Exhibit 1.
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TRUST INDENTURE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
(FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION TRUST NO. N678FE)
Dated as of June 15, 1998
Amended and Restated as of September 1, 1998
between
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
Not in its Individual
Capacity, but solely
As Owner Trustee,
Owner Trustee
and
FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
Not in its Individual
Capacity, but solely
As Indenture Trustee,
Indenture Trustee
COVERING ONE AIRBUS A300F4-605R AIRCRAFT
SERIAL NO. 792, REGISTRATION NO. N678FE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Initial Recitals......................................................... 1
Granting Clause.......................................................... 2
Habendum Clause.......................................................... 6
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01. Definitions.............................................. 7
ARTICLE II
ISSUE, EXECUTION, FORM AND
REGISTRATION OF CERTIFICATES;
COLLATERAL ACCOUNT
Section 2.01. Authentication and Delivery of Certificates.............. 7
Section 2.02. Execution of Certificates................................ 8
Section 2.03. Certificate of Authentication............................ 8
Section 2.04. Form and Terms of Certificates; Payments of Principal,
Make-Whole Premium and Interest.......................... 8
Section 2.05. Payments from Trust Indenture Estate Only................ 11
Section 2.06. Registration, Transfer and Exchange...................... 12
Section 2.07. Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Certificates............................................. 13
Section 2.08. Cancellation of Certificates; Destruction Thereof........ 14
Section 2.09. Temporary Certificates................................... 14
Section 2.10. Termination of Interest in Trust Indenture Estate........ 15
Section 2.11. Certificates in Respect of Replacement Aircraft.......... 15
Section 2.12. Assumption of Obligations Under Certificates and Other
Operative Agreements..................................... 15
Section 2.13. Establishment of Collateral Account...................... 15
Section 2.14. Investment of Funds on Deposit in the Collateral Account. 15
Section 2.15. Amounts in the Collateral Account on Delivery Date....... 16
Section 2.16. Series C Prepayment Date................................. 17
Section 2.17. Subordination............................................ 17
Section 2.18. Reoptimization........................................... 18
Section 2.19. Decrease in Principal Amount of Series C Certificates.... 18
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
Section 3.01. Payment of Principal, Make-Whole Premium and Interest.... 18
Section 3.02. Offices for Payments, etc................................ 19
Section 3.03. Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Indenture
Trustee.................................................. 19
Section 3.04. Paying Agents............................................ 19
Section 3.05. Covenants of SSB and the Owner Trustee................... 19
Section 3.06. [Reserved]............................................... 20
Section 3.07. Disposal of Trust Indenture Estate....................... 20
Section 3.08. No Representations or Warranties as to Aircraft or
Documents................................................ 20
Section 3.09. Further Assurances; Financing Statements................. 21
ARTICLE IV
HOLDER LISTS
Section 4.01. Holder Lists; Ownership of Certificates.................. 21
ARTICLE V
RECEIPT, DISTRIBUTION AND APPLICATION OF
INCOME FROM THE TRUST INDENTURE ESTATE
Section 5.01. Basic Rent Distribution.................................. 22
Section 5.02. Event of Loss and Replacement; Prepayment................ 23
Section 5.03. Payment After Indenture Event of Default, etc............ 24
Section 5.04. Certain Payments......................................... 26
Section 5.05. Other Payments........................................... 26
Section 5.06. Payments to Owner Trustee................................ 27
Section 5.07. Application of Payments.................................. 27
Section 5.08. Investment of Amounts Held by Indenture Trustee.......... 28
Section 5.09. Withholding Taxes........................................ 28
ARTICLE VI
PREPAYMENT OF CERTIFICATES
Section 6.01. No Prepayment Prior to Maturity.......................... 29
Section 6.02. Prepayment of Certificates............................... 29
Section 6.03. Notice of Prepayment to Holders.......................... 31
Section 6.04. Deposit of Prepayment Price and Sinking Fund Redemption
Price.................................................... 31
Section 6.05. Certificates Payable on Prepayment Date.................. 32
Section 6.06. Mandatory Sinking Fund Redemption........................ 32
ARTICLE VII
INDENTURE EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES
OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS
Section 7.01. Indenture Event of Default............................... 33
Section 7.02. Remedies................................................. 35
Section 7.03. Return of Aircraft, etc.................................. 37
Section 7.04. Indenture Trustee May Prove Debt......................... 40
Section 7.05. Remedies Cumulative...................................... 42
Section 7.06. Suits for Enforcement.................................... 42
Section 7.07. Discontinuance of Proceedings............................ 42
Section 7.08. Limitations on Suits by Holders.......................... 43
Section 7.09. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Interest and Make-Whole Premium, and to Institute
Certain Suits............................................ 43
Section 7.10. Control by Holders....................................... 43
Section 7.11. Waiver of Past Indenture Default......................... 44
Section 7.12. Notice of Indenture Default.............................. 44
Section 7.13. Waiver of Appraisement, etc.; Laws....................... 45
ARTICLE VIII
RIGHTS OF THE OWNER TRUSTEE
AND THE OWNER PARTICIPANT
Section 8.01. Certain Rights of Owner Trustee and Owner Participant.... 45
Section 8.02. Owner Participant's Right to Elect to Prepay or Purchase
the Certificates......................................... 49
Section 8.03. Certain Rights of Owner Participant...................... 50
ARTICLE IX
CONCERNING THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
Section 9.01. Acceptance of Trusts..................................... 52
Section 9.02. Duties and Responsibilities of the Indenture Trustee;
During an Indenture Event of Default; Prior to an
Indenture Event of Default............................... 52
Section 9.03. Certain Rights of the Indenture Trustee.................. 54
Section 9.04. Indenture Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals,
Disposition of Certificates or Application of Proceeds
Thereof.................................................. 55
Section 9.05. Indenture Trustee and Agents May Hold Certificates;
Collections, etc......................................... 55
Section 9.06. Moneys Held by Indenture Trustee......................... 55
Section 9.07. Right of Indenture Trustee to Rely on Officer's
Certificate, etc......................................... 56
Section 9.08. Replacement Airframes and Replacement Engines............ 56
Section 9.09. Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement for
Replacements............................................. 59
Section 9.10. Effect of Replacement.................................... 59
Section 9.11. Compensation............................................. 60
ARTICLE X
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS
Section 10.01. Evidence of Action Taken by Holders..................... 60
Section 10.02. Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of
Certificates............................................ 60
Section 10.03. Holders to Be Treated as Owners......................... 61
Section 10.04. Certificates Owned by Owner Trustee and the Lessee
Deemed Not Outstanding.................................. 61
Section 10.05. Right of Revocation of Action Taken..................... 62
Section 10.06. ERISA................................................... 62
ARTICLE XI
INDEMNIFICATION OF INDENTURE
TRUSTEE BY OWNER TRUSTEE
ARTICLE XII
SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES
Section 12.01. Notice of Successor Owner Trustee....................... 64
Section 12.02. Resignation and Removal of Indenture Trustee;
Appointment of Successor................................ 64
Section 12.03. Persons Eligible for Appointment as Indenture Trustee... 65
Section 12.04. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee.......... 65
Section 12.05. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business of Indenture Trustee........................... 66
Section 12.06. Appointment of Separate Trustees........................ 67
ARTICLE XIII
SUPPLEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS TO THIS
TRUST INDENTURE AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
Section 13.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders...... 69
Section 13.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders......... 70
Section 13.03. Effect of Supplemental Indenture........................ 72
Section 13.04. Documents to Be Given to Indenture Trustee.............. 72
Section 13.05. Notation on Certificates in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures.............................................. 72
Section 13.06. No Request Necessary for Lease Supplement or Indenture
and Security Agreement Supplement....................... 72
Section 13.07. Notices to Liquidity Providers.......................... 72
ARTICLE XIV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Section 14.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture; Termination of
Indenture............................................... 73
Section 14.02. Application by Indenture Trustee of Funds Deposited for
Payment of Certificates................................. 74
Section 14.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent................ 74
Section 14.04. Transfer of Moneys Held by Indenture Trustee and Paying
Agent Unclaimed for Two Years and Eleven Months......... 74
ARTICLE XV
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 15.01. Capacity in Which Acting................................ 75
Section 15.02. No Legal Title to Trust Indenture Estate in Holders..... 75
Section 15.03. Sale of Trust Indenture Estate by Indenture Trustee is
Binding................................................. 75
Section 15.04. Indenture for Benefit of Owner Trustee, Indenture Trustee,
Owner Participant, Holders and Liquidity Providers...... 75
Section 15.05. No Action Contrary to the Lessee's Rights Under the
Lease................................................... 76
Section 15.06. Notices................................................. 76
Section 15.07. Officer's Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to Be Contained Therein...................... 77
Section 15.08. Severability............................................ 77
Section 15.09. No Oral Modifications or Continuing Waivers............. 78
Section 15.10. Successors and Assigns.................................. 78
Section 15.11. Headings................................................ 78
Section 15.12. Normal Commercial Relations............................. 78
Section 15.13. Governing Law; Counterparts............................. 78
Exhibit A -- Form of Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement
Exhibit B -- Form of Certificate
Schedule I -- Schedule of Principal Payments
Schedule II -- Definitions
TRUST INDENTURE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
(FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION TRUST NO. N678FE)
TRUST INDENTURE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION
TRUST NO. N678FE) dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended and restated as of
September 1, 1998 (the "Indenture"), between STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association,
not in its individual capacity, except as otherwise specifically set forth
herein (when acting in such individual capacity, "SSB"), but solely as owner
trustee (the "Owner Trustee") under the Trust Agreement, as defined herein, and
FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as
Indenture Trustee hereunder (the "Indenture Trustee").
