---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001018164-25-000156"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WLFC"
cik: "0001018164"
company_name: "WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP"
filed_at: "2025-12-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:13:09.304087+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Willis Lease subsidiary closes $392.9M note offering secured by 47 engines and 2 airframes

## Summary
- Series A $337.4M at 5.159%, Series B $55.5M at 5.696%; expected maturity ~6 years, final 25 years.
- Net proceeds to pay fees, fund reserve accounts, and pay Willis for engines/airframes over 270-day delivery period.
- Willis appointed servicer and admin agent; servicer fee 8% senior rent fee, 3.5% subordinated rent fee, admin fee 2%.
- Notes secured by WEST's interests in 47 engines and 2 airframes; WEST assets not available to satisfy Willis other obligations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001018164-25-000156
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WLFC
- cik: 0001018164
- company_name: WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP
- filed_at: 2025-12-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018164/000101816425000156/0001018164-25-000156-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018164/000101816425000156/wlfc-20251223.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001018164-25-000156.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP incurred senior notes of $392,900,000 in aggregate principal amount of fixed rate notes at 5.159% and 5.696% maturing final maturity of 25 years.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $392,900,000 in aggregate principal amount of fixed rate notes
  - Rate: 5.159% and 5.696%
  - Maturity: final maturity of 25 years
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On December 23, 2025, Willis Lease Finance Corporation (the “Company”) and its direct, wholly-owned subsidiary Willis Engine Structured Trust IX (“WEST”), closed its offering of $392,900,000 in aggregate principal amount of fixed rate notes (the “Notes”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018164/000101816425000156/0001018164-25-000156-index.htm

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