RTN Raytheon Co

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 3, 2020

Registration No. 333-230497

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

870 Winter Street,

Waltham, Massachusetts 02451

(781) 522-3000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Frank R. Jimenez

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Raytheon Company

870 Winter Street

Waltham, Massachusetts 02451

(781) 522-3000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Clare O’Brien

Sean Skiffington

Cody Wright

Shearman & Sterling LLP

599 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Tel: (212) 848-4000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

This post-effective amendment deregisters those securities that remain unsold hereunder as of the date hereof.

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

This post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-230497) (the “Registration Statement”) of Raytheon Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 25, 2019, hereby amends the Registration Statement to deregister any securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date of this post-effective amendment.

On April 3, 2020, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 9, 2019, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 9, 2020, by and among United Technologies Corporation (“UTC”), Light Merger Sub Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of UTC (“Merger Sub”), and the Registrant, Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant continuing as the surviving company in the Merger and a wholly owned subsidiary of UTC.

All offerings pursuant to the Registration Statement have been terminated. In connection with the closing of the Merger, the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that had been registered but which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, hereby removes from registration any and all securities registered but not sold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Waltham, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on April 3, 2020.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.