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accession: "0001104659-25-115756"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVAV"
cik: "0001368622"
company_name: "AeroVironment Inc"
filed_at: "2025-11-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T16:52:52.795964+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AeroVironment amends bylaws with governance updates

## Summary
- Board adopts Sixth Amended and Restated Bylaws effective Nov 20, 2025.
- Amendments implement right-to-cure process for certain deficiencies in director nomination notices.
- Board may postpone, reschedule or cancel annual meetings; Chairman/CEO/Board may do same for special meetings.
- Supplement notice provisions to align with Delaware law and current practice; revise advance notice requirements.
- Directors may hold special meetings on less than 48 hours' notice and includes severability provision.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-115756
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVAV
- cik: 0001368622
- company_name: AeroVironment Inc
- filed_at: 2025-11-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368622/000110465925115756/0001104659-25-115756-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368622/000110465925115756/tm2532104d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-115756.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AeroVironment Inc: Amended and restated bylaws with 7 substantive amendments covering director nominations, meeting postponement, notice provisions, advance notice requirements, director special meetings, and severability (effective 2025-11-20).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-11-20
  source text: On November 20, 2025, the Board of Directors of AeroVironment, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s bylaws (such amended and restated bylaws, the Sixth Amended and Restated Bylaws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368622/000110465925115756/0001104659-25-115756-index.htm

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