---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-000173"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BUKS"
cik: "0000015847"
company_name: "BUTLER NATIONAL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T14:13:27.721126+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Butler National Corporation terminates CFO Tad M. McMahon effective January 2, 2025

## Summary
- Butler National Corporation terminated Tad M. McMahon as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary on January 2, 2025.
- The termination was effective immediately on January 2, 2025.
- No successor or interim CFO was announced in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-000173
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BUKS
- cik: 0000015847
- company_name: BUTLER NATIONAL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/15847/000143774925000173/0001437749-25-000173-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/15847/000143774925000173/buks20250103_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-000173
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-000173.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-000173.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tad M. McMahon was terminated as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at BUTLER NATIONAL CORP.
  - Action: terminated
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
  source text: Effective January 2, 2025, Butler National Corporation terminated the employment of Tad M. McMahon.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/15847/000143774925000173/0001437749-25-000173-index.htm

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