secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Firefly Aerospace Inc. (FLY)
CIK:        0001860160
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-06T20:05:15+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-415543
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Firefly Aerospace director Zurbuchen resigns; board appoints Rick Ambrose effective Oct. 5, 2026
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- Thomas Zurbuchen resigned as a Firefly Aerospace director effective Sept. 30, 2026; the company said his resignation was not due to any disagreement.
- The board appointed Rick Ambrose as a Class III director effective Oct. 5, 2026, with a term running to the 2028 annual meeting.
- Ambrose, 68, is a Textron director and former Lockheed Martin EVP—Space, where he led a $12 billion space business; he joins the Audit and Compensation Committees.
- As a non-employee director, Ambrose receives a $100,000 annual cash retainer, committee retainers, a one-time $150,000 RSU grant, and $150,000 annual RSU grants.
- Firefly reported no arrangements or understandings with Ambrose, no Item 404(a) transactions, and no family relationships with any director or executive officer.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312526415543/0001193125-26-415543-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860160/000119312526415543/fly-20260930.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-415543

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