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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-105556"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AIR"
cik: "0000001750"
company_name: "AAR CORP"
filed_at: "2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:54:58.648859+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AAR acquires HAECO Americas for $80M; secures over $850M in multi-year MRO contracts

## Summary
- Acquisition of HAECO Americas for $80M in cash (subject to adjustments); funded via existing credit facility.
- HAECO Americas is second largest heavy MRO provider in North America; adds facilities in Greensboro, NC and Lake City, FL.
- Multi-year heavy maintenance contracts with key customers worth over $850M effectively sell out the two new facilities.
- Transaction initially slightly dilutive to margins; expected to achieve AAR's current Airframe MRO operating margins post-integration.
- HAECO Americas brings over 1,600 employees, 30% veterans; AAR to apply its operating model for efficiency gains.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-105556
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AIR
- cik: 0000001750
- company_name: AAR CORP
- filed_at: 2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750/000110465925105556/0001104659-25-105556-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750/000110465925105556/tm2530099d1_8k.htm

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