date for such Special Payment
which shall occur not less than 15 days after the date of such notice and as
soon as practicable thereafter. Notices mailed by the Trustee shall set forth:

                  (i) the Special Distribution Date and the Record Date therefor
         (except as otherwise provided in Section 11.01);


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                  (ii) the amount of the Special Payment (taking into account
         any payment to be made by the Responsible Party pursuant to Section
         2.02(b)) for each $1,000 face amount Certificate and the amount thereof
         constituting principal, premium, if any, and interest;

                  (iii) the reason for the Special Payment;

                  (iv) whether such Special Payment may be cancelled or such
         Special Distribution Date may be postponed and if so, the conditions
         under which the Special Payment may be cancelled or such Special
         Distribution Date may be postponed; and

                   (v) if the Special Distribution Date is the same date as a
         Regular Distribution Date for the Certificates, the total amount to be
         received on such date for each $1,000 face amount Certificate.

If the amount of (i) premium, if any, payable upon the redemption or purchase of
an Equipment Note has not been calculated at the time that the Trustee mails
notice of a Special Payment, it shall be sufficient if the notice sets forth the
other amounts to be distributed and states that any premium received will also
be distributed.

                  If any redemption of the Equipment Notes held in any Trust is
cancelled or postponed, the Trustee, as soon as possible after learning thereof,
shall cause notice thereof to be mailed to each Certificateholder at its address
as it appears on the Register.

                  Section 4.03. Statements to Certificateholders. (a) On each
Regular Distribution Date and Special Distribution Date, the Trustee will
include with each distribution of a Scheduled Payment or Special Payment, as the
case may be, to Certificateholders of the related series a statement setting
forth the information provided below. Such statement shall set forth (per $1,000
aggregate principal amount of Certificate as to (i) and (ii) below) the
following information:

                  (i) the amount of such distribution hereunder allocable to
         principal and the amount allocable to premium, if any;

                  (ii) the amount of such distribution under this Agreement
         allocable to interest;

                  (iii) the Pool Balance and the Pool Factor of the related
         Trust.

                  With respect to the Certificates registered in the name of a
Clearing Agency or its nominee, on the Record Date prior to each Distribution
Date, the Trustee will request from the Clearing Agency a securities position
listing setting forth the names of all Clearing


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Agency Participants reflected on the Clearing Agency's books as holding
interests in the Certificates on such Record Date. On each Distribution Date,
the Trustee will mail to each such Clearing Agency Participant the statement
described above and will make available additional copies as requested by such
Clearing Agency Participant for forwarding to holders of interests in the
Certificates.

                  (b) Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each
calendar year but not later than the latest date permitted by law, the Trustee
shall furnish to each Person who at any time during such calendar year was a
Certificateholder of record a statement containing the sum of the amounts
determined pursuant to clauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii) above with respect to the
related Trust for such calendar year or, in the event such Person was a
Certificateholder of record during a portion of such calendar year, for the
applicable portion of such year, and such other items as are readily available
to the Trustee and which a Certificateholder shall reasonably request as
necessary for the purpose of such Certificateholder's preparation of its federal
income tax returns. With respect to Certificates registered in the name of a
Clearing Agency or its nominee, such statement and such other items shall be
prepared on the basis of information supplied to the Trustee by the Clearing
Agency Participants and shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Clearing
Agency Participants to be available for forwarding by such Clearing Agency
Participants to the holders of interests in the Certificates in the manner
described in Section 4.03(a).

                  Section 4.04. Investment of Special Payment Moneys. Any money
received by the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01(b) representing a Special
Payment which is not distributed on the date received shall, to the extent
practicable, be invested in Permitted Investments by the Trustee pending
distribution of such Special Payment pursuant to Section 4.02. Any investment
made pursuant to this Section 4.04 shall be in such Permitted Investments having
maturities not later than the date that such moneys are required to be used to
make the payment required under Section 4.02 on the applicable Special
Distribution Date and the Trustee shall hold any such Permitted Investments
until maturity. The Trustee shall have no liability with respect to any
investment made pursuant to this Section 4.04, other than by reason of the
willful misconduct or negligence of the Trustee. All income and earnings from
such investments shall be distributed on such Special Distribution Date as part
of such Special Payment.

                                    ARTICLE V

                                   THE COMPANY

                  Section 5.01. Maintenance of Corporate Existence. The Company,
at its own cost and expense, will do or cause to be done all things necessary to
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force and effect its corporate existence, rights and franchises, except as
otherwise specifically permitted in Section 5.02; provided, however, that the
Company shall not be required to preserve any right or franchise if the Company
shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the
conduct of the business of the Company.

                  Section 5.02. Consolidation, Merger, Etc. The Company shall
not consolidate with or merge into any other corporation or convey, transfer or
lease substantially all of its assets as an entirety to any Person unless:

                  (a) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
         the Company is merged or the Person that acquires by conveyance,
         transfer or lease substantially all of the assets of the Company as an
         entirety shall be (i) organized and validly existing under the laws of
         the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of
         Columbia, (ii) a "citizen of the United States" as defined in 49 U.S.C.
         Section 40102(a)(15), as amended, and (iii) a United States
         certificated air carrier, if and so long as such status is a condition
         of entitlement to the benefits of Section 1110 of the Bankruptcy Reform
         Act of 1978, as amended (11 U.S.C. Section 1110), with respect to the
         Leases or the Aircraft owned by the Company;

                  (b) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
         the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance,
         transfer or lease substantially all of the assets of the Company as an
         entirety shall execute and deliver to the Trustee applicable to the
         Certificates of each series a duly authorized, valid, binding and
         enforceable agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
         the Trustee containing an assumption by such successor corporation or
         Person of the due and punctual performance and observance of each
         covenant and condition of the Note Documents, of the Note Purchase
         Agreement and of this Agreement applicable to the Certificates of each
         series to be performed or observed by the Company; and

                  (c) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
         Officer's Certificate of the Company and an Opinion of Counsel of the
         Company reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, each stating that such
         consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and the assumption
         agreement mentioned in clause (b) above comply with this Section 5.02
         and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
         transaction have been complied with.

                  Upon any consolidation or merger, or any conveyance, transfer
or lease of substantially all of the assets of the Company as an entirety in
accordance with this Section 5.02, the successor corporation or Person formed by
such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such
conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for,
and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Agreement
applicable to the Certificates of each series with the same effect as if such
successor


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corporation or Person had been named as the Company herein. No such conveyance,
transfer or lease of substantially all of the assets of the Company as an
entirety shall have the effect of releasing the Company or any successor
corporation or Person which shall have become such in the manner prescribed in
this Section 5.02 from its liability in respect of this Agreement, the Note
Purchase Agreement and any Note Document applicable to the Certificates of such
series to which it is a party.

                                   ARTICLE VI

                                     DEFAULT

                  Section 6.01. Events of Default. (a) Exercise of Remedies.
Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of any Indenture Event of
Default under any Indenture, the Trustee may (i) to the extent it is the
Controlling Party at such time (as determined pursuant to the Intercreditor
Agreement), direct the exercise of remedies as provided in the Intercreditor
Agreement and (ii) if there is no related Intercreditor Agreement, direct the
exercise of remedies or take other action as provided in the relevant Indenture
to the extent that it may do so as the holder of the Equipment Notes issued
under such Indenture and held in the related Trust.