W I T N E S S E T H:
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WHEREAS, capitalized terms used herein shall have the respective
meanings set forth or referred to in Article I hereof;
WHEREAS, the Initial Owner Participant and SSB entered into the
Original Trust Agreement whereby, among other things, the Owner Trustee
declared a certain trust for the use and benefit of the Initial Owner
Participant, subject, however, to the Lien of the Original Indenture;
WHEREAS, because the Original Indenture was executed prior to
delivery of the Aircraft, the Original Indenture was not filed with the
Federal Aviation Administration;
WHEREAS, the Initial Owner Participant has transferred its Beneficial
Interest to the Owner Participant and in connection therewith the Original
Indenture contemplated that the Certificates would be reoptimized and the
Original Indenture amended and restated;
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture the valid,
binding and legal obligation of the Owner Trustee, enforceable in accordance
with their respective terms, have been done and performed and have happened;
and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Original
Indenture in its entirety.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree that such Original Indenture be and
the same is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:
GRANTING CLAUSE
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises contained
herein and to secure (i) the prompt payment of the principal of and Make-Whole
Premium, if any, and interest on, and all other amounts due with respect to,
all the Certificates from time to time outstanding under this Indenture and
all other amounts due hereunder and (ii) the performance and observance by the
Owner Trustee of all the agreements, covenants and provisions in this
Indenture, in the Certificates, in the Participation Agreement and in the
Lease contained for the benefit of the Holders of the Certificates, and the
prompt payment of any and all amounts from time to time owing under the
Participation Agreement by the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant or the
Lessee to the Holders (collectively the "Secured Obligations") and for the uses
and purposes and subject to the terms and provisions of this Indenture, and in
consideration of the premises and of the covenants in this Indenture and in the
Certificates and of the purchase of the Certificates by their Holders, and of
the sum of $1 paid to the Owner Trustee by the Indenture Trustee at or before
the delivery of this Indenture, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the Owner Trustee has granted, bargained, sold, assigned,
transferred, conveyed, mortgaged, pledged, granted a first priority security
interest in and confirmed, and does hereby grant, bargain, sell, assign,
transfer, convey, mortgage, pledge and grant a first priority security
interest in and confirm to the Indenture Trustee, its successors and assigns,
in trust for the equal and ratable security and benefit of the Holders from
time to time of the Certificates, a first priority security interest in and
first mortgage Lien on all estate, right, title and interest of the Owner
Trustee in, to and under the following described property, rights and
privileges other than Excepted Payments, which collectively, excluding
Excepted Payments but including all property specifically subjected to the
Lien of this Indenture by the terms hereof, by any Indenture and Security
Agreement Supplement or any mortgage supplemental to this Indenture, are
included within the Trust Indenture Estate, subject always to the rights
granted to the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant hereunder and to the
other terms and conditions of this Indenture:
(1) The Airframe, as the same is more particularly described in the
Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement and any airframe substituted in
replacement thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture; the Engines,
as the same are more particularly described in the Indenture and Security
Agreement Supplement, whether or not such Engines shall be installed in or
attached to the Airframe or any other airframe, and any Replacement Engine
therefor; and all Parts in respect of the Airframe and the Engines and all
records, logs and other documents at any time maintained with respect to the
foregoing property;
(2) The Lease and all Rent thereunder, including, without limitation,
all amounts of Basic Rent and Supplemental Rent, and payments of any kind
thereunder and including all rights of the Owner Trustee to execute any
election or option or to give or receive any notice, consent, waiver or
approval under or in respect of the Lease or to accept any surrender of the
Aircraft or any part thereof as well as any rights, powers or remedies on the
part of the Owner Trustee, whether arising under the Lease or by statute or at
law or in equity or otherwise arising out of any Event of Default;
(3) The Purchase Agreement, the Purchase Agreement Assignment, the
AVSA Consent and Agreement, the Consent and Agreement, the Consent and
Guaranty, the GTA, the Engine Warranty Assignment and the Engine Consent,
AVSA's FAA Bill of Sale, AVSA's Warranty Bill of Sale, the Airbus Guaranty,
the Ancillary Agreements, the Letter of Credit and the Participation Agreement
(to the extent of amounts payable to the Owner Trustee thereunder)
(collectively, and together with the Lease, the Trust Agreement and the
Certificates, the "Indenture Documents"), including all rights of the Owner
Trustee to execute any election or option or to give or receive any notice,
consent, waiver or approval under or in respect of any of the foregoing
documents and instruments;
(4) All the tolls, rents, issues, profits, products, revenues and
other income (including sales proceeds) of the property subjected or required
to be subjected to the Lien of this Indenture, and all of the estate, right,
title and interest of the Owner Trustee in and to the same and every part of
said property;
(5) The Collateral Account, the Liquid Collateral and all other
moneys and securities (including Permitted Investments) now or hereafter paid
or deposited or required to be paid or deposited to or with the Indenture
Trustee by or for the account of the Owner Trustee pursuant to any term of any
Operative Agreement, except the Tax Indemnity Agreement, and held or required
to be held by the Indenture Trustee hereunder (provided, that, the Collateral
Account and the Liquid Collateral shall only secure the Secured Obligations
relating to any Series C Certificates outstanding after the Delivery Date that
are subject to prepayment on the Series C Prepayment Date pursuant to Section
6.02(a)(viii) hereof);
(6) All requisition proceeds with respect to the Aircraft or any part
thereof (to the extent of the Owner Trustee's interest therein pursuant to the
terms of the Lease) and all insurance proceeds with respect to the Aircraft or
any part thereof from insurance required to be maintained by the Lessee under
Article 13 of the Lease, but excluding any insurance maintained by the Lessee
and not required under Article 13 of the Lease; and
(7) All proceeds of the foregoing.
EXCLUDING, HOWEVER, from the foregoing grant of the Lien and security
interest of this Indenture and from the Trust Indenture Estate, (i) all
Excepted Payments, including without limitation all right, title and interest
of the Owner Participant in, to and under the Tax Indemnity Agreement and any
moneys due or to become due under the Tax Indemnity Agreement and all rights
to collect and enforce Excepted Payments and (ii) rights granted to or
retained by the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant hereunder and SUBJECT
TO the following provisions:
(a) (i) whether or not an Indenture Event of Default shall occur and
be continuing, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant shall at all times
retain the right, to the exclusion of the Indenture Trustee, (A) to Excepted
Payments and to commence an action at law to obtain such Excepted Payments and
(B) to adjust Basic Rent and the percentages relating to Stipulated Loss Value
and Termination Value and the EBO Price as provided in Section 3.04 of the
Lease and Section 15.01 of the Participation Agreement, (C) to exercise any
election or option to make any decision or determination, or to give or
receive any notice, consent, waiver or approval, or to take any other action
in respect of, but in each case only to the extent relating to, Excepted
Payments (except for, in respect of Basic Rent constituting an Excepted
Payment, the manner by which such amount is paid), (D) to retain the rights of
the "Lessor" with respect to solicitations of bids, and the election to retain
the Aircraft, pursuant to Article 10 of the Lease, (E) to retain the right of
"Lessor" to determine the Fair Market Rental or Fair Market Value pursuant to
Article 4 of the Lease, (F) to retain all rights with respect to insurance
maintained for its own account which Section 13.05 of the Lease specifically
confers on the "Lessor" and (G) to exercise, to the extent necessary to enable
it to exercise its rights under Section 8.03 hereof, the rights of the "Lessor"
under Section 17.04 of the Lease;
(ii) whether or not an Indenture Event of Default shall occur and be
continuing, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall each have the
rights separately but not to the exclusion of the other (agreement of both
required in the case of clause (E) below), (A) to receive from the Lessee all
notices, certificates, reports, filings, opinions of counsel, copies of all
documents and all information which the Lessee is permitted or required to
give or furnish to the "Lessor" pursuant to the Lease or to the Owner Trustee
pursuant to any other Operative Agreement, (B) to exercise inspection rights
pursuant to Section 14.01 of the Lease (provided that if an Indenture Event of
Default shall be continuing, no inspection right of the Owner Trustee shall
interfere with the efforts of the Indenture Trustee to exercise remedies under
the Lease or this Indenture), (C) to maintain separate insurance pursuant to
Section 13.05 of the Lease and to retain all rights with respect to such
insurance maintained for its own account, (D) to give any notice of default
under Section 16.01 of the Lease and to declare the Lease in default in
respect thereof, and (E) the right to consent to changes to the list of
countries on Schedule III to the Participation Agreement;
(iii) (A) so long as no Indenture Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing (but subject to the provisions of Section 8.01
hereof), the Owner Trustee shall retain the right, to the exclusion of the
Indenture Trustee, to approve as satisfactory any accountants, engineers,
appraisers or counsel to render services for or issue appraisals, reports,
certificates or opinions to the Owner Trustee pursuant to express provisions
of the Operative Agreements, and (B) so long as no Indenture Event of Default
not constituting an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
(but subject to the provisions of Section 8.01 hereof), the Owner Trustee
shall retain the right, jointly with the Indenture Trustee (agreement of both
not being required), to further assurances and financial information from the
Lessee pursuant to Section 19.01 of the Lease (other than the right to receive
any funds to be delivered to the "Lessor" under the Lease (except funds
delivered with respect to Excepted Payments) and under the Purchase Agreement;
and
(iv) at all times the Owner Trustee shall have the right as Lessor,
but not to the exclusion of the Indenture Trustee, to seek specific
performance of the covenants of the Lessee under the Lease relating to the
protection, insurance, maintenance, possession and use of the Aircraft.
