---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-023546"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVAV"
cik: "0001368622"
company_name: "AeroVironment Inc"
filed_at: "2022-02-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T07:54:33.899371+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AeroVironment COO Ken Karklin steps down effective immediately

## Summary
- Ken Karklin, SVP & COO, departed AeroVironment effective February 14, 2022.
- No reason for departure was disclosed in the filing.
- No successor or interim COO has been announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-023546
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVAV
- cik: 0001368622
- company_name: AeroVironment Inc
- filed_at: 2022-02-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368622/000110465922023546/0001104659-22-023546-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368622/000110465922023546/tm226788d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-023546.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ken Karklin departed as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at AeroVironment Inc.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On February 14, 2022, AeroVironment, Inc. (the “Company”) and Ken Karklin, its Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, agreed that Mr. Karklin would step down from his role as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368622/000110465922023546/0001104659-22-023546-index.htm

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