                  (b) Purchase Rights of Certificateholders: At any time after
the occurrence and during the continuation of a Triggering Event, each
Certificateholder of Certificates of certain series (each, a "Potential
Purchaser" and, collectively, the "Potential Purchasers") will have certain
rights to purchase the Certificates of one or more other series, all as set
forth in the Trust Supplement applicable to the Certificates held by such
Potential Purchaser. The purchase price with respect to the Certificates of any
series shall be equal to the Pool Balance of the Certificates of such series,
together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of such purchase,
without premium, but including any other amounts then due and payable to the
Certificateholders of such series under this Agreement, any related
Intercreditor Agreement or any other Note Document or on or in respect of the
Certificates of such series; provided, however, that if such purchase occurs
after a Record Date, such purchase price shall be reduced by the amount to be
distributed hereunder on the related Distribution Date (which deducted amounts
shall remain distributable to, and may be retained by, the Certificateholder as
of such Record Date); provided, further, that no such purchase of Certificates
of such series shall be effective unless the purchasing Certificateholder (each,
a "Purchasing Certificateholder" and, collectively, the "Purchasing
Certificateholders") shall certify to the Trustee that contemporaneously with
such purchase, one or more Purchasing Certificateholders are purchasing,
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Agreements, if any,
relating to the Certificates of a series that are subject to the same
Intercreditor Agreement (such other Agreements, the "Other Agreements"), the
Certificates of each such series that the Trust Supplement applicable to the
Certificates held by the Purchasing Certificateholder specifies may


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be purchased by such Purchasing Certificateholder. Each payment of the purchase
price of the Certificates of any series shall be made to an account or accounts
designated by the Trustee and each such purchase shall be subject to the terms
of this Section 6.01. By acceptance of its Certificate, each Certificateholder
(each, a "Selling Certificateholder" and, collectively, the "Selling
Certificateholders") of a series that is subject to purchase by Potential
Purchasers, all as set forth in the Trust Supplement applicable to the
Certificates held by the Selling Certificateholders, agrees that, at any time
after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Triggering Event, it will,
upon payment of the purchase price specified herein by one or more Purchasing
Certificateholders, forthwith sell, assign, transfer and convey to such
Purchasing Certificateholder (without recourse, representation or warranty of
any kind except for its own acts), all of the right, title, interest and
obligation of such Selling Certificateholder in this Agreement, any related
Intercreditor Agreement, the related Liquidity Facility, the related Note
Documents and all Certificates of such series held by such Selling
Certificateholder (excluding all right, title and interest under any of the
foregoing to the extent such right, title or interest is with respect to an
obligation not then due and payable as respects any action or inaction or state
of affairs occurring prior to such sale) and the Purchasing Certificateholder
shall assume all of such Selling Certificateholder's obligations under this
Agreement, any related Intercreditor Agreement, the related Liquidity Facility
and the related Note Documents. The Certificates of such series will be deemed
to be purchased on the date payment of the purchase price is made
notwithstanding the failure of any Selling Certificateholder to deliver any
Certificates of such series and, upon such a purchase, (i) the only rights of
the Selling Certificateholders will be to deliver the Certificates to the
Purchasing Certificateholder and receive the purchase price for such
Certificates of such series and (ii) if the Purchasing Certificateholder shall
so request, such Selling Certificateholder will comply with all of the
provisions of Section 3.04 hereof to enable new Certificates of such series to
be issued to the Purchasing Certificateholder in such denominations as it shall
request. All charges and expenses in connection with the issuance of any such
new Certificates shall be borne by the Purchasing Certificateholder.

                  Section 6.02. Incidents of Sale of Equipment Notes. Upon any
sale of all or any part of the Equipment Notes held in the Trust made either
under the power of sale given under this Agreement or otherwise for the
enforcement of this Agreement, the following shall be applicable:

                  (a) Certificateholders and Trustee May Purchase Equipment
         Notes. Any Certificateholder, the Trustee in its individual or any
         other capacity or any other Person may bid for and purchase any of the
         Equipment Notes held in the Trust, and upon compliance with the terms
         of sale, may hold, retain, possess and dispose of such Equipment Notes
         in their own absolute right without further accountability.


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                  (b) Receipt of Trustee Shall Discharge Purchaser. The receipt
         of the Trustee making such sale shall be a sufficient discharge to any
         purchaser for his purchase money, and, after paying such purchase money
         and receiving such receipt, such purchaser or its personal
         representative or assigns shall not be obliged to see to the
         application of such purchase money, or be in any way answerable for any
         loss, misapplication or nonapplication thereof.

                  (c) Application of Moneys Received upon Sale. Any moneys
         collected by the Trustee upon any sale made either under the power of
         sale given by this Agreement or otherwise for the enforcement of this
         Agreement shall be applied as provided in Section 4.02.

                  Section 6.03. Judicial Proceedings Instituted by Trustee;
Trustee May Bring Suit. If there shall be a failure to make payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Equipment Note held in the
related Trust, or if there shall be any failure to pay Rent (as defined in the
relevant Lease) under any Lease when due and payable, then the Trustee, in, its
own name and as trustee of an express trust, as holder of such Equipment Notes,
to the extent permitted by and in accordance with the terms of any related
Intercreditor Agreement and any related Note Documents (subject to rights of the
applicable Owner Trustee or Owner Participant to cure any such failure to pay
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Equipment Note or to pay Rent
under any Lease in accordance with the applicable Indenture), shall be entitled
and empowered to institute any suits, actions or proceedings at law, in equity
or otherwise, for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid on such Equipment
Notes or under such Lease and may prosecute any such claim or proceeding to
judgment or final decree with respect to the whole amount of any such sums so
due and unpaid.

                  Section 6.04. Control by Certificateholders. Subject to
Section 6.03 and the related Intercreditor Agreement, the Certificateholders
holding Certificates of a series evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests
aggregating not less than a majority in interest in the related Trust shall have
the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for
any remedy available to the Trustee with respect to the Trust or pursuant to the
terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, or exercising any trust or power conferred
on the Trustee under this Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement, including
any right of the Trustee as Controlling Party under such Intercreditor Agreement
or as holder of the Equipment Notes held in the related Trust; provided,
however, that

                  (a) such Direction shall not in the opinion of the Trustee be
         in conflict with any rule of law or with this Agreement and would not
         involve the Trustee in personal liability or expense,


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                  (b) the Trustee shall not determine that the action so
         directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the Certificateholders of
         such series not taking part in such Direction, and

                  (c) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
         Trustee which is not inconsistent with such Direction.

                  Section 6.05. Waiver of Past Defaults. Subject to any related
Intercreditor Agreement, the Certificateholders holding Certificates of a series
evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a majority
in interest in the Trust (i) may on behalf of all of the Certificateholders
waive any past Event of Default hereunder and its consequences or (ii) if the
Trustee is the Controlling Party, may direct the Trustee to instruct the
applicable Loan Trustee to waive any past Indenture Event of Default under any
related Indenture and its consequences except a default:

                  (a) in the deposit of any Scheduled Payment or Special Payment
         under Section 4.01 or in the distribution of any payment under Section
         4.02 on the Certificates of a series, or

                  (b) in the payment of the principal of (premium, if any) or
         interest on the Equipment Notes held in the related Trust, or

                  (c) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
         Article IX hereof cannot be modified or amended without the consent of
         each Certificateholder holding an Outstanding Certificate of a series
         affected thereby.

Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist with respect to the
Certificates of such series and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be
deemed to have been cured for every purpose and any direction given by the
Trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders of such series to the relevant Loan
Trustee shall be annulled with respect thereto; but no such waiver shall extend
to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereon. Upon any such waiver, the Trustee shall vote the Equipment
Notes issued under the relevant Indenture to waive the corresponding Indenture
Event of Default.

                  Section 6.06. Right of Certificateholders to Receive Payments
Not To Be Impaired. Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding,
including, without limitation, Section 6.07 hereof, but subject to any related
Intercreditor Agreement, the right of any Certificateholder to receive
distributions of payments required pursuant to Section 4.02 hereof on the
applicable Certificates when due, or to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment on or after the applicable Regular Distribution Date or Special
Distribution Date, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such
Certificateholder.


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                  Section 6.07. Certificateholders May Not Bring Suit Except
Under Certain Conditions. A Certificateholder shall not have the right to
institute any suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity or otherwise with
respect to this Agreement, for the appointment of a receiver or for the
enforcement of any other remedy under this Agreement, unless:

                  (a) such Certificateholder previously shall have given written
         notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;

                  (b) Certificateholders holding Certificates of such series
         evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than 25%
         of the related Trust shall have requested the Trustee in writing to
         institute such action, suit or proceeding and shall have offered to the
         Trustee indemnity as provided in Section 7.03(e);

                  (c) the Trustee shall have refused or neglected to institute
         any such action, suit or proceeding for 60 days after receipt of such
         notice, request and offer of indemnity; and

                  (d) no direction inconsistent with such written request shall
         have been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by
         Certificateholders holding Certificates of such series evidencing
         Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a majority in
         interest in the Trust.