(b) The leasehold interest granted to the Lessee by the Lease shall
not be subject to the security interest granted by this Indenture, and nothing
in this Indenture shall affect the rights of the Lessee under the Lease so
long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
HABENDUM CLAUSE
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid property unto the Indenture Trustee,
its successors and assigns, in trust for the equal and ratable benefit and
security of the Holders from time to time of the Certificates, without any
priority of any one Certificate over any other and for the uses and purposes
and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture.
It is expressly agreed that anything contained in this Indenture to
the contrary notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall remain liable under the
Indenture Documents to perform all of the obligations assumed by it under any
of those documents, all in accordance with and pursuant to the terms and
provisions of those documents, and the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of
the Certificates shall have no obligation or liability under the Indenture
Documents by reason of or arising out of the assignment under this Indenture,
nor shall the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of the Certificates be required
or obligated in any manner to perform or fulfill any obligations of the Owner
Trustee under or pursuant to the Indenture Documents or, except as expressly
provided in this Indenture, to make any payment, or to make any inquiry as to
the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by it, or present or file
any claim, or take any action to collect or enforce the payment of any amounts
which may have been assigned to it or to which it may be entitled at any time
or times.
Effective upon the occurrence and continuance of an Indenture
Event of Default, the Owner Trustee hereby constitutes the Indenture
Trustee the true and lawful attorney of the Owner Trustee, irrevocably,
with full power (in the name of the Owner Trustee or otherwise), subject to
the terms and conditions of this Indenture, to ask, require, demand,
receive, compound and give acquittance for any and all Basic Rent,
Supplemental Rent payable to the Owner Trustee, Stipulated Loss Value and
Termination Value payments, insurance proceeds and any and all moneys and
claims for moneys due and to become due under or arising out of the Lease
(subject to Section 8.01 hereof) or the other Indenture Documents (other
than Excepted Payments), to endorse any checks or other instruments or
orders in connection with the same and to file any claims, take any action
or institute any proceeding which the Indenture Trustee may deem to be
necessary or advisable in the premises.
Under the Lease the Lessee is directed to make all payments of Rent
(other than Excepted Payments not constituting Basic Rent) payable to the
Owner Trustee and all other amounts (other than Excepted Payments not
constituting Basic Rent) which are required to be paid to or deposited with
the Owner Trustee pursuant to the Lease directly to the Indenture Trustee at
such address in the United States of America as the Indenture Trustee shall
specify for application as provided in this Indenture. The Owner Trustee
agrees that if, notwithstanding such provision, it shall have received any
such amounts, promptly on receipt of any such payment, it will transfer to the
Indenture Trustee any and all moneys from time to time received by the Owner
Trustee constituting part of the Trust Indenture Estate for distribution by
the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture, except that the Owner
Trustee shall accept for distribution pursuant to the Trust Agreement (i) any
amounts distributed to it by the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture, and
(ii) any Excepted Payments not constituting Basic Rent.
The Owner Trustee agrees that at any time and from time to time, upon
the written request of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee will promptly
and duly execute and deliver or cause to be duly executed and delivered any
and all such further instruments and documents as the Indenture Trustee may
reasonably deem desirable in obtaining the full benefits of the assignment
hereunder and of the rights and powers herein granted; provided, however, that
the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation to execute and deliver or cause to
be executed or delivered to the Indenture Trustee any such instrument or
document if such execution and delivery would result in the imposition of
additional liabilities on the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant or would
result in a burden on the Owner Participant's business activities, unless the
Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant, as the case may be, is indemnified to
its reasonable satisfaction against any losses, liabilities and expenses
incurred in connection with such execution and delivery.
The Owner Trustee does hereby warrant and represent that it has not
assigned, pledged or otherwise disposed of, and hereby covenants that it will
not assign or pledge or otherwise dispose of, so long as the assignment
hereunder shall remain in effect, any of its right, title or interest hereby
assigned, to anyone other than the Indenture Trustee, and that it will not,
except in respect of Excepted Payments or otherwise as provided in or
permitted by this Indenture, accept any payment from the Lessee or any
sublessee, enter into an agreement amending or supplementing any of the
Operative Agreements, execute any waiver or modification of, or consent under
the terms of any of the Operative Agreements, settle or compromise any claim
(other than claims in respect of Excepted Payments) against the Lessee arising
under any of the Operative Agreements, or submit or consent to the submission
of any dispute, difference or other matter arising under or in respect of any
of the Operative Agreements, to arbitration thereunder.
Concurrently with the delivery of this Indenture, the Owner Trustee
has delivered to the Indenture Trustee executed counterparts of the Trust
Agreement and the chattel paper original counterpart of the Lease.
It is hereby further covenanted and agreed by and between the parties
as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01. Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires,
capitalized terms utilized herein shall have the meanings set forth in
Schedule II hereto for all purposes of this Indenture and shall be equally
applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.
ARTICLE II
ISSUE, EXECUTION, FORM AND
REGISTRATION OF CERTIFICATES;
COLLATERAL ACCOUNT
Section 2.01. Authentication and Delivery of Certificates.
Forthwith upon the execution and delivery of the Original Indenture, and from
time to time thereafter, Certificates in an aggregate principal amount not in
excess of the amount specified in Section 2.04 hereof (except as otherwise
provided in Sections 2.06 and 2.07 hereof) were or shall be, as the case may
be, executed by the Owner Trustee and delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
authentication, and the Indenture Trustee thereupon did or shall, as the case
may be, authenticate and deliver said Certificates to or upon the oral or
written order of the Owner Trustee, signed, if written, by an authorized
officer of the Owner Trustee, without any further action by the Owner Trustee.
Section 2.02. Execution of Certificates. The Certificates shall be
signed on behalf of the Owner Trustee by an authorized officer of SSB. Such
signatures may be the manual or facsimile signatures of such officer and minor
errors or defects in any reproduction of any such signature shall not affect
the validity or enforceability of any Certificate which has been duly
authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee.
In case any officer of SSB who shall have signed any of the
Certificates shall cease to be such officer before the Certificate so signed
shall be authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee or disposed of
by SSB, such Certificate nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or
disposed of as though the person who signed such Certificate had not ceased to
be such officer of SSB; and any Certificate may be signed on behalf of the
Owner Trustee by such person or persons as, at the actual date of the
execution of such Certificate, shall be the proper officers of SSB, although
at the date of the execution and delivery of this Indenture any such person
was not such an officer. Certificates bearing the facsimile signatures of
individuals who were authorized officers of SSB at the time such Certificates
were issued shall bind the Owner Trustee, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did not hold such offices
at the respective dates of such Certificates.
Section 2.03. Certificate of Authentication. Only such Certificates
as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the
form set forth in Exhibit B, executed by the Indenture Trustee by manual
signature of one of its authorized officers, shall be entitled to the security
and benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
Such certificate by the Indenture Trustee upon any Certificate executed by the
Owner Trustee shall be conclusive evidence that the Certificate so
authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the
Holder, as evidenced on the Register, is entitled to the security and benefits
of this Indenture.
Section 2.04. Form and Terms of Certificates; Payments of Principal,
Make-Whole Premium and Interest. The Certificates and the Indenture Trustee's
certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form set forth in
Exhibit B hereto. Certificates may differ with respect to Maturity and as to
other terms. The Certificates shall be issuable as registered securities
without coupons and shall be numbered, lettered, or otherwise distinguished in
such manner or in accordance with such plans as the Owner Trustee executing
the same may determine with the approval of the Indenture Trustee.
The aggregate principal amount of Certificates that may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited as provided in the
form of Certificate attached as Exhibit B hereto. The Certificates shall be
issued in registered form only and in denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof, shall be dated the Certificate Closing Date, shall be issued
in three separate series consisting of Series A, Series B and Series C and
shall be issued in the Maturities and principal amounts, and shall bear
interest at the rates per annum, specified in the form of Certificate set forth
in Exhibit B.
Any of the Certificates may be issued with appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and variations, and may have imprinted or otherwise
reproduced thereon such legend or legends, not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law or
with any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with the rules of any
securities market in which the Certificates are admitted to trading, or to
conform to general usage.
Each Certificate shall bear interest from the date of original
issuance thereof or from the most recent date to which interest has been paid
and duly provided for, as the case may be, which shall be payable on the dates
specified on the face of the form of Certificate set forth in Exhibit B hereto
until the principal thereof is paid. Interest shall be calculated on the
basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, each Certificate shall bear
interest at the Past Due Rate on any principal, interest and any other amount
payable hereunder or under such Certificate, which shall not be paid in full
when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration, by mandatory prepayment
or otherwise), for the period from and including the due date thereof to but
excluding the date the same is paid in full, payable from time to time on
demand of the Indenture Trustee.
The principal of, and Make-Whole Premium, if any, and interest on, the
Certificates shall be payable at the Corporate Trust Department of the
Indenture Trustee or at any office or agency maintained for such purpose
pursuant to Section 3.02 hereof; provided, however, that interest may be
payable at the option of the Indenture Trustee or its Paying Agent, as defined
in Section 3.04, by mailing checks for such interest payable to or upon the
written order of the Holders entitled thereto as they shall appear on the
Register. If any amount payable under the Certificates, or under this
Indenture, falls due on a day that is not a Business Day, then such sum shall
be payable on the next succeeding Business Day, without (provided that payment
is made on such next succeeding Business Day) additional interest thereon for
the period of such extension.
The Holder at the close of business on any Record Date with respect
to any Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest if any payable
on such Payment Date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such
Certificate subsequent to the Record Date and prior to such Payment Date,
except if and to the extent the Owner Trustee shall default in the payment of
the interest due on such Payment Date, in which case such defaulted interest
shall be paid to the Holder at the close of business on a subsequent Record
Date (which shall be not less than five (5) or more than fifteen (15) Business
Days prior to the date of payment of such defaulted interest) established by
notice given by mail by or on behalf of the Owner Trustee to the Holders not
less than fifteen (15) days preceding such subsequent Record Date.
