Exhibit 99.3
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE
To the holders of Textron Financial Corporation Medium Term Notes identified on attached Annex 1 (the “Securities”)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Textron Financial Corporation (the “Company”) has received a notice of resignation from U.S. Bank National Association (successor to SunTrust Bank), as Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture dated December 9, 1999, as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of November 16, 2006 (as amended, the “Indenture”), and as Calculation Agent under the Calculation Agent Agreement dated November 16, 2006, such resignation to be effective December 17, 2007.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture, the Company has appointed The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association, as successor Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar under the Indenture and Calculation Agent under the Calculation Agent Agreement. The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A has, pursuant to Section 5.9 of the Indenture, accepted such appointment to be effective December 17, 2007. The address of the Corporate Trust Office of The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A is 222 Berkeley Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, Attention: Corporate Finance. Securities being sent to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A for payment, registration of transfer or exchange should be sent to the following address:
By Mail or Overnight Courier:
The Bank of New York
One Wall Street, 3rd Floor,
INCOMING WINDOW
New York, NY 10286
TRUST A/C # [insert account number & name]
Textron Financial Corporation, as Issuer
U.S. Bank National Association, as Resigning Trustee
Dated: December 17, 2007
Annex 1
Outstanding | Effective Date | Maturity Date | CUSIP |
$500,000,000.00 | | 11/22/2002 | 11/20/2009 | 88319AQ4 |
100,000,000.00 | | 8/26/2004 | 8/15/2014 | 88319QG56 |
400,000,000.00 | | 3/3/2005 | 3/3/2008 | 88319QG98 |
400,000,000.00 | | 4/28/2005 | 5/3/2010 | 88319QH22 |
100,000,000.00 | | 5/2/2005 | 5/2/2008 | 88319QH230 |
50,000,000.00 | | 8/22/2005 | 3/3/2008 | 88319QG98 |
50,000,000.00 | | 10/12/2005 | 5/3/2010 | 88319QH22 |
65,000,000.00 | | 10/27/2005 | 5/3/2010 | 88319QH22 |
100,000,000.00 | | 11/7/2005 | 11/7/2008 | 88319GQ63 |
20,000,000.00 | | 11/7/2005 | 11/7/2008 | 88319QH71 |
50,000,000.00 | | 1/12/2006 | 1/12/2009 | 88319QH97 |
400,000,000.00 | | 2/3/2006 | 2/3/2011 | 88319QJ20 |
10,000,000.00 | | 2/22/2006 | 2/23/2009 | 88319QJ38 |
10,000,000.00 | | 3/16/2006 | 9/16/2009 | 88319QJ46 |
25,000,000.00 | | 4/12/2006 | 4/12/2009 | 88319QJ53 |
50,000,000.00 | | 4/26/2006 | 4/12/2009 | 88319QJ53 |
110,000,000.00 | | 6/2/2006 | 6/2/2008 | 88319QJ61 |
20,000,000.00 | | 6/2/2006 | 6/2/2009 | 88319QJ87 |
200,000,000.00 | | 6/5/2006 | 6/5/2009 | 88319QJ95 |
155,000,000.00 | | 7/5/2006 | 1/5/2010 | 88319QK28 |
70,000,000.00 | | 7/11/2006 | 1/5/2010 | 88319QK28 |
25,000,000.00 | | 9/8/2006 | 9/8/2026 | 88319QK36 |
200,000,000.00 | | 9/29/2006 | 9/29/2009 | 88319QK51 |
200,000,000.00 | | 11/2/2006 | 11/2/2009 | 88319QK69 |
51,000,000.00 | | 11/8/2006 | 11/8/2010 | 88319QK77 |
63,000,000.00 | | 12/14/2006 | 12/14/2009 | 88319QK85 |
25,000,000.00 | | 12/21/2006 | 12/21/2008 | 88319QK93 |
255,000,000.00 | | 1/11/2007 | 1/11/2010 | 88319QL27 |
150,000,000.00 | | 2/27/2007 | 2/25/2011 | 88319QL35 |
125,000,000.00 | | 3/19/2007 | 3/19/2010 | 88319QL45 |
60,000,000.00 | | 5/2/2007 | 3/19/2010 | 88319QL43 |
50,000,000.00 | | 5/7/2007 | 5/7/2010 | 88319QL50 |
10,000,000.00 | | 7/17/2007 | 7/17/2037 | 88319QL68 |
275,000,000.00 | | 9/6/2007 | 9/10/2008 | 88319QL76 |
55,000,000.00 | | 9/12/2007 | 9/14/2009 | 88319QK44 |
450,000,000.00 | | 11/1/2007 | 11/1/2010 | 88319QL84 |
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