                  It is understood and intended that no one or more of the
Certificateholders of any series shall have any right in any manner whatsoever
hereunder or under the related Trust Supplement or under the Certificates of
such series to (i) surrender, impair, waive, affect, disturb or prejudice any
property in the Trust Property of the Trust, or the lien of any related
Indenture on any property subject thereto, or the rights of the
Certificateholders of such series or the holders of the Equipment Notes, (ii)
obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference with respect to any other
such Certificateholder of such series or (iii) enforce any right under this
Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and
common benefit of all the Certificateholders of such series subject to the
provisions of this Agreement.

                  Section 6.08. Remedies Cumulative. Every remedy given
hereunder to the Trustee or to any of the Certificateholders of any series shall
not be exclusive of any other remedy or remedies, and every such remedy shall be
cumulative and in addition to every other remedy given hereunder or now or
hereafter given by statute, law, equity or otherwise.

                  Section 6.09. Undertaking for Costs. In any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Agreement, or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court
may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the
costs of such suit, and may assess costs against any such party litigant, in the
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that neither this Section 6.09 nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to
authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment
in any suit instituted by the Company.

                                   ARTICLE VII

                                   THE TRUSTEE

                  Section 7.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except
during the continuance of an Event of Default in respect of a Trust, the Trustee
undertakes to perform such duties in respect of the Trust as are specifically
set forth in this Agreement, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be
read into this Agreement against the Trustee.

                  (b) In case an Event of Default in respect of a Trust has
occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and
powers vested in it by this Agreement in respect of the Trust, and use the same
degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or
use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.

                  (c) No provision of this Agreement shall be construed to
relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that

                  (i) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect
         of Subsection (a) of this Section 7.01; and

                  (ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
         made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, unless it
         shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
         pertinent facts.

                  (d) Whether or not herein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability
of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section 7.01.

                  Section 7.02. Notice of Defaults. As promptly as practicable
after, and in any event within 90 days after, the occurrence of any default (as
such term is defined below) hereunder known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall
transmit by mail to the Company, any related Owner Trustees, any related Owner
Participants, the related Loan Trustees and the Certificateholders holding
Certificates of the related series in accordance with Section 313(c) of the
Trust Indenture Act, notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee,
unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that,
except in the case of a default


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in the payment of the principal, premium, if any, or interest on any Equipment
Note, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long
as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of
directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith shall
determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the
Certificateholders. For the purpose of this Section 7.02 in respect of any
Trust, the term "default" means any event that is, or after notice or lapse of
time or both would become, an Event of Default in respect of that Trust.

                  Section 7.03. Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the
provisions of Section 315 of the Trust Indenture Act:

                  (a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
         refraining from acting in reliance upon any resolution, certificate,
         statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
         consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document believed by
         it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
         party or parties;

                  (b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
         shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Request;

                  (c) whenever in the administration of this Agreement or the
         Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a
         matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting
         any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein
         specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
         rely upon an Officer's Certificate of the Company, any related Owner
         Trustee or any related Loan Trustee;

                  (d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of
         such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
         authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
         or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

                  (e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
         of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or any
         Intercreditor Agreement at the Direction of any of the
         Certificateholders pursuant to this Agreement or the Intercreditor
         Agreement, unless the Certificateholders shall have offered to the
         Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the cost, expenses and
         liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
         Direction;

                  (f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
         into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
         statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
         consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document;


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                  (g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers under
         this Agreement or any Intercreditor Agreement or perform any duties
         under this Agreement or any Intercreditor Agreement either directly or
         by or through agents or attorneys, and the Trustee shall not be
         responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent
         or attorney appointed with due care by it under this Agreement or any
         Intercreditor Agreement;

                  (h) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
         taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
         Direction of the Certificateholders holding Certificates of any series
         evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a
         majority in interest in the related Trust relating to the time, method
         and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
         Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee,
         under this Agreement or any Intercreditor Agreement; and

                  (i) the Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its
         own funds in the performance of any of its duties under this Agreement,
         or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have
         reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
         adequate indemnity against such risk is not reasonably assured to it.

                  Section 7.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Certificates. The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates of each
series, except the certificates of authentication, shall not be taken as the
statements of the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. Subject to Section 7.15, the Trustee makes no representations as to
the validity or sufficiency of this Basic Agreement, any Equipment Notes, any
Intercreditor Agreement, the Certificates of any series, and Trust Supplement or
any Note Documents, except that the Trustee hereby represents and warrants that
this Basic Agreement has been, and each Trust Supplement, each Certificate, the
Note Purchase Agreement, and each Intercreditor Agreement of, or relating to,
each series will be executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly
authorized to execute and deliver such document on its behalf.

                  Section 7.05. May Hold Certificates. The Trustee, any Paying
Agent, Registrar or any of their Affiliates or any other agent, in their
respective individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Certificates and, subject to Sections 310(b) and 311 of the Trust Indenture Act,
if applicable, may otherwise deal with the Company, any Owner Trustees or the
Loan Trustees with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying
Agent, Registrar or such other agent.

                  Section 7.06. Money Held in Trust. Money held by the Trustee
or the Paying Agent in trust under this Agreement need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required herein or by law and neither the
Trustee nor the Paying Agent shall have any liability for interest upon any such
moneys except as provided for herein.


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                  Section 7.07. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company
agrees:

                  (a) to pay, or cause to be paid, to the Trustee from time to
         time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder
         (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in
         regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); and

                  (b) except as expressly provided herein or in any Trust
         Supplement, to reimburse, or cause to be reimbursed, the Trustee upon
         its request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, disbursements
         and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any
         provision of this Basic Agreement, any Trust Supplement or any
         Intercreditor Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the
         expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such
         expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its
         negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith or as may be incurred due
         to the Trustee's breach of its representations and warranties set forth
         in Section 7.15.

                  The Trustee shall be entitled to reimbursement from, and shall
have a lien prior to the Certificates of each series upon, all property and
funds held or collected by the Trustee in its capacity as Trustee with respect
to any series or the related Trust for any tax incurred without negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct, on its part, arising out of or in connection with
the acceptance or administration of the Trust (other than any tax attributable
to the Trustee's compensation for serving as such), including any costs and
expenses incurred in contesting the imposition of any such tax. The Trustee
shall notify the Company of any claim for any tax for which it may seek
reimbursement. If the Trustee reimburses itself from the Trust Property of such
Trust for any such tax, it will mail a brief report within 30 days setting forth
the amount of such tax and the circumstances thereof to all Certificateholders
of such series as their names and addresses appear in the Register.

                  Section 7.08. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. Each
Trust shall at all times have a Trustee which shall be eligible to act as a
trustee under Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act and shall have a
combined capital and surplus of at least $75,000,000 (or a combined capital and
surplus in excess of $5,000,000 and the obligations of which, whether now in
existence or hereafter incurred, are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States,
any state or territory thereof or of the District of Columbia and having a
combined capital and surplus of at least $75,000,000). If such corporation
publishes reports of conditions at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia supervising
or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 7.08 the combined
capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of conditions so
published.


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                  In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 7.08 to act as Trustee of any
Trust, the Trustee shall resign immediately as Trustee of such Trust in the
manner and with the effect specified in Section 7.09.

                  Section 7.09. Resignation and Removal, Appointment of
Successor. (a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee of any Trust pursuant to this Article shall become effective
until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 7.10.

                  (b) The Trustee may resign at any time as Trustee of any or
all Trusts by giving prior written notice thereof to the Company, the Authorized
Agents, the related Owner Trustees and the related Loan Trustees. If an
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to
the Company, the related Owner Trustees and the Trustee within 30 days after the
giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

                  (c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by Direction of the
Certificateholders of the related series holding Certificates evidencing
Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a majority in interest
in such Trust delivered to the Trustee and to the Company, the related Owner
Trustees and the related Loan Trustees.