The Owner Trustee agrees to pay to the Indenture Trustee for
distribution in accordance with Section 5.04 hereof (a) any and all indemnity
amounts received by the Owner Trustee which are payable by the Lessee to (i)
the Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) the Subordination Agent
or (iii) each Liquidity Provider, in each case pursuant to Article 8 or 9 of
the Participation Agreement (it being acknowledged that the Lessee has been
instructed to pay such amounts to the Person or Persons entitled thereto) and
(b) the Owner Trustee's pro rata share of all amounts owed to each Liquidity
Provider by the Subordination Agent under each Liquidity Facility other than
amounts due as (i) repayments of the principal of advances thereunder, and (ii)
interest on Interest Drawings and Final Drawings except to the extent included
in Net Interest and Related Charges. As used in this Section, the Owner
Trustee's pro rata share means as of any time:
(A) with respect to all amounts other than Net Interest and
Related Charges, a fraction the numerator of which is the aggregate
principal balance then outstanding of the Certificates issued under
this Indenture (other than the Series C Certificates) and the
denominator of which is the aggregate principal balance of all
Certificates issued under this Indenture and the Related Indentures
(other than the Series C Certificates), plus
(B) with respect to all Net Interest and Related Charges (x)
if there exists a Payment Default under any Certificate issued under
this Indenture a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate
principal balance then outstanding of Certificates issued under this
Indenture (other than the Series C Certificates) and the denominator
of which is the aggregate principal balance then outstanding of all
Certificates issued under this Indenture and the Related Indentures
(other than the Series C Certificates) under which there exists a
Payment Default or (y) at all other times, zero.
As used in this Section, "Net Interest and Related Charges" means the sum of
(i) the amount, if any, by which interest payable to each Liquidity Provider
on any Interest Drawing and/or Final Drawing exceeds the amount which would be
payable if such drawings bore interest at the weighted average Past Due Rate
applicable to amounts in default on all Certificates plus (ii) any amounts
payable under Section 3.01, Section 3.02, Section 3.03, Section 3.09 or
Section 7.07 of each Liquidity Facility (or similar provisions of any
replacement Liquidity Facility) which result from any Interest Drawing or
Final Drawing. As used in this Section, a Payment Default when used in
connection with a Certificate issued hereunder or a Certificate issued under
any Related Indenture means a default in the payment of principal thereof or
interest thereon (which default has not been cured), other than solely because
of acceleration.
Section 2.05. Payments from Trust Indenture Estate Only. All
payments to be made by the Owner Trustee under this Indenture shall be made
only from the income and the proceeds from the Lessor's Estate to the extent
included in the Trust Indenture Estate and from any other amounts of the type
described in Section 5.01 hereof to the extent actually received by the
Indenture Trustee and only to the extent that the Owner Trustee shall have
sufficient income or proceeds from the Lessor's Estate to the extent included
in the Trust Indenture Estate (and such other amounts) to enable the Indenture
Trustee to make distributions of the amounts due in respect of the
Certificates in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. Each Holder by
its acceptance of a Certificate agrees that it will look solely to the income
and proceeds from the Trust Indenture Estate (and such other amounts of the
type described in Section 5.01 hereof and Section 17.02(e) of the
Participation Agreement to the extent actually received by the Indenture
Trustee) to the extent available for distribution to it as provided herein and
that neither the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee, SSB nor the Indenture
Trustee is personally liable to such Holder for any amounts payable under this
Indenture or such Certificate or for any amounts payable or liability under any
Certificate or this Indenture, except as expressly provided herein in the case
of SSB, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee.
SSB is not personally liable to any Holder, the Lessee, the Owner
Participant or the Indenture Trustee for any amounts payable under this
Indenture or for any liability under this Indenture or the Certificates,
except as a result of SSB's gross negligence or willful misconduct, or as
otherwise expressly provided herein or in the Participation Agreement.
If (1) all or any part of the Lessor's Estate becomes the property of
a debtor subject to the reorganization provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, (2)
pursuant to such reorganization provisions the Owner Participant is required,
by reason of the Owner Participant being held to have recourse liability to
the debtor or the trustee of the debtor directly or indirectly, to make
payment on account of any amount payable as principal of or interest,
Make-Whole Premium or other amounts payable on the Certificates, and (3) the
Indenture Trustee actually receives any Recourse Amount which reflects any
payment by the Owner Participant on account of (2) above, then the Indenture
Trustee shall promptly refund to the Owner Participant such Recourse Amount.
Nothing contained in this paragraph shall prevent the Indenture Trustee from
enforcing any personal recourse obligation (and retaining the proceeds
thereof) of the Owner Participant under the Participation Agreement, or from
retaining any amount paid by the Owner Participant under Sections 5.01, 8.02
and 8.03 hereof.
Section 2.06. Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Indenture
Trustee will keep, on behalf of the Owner Trustee, at each office or agency to
be maintained for the purpose as provided in Section 3.02 hereof a Register or
Registers on which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, it will register, and will register the transfer of, Certificates
as provided in this Article. Such Register shall be in written form in the
English language or in any other form capable of being converted into such
form within a reasonable period of time.
Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Certificate
at any such office or agency, the Owner Trustee shall execute and the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee
or transferees a new Certificate or Certificates of the same Series and
Maturity and interest rate and in authorized denominations for an equal
aggregate principal amount.
Any Certificate or Certificates may be exchanged for a Certificate or
Certificates of the same Series and Maturity and interest rate but in other
authorized denominations, in an equal aggregate principal amount.
Certificates to be exchanged shall be surrendered at any office or agency to
be maintained by the Indenture Trustee for the purpose as provided in Section
3.02 hereof, and the Owner Trustee shall execute and the Indenture Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor the Certificate or
Certificates which the Holder making the exchange shall be entitled to
receive, bearing numbers not contemporaneously or previously outstanding.
All Certificates presented for registration of transfer, exchange,
prepayment or payment shall (if so required by the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written
instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee duly executed by the Holder or its attorney
duly authorized in writing and (except in the case of transfers pursuant to
Section 15.01 of the Participation Agreement) the Indenture Trustee may
require evidence satisfactory to it as to the compliance of any such transfer
with the Securities Act.
The Indenture Trustee may require payment from the Holder of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any exchange or registration of transfer of Certificates. No
service charge shall be levied for any such transaction.
The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to exchange or register a
transfer of any Certificates (a) for a period of fifteen (15) days immediately
preceding the first mailing of notice of prepayment of such Certificates or
(b) with respect to which notice of prepayment has been given pursuant to
Section 6.03 hereof and such notice has not been revoked.
All Certificates issued upon any transfer or exchange of Certificates
shall be valid obligations of the Owner Trustee, evidencing the same debt, and
entitled to the same security and benefits under this Indenture, as the
Certificates surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Section 2.07. Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Certificates. In case any temporary or definitive Certificate shall become
mutilated, defaced or be apparently destroyed, lost or stolen, the Owner
Trustee in its discretion may execute, and upon the oral or written request of
any officer of SSB, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a
new Certificate of like Maturity, bearing a number not contemporaneously or
previously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated or
defaced Certificate, or in lieu of and substitution for the Certificate so
apparently destroyed, lost or stolen. In the case of any Certificate so
apparently destroyed, lost or stolen, the applicant for a substitute
Certificate shall furnish to the Owner Trustee and to the Indenture Trustee
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to indemnify and defend
and to save each of them harmless and evidence to their satisfaction of the
apparent destruction, loss or theft of such Certificate and of the ownership
thereof.
Upon the issuance of any substitute Certificate, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee may require payment from the Holder of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other reasonable expenses connected therewith. In case any
Certificate which has matured or is about to mature, or has been called for
prepayment in full, shall become mutilated or defaced or be apparently
destroyed, lost or stolen, the Owner Trustee may, instead of issuing a
substitute Certificate, pay or authorize the payment of the same (without
surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated or defaced Certificate),
if the applicant of any Certificate so apparently destroyed, lost or stolen,
for such payment shall furnish to the Owner Trustee and to the Indenture
Trustee such security or indemnity as any of them may require to save each of
them harmless and the applicant shall also furnish to the Owner Trustee and
the Indenture Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the apparent
destruction, loss or theft of such Certificate and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of
this Section by virtue of the fact that any Certificate is apparently
destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an original additional contractual
obligation of the Owner Trustee, whether or not the apparently destroyed, lost
or stolen Certificate shall be enforceable at any time by anyone and shall be
entitled to all the security and benefits of (but shall be subject to all the
limitations of rights set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately
with any and all other Certificates duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. All Certificates shall be held and owned upon the express
condition that, to the extent permitted by law, the foregoing provisions are
exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced, or
apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates and shall preclude any and
all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or
hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment
of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.
Section 2.08. Cancellation of Certificates; Destruction Thereof. All
Certificates surrendered for payment, prepayment, registration of transfer or
exchange, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee or any agent of the Owner
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, shall be delivered to the Indenture Trustee
for cancellation or, if surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, shall be
cancelled by it; and no Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as
expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Indenture
Trustee shall destroy cancelled Certificates held by it and deliver a
certificate of destruction to the Owner Trustee. If the Owner Trustee shall
acquire any of the Certificates, such acquisition shall not operate as a
prepayment or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such
Certificates unless and until the same are delivered to the Indenture Trustee
for cancellation.
Section 2.09. Temporary Certificates. Pending the preparation of
definitive Certificates, the Owner Trustee may execute and, upon the oral or
written request of an officer of SSB, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver temporary Certificates (printed, lithographed, typewritten or
otherwise reproduced, in each case in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee). Temporary Certificates shall be issuable as registered Certificates
without coupons, of any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form
of the definitive Certificates but with such omissions, insertions and
variations as may be appropriate for temporary Certificates, all as may be
determined by the Owner Trustee with the concurrence of the Indenture Trustee.
