---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-023499"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FTAI"
cik: "0001590364"
company_name: "FTAI Aviation Ltd."
filed_at: "2025-06-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T22:31:46.464507+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FTAI Aviation dismisses EY as auditor, hires KPMG for FY2025

## Summary
- Audit Committee approved KPMG as independent auditor for FY ending Dec 31, 2025, effective June 17, 2025.
- EY dismissed as auditor; no disagreements or reportable events in past audits (2023, 2024 and interim 2025).
- Dismissal not due to dissatisfaction; competitive review prompted by governance after internalization.
- EY had served as FTAI's auditor since 2016.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-023499
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FTAI
- cik: 0001590364
- company_name: FTAI Aviation Ltd.
- filed_at: 2025-06-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590364/000114036125023499/0001140361-25-023499-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590364/000114036125023499/ef20050905_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  FTAI Aviation Ltd. dismissed Ernst & Young LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
  - Successor: KPMG LLP
  source text: the Company dismissed EY as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590364/000114036125023499/0001140361-25-023499-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  FTAI Aviation Ltd. engaged KPMG LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: KPMG LLP
  source text: (the “Company” or “FTAI”) approved the engagement of KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, effective as of June 17, 2025. Prior to KPMG’s engagement, the Audit Committee conducted a comprehensive, competitive auditor selection process that included registered public accounting firms that the Audit Committee believed might be able to serve as auditor for the Company, including Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”), which had been engaged as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm since 2016.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590364/000114036125023499/0001140361-25-023499-index.htm

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