                  (d) If at any time in respect of the Trust:

                  (i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 310 of the
         Trust Indenture Act, if applicable, after written request therefor by
         the Company or by any Certificateholder who has been a bona fide
         Certificateholder for at least six months; or

                  (ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 7.08
         and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
         or by any such Certificateholder; or

                  (iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
         adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of
         its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge
         or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose
         of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;

then, in any case, (i) the Company may remove the Trustee or (ii) any
Certificateholder of the related series who has been a bona fide
Certificateholder for at least six months may, on behalf of itself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee of the Trust.


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                  (e) If a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall obtain
actual knowledge of an Avoidable Tax (as defined below) in respect of any Trust
which has been or is likely to be asserted, the Trustee shall promptly notify
the Company and shall, within 30 days of such notification, resign as Trustee of
such Trust hereunder unless within such 30-day period the Trustee shall have
received notice that the Company has agreed to pay such tax. The Company shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee of such Trust in a jurisdiction where there
are no Avoidable Taxes. As used herein, an "Avoidable Tax" in respect of such
Trust means a state or local tax: (i) upon (w) such Trust, (x) such Trust
Property, (y) Certificateholders of such Trust or (z) the Trustee for which the
Trustee is entitled to seek reimbursement from the Trust Property of such Trust,
and (ii) which would be avoided if the Trustee were located in another state, or
jurisdiction within a state, within the United States of America. A tax shall
not be an Avoidable Tax in respect of any Trust if the Company or any Owner
Trustee shall agree to pay, and shall pay, such tax.

                  (f) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting as Trustee of any Trust or if a vacancy shall occur in the
office of the Trustee of any Trust for any cause, the Company shall promptly
appoint a successor Trustee of such Trust. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or other occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee of such Trust shall be appointed by Direction of the
Certificateholders of the related series holding Certificates of such series
evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a majority
in interest in such Trust delivered to the Company, the related Owner Trustees,
the related Loan Trustee and the retiring Trustee, then the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, with the approval of the Company of such appointment, which
approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, forthwith upon its acceptance of
such appointment, become the successor Trustee and supersede the successor
Trustee appointed as provided above. If no successor Trustee shall have been so
appointed as provided above and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter
provided, the resigning Trustee or any Certificateholder who has been a bona
fide Certificateholder of the related series for at least six months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

                  (g) The successor Trustee shall give notice of the resignation
and removal of the Trustee and appointment of the successor Trustee by mailing
written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the
Certificateholders of the related series as their names and addresses appear in
the Register. Each notice shall include the name of such successor Trustee and
the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

                  Section 7.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. Every
successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute and deliver to the Company
and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
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act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Company or the
successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts of the
retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all Trust Property held by such retiring Trustee in respect of such
Trusts hereunder, subject nevertheless to its lien, if any, provided for in
Section 7.07. Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company, the
retiring Trustee and such successor Trustee shall execute and deliver any and
all instruments containing such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to
transfer and confirm to, and for more fully and certainly vesting in, such
successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.

                  If a successor Trustee is appointed with respect to one or
more (but not all) Trusts, the Company, the predecessor Trustee and each
successor Trustee with respect to any Trust shall execute and deliver a
supplemental agreement hereto which shall contain such provisions as shall be
deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to the Trusts as to which the
predecessor Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the
predecessor Trustee, and shall add to or change any of the provisions of this
Basic Agreement and the applicable Trust Supplements as shall be necessary to
provide for or facilitate the administration of the Trusts hereunder by more
than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such
supplemental agreement shall constitute such Trustees as co-Trustees of the same
Trust and that each such Trustee shall be Trustee of separate Trusts.

                  No institution shall accept its appointment as a Trustee
hereunder unless at the time of such acceptance such institution shall be
qualified and eligible under this Article VII.

                  Section 7.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder;
provided, however, that such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and
eligible under this Article VII, without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any
Certificates shall have been executed or authenticated, but not delivered, by
the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation
to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such execution or authentication and
deliver the Certificates so executed or authenticated with the same effect as if
such successor Trustee had itself executed or authenticated such Certificates.

                  Section 7.12. Maintenance of Agencies. (a) With respect to
each series of Certificates, there shall at all times be maintained an office or
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in Section 12.04 where Certificates of such series may be presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange, and for payment
thereof, and where notices and demands, to or upon the Trustee in respect of
such Certificates or this Agreement may be served; provided, however, that, if
it shall be necessary that the Trustee maintain an office or agency in another
location with respect to the Certificates (e.g., the Certificates of such series
shall be represented by Definitive Certificates and shall be listed on a
national securities exchange), the Trustee will make all reasonable efforts to
establish such an office or agency. Written notice of the location of each such
other office or agency and of any change of location thereof shall be given by
the Trustee to the Company, any Owner Trustees, the Loan Trustees (in the case
of any Owner Trustee or Loan Trustee, at its address specified in the Note
Documents or such other address as may be notified to the Trustee) and the
Certificateholders of such series. In the event that no such office or agency
shall be maintained or no such notice of location or of change of location shall
be given, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

                  (b) There shall at all times be a Registrar and a Paying Agent
hereunder with respect to the Certificates of each series. Each such Authorized
Agent shall be a bank or trust company, shall be a corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States or any state, with a combined
capital and surplus of at least $75,000,000, or a corporation having a combined
capital and surplus in excess of $5,000,000, the obligations of which are
guaranteed by a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the
United States or any state, with a combined capital and surplus of at least
$75,000,000, and shall be authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust
powers, subject to supervision by federal or state authorities. The Trustee
shall initially be the Paying Agent and, as provided in Section 3.04, Registrar
hereunder with respect to the Certificates of each series. Each Registrar shall
furnish to the Trustee, at stated intervals of not more than six months, and at
such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a copy of the Register
maintained by such Registrar.

                  (c) Any corporation into which any Authorized Agent may be
merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authorized
Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust
business of any Authorized Agent, shall be the successor of such Authorized
Agent, if such successor corporation is otherwise eligible under this Section
7.12, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of the parties hereto or such Authorized Agent or such successor
corporation.

                  (d) Any Authorized Agent may at any time resign by giving
written notice of resignation to the Trustee, the Company, any related Owner
Trustees and the related Loan Trustees. The Company may, and at the request of
the Trustee shall, at any time terminate the agency of any Authorized Agent by
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Agent and to the Trustee. Upon the resignation or termination of an Authorized
Agent or in case at any time any such Authorized Agent shall cease to be
eligible under this Section 7.12 (when, in either case, no other Authorized
Agent performing the functions of such Authorized Agent shall have been
appointed), the Company shall promptly appoint one or more qualified successor
Authorized Agents, reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, to perform the
functions of the Authorized Agent which has resigned or whose agency has been
terminated or who shall have ceased to be eligible under this Section 7.12. The
Company shall give written notice of any such appointment made by it to the
Trustee, any related Owner Trustees and the related Loan Trustees; and in each
case the Trustee shall mail notice of such appointment to all Certificateholders
of the related series as their names and addresses appear on the Register for
such series.

                  (e) The Company agrees to pay, or cause to be paid, from time
to time to each Authorized Agent reasonable compensation for its services and to
reimburse it for its reasonable expenses.

                  Section 7.13. Money for Certificate Payments to Be Held in
Trust. All moneys deposited with any Paying Agent for the purpose of any payment
on Certificates shall be deposited and held in trust for the benefit of the
Certificateholders entitled to such payment, subject to the provisions of this
Section 7.13. Moneys so deposited and held in trust shall constitute a separate
trust fund for the benefit of the Certificateholders with respect to which such
money was deposited.

                  The Trustee may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Agreement or for any other purpose, direct
any Paying Agent to pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying
Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon
which such sums were held by such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any
Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such money.