Temporary Certificates may contain such reference to any provisions of this
Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary Certificate shall be
executed by the Owner Trustee and, upon the oral or written request of an
authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, be authenticated by the Indenture
Trustee upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and
with like effect, as the definitive Certificates. Without unreasonable delay
the Owner Trustee shall execute and shall furnish definitive Certificates and
thereupon temporary Certificates shall be surrendered in exchange therefor
without charge at any office or agency to be maintained by the Indenture
Trustee for the purpose pursuant to Section 3.02 hereof, and, upon the oral
or written request of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such
temporary Certificates an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive
Certificates of the same Series and Maturities and interest rates and in
authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, temporary Certificates shall be
entitled to the same security and benefits under this Indenture as definitive
Certificates.
Section 2.10. Termination of Interest in Trust Indenture Estate. A
Holder shall not, as such, have any further interest in, or other right with
respect to, the Trust Indenture Estate when and if the principal amount of and
Make-Whole Premium, if any, and interest on and other amounts due under all
Certificates held by such Holder and all other sums payable to such Holder
hereunder and under the other Operative Agreements shall have been paid in
full.
Section 2.11. Certificates in Respect of Replacement Aircraft. Upon
the execution and delivery of an Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement
covering a Replacement Airframe and/or Replacement Engine, as provided in
Section 9.09 hereof, each Certificate shall be deemed to have been issued in
connection with such Replacement Airframe and/or Replacement Engine and each
Certificate issued thereafter upon a transfer or exchange of, or as a
replacement for, a Certificate, shall be designated as having been issued in
connection with such Replacement Airframe and/or Replacement Engine, but
without any other change therein except as provided for in this Article II.
Section 2.12. Assumption of Obligations Under Certificates and Other
Operative Agreements. If, in accordance with and subject to the satisfaction
of the conditions set forth in Section 7.11 of the Participation Agreement,
the Lessee shall assume all of the obligations of the Owner Trustee hereunder,
under the Certificates and all other Operative Agreements, the Owner
Participant and the Owner Trustee shall be released and discharged from any
further obligations hereunder and under the
Certificates and all other Operative Agreements (except any obligations that
have accrued prior to such assumption).
Section 2.13. Establishment of Collateral Account. On the
Certificate Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee, pursuant to the Collateral
Agreement, established with State Street Bank and Trust Company in its name as
secured party hereunder an Eligible Deposit Account entitled "First Security
Bank, National Association, as secured party under the Trust Indenture and
Security Agreement (Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE) dated as of
June 15, 1998, with the Owner Trustee referred to therein".
Section 2.14. Investment of Funds on Deposit in the Collateral
Account. (a) Funds deposited in the Collateral Account shall be invested and
reinvested by the Indenture Trustee, subject to Section 17.02 of the
Participation Agreement, at the risk of the Owner Trustee, in Specified
Investments selected by the Lessee and approved by the Indenture Trustee for
the account of the Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 2.14(b) below;
provided, however, that if Specified Investments meeting the requirements of
Section 2.14(b) are not available on any day on which funds are to be invested
as contemplated by the preceding provisions of this Section 2.14(a), the
Indenture Trustee may leave such funds in the Collateral Account uninvested
until the earlier of (i) the date on which an appropriate Specified Investment
becomes available and (ii) the date on which the Lien of this Indenture on the
Collateral Account and the Liquid Collateral shall be terminated. The
Indenture Trustee shall maintain possession of the negotiable instruments or
securities, if any, evidencing such Specified Investments and, in the case of
any Specified Investments in book-entry form, such Specified Investments shall
be credited to an account of the Indenture Trustee or a financial intermediary
with the applicable Federal Reserve Bank; provided, however, if the account is
credited to the financial intermediary, the financial intermediary shall make
written confirmation thereof to the Indenture Trustee and make an appropriate
entry on its books identifying the Specified Investments as pledged to the
Indenture Trustee. All proceeds of and any income, interest and other
payments and distributions on or with respect to any Specified Investments
shall be deposited in or credited to the Collateral Account and thereafter
shall be held, invested and applied by the Indenture Trustee in accordance
with this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify the Owner
Trustee and the Lessee of any Losses.
(b) Any amount remaining in the Collateral Account after the
Delivery Date shall be invested in Specified Investments which mature on or
prior to the Series C Prepayment Date. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this subsection (b), the Indenture Trustee shall invest the
amounts deposited in the Collateral Account in a manner which shall result in
cash being available in the Collateral Account which shall be used by the
Indenture Trustee to pay a portion of interest payable on each Certificate
secured by the Collateral Account on each Payment Date during the period in
which funds are on deposit in the Collateral Account.
(c) If for any reason the Indenture Trustee shall be required to
make any distributions of the Liquid Collateral prior to the maturity date of
any Specified Investment, the Indenture Trustee shall cause the same to be
sold in accordance with standard commercial practices, and the Lessee, for the
account of the Owner Trustee, shall forthwith pay to the Subordination Agent
an amount equal to any Losses as provided in Section 17.02(a) of the
Participation Agreement.
(d) Pursuant to Section 17.02(b) of the Participation Agreement,
interest payable on the Certificates during the period in which funds are on
deposit in the Collateral Account shall be paid by the Lessee to the extent
such interest payable is in excess of any earnings on investments in the
Collateral Account for the period of accrual of such interest.
Section 2.15. Amounts in the Collateral Account on Delivery Date.
Any amounts remaining in the Collateral Account after release of the amounts
required to finance the Debt Portion shall be retained in the Collateral
Account until the Series C Prepayment Date to secure the Secured Obligations
relating to any Series C Certificates subject to prepayment pursuant to
Section 6.02(a)(viii) hereof; provided, that, any portion of such amounts so
retained may be released from the Collateral Account by the Indenture Trustee
prior to the Series C Prepayment Date pursuant to Section 2.19 hereof. The
aggregate principal amount of the Series C Certificates which are subject to
prepayment pursuant to Section 6.02(a)(viii) hereof shall be set forth in a
written notice by the Lessee to the Indenture Trustee in accordance with
Section 2.03(b) of the Original Participation Agreement. Any such amount
retained in the Collateral Account shall be invested in Specified Investments
pursuant to Section 2.14(b) hereof.
Section 2.16. Series C Prepayment Date. On the Series C Prepayment
Date, in the case of a prepayment under Section 6.02(a)(viii) hereof, the
Indenture Trustee shall release from the Collateral Account all amounts held
in the Collateral Account on such date. Such amounts so released, together
with the amount of any Losses paid by the Lessee to the Subordination Agent
pursuant to Sections 17.02(a) and 17.02(c) of the Participation Agreement,
shall be applied to pay all amounts due under Section 6.02(b)(1) hereof on the
Series C Prepayment Date, whereupon the Lien of this Indenture on the
Collateral Account and the Liquid Collateral shall terminate and any amount
(net of any unpaid Losses) remaining after such release and application shall
be remitted by the Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Owner Trustee, to the
Lessee.
Section 2.17. Subordination. (a) The Owner Trustee and, by
acceptance of its Certificates of any Series, each Holder of such Series,
hereby agree that no payment or distribution shall be made on or in respect of
the Secured Obligations owed to such Certificate Holder of such Series,
including any payment or distribution of cash, property or securities after
the commencement of a proceeding of the type referred to in clause (v), (vi)
or (vii) of Section 7.01 hereof, except as expressly provided in Article V
hereof.
(b) By the acceptance of its Certificates of any Series
(other than Series A), each Holder of such Series agrees that in the event
that such Holder, in its capacity as a Holder, shall receive any payment or
distribution on any Secured Obligations in respect of such Series which it is
not entitled to received under this Section 2.17 or Article V hereof, it will
hold any amount so received in trust for the Senior Holder (as defined in
Section 2.17(c) hereof) and will forthwith turn over such payment to the
Indenture Trustee in the form received to be applied as provided in Article V
hereof.
(c) As used in this Section 2.17, the term "Senior Holder"
shall mean, (i) the Holders of Series A Certificates until the Secured
Obligations in respect of Series A Certificates have been paid in full, (ii)
after the Secured Obligations in respect of Series A Certificates have been
paid in full, the Holders of Series B Certificates until the Secured
Obligations in respect of Series B Certificates have been paid in full and
(iii) after the Secured Obligations in respect of Series B Certificates have
been paid in full, the Holders of Series C Certificates until the Secured
Obligations in respect of Series C Certificates have been paid in full.
Section 2.18. Reoptimization. The Owner Trustee shall have the
right, on any Adjustment Date and on the Series C Prepayment Date in the event
of any prepayment of Series C Certificates pursuant to Section 6.02(a)(viii)
hereof, to modify the schedule of principal payments of the Certificates
subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Section 2.03(b) of the
Original Participation Agreement. To give effect to the foregoing, Schedule I
to the Indenture and each Certificate shall be amended accordingly. The
Indenture Trustee shall deliver such amendments to the Subordination Agent on
behalf of the Pass Through Trustee for each of the Pass Through Trusts.
Section 2.19. Decrease in Principal Amount of Series C Certificates.
The principal amount of the Series C Certificates, if any, which would
otherwise be required to be prepaid pursuant to Section 6.02(a)(viii) hereof,
may be decreased upon written notice by the Lessee, on behalf of the Owner
Trustee, to the Indenture Trustee. In such event the Indenture Trustee shall,
if so instructed by the Lessee on behalf of the Owner Trustee, release a
corresponding amount from the Collateral Account and transfer such amount to
one or more Outstanding C Accounts. To give effect to the foregoing, Schedule
I to the Indenture and each Certificate shall be amended accordingly. The
Indenture Trustee shall deliver such amendments to the Subordination Agent on
behalf of the Pass Through Trustee for each of the Pass Through Trusts.
