---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-001753"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AIR"
cik: "0000001750"
company_name: "AAR CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T06:55:26.588074+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AAR Corp. SVP & CHRO Tracey Patterson departing Jan 10, 2025; receives $300K cash for unvested stock

## Summary
- Tracey Patterson resigns as SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer effective January 10, 2025.
- Company will pay $300,000 cash to replace unvested time-based restricted stock award from 2023.
- Payment conditioned on release of claims, confidentiality, non-disparagement, and non-solicitation covenants.
- No successor named; Patterson accepted role outside aviation industry.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-001753
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AIR
- cik: 0000001750
- company_name: AAR CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750/000110465925001753/0001104659-25-001753-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750/000110465925001753/tm2431420d4_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001753
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001753.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001753.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tracey Patterson resigned as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at AAR CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
  source text: On January 3, 2025, Tracey Patterson notified AAR CORP. (the “Company”) that she has accepted another professional opportunity outside of the Company and the aviation industry. She will depart from her current position as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer and as an employee of the Company effective January 10, 2025 to allow for the appropriate transition.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750/000110465925001753/0001104659-25-001753-index.htm

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