                  Section 7.14. Registration of Equipment Notes in Trustee's
Name. Subject to the provisions of any Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustee
agrees that all Equipment Notes to be purchased by any Trust and Permitted
Investments, if any, shall be issued in the name of the Trustee as Trustee for
the applicable Trust or its nominee and held by the Trustee in trust for the
benefit of the Certificateholders of such series, or, if not so held, the
Trustee or its nominee shall be reflected as the owner of such Equipment Notes
or Permitted Investments, as the case may be, in the register of the issuer of
such Equipment Notes or Permitted Investments, as the case may be.

                  Section 7.15. Representations and Warranties of Trustee. The
Trustee hereby represents and warrants that:


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                  (a) the Trustee is a Delaware banking corporation organized
         and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of
         Delaware;

                  (b) the Trustee has full power, authority and legal right to
         execute, deliver and perform this Agreement, any Intercreditor
         Agreement and the Note Purchase Agreements and has taken all necessary
         action to authorize execution, delivery and performance by it of this
         Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement and the Note Purchase
         Agreements.

                  (c) the execution, delivery and performance by the Trustee of
         this Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement and the Note Purchase
         Agreements (i) will not violate any provision of any United States
         federal law or the law of the state of the United States where it is
         located governing the banking and trust powers of the Trustee or any
         order, writ, judgment, or decree of any court, arbitrator or
         governmental authority applicable to the Trustee or any of its assets,
         (ii) will not violate any provision of the articles of association or
         by-laws of the Trustee, and (iii) will not violate any provision of, or
         constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under,
         or result in the creation or imposition of any lien on any properties
         included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of any
         mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which
         it is a party, which violation, default or lien could reasonably be
         expected to have an adverse effect on the Trustee's performance or
         ability to perform its duties hereunder or thereunder or on the
         transactions contemplated herein or therein;

                  (d) the execution, delivery and performance by the Trustee of
         this Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement and the Note Purchase
         Agreements will not require the authorization, consent, or approval of,
         the giving of notice to, the filing or registration with, or the taking
         of any other action in respect of, any governmental authority or agency
         of the United States or the state of the United States where it is
         located regulating the banking and corporate trust activities of the
         Trustee; and

                  (e) this Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement and the Note
         Purchase Agreements have been duly executed and delivered by the
         Trustee and constitute the legal, valid and binding agreements of the
         Trustee, enforceable against it in accordance with their respective
         terms; provided, however, that enforceability may be limited by (i)
         applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
         similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and (ii)
         general principles of equity.

                  Section 7.16. Withholding Taxes: Information Reporting. As to
the Certificates of any series, the Trustee, as trustee of the related grantor
trust created by this Agreement, shall exclude and withhold from each
distribution of principal, premium, if any, and interest and other amounts due
under this Agreement or under the Certificates of such series


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any and all withholding taxes applicable thereto as required by law. The Trustee
agrees to act as such withholding agent and, in connection therewith, whenever
any present or future taxes or similar charges are required to be withheld with
respect to any amounts payable in respect of the Certificates, to withhold such
amounts and timely pay the same to the appropriate authority in the name of and
on behalf of the Certificateholders of such series, that it will file any
necessary withholding tax returns or statements when due, and that, as promptly
as possible after the payment thereof, it will deliver to each such
Certificateholder of such series, appropriate documentation showing the payment
thereof, together with such additional documentary evidence as such
Certificateholders may reasonably request from time to time. The Trustee agrees
to file any other information reports as it may be required to file under United
States law.

                  Section 7.17. Trustee's Liens. The Trustee in its individual
capacity agrees that it will, in respect of each Trust created by this
Agreement, at its own cost and expense promptly take any action as may be
necessary to duly discharge and satisfy in full any mortgage, pledge, lien,
charge, encumbrance, security interest or claim ("Trustee's Liens") on or with
respect to the Trust Property of such Trust which is attributable to the Trustee
either (i) in its individual capacity and which is unrelated to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or the related Note Documents or (ii) as Trustee
hereunder or in its individual capacity and which arises out of acts or
omissions which are not contemplated by this Agreement.

                  Section 7.18. Preferential Collection of Claims. The Trustee
shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, excluding any
creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. If
the Trustee shall resign or be removed as Trustee, it shall be subject to
Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to the extent provided therein.

                                  ARTICLE VIII

                CERTIFICATEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE

                  Section 8.01. The Company to Furnish Trustee with Names and
Addresses of Certificateholders. The Company will furnish to the Trustee within
15 days after each Record Date with respect to a Scheduled Payment, and at such
other times as the Trustee may request in writing within 30 days after receipt
by the Company of any such request, a list, in such form as the Trustee may
reasonably require, of all information in the possession or control of the
Company as to the names and addresses of the Certificateholders of each series,
in each case as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is
furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is the sole Registrar
for such series, no such list need be furnished;


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and provided further, however, that no such list need be furnished for so long
as a copy of the Register is being furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section
7.12.

                  Section 8.02. Preservation of Information, Communications to
Certificateholders. The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Certificateholders of each
series contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in
Section 7.12 or Section 8.01, as the case may be, and the names and addresses of
Certificateholders of each series received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section 7.12 or Section 8.01, as the case may be, upon receipt of a
new list so furnished.

                  Section 8.03. Reports by Trustee. Within 60 days after May 15
of each year commencing with the first full year following the issuance of any
series of Certificates, the Trustee shall transmit to the Certificateholders of
such series, as provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief
report dated as of such May 15, if required by Section 313(a) of the Trust
Indenture Act.

                  Section 8.04. Reports by the Company. The Company shall:

                  (a) file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the Company is
         required to file the same with the SEC, copies of the annual reports
         and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such
         portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may from time to time by
         rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file
         with the SEC pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities
         Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; or, if the Company is not required to
         file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of such
         sections, then to file with the Trustee and the SEC, in accordance with
         rules and regulations prescribed by the SEC, such of the supplementary
         and periodic information, documents and reports which may be required
         pursuant to section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
         amended, in respect of a security listed and registered on a national
         securities exchange as may be prescribed in such rules and regulations;

                  (b) file with the Trustee and the SEC, in accordance with the
         rules and regulations prescribed by the SEC, such additional
         information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the
         Company with the conditions and covenants of the Company provided for
         in this Agreement, as may be required by such rules and regulations,
         including, in the case of annual reports, if required by such rules and
         regulations, certificates or opinions of independent public
         accountants, conforming to the requirements of Section 1.02;

                  (c) transmit to all Certificateholders, in the manner and to
         the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act such
         summaries of any information,


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         documents and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to
         subsections (a) and (b) of this Section 8.04 as may be required by
         rules and regulations prescribed by the SEC; and

                  (d) furnish to the Trustee, not less often than annually, a
         brief certificate from the principal executive officer, principal
         financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his knowledge
         of the Company's compliance with all conditions and covenants under
         this Agreement (it being understood that for purposes of this paragraph
         (d), such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period
         of grace or requirement of notice provided under this Agreement).