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
Section 3.01. Payment of Principal, Make-Whole Premium and Interest.
The Owner Trustee covenants and agrees that it will, subject to Section 2.05
hereof, duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and
interest and Make-Whole Premium, if any, and all other amounts due on, each of
the Certificates and under this Indenture at the place or places, at the
respective times and in the manner provided in this Indenture and in the
Certificates.
Principal and interest and other amounts due hereunder or under the
Certificates shall be payable in dollars on the due date thereof, to the
Indenture Trustee at the Corporate Trust Department (or such other account at
such other financial institution as the Indenture Trustee may designate for
the purpose). If any amount payable under the Certificates or under this
Indenture falls due on a day which is not a Business Day, then such sum shall
be payable on the next succeeding Business Day, without (provided that payment
is made on such next succeeding Business Day) additional interest thereon for
the period of such extension.
Section 3.02. Offices for Payments, etc. So long as any of the
Certificates remain outstanding, the Indenture Trustee will maintain the
following: (a) an office or agency where the Certificates may be presented
for payment and (b) a facility or agency in New York, New York where the
Certificates may be presented for registration of transfer and for exchange
and for prepayment as provided in this Indenture (the "Registrar"). The
Registrar shall keep a register (the "Register") with respect to the
Certificates and their transfer and exchange. The Indenture Trustee may
appoint one or more co-registrars ("Co-Registrars") for the Certificates and
may terminate any such appointment at any time upon written notice. The term
"Registrar" includes any Co-Registrar.
The Indenture Trustee shall initially act as Registrar.
Section 3.03. Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Indenture
Trustee. The Owner Trustee, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in
the office of Indenture Trustee, will, with the consent of the Lessee,
appoint, in the manner provided in Section 12.02 hereof, an Indenture Trustee,
so that there shall at all times be an Indenture Trustee hereunder.
Section 3.04. Paying Agents. Whenever the Indenture Trustee in its
sole discretion shall appoint a paying agent (the "Paying Agent"), it will
cause the Paying Agent to execute and deliver an instrument in which the
Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Section:
(a) that it will hold all sums received by it as such agent for the
payment of the principal of, and interest and Make-Whole Premium, if any,
on the Certificates (whether such sums have been paid to it by the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee) in trust for the benefit of the
Holders or of the Indenture Trustee, and
(b) that it will give the Indenture Trustee notice of any failure by
the Owner Trustee to make any payment of the principal of or interest or
Make-Whole Premium, if any, on the Certificates when the same shall be due
and payable.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the
agreements to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section are subject to
the provisions of Sections 14.03 and 14.04 hereof.
Section 3.05. Covenants of SSB and the Owner Trustee.
(a) SSB hereby covenants and agrees to perform its covenants set
forth in Sections 7.04(b) and 7.04(c) of the Participation Agreement.
(b) The Owner Trustee hereby covenants and agrees as follows:
(i) in the event a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee shall have
actual knowledge of an Indenture Event of Default, an Indenture Default or
an Event of Loss, the Owner Trustee will give prompt written notice of such
Indenture Event of Default, Indenture Default or Event of Loss to the
Indenture Trustee, the Lessee and the Owner Participant;
(ii) the Owner Trustee will furnish to the Indenture Trustee,
promptly upon receipt thereof, duplicates or copies of all reports,
notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial statements and other
instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Lease, including,
without limitation, a copy of each report or notice received pursuant to
Article 13 of the Lease, to the extent that the same shall not have been
furnished to the Indenture Trustee;
(iii) the Owner Trustee will not enter into any business or other
activity other than the business of owning the Aircraft, the leasing
thereof to the Lessee and the carrying out of the transactions contemplated
hereby and by the Lease, the Participation Agreement, the Trust Agreement
and the other Indenture Documents; and
(iv) except as contemplated by the Operative Agreements, the Owner
Trustee will not contract for, create, incur or assume any debt, and will
not guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect
of assuring another's payment or performance on any obligation or
capability of so doing, or otherwise), endorse or otherwise take action to
become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the
debt of any other Person.
Section 3.06. [Reserved].
Section 3.07. Disposal of Trust Indenture Estate. At any time and
from time to time any part of the Trust Indenture Estate may be sold or
disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the Lease.
The Indenture Trustee shall, from time to time, release any part of the Trust
Indenture Estate so sold or disposed of or as to which an Event of Loss has
occurred or as to which the Lease has been terminated from the Lien of this
Indenture. In addition, to the extent that such property constitutes an
Airframe or Engine, the further requirements of Section 9.08 hereof shall be
complied with.
Section 3.08. No Representations or Warranties as to Aircraft or
Documents. NEITHER THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE NOR THE OWNER TRUSTEE NOR SSB NOR
THE OWNER PARTICIPANT MAKES OR SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE MADE ANY REPRESENTATION
OR WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE TITLE, AIRWORTHINESS, WORKMANSHIP,
VALUE, CONDITION, DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR USE OR
PURPOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT OR ANY ENGINE, OR ANY OTHER REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY
WITH RESPECT TO THE AIRCRAFT OR ANY ENGINE WHATSOEVER, except that SSB
warrants that on the Delivery Date (a) the Owner Trustee shall have received
whatever title was conveyed to it by the Lessee, and (b) the Aircraft shall be
free and clear of Lessor's Liens attributable to SSB. Neither SSB, the
Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Participant makes or shall be deemed to have
made any representation or warranty as to the validity, legality or
enforceability of this Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the Certificates or any
Indenture Document or as to the correctness of any statement contained in any
thereof, except for the representations and warranties of SSB, the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Participant made under this Indenture or in the
Participation Agreement.
Section 3.09. Further Assurances; Financing Statements. At any time
and from time to time, upon the request of the Indenture Trustee or the
Lessee, the Owner Trustee shall promptly and duly execute and deliver any and
all such further instruments and documents as may be specified in such request
and as are necessary or advisable to perfect, preserve or protect the Liens
and assignments created or intended to be created hereby, or to obtain for the
Indenture Trustee the full benefit of the specific rights and powers granted
herein, including, without limitation, the execution and delivery of UCC
financing statements and continuation statements with respect thereto, or
similar instruments relating to the perfection of the Liens or assignments
created or intended to be created hereby.
ARTICLE IV
HOLDER LISTS
Section 4.01. Holder Lists; Ownership of Certificates. (a) The
Indenture Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
the Holders. If the Indenture Trustee is not the Registrar, the Registrar
shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee semi-annually not more than fifteen
(15) days after each Record Date, as of such Record Date, or at such other
times as the Indenture Trustee may request in writing, a list, in such form
and as of such date as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require,
containing all the information in the possession or control of the Registrar
as to the names and addresses of the Holders and the amounts and Maturities of
the Certificates held by such Holders.
(b) Ownership of the Certificates shall be proved by the Register
kept by the Registrar.
ARTICLE V
RECEIPT, DISTRIBUTION AND APPLICATION OF
INCOME FROM THE TRUST INDENTURE ESTATE
Section 5.01. Basic Rent Distribution. Except as otherwise provided
in Section 5.03 hereof, each installment of Basic Rent, any payment of
interest on overdue installments of Basic Rent, any payment received by the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 8.03(a) hereof and any payment received
by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 17.02(b) or 17.02(c) of the
Participation Agreement shall be promptly distributed in the following order
of priority:
first, (i) so much of such installment or payment as shall be
required to pay in full the aggregate amount of the payment or
payments of Principal Amount and interest and other amounts (as
well as any interest on any overdue Principal Amount and, to the
extent permitted by applicable law, on any overdue interest and
any other overdue amounts) then due under all Series A
Certificates shall be distributed to the Holders of Series A
Certificates ratably, without priority of one over the other, in
the proportion that the amount of such payment or payments then
due under each Series A Certificate bears to the aggregate amount
of the payments then due under all Series A Certificates;
(ii) after giving effect to paragraph (i) above, so much of
such installment or payment as shall be required to pay in full
the aggregate amount of the payment or payments of Principal
Amount and interest and other amounts (as well as any interest on
any overdue Principal Amount and, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, on any overdue interest and any other overdue
amounts) then due under all Series B Certificates shall be
distributed to the Holders of Series B Certificates ratably,
without priority of one over the other, in the proportion that the
amount of such payment or payments then due under each Series B
Certificate bears to the aggregate amount of the payments then due
under all Series B Certificates; and
(iii) after giving effect to paragraph (ii) above, so much of
such installment or payment as shall be required to pay in full
the aggregate amount of the payment or payments of Principal
Amount and interest and other amounts (as well as any interest on
any overdue Principal Amount and, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, on any overdue interest and any other overdue
amounts) then due under all Series C Certificates shall be
distributed to the Holders of Series C Certificates ratably,
without priority of one over the other, in the proportion that the
amount of such payment or payments then due under each Series C
Certificate bears to the aggregate amount of the payments then due
under all Series C Certificates; and
second, the balance if any of such installment or payment remaining
thereafter shall be distributed to the Owner Trustee, or as the
Owner Trustee may request, for distribution pursuant to the Trust
Agreement.
