# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001706946
**File Stem:** 0001706946-23-000019
**Filing Date:** 2023-3
**Character Count:** 9585
**Document Hash:** a2ecfef93e65649027cc7df5d59c05e9
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001706946-23-000019.hdr.sgml**: 20230307

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001706946-23-000019

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20230302

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230307

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230307

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001706946
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** TRANSPORTATION SERVICES [4700]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 853608069
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-38202
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23713535

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1700 FLIGHT WAY
- **CITY:** TUSTIN
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 92782
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (575) 424-2100

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1700 FLIGHT WAY
- **CITY:** TUSTIN
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 92782

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Virgin Galactic Vehicle Holdings, Inc
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20191025

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20170517

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

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**FORM 8-K**

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**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D)**

**OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 2, 2023**

**____________________________**

**Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc.**

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)**

**____________________________**

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| **Delaware** | **001-38202** | **85-3608069** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction**<br>**of incorporation)** | **(Commission**<br>**File Number)** | **(IRS Employer**<br>**Identification No.)** |

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| **1700 Flight Way**<br>**Tustin, California** | **92782** |
| **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**(949) 774-7640**

**(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)**

**Not Applicable**

**(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)**

**____________________________**

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| **Common stock, $0.0001 par value per share** | **SPCE** | **New York Stock Exchange** |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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**Item 4.01. Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant.**

On March 2, 2023, the Audit Committee (the "Committee") of the Board of Directors of Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") approved the engagement of Ernst & Young LLP ("E&Y") as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, effective immediately.

On March 2, 2023, the Committee dismissed KPMG LLP ("KPMG") as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately. The reports of KPMG on the Company's financial statements for each of the two fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022 did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. In the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022 and in the subsequent interim period through March 2, 2023, there were no "disagreements" (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions) between the Company and KPMG on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedures, which, if not resolved to the satisfaction of KPMG, would have caused KPMG to make reference to the matter in its report on the financial statements for such years.

In the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022 and in the subsequent interim period through March 2, 2023, there were no "reportable events" (as described in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K), except that, as reported in Part II, Item 9A of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 (the "Annual Report"), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 10, 2021, the Company reported a material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting during such period related to the Company's classification and measurement of warrant liabilities, which resulted in the restatement of the Company's financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020. As reported in Part I, Item 4 of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021, management concluded that the material weakness was remediated during the third quarter of 2021 and that, as of September 30, 2021, its internal control over financial reporting was effective.

The Company provided KPMG with a copy of the disclosures contained in this Form 8-K and requested that KPMG furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether it agrees with the statements contained herein. A copy of KPMG's letter, dated March 7, 2023, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022 and the subsequent interim period through March 2, 2023, neither the Company nor anyone on its behalf consulted with E&Y with respect to (a) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company's consolidated financial statements, and neither a written report nor oral advice was provided to the Company that E&Y concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue, or (b) any matter that was either the subject of a "disagreement" (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions) or a "reportable event" (as described in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).

**Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.**

(d) Exhibits.

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| **<u>Exhibit No.</u>** | **<u>Description</u>** |
| <u>[16.1](item401response.htm)</u> | <u>[Letter from KPMG LLP dated March 7, 2023](item401response.htm)</u> |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|  | Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. | Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. |
| Date: March 7, 2023 | By: | /s/ Douglas Ahrens |
|  | Name: | Douglas Ahrens |
|  | Title: | Chief Financial Officer |
|  |  | (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |

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## Exhibit 16.1

EX 16.1

March 7, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission

Washington, D.C. 20549

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We were previously principal accountants for Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") and, under the date of February 28, 2023, we reported on the consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022. On March 2, 2023, we were dismissed.

We have read the Company's statements included under Item 4.01 of its Form 8-K dated March 7, 2023, and we agree with such statements except we are not in a position to agree or disagree with the Company's statement that the change was approved by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, and we are not in a position to agree or disagree with any of the Company's statements in the fifth paragraph of this Item that Ernst & Young LLP was not consulted regarding (a) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction or the type of audit opinion that might have been rendered on the Company's consolidated financial statements or the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting or (b) any matters or events set forth in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) and 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.

Very truly yours,

/s/ KPMG LLP

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