                                   ARTICLE IX

                             SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS

                  Section 9.01. Supplemental Agreements Without Consent of
Certificateholders. Without the consent of the Certificateholders, the Company
may (but will not be required to), and the Trustee (subject to Section 9.03)
shall, at the Company's request, at any time and from time to time, enter into
one or more agreements supplemental hereto or, if applicable, to an
Intercreditor Agreement or a Liquidity Facility, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

                  (a) to provide for the formation of a Trust, the issuance of a
         series of Certificates and other matters contemplated by Section 2.01;
         or

                  (b) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
         Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
         the Company herein contained or of the Company's obligations under any
         Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility; or

                  (c) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
         the Certificateholders of any series, or to surrender any right or
         power conferred upon the Company in this Agreement, any Intercreditor
         Agreement or any Liquidity Facility; or

                  (d) to correct or supplement any provision in this Agreement,
         any Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility which may be
         defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein or therein or
         to cure any ambiguity or to modify any other provision with respect to
         matters or questions arising under this Agreement, any Intercreditor
         Agreement or any Liquidity Facility, provided, however, that any such
         action shall not materially adversely affect the interests of the
         Certificateholders of any series;


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         to correct any mistake in this Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement
         or any Liquidity Facility; or, as provided in any Intercreditor
         Agreement, to give effect to or provide for a Replacement Liquidity
         Facility (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement); or

                  (e) to comply with any requirement of the SEC, any applicable
         law, rules or regulations of any exchange or quotation system on which
         the Certificates of any series are listed or of any regulatory body; or

                  (f) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this
         Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility to
         such extent as shall be necessary to continue the qualification of this
         Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility
         (including any supplemental agreement) under the Trust Indenture Act or
         under any similar Federal statute hereafter enacted, and to add to this
         Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility such
         other provisions as may be expressly permitted by the Trust Indenture
         Act, excluding, however, the provisions referred to in Section
         316(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act as in effect at the date as of
         which this Basic Agreement was executed or any corresponding provision
         in any similar Federal statute hereafter enacted; or

                  (g) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
         under this Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity
         Facility by a successor Trustee with respect to one or more Trusts and
         to add to or change any of the provisions of this Agreement, any
         Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility as shall be necessary
         to provide for or facilitate the administration of the Trust, pursuant
         to the requirements of Section 7.10; or

                  (h) to provide the information required under Section 7.12 and
         Section 12.04 as to the Trustee; or

                  (i) to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection
         with the qualification of this Agreement under the Trust Indenture Act;
         or

                  (j) to make any other amendments or modifications hereto,
         provided, however, that such amendments or modifications shall apply to
         Certificates of any series to be thereafter issued;

provided, however, that no such supplemental agreement shall adversely affect
the status of any Trust as a grantor trust under Subpart E, Part I of Subchapter
J of Chapter 1 of Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,
for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

                  Section 9.02. Supplemental Agreements with Consent of
Certificateholders. With respect to each separate Trust and the series of
Certificates relating thereto, with the


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consent of the Certificateholders holding Certificates of such series (including
consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the
Certificates) evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less
than a majority in interest in such Trust, by Direction of said
Certificateholders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company may
(with the consent of the Owner Trustees, if any, relating to the Certificates,
which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), but shall not be obligated
to, and the Trustee (subject to Section 9.03) shall, enter into an agreement or
agreements supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement,
any Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility to the extent applicable
to such Certificateholders or of modifying in any manner the rights and
obligations of such Certificateholders under this Agreement any Intercreditor
Agreement or any Liquidity Facility; provided, however, that no such agreement
shall, without the consent of the Certificateholder of each Outstanding
Certificate adversely affected thereby:

                  (a) reduce in any manner the amount of, or delay the timing
         of, any receipt by the Trustee of payments on the Equipment Notes held
         in such Trust or distributions that are required to be made herein on
         any Certificate of such series, or change any date of payment on any
         Certificate of such series, or change the place of payment where, or
         the coin or currency in which, any Certificate of such series is
         payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
         any such payment or distribution on or after the Regular Distribution
         Date or Special Distribution Date applicable thereto; or

                  (b) permit the disposition of any Equipment Note included in
         the Trust Property of such Trust except as permitted by this Agreement,
         or otherwise deprive such Certificateholder of the benefit of the
         ownership of the Equipment Notes in such Trust; or

                  (c) alter the priority of distributions specified in the
         Intercreditor Agreement in a manner materially adverse to the interests
         of the Certificateholders of any series; or

                  (d) reduce the specified percentage of the aggregate
         Fractional Undivided Interests of such Trust that is required for any
         such supplemental agreement, or reduce such specified percentage
         required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this
         Agreement or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences)
         provided for in this Agreement; or

                  (e) modify any of the provisions of this Section 9.02 or
         Section 6.05, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
         certain other provisions of this Agreement cannot be modified or waived
         without the consent of the Certificateholder of each Certificate of
         such series affected thereby.


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                  It shall not be necessary for any Direction of such
Certificateholders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any
proposed supplemental agreement, but it shall be sufficient if such Direction
shall approve the substance thereof.

                  Section 9.03. Documents Affecting Immunity or Indemnity. If in
the opinion of the Trustee any document required to be executed by it pursuant
to the terms of Section 9.01 or 9.02 affects any interest, right, duty, immunity
or indemnity in favor of the Trustee under this Basic Agreement or any Trust
Supplement, the Trustee may in its discretion decline to execute such document.

                  Section 9.04. Execution of Supplemental Agreements. In
executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental
agreement permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts
created by this Agreement, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall
be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the
execution of such supplemental agreement is authorized or permitted by this
Agreement.

                  Section 9.05. Effect of Supplemental Agreements. Upon the
execution of any agreement supplemental to this Agreement under this Article,
this Basic Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental agreement shall form a part of this Basic Agreement for all
purposes; and every Certificateholder of each series theretofore or thereafter
authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby to the extent
applicable to such series.

                  Section 9.06. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every
supplemental agreement executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.

                  Section 9.07. Reference in Certificates to Supplemental
Agreements. Certificates of each series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental agreement applicable to such series pursuant to
this Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any
matter provided for in such supplemental agreement; and, in such case, suitable
notation may be made upon Outstanding Certificates of such series after proper
presentation and demand.

                                    ARTICLE X

                   AMENDMENTS TO INDENTURE AND NOTE DOCUMENTS

                  Section 10.01. Amendments and Supplements to Indenture and
Other Note Documents. In the event that the Trustee, as holder (or beneficial
owner through the


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Subordination Agent) of any Equipment Notes (or as a prospective purchaser of
any Postponed Notes) in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders of any
series or as Controlling Party under an Intercreditor Agreement, receives
(directly or indirectly through the Subordination Agent) a request for a consent
to any amendment, modification, waiver or supplement under any Indenture, other
Note Document or any other related document, the Trustee shall forthwith send a
notice of such proposed amendment, modification, waiver or supplement to each
Certificateholder of such series registered on the Register as of the date of
such notice. The Trustee shall request from the Certificateholders of such
series a Direction as to (a) whether or not to take or refrain from taking (or
direct the Subordination Agent to take or refrain from taking) any action which
a holder of (or, with respect to Postponed Notes, a prospective purchaser of)
such Equipment Note has the option to direct, (b) whether or not to give or
execute (or direct the Subordination Agent to give or execute) any waivers,
consents, amendments, modifications or supplements as a holder of (or, with
respect to Postponed Notes, a prospective purchaser of) such Equipment Note or
as Controlling Party and (c) how to vote (or direct the Subordination Agent to
vote) any Equipment Note (or, with respect to a Postponed Note, its commitment
to acquire such Postponed Note) if a vote has been called for with respect
thereto. Provided such a request for Certificateholder Direction shall have been
made, in directing any action or casting any vote or giving any consent as the
holder of any Equipment Note (or in directing the Subordination Agent in any of
the foregoing), (i) other than as Controlling Party, the Trustee shall vote for
or give consent to any such action with respect to such Equipment Note (or
Postponed Note) in the same proportion as that of (A) the aggregate face amounts
of all Certificates actually voted in favor of or for giving consent to such
action by such Direction of Certificateholders to (B) the aggregate face amount
of all Outstanding Certificates and (ii) as Controlling Party, the Trustee shall
vote as directed in such Certificateholder Direction by the Certificateholders
of such series evidencing a Fractional Undivided Interest aggregating not less
than a majority in interest in the Trust. For purposes of the immediately
preceding sentence, a Certificate shall have been "actually voted" if the Holder
of such Certificate has delivered to the Trustee an instrument evidencing such
Holder's consent to such Direction prior to one Business Day before the Trustee
directs such action or casts such vote or gives such consent. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, but subject to Section 6.04 and any Intercreditor Agreement, the
Trustee may, with respect to the Certificates of any series, in its own
discretion and at its own direction, consent and notify the relevant Loan
Trustee of such consent (or direct the Subordination Agent to consent and notify
the Loan Trustee of such consent) to any amendment, modification, waiver or
supplement under any related Indenture or any other related Note Document if an
Event of Default hereunder shall have occurred and be continuing or if such
amendment, modification, waiver or supplement will not materially adversely
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                                   ARTICLE XI

                              TERMINATION OF TRUSTS

                  Section 11.01. Termination of the Trusts. In respect of each
Trust created by the Basic Agreement as supplemented by a related Trust
Supplement, the respective obligations and responsibilities of the Company and
the Trustee with respect to such Trust shall terminate upon the distribution to
all Holders of Certificates of the series of such Trust and the Trustee of all
amounts required to be distributed to them pursuant to this Agreement and the
disposition of all property held as part of the Trust Property of such Trust;
provided, however, that in no event shall the Trust continue beyond one hundred
ten (110) years following the date of the execution of the Trust Supplement with
respect to such Trust (or such other final expiration date as may be specified
in such Trust Supplement).