Section 5.02. Event of Loss and Replacement; Prepayment. (a)
Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.03 hereof, any payment received by
the Indenture Trustee as the result of an Event of Loss with respect to the
Aircraft (including pursuant to Section 11.03(e) of the Lease, but, in the
case of said Section 11.03(e), subject to the time limits specified therein)
or as the result of, or in connection with any event under the Lease giving
rise to, a prepayment pursuant to Section 6.02 hereof, shall be promptly
distributed by the Indenture Trustee in the following order of priority:
first, to reimburse the Indenture Trustee for any costs or expenses
reasonably incurred in connection with such prepayment,
second, (i) to pay the amounts specified in paragraph (i) of clause
"second" of Section 5.03 hereof then due and payable in respect
of the Series A Certificates;
(ii) after giving effect to paragraph (i) above, to pay the
amounts specified in paragraph (ii) of clause "second" of Section
5.03 hereof then due and payable in respect of the Series B
Certificates; and
(iii) after giving effect to paragraph (ii) above, to pay the
amounts specified in paragraph (iii) of clause "second" of
Section 5.03 hereof then due and payable in respect of the Series
C Certificates;
provided that payments pursuant to this clause "second" shall be
made without the payment of Make-Whole Premium except in the
particular circumstances provided in Section 6.02(b) hereof; and
third, as provided in clause "third" of Section 5.03 hereof;
provided that if a Replacement Airframe shall be substituted for an Airframe
subject to an Event of Loss as provided in Section 11.03 of the Lease and
Section 9.08 hereof, any proceeds which result from such Event of Loss and are
paid to the Indenture Trustee shall be held by the Indenture Trustee as part
of the Trust Indenture Estate and, unless otherwise applied pursuant to
Section 5.01 or 5.03 hereof, such proceeds shall be released to the Lessee
upon the release of such damaged Airframe and the replacement thereof as
herein provided.
(b) Any amounts received directly or indirectly from any governmental
authority, insurer or other party pursuant to any provision of Article 11 or
13 of the Lease as the result of loss or damage not constituting an Event of
Loss with respect to the Aircraft, or as a result of such loss or damage
constituting an Event of Loss (x) if and to the extent that such amounts would
at the time be required to be paid to the Lessee pursuant to said Article 11
or 13 but for the fact that an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing or (y) are pledged to the Lessor as security in connection with an
Event of Loss in accordance with Section 11.03(e) of the Lease, shall be held
by the Indenture Trustee as security for the obligations of the Lessee under
the Lease and the Participation Agreement and shall be invested in accordance
with the terms of Section 5.08 hereof and at such time as the conditions for
payment to the Lessee specified in said Article 11 or 13, as the case may be,
shall be fulfilled and there shall not be continuing any Event of Default,
such amount, and the proceeds of any investment thereof, shall, to the extent
not theretofore applied, be paid to the Lessee to the extent provided in the
Lease.
Section 5.03. Payment After Indenture Event of Default, etc. Except
as otherwise provided in Sections 5.02(b), 5.04(b), 5.04(c) and 5.05 hereof,
all payments (other than Excepted Payments) received and all amounts held or
realized by the Indenture Trustee (a) after an Indenture Event of Default
shall have occurred and so long as such an Indenture Event of Default shall be
continuing, and the Indenture Trustee has commenced the exercise of remedies
pursuant to Article VIII hereof, or (b) after the Certificates shall have
become due and payable as provided in Section 7.02(b) or (c) hereof, shall be
promptly distributed by the Indenture Trustee in the following order of
priority:
first, so much of such payments or amounts as shall be required to
reimburse the Indenture Trustee for any tax, expense, charge or
other loss (including, without limitation, all amounts to be
expended at the expense of, or charged upon the tolls, rents,
revenues, issues, products and profits of, the property included
in the Trust Indenture Estate pursuant to Section 7.03(b) hereof)
incurred by the Indenture Trustee (to the extent not previously
reimbursed) (including, without limitation, the expenses of any
sale, taking or other proceeding, attorneys' fees and expenses,
court costs, and any other expenditures incurred or expenditures
or advances made by the Indenture Trustee or the Holders in the
protection, exercise or enforcement of any right, power or remedy
or any damages sustained by the Indenture Trustee or the Holders,
liquidated or otherwise, upon such Indenture Event of Default)
shall be applied by the Indenture Trustee as between itself and
the Holders in reimbursement of such expenses;
second, (i) so much of such payments or amounts remaining as shall be
required to pay in full the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of
all Series A Certificates, and the accrued but unpaid interest
and other amounts due thereon and all other Secured Obligations
(other than Make-Whole Premium) in respect of the Series A
Certificates to the date of distribution, shall be distributed to
the Holders of Series A Certificates, and in case the aggregate
amount so to be distributed shall be insufficient to pay in full
as aforesaid, then ratably, without priority of one over the
other, in the proportion that the aggregate unpaid Principal
Amount of all Series A Certificates held by each holder plus the
accrued but unpaid interest and other amounts due hereunder or
thereunder (other than Make-Whole Premium) to the date of
distribution, bears to the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of
all Series A Certificates held by all such holders plus the
accrued but unpaid interest and other amounts due thereon (other
than Make-Whole Premium) to the date of distribution;
(ii) after giving effect to paragraph (i) above, so much of
such payments or amounts remaining as shall be required to pay in
full the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all Series B
Certificates, and the accrued but unpaid interest and other
amounts due thereon and all other Secured Obligations (other than
Make-Whole Premium) in respect of the Series B Certificates to
the date of distribution, shall be distributed to the Holders of
Series B Certificates, and in case the aggregate amount so to be
distributed shall be insufficient to pay in full as aforesaid,
then ratably, without priority of one over the other, in the
proportion that the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all
Series B Certificates held by each holder plus the accrued but
unpaid interest and other amounts due hereunder or thereunder
(other than Make-Whole Premium) to the date of distribution,
bears to the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all Series B
Certificates held by all such holders plus the accrued but unpaid
interest and other amounts due thereon (other than Make-Whole
Premium) to the date of distribution; and
(iii) after giving effect to paragraph (ii) above, so much of
such payments or amounts remaining as shall be required to pay in
full the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all Series C
Certificates, and the accrued but unpaid interest and other
amounts due thereon and all other Secured Obligations (other than
Make-Whole Premium) in respect of the Series C Certificates to
the date of distribution, shall be distributed to the Holders of
Series C Certificates, and in case the aggregate amount so to be
distributed shall be insufficient to pay in full as aforesaid,
then ratably, without priority of one over the other, in the
proportion that the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all
Series C Certificates held by each holder plus the accrued but
unpaid interest and other amounts due hereunder or thereunder
(other than Make-Whole Premium) to the date of distribution,
bears to the aggregate unpaid Principal Amount of all Series C
Certificates held by all such holders plus the accrued but unpaid
interest and other amounts due thereon (other than Make-Whole
Premium) to the date of distribution;
(it being understood that amounts payable under this clause
"second" shall not include Make-Whole Premium); and
third, the balance, if any of such payments or amounts remaining
thereafter shall be distributed to the Owner Trustee for
distribution pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
Section 5.04. Certain Payments. (a) Except as otherwise provided
in this Indenture, any payments received by the Indenture Trustee which are to
be applied according to any provision in any other Indenture Document shall be
applied thereunder in accordance therewith.
(b) The Indenture Trustee will distribute, promptly upon receipt, any
indemnity or other payment received by it from the Owner Trustee or the Lessee
in respect of (i) the Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) the
Subordination Agent, (iii) each Liquidity Provider, and (iv) the Pass Through
Trustee, in each case whether pursuant to Article 8 or 9 of the Participation
Agreement or as Supplemental Rent, directly to the Person (which may include
the Indenture Trustee) entitled thereto. Any payment received by the
Indenture Trustee under clause (b) of the last paragraph of Section 2.04 shall
be distributed to the Subordination Agent to be distributed in accordance with
the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any
sums received by the Indenture Trustee which constitute Excepted Payments
shall be distributed promptly upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee directly
to the Person or Persons entitled thereto.
Section 5.05. Other Payments. Any payments received by the Indenture
Trustee for which no provision as to the application thereof is made elsewhere
in this Indenture or in any other Indenture Document (including without
limitation Article 9 of the Lease) shall be distributed by the Indenture
Trustee (a) to the extent received or realized at any time prior to the
payment in full of all obligations to the Holders, in the order of priority
specified in Section 5.01 hereof, and (b) to the extent received or realized
at any time after payment in full of all obligations to the Holders, in the
following order of priority:
first, in the manner provided in clause "first" of Section 5.03 hereof
and
second, in the manner provided in clause "third" of Section 5.03 hereof.
Section 5.06. Payments to Owner Trustee. Any amounts distributed
hereunder by the Indenture Trustee to the Owner Trustee shall be paid to the
Owner Trustee by wire transfer of immediately available funds of the type
received by the Indenture Trustee at such office and to such account or
accounts of such entity or entities as shall be designated by notice from the
Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee from time to time. The Owner Trustee
hereby notifies the Indenture Trustee that unless and until the Indenture
Trustee receives notice to the contrary from the Owner Trustee, all amounts to
be distributed to the Owner Trustee hereunder for distribution in accordance
with the Trust Agreement shall be distributed by wire transfer of immediately
available funds of the type received by the Indenture Trustee to such account
of the Owner Participant as may be specified pursuant to Section 2.06 of the
Trust Agreement.
Section 5.07. Application of Payments. Each payment of principal of
and interest or other amounts due on each Certificate shall, except as
otherwise provided herein, be applied,
first, to the payment of interest on such Certificate due and payable to
the date of such payment, as provided in such Certificate, as
well as any interest on overdue principal and Make-Whole Premium,
if any, and, to the extent permitted by law, interest and other
amounts due thereunder,
second, to the payment of any other amount (other than the principal of
such Certificate) due hereunder to the Holder of such Certificate
or under such Certificate,
third, to the payment of the principal of such Certificate if then due
hereunder or under such Certificate and
fourth, the balance, if any remaining thereafter, to the payment of the
principal of such Certificate remaining unpaid (provided that
such Certificate shall not be subject to prepayment without the
consent of the affected Holder except as permitted by Sections
6.02, 6.06 and 8.02 hereof); provided that, solely for the
purpose of determining whether an Indenture Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, each such payment shall be
deemed applied in the following order of priority: first, in the
manner provided in clause "first" above, second, in the manner
provided in clause "third" above, third, in the manner provided
in clause "second" above and fourth, in the manner provided in
clause "fourth" above.
