---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001824502-25-000016"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACHR"
cik: "0001824502"
company_name: "Archer Aviation Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T21:27:12.694087+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Archer Aviation acquires Hawthorne Airport lease, subleases and hangar development rights for $126M cash

## Summary
- Acquisition of Master Lease (through 2055) and Subleases at Hawthorne Airport for $126M in cash; closing expected by end of 2025.
- Option to buy 75% of fixed based operator from Advanced Air for $25M before Dec 31, 2026.
- Development agreement for 63,000 sq ft additional hangar space at $20.4M, paid in installments.
- Assumes ~$16M loan at 6.3% maturing April 2030 (with 5-year extension option).
- Up to $21.4M in earn-out shares of Class A common stock for Sellers/employees based on performance milestones over 3 years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001824502-25-000016
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACHR
- cik: 0001824502
- company_name: Archer Aviation Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1824502/000182450225000016/0001824502-25-000016-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1824502/000182450225000016/achr-20251105.htm

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