                  Notice of any termination of a Trust, specifying the
applicable Regular Distribution Date (or the applicable Special Distribution
Date, as the case may be) upon which the Certificateholders of any series may
surrender their Certificates to the Trustee for payment of the final
distribution and cancellation, shall be mailed promptly by the Trustee to
Certificateholders of such series not earlier than 60 of days and not later than
15 days preceding such final distribution specifying (A) the Regular
Distribution Date (or Special Distribution Date, as the case may be) upon which
the proposed final payment of the Certificates of such series will be made upon
presentation and surrender of Certificates of such series at the office or
agency of the Trustee therein specified, (B) the amount of any such proposed
final payment, and (C) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Regular
Distribution Date (or Special Distribution Date, as the case may be) is not
applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the
Certificates of such series at the office or agency of the Trustee therein
specified. In the event that a notice of termination shall be given in
connection with the termination of a Lease, the Special Distribution Date may be
postponed for up to 10 Business Days. The Trustee shall give such notice to the
Registrar at the time such notice is given to Certificateholders of such series.
Upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates of such series in accordance
with such notice, the Trustee shall cause to be distributed to
Certificateholders of such series amounts distributable on such Regular
Distribution Date (or Special Distribution Date, as the case may be) pursuant to
Section 4.02.

                  In the event that all of the Certificateholders of such series
shall not surrender their Certificates for cancellation within six months after
the date specified in the above-mentioned written notice, the Trustee shall give
a second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders of such series to
surrender their Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution
with respect thereto. No additional interest shall accrue on the Certificates of
such series after any Regular Distribution Date (or Special Distribution Date,
as the case


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may be) of such series, as specified in the first written notice. In the event
that any money held by the Trustee for the payment of distributions on the
Certificates of such series shall remain unclaimed for two years (or such lesser
time as the Trustee shall be satisfied, after 60 days' notice from the Company,
is one month prior to the escheat period provided under applicable law) after
the final distribution date with respect thereto, the Trustee shall pay to each
Loan Trustee the appropriate amount of money relating to such Loan Trustee and
shall give written notice thereof to the related Owner Trustees, the Owner
Participants and the Company.

                                   ARTICLE XII

                            MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

                  Section 12.01. Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders. The
death or incapacity of any Certificateholder of any series shall not operate to
terminate this Agreement or the related Trust, nor entitle such
Certificateholder's legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to
take any action or commence any proceeding in any court for a partition or
winding up of the Trust, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations, and
liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.

                  Section 12.02. Registration of Equipment Notes in Name of
Subordination Agent. If the Trust is party to an Intercreditor Agreement, the
Trustee agrees that all Equipment Notes to be purchased by such Trust shall be
issued in the name of the Subordination Agent under such Intercreditor Agreement
or its nominee and held by such Subordination Agent in trust for the benefit of
the Certificateholders, or, if not so held, such Subordination Agent or its
nominee shall be reflected as the owner of such Equipment Notes in the register
of the issuer of such Equipment Notes.

                  Section 12.03. Notices. (a) Unless otherwise specifically
provided herein or in the applicable Trust Supplement, all notices required
under the terms and provisions of this Basic Agreement or such Trust Supplement
shall be in English and in writing, and any such notice may be given by United
States mail, courier service or telecopy, and any such notice shall be effective
when delivered or received or, if mailed, three days after deposit in the United
States mail with proper postage for ordinary mail prepaid,


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                  (i) if to the Company:

                                    Atlas Air, Inc.
                                    2000 Westchester Avenue
                                    Purchase, New York 10577-2543
                                    Attention: Chief Financial Officer
                                    Facsimile: (914) 701-8415

                  (ii) if to the Trustee:

                                    Wilmington Trust Company
                                    One Rodney Square
                                    1100 N. Market Street
                                    Wilmington, DE 19890-0001
                                    Attention: Corporate Trust Department
                                    Facsimile: (302) 427-4749

                  (b) The Company or the Trustee, by notice to the other, may
designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or
communications.

                  (c) Any notice or communication to Certificateholders of any
series shall be mailed by first-class mail to the addresses for
Certificateholders of such series shown on the Register kept by the Registrar
and to addresses filed with the Trustee for Certificate Owners of such series.
Failure so to mail a notice or communication or any defect in such notice or
communication shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other
Certificateholders or Certificate Owners of such series.

                  (d) If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner
provided above within the time prescribed, it is conclusively presumed to have
been duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

                  (e) If the Company mails a notice or communication to the
Certificateholders of such series, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and to
each Paying Agent for such series at the same time.

                  (f) Notwithstanding the foregoing, all communications or
notices to the Trustee shall be deemed to be given only when received by a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee.

                  (g) The Trustee shall promptly furnish the Company with a copy
of any demand, notice or written communication received by the Trustee hereunder
from any Certificateholder, Owner Trustee or Loan Trustee.


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                  Section 12.04. Governing Law. THIS BASIC AGREEMENT HAS BEEN
DELIVERED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND, TOGETHER WITH ALL TRUST SUPPLEMENTS AND
CERTIFICATES, SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE
DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

                  Section 12.05. Severability of Provisions. If any one or more
of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for
any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions,
or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements,
provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or
enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or the related Trust,
or of the Certificates of such series or the rights of the Certificateholders
thereof.

                  Section 12.06. Trust Indenture Act Controls. This Agreement is
subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act and shall, to the extent
applicable, be governed by such provisions. If any provision of this Agreement
limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision which is required to be
included in this Agreement by the Trust Indenture Act, the required provision
shall control.

                  Section 12.07. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The
Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

                  Section 12.08. Successors and Assigns. All covenants,
agreements, representations and warranties in this Agreement by the Trustee and
the Company shall bind and, to the extent permitted hereby, shall inure to the
benefit of and be enforceable by their respective successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not.

                  Section 12.09. Benefits of Agreement. Nothing in this
Agreement or in the Certificates of any series, express or implied, shall give
to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, and
the Certificateholders of such series, any benefit or any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under this Agreement.

                  Section 12.10. Legal Holidays. In any case where any Regular
Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date relating to any Certificate of
any series shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement) payment need not be made on such date, but may be
made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if
made on such Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date, and no
interest shall accrue during the intervening period.


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                  Section 12.11. Counterparts. For the purpose of facilitating
the execution of this Agreement and for other purposes, this Agreement may be
executed simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of which
counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts
shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

                  Section 12.12. Communication by Certificateholders, with Other
Certificateholders. Certificateholders of any series may communicate with other
Certificateholders of any series with respect to their rights under this Basic
Agreement, the related Trust Supplement or the Certificates of such series
pursuant to Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. The Company, the Trustee
and any and all other persons benefited by this Agreement shall have the
protection afforded by Section 312(c) of the Trust Indenture Act.

                  Section 12.13. Intention of Parties. The parties hereto intend
that each Trust be classified for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a grantor
trust under Subpart E, Part I of Subchapter J of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended, and not as a trust or association taxable as a corporation or
as a partnership. The Trustee agrees to hold all assets of each Trust for
investment purposes only. The powers granted and obligations undertaken pursuant
to this Agreement shall be so construed so as to further such intent.



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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to
be duly executed by their respective representatives hereunto duly authorized as
of the day and year first written above.

                                   ATLAS AIR, INC.


