UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AIRCASTLE LIMITED
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Bermuda
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
98-0444035
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
c/o Aircastle Advisor LLC
201 Tresser Boulevard, Suite 400
Stamford, Connecticut 06901
(203) 504-1020
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Christopher L. Beers
Chief Legal Officer
c/o Aircastle Advisor LLC
201 Tresser Boulevard, Suite 400
Stamford, Connecticut 06901
(203) 504-1020
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
with copies to:
Joseph A. Coco
Thomas W. Greenberg
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
One Manhattan West
New York, NY 10001
(212) 735-3000
Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statement
(Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public)
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement of Aircastle Limited, a Bermuda exempted company (the “Company”), on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-224813), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 10, 2018 (the “Registration
Statement”), which registered the offering of an indeterminate number or amount of common shares; preference shares; depositary shares representing preference shares; debt securities; warrants; subscription rights; purchase contracts; and
purchase units (or its equivalent in foreign or composite currencies) (collectively, the “Securities”).
On March 27, 2020, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 5, 2020 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, MM Air Limited, a Bermuda
exempted company (“Parent”), and MM Air Merger Sub Limited, a Bermuda exempted company (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company
continuing as the surviving corporation and an affiliate of Parent and Marubeni Aviation Holding Coöperatief U.A., a Netherlands coöperatief (the “Merger”).
In connection with the Merger and other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company’s equity securities have ceased to be publicly traded and the Company is terminating all offerings of its
securities pursuant to its existing registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from
registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any Securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes and withdraws from registration all Securities of the Company registered under the Registration
Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof, and terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.
The foregoing description of the Merger, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the Merger Agreement, which
is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 7, 2019.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 478 thereunder, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this
Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Stamford, State of Connecticut, on this 3rd day of April, 2020.