                                   By:
                                        ----------------------------------------
                                        Name:  Fred L. deLeeuw
                                        Title: Vice President-Corporate Finance


                                   WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
                                      as Trustee


                                   By:
                                        ----------------------------------------
                                        Name:
                                        Title:



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                                                                       EXHIBIT A


                               FORM OF CERTIFICATE


UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE TRUSTEE OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE
ISSUED IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS CERTIFICATE IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO.
OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC
(AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS
THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL CERTIFICATE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT
NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR'S
NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL CERTIFICATE SHALL BE LIMITED TO
TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS 8.05
AND 8.06 OF THE TRUST SUPPLEMENT OF THE PASS THROUGH AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
HEREIN.

BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER REPRESENTS THAT EITHER (A) NO ASSETS OF AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SECURITIES
ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR OF A PLAN SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE") HAVE BEEN USED TO
PURCHASE THIS CERTIFICATE OR (B) THE PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THIS CERTIFICATE
ARE EXEMPT FROM THE PROHIBITED TRANSACTION RESTRICTIONS OF ERISA AND THE CODE
PURSUANT TO ONE OR MORE PROHIBITED TRANSACTION STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE
EXEMPTIONS.


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                               GLOBAL CERTIFICATE


                          ATLAS AIR PASS THROUGH TRUST

                  ____% Pass Through Certificate, Series 200_-_

                           Issuance Date: ___________

                   Final Distribution Date: ___________, ____

                 evidencing a fractional undivided interest in a
                  trust, the property of which includes certain
                 equipment notes each secured by Aircraft owned
                         by or leased to Atlas Air, Inc.


Certificate
No._______                           $___________ Fractional Undivided Interest
                                     representing ____% of the Trust
                                     per $1,000 face amount


                  THIS CERTIFIES THAT _________________________, for value
received, is the registered owner of a $_______ (_______ dollars) Fractional
Undivided Interest in the Atlas Air Pass Through Trust, Series ___ (the "Trust")
created pursuant to a Pass Through Trust Agreement dated as of ___, ______ (the
"Basic Agreement"), between Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee (the "Trustee")
and Atlas Air, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") as supplemented by
Trust Supplement No. ___ thereto dated ___, ______ (the "Trust Supplement" and
together with the Basic Agreement, the "Agreement"), a summary of certain of the
pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise
defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to
them in the Agreement. This Certificate is one of the duly authorized
Certificates designated as "___% Atlas Air Pass Through Certificates, Series
___" (herein called the "Certificates"). This Certificate is issued under and is
subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement. By virtue of
its acceptance hereof, the holder of this Certificate (the "Certificateholder"
and, together with all other holders of Certificates issued by the Trust the
"Certificateholders") assents to and agrees to be bound by the provisions of the
Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement. The property of the Trust includes
certain Equipment Notes and all rights of the Trust to receive payments under
the Intercreditor Agreement and the Liquidity Facility (the


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"Trust Property"). Each issue of the Equipment Notes is secured by, among other
things, a security interest in the Aircraft leased to or owned by the Company.

                  The Certificates represent fractional undivided interests in
the Trust and the Trust Property, and have no rights, benefits or interest in
respect of any other separate trust established pursuant to the terms of the
Basic Agreement for any other series of certificates issued pursuant thereto.

                  Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Agreement
and the Intercreditor Agreement, from and to the extent of funds then available
to the Trustee, there will be distributed on each ___________ and ___________ (a
"Regular Distribution Date"), commencing on ___________, ____, to the Person in
whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the 15th
day preceding the Regular Distribution Date, an amount in respect of the
Scheduled Payments on the Equipment Notes due on such Regular Distribution Date,
the receipt of which has been confirmed by the Trustee, equal to the product of
the percentage interest in the Trust evidenced by this Certificate and an amount
equal to the sum of such Scheduled Payments. Subject to and in accordance with
the terms of the Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, in the event that
Special Payments on the Equipment Notes are received by the Trustee, from funds
then available to the Trustee, there shall be distributed on the applicable
Special Distribution Date, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is
registered at the close of business on the 15th day preceding the Special
Distribution Date, an amount in respect of such Special Payments on the
Equipment Notes, the receipt of which has been confirmed by the Trustee, equal
to the product of the percentage interest in the Trust evidenced by this
Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of such Special Payments so received.
If a Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date is not a Business
Day, distribution shall be made on the immediately following Business Day with
the same force and effect as if made on such Regular Distribution Date or
Special Distribution Date and no interest shall accrue during the intervening
period. The Trustee shall mail notice of each Special Payment and the Special
Distribution Date therefor to the Certificateholder of this Certificate.

                  Each Certificateholder by its acceptance of this Certificate
or a beneficial interest herein, agrees to treat the Trust as a grantor trust
for all U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes.

                  Except as otherwise provided in the Agreement and
notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be
made after notice mailed by the Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and
only upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency
of the Trustee specified in such notice.


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                  THE AGREEMENT AND THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.


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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to
be duly executed.

                                    200_  -_ ATLAS AIR PASS THROUGH TRUST


                                    By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its
                                      individual capacity but solely as Trustee


                                    By:
                                       ----------------------------------
                                    Title:
                                          -------------------------------

Dated:
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               FORM OF THE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION


                         This is one of the Certificates
                               referred to in the
                           within-mentioned Agreement.


                                    WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
                                      individual capacity but solely as Trustee


                                    By:
                                       ---------------------------------
                                         Authorized Officer






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                             REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE

                  The Certificates do not represent a direct obligation of, or
an obligation guaranteed by, or an interest in, the Company or the Trustee or
any affiliate thereof. The Certificates are limited in right of payment, all as
more specifically set forth on the face hereof and in the Agreement. All
payments or distributions made to Certificateholders under the Agreement shall
be made only from the Trust Property and only to the extent that the Trustee
shall have sufficient income or proceeds from the Trust Property to make such
payments in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Each Certificateholder
of this Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that it will look solely
to the income and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent available for
distribution to such Certificateholder as provided in the Agreement. This
Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to
the Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights, benefits,
obligations, proceeds, and duties evidenced hereby. A copy of the Agreement may
be examined during normal business hours at the principal office of the Trustee,
and at such other places, if any, designated by the Trustee, by any
Certificateholder upon request.

                  The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Certificateholders under the
Agreement at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the
Certificateholders holding Certificates evidencing Fractional Undivided
Interests aggregating not less than a majority in interest in the Trust. Any
such consent by the Certificateholder of this Certificate shall be conclusive
and binding on such Certificateholder and upon all future Certificateholders of
this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in
exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is
made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in
certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Certificateholders of
any of the Certificates.

                  As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain
limitations set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the
Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the
offices or agencies maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Registrar, or
by any successor Registrar, in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, duly
endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory
to the Trustee and the Registrar, duly executed by the Certificateholder hereof
or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon
one or more new Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same
aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest in the Trust will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees.

                  The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates
without coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 Fractional Undivided Interest
and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, except that one Certificate
may be issued in a different denomination. As provided in the Agreement and
subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Certificates are
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same aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest in the Trust, as requested by the
Certificateholder surrendering the same.

                  No service charge will be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Trustee shall require payment by the holder of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection
therewith.

                  The Trustee, the Registrar, and any agent of the Trustee or
the Registrar may treat the person in whose name this Certificate is registered
as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Trustee, the Registrar,
nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

                  The obligations and responsibilities created by the Agreement
and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the distribution to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed to them pursuant to
the Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Trust
Property.





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                             FORM OF TRANSFER NOTICE


                  FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned registered holder hereby
sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

Insert Taxpayer Identification No.

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please print or typewrite name and address including zip code of assignee

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the within Certificate and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing

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attorney to transfer said Certificate on the books of the Trustee with full
power of substitution in the premises.

Date:                               [Name of Transferor]
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                                    NOTE: The signature must correspond with the
                                    name as written upon the face of the
                                    within-mentioned instrument in every
                                    particular, without alteration or any change
                                    whatsoever.

Signature Guarantee:

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