Section 5.08. Investment of Amounts Held by Indenture Trustee.
Amounts held by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 5.02(b) hereof or
pursuant to any provision of any Indenture Document providing for investment
by the Indenture Trustee of sums pursuant to Section 23.01 of the Lease or
this Section 5.08 shall be invested by the Indenture Trustee from time to time
in securities selected by (i) so long as no Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, the Lessee (and in the absence of written
direction by the Lessee, the Indenture Trustee shall invest such monies in
direct obligations of the United States of America) or (ii) so long as an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee
and in each case shall be of the type listed in clauses (i) through (iv) of
Section 23.01 of the Lease. Unless otherwise expressly provided in this
Indenture, any income realized as a result of any such investment, net of the
Indenture Trustee's reasonable fees and expenses in making such investment,
shall be held and applied by the Indenture Trustee in the same manner as the
principal amount of such investment is to be applied and any losses, net of
earnings and such reasonable fees and expenses, shall be charged against the
principal amount invested. The Lessee shall be responsible for and will
promptly pay to the Indenture Trustee or the Lessor, as the case may be, on
demand, the amount of any loss realized as the result of any such investment
(together with any fees, commissions and other costs and expenses, if any,
incurred by the Indenture Trustee or the Lessor in connection with such
investment), such amount to be disposed of in accordance with the terms hereof
or the Lease, as the case may be. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable
for any loss resulting from any investment made by it under this Indenture in
accordance with instructions from the Lessee other than by reason of its
willful misconduct or gross negligence, and any such investment may be sold
(without regard to its maturity) by the Indenture Trustee without instructions
whenever the Indenture Trustee reasonably believes such sale is necessary to
make a distribution required by this Indenture.
Unless otherwise confirmed in writing, an account statement delivered
by the Indenture Trustee to the Owner Trustee (with a copy to the Lessee)
shall be deemed written confirmation by the Owner Trustee that the investment
transactions identified therein accurately reflect the investment directions
given to the Indenture Trustee by or on behalf of the Owner Trustee, unless
the Owner Trustee (or the Lessee on its behalf) notifies the Indenture Trustee
in writing to the contrary within 30 days of the date of receipt of such
statement.
Section 5.09. Withholding Taxes. The Indenture Trustee shall
withhold any Taxes required to be withheld, except to the extent that the
Holder has furnished evidence satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee of any
exemption from withholding claimed by such Holder and under no circumstances
shall the failure of any such Holder to receive any amounts so withheld
constitute an Indenture Event of Default. Notwithstanding any provision to
the contrary in Sections 5.01 through 5.05 hereof and subject to Article 8 of
the Participation Agreement, if the Lessee is required to pay any such Tax, or
any interest or penalty thereon, or to indemnify the Owner Participant or the
Owner Trustee with respect thereto pursuant to Section 8.01(c) of the
Participation Agreement, the Lessee shall be entitled to receive any payments
otherwise distributable to the Holder of any Certificate who was subject to
such Tax pursuant to Sections 5.01 to 5.05 hereof until the foregoing amounts
shall have been recovered in full by the Lessee.
ARTICLE VI
PREPAYMENT OF CERTIFICATES
Section 6.01. No Prepayment Prior to Maturity. Except as provided
in Sections 6.02, 6.06 and 8.02 hereof, the Certificates may not be prepaid
prior to their respective Maturities.
Section 6.02. Prepayment of Certificates. (a) The Outstanding
Certificates shall be prepaid in full (and not in part except under clause
(viii) below):
(i) If an Event of Loss occurs with respect to the Airframe or with
respect to the Airframe and the Engines or engines then installed on the
Airframe (unless pursuant to Section 11.03 of the Lease and Section 9.08
hereof replacement equipment is substituted therefor).
(ii) If the Lessee, pursuant to Section 4.02(a) of the Lease, gives
notice of purchase of the Aircraft (and Section 2.12 hereof shall not be
applicable in connection with such purchase), but subject to Section
6.02(c) below.
(iii) If the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee on behalf of the
Owner Participant gives notice of prepayment to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to Section 8.02 hereof (unless such notice is revoked in
accordance with such Section).
(iv) If the Lessee, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Lease, gives
notice of a voluntary termination for obsolescence or surplus, but subject
to Section 6.02(c) below.
(v) Pursuant to Section 15.01 of the Participation Agreement in
connection with a refinancing of the Certificates, but subject to Section
6.02(c) below.
(vi) [Reserved].
(vii) At the option of the Owner Trustee with the prior written
consent of the Lessee upon not less than 25 days' prior written notice.
(viii) With respect to the Series C Certificates only, as provided in
Section 2.03(b) of the Original Participation Agreement.
(b) In the event of a prepayment of the Certificates pursuant to
Sections 6.02(a)(ii), (iv) and (v) above, the Owner Trustee, having received
notice from the Lessee in accordance with and subject to the terms of Section
4.02(a) or 10.01 of the Lease or Article 15 of the Participation Agreement, as
the case may be, shall give irrevocable (subject to Section 6.02(c) hereof)
written notice to the Indenture Trustee and to the Holders of all of the
Certificates specifying the Business Day on which the Certificates shall be
prepaid. In the case of a prepayment of the Certificates pursuant to Section
6.02(a)(i) above, the Certificates shall be prepaid in full on the Loss
Payment Date as defined in Section 11.02 of the Lease. In the case of a
prepayment of the Certificates pursuant to Section 6.02(a)(iii) above, the
Certificates shall be prepaid in full on the date so designated in the notice
referred to in Section 8.02 hereof. In the case of a prepayment of the
Certificates pursuant to Section 6.02(a)(ii) or (iv) above, the Certificates
shall be prepaid in full on the Termination Date. In the case of a prepayment
of the Certificates pursuant to Section 6.02(a)(v) above, the Certificates
shall be prepaid on the effective date of the Refinancing. In the case of a
prepayment of the Certificates pursuant to Section 6.02(a)(vii) above, the
Certificates shall be prepaid on the date designated in the notice referred to
therein. In the case of a prepayment of the Series C Certificates pursuant to
Section 6.02(a)(viii) above, the amount of such Series C Certificates to be
prepaid shall be prepaid on the Series C Prepayment Date. The day on which
the Certificates are to be prepaid pursuant to this Section 6.01(b) is herein
referred to as the "Prepayment Date".
On or prior to the Prepayment Date, immediately available funds shall
be deposited with the Indenture Trustee in an amount in respect of the
Certificates equal to:
(1) in the event of a prepayment of the Certificates pursuant to
Section 6.02(a)(i), 6.02(a)(iii) (if clause (i) of the first sentence of
Section 8.02(a) hereof is applicable) or 6.02(a)(viii) or, if such
prepayment is made on or after the applicable Premium Termination Date,
6.02(a)(ii), 6.02(a)(iii) (if clause (ii) of the first sentence of Section
8.02(a) hereof is applicable), 6.02(a)(iv), 6.02(a)(v) or 6.02(a)(vii)
above, the sum of (A) the aggregate principal amount of such Certificates
then Outstanding, (B) accrued interest on the Certificates to the
Prepayment Date and (C) all other aggregate sums due the Indenture Trustee
hereunder or under the Participation Agreement or the Lease, but excluding
any Make-Whole Premium or other premium or penalty, or
(2) if such prepayment is made prior to the applicable Premium
Termination Date, in the event of a prepayment of the Certificates pursuant
to Section 6.02(a)(ii), 6.02(a)(iii) (if clause (ii) of the first sentence
of Section 8.02(a) hereof is applicable), 6.02(a)(iv), 6.02(a)(v) or
6.02(a)(vii) above, the sum of the amounts specified in clauses (A), (B)
and (C) of the preceding clause (1) plus any Make-Whole Premium payable in
respect of all Certificates with respect to which the Premium Termination
Date therefor has not occurred
(the aggregate amount required to be paid pursuant to this sentence being
herein referred to as the "Prepayment Price").
(c) If, pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 10.01(f) of the
Lease, no Termination Date shall occur, or if no refinancing shall occur
pursuant to Section 15.01 of the Participation Agreement, the Lessee shall
give notice thereof to the Indenture Trustee, and the prepayment proposed to
be effected in respect thereof shall not occur.
Section 6.03. Notice of Prepayment to Holders. In order to effect
any prepayment set forth in Section 6.02(a) hereof, the Indenture Trustee
shall give prompt notice by first class mail of prepayment to each Holder of
an Outstanding Certificate. Such notice may be revoked by the Owner Trustee
at any time on or before the Prepayment Date by prompt notice to the Holders
except as otherwise provided in the Lease or the Participation Agreement.
All notices of prepayment shall state:
(1) the Prepayment Date,
(2) the applicable basis for determining the Prepayment Price,
(3) that on the Prepayment Date, subject to the provisions hereof,
the Prepayment Price will become due and payable, and that interest
on the Certificates shall cease to accrue on and after such
Prepayment Date, and
(4) the place or places where such Certificates are to be
surrendered for payment.
Section 6.04. Deposit of Prepayment Price and Sinking Fund Redemption
Price. On the Prepayment Date or the Sinking Fund Redemption Date (as defined
in Section 6.06 hereof), the Owner Trustee shall, to the extent an amount
equal to the Prepayment Price or the Sinking Fund Redemption Price (as defined
in Section 6.06 hereof), as the case may be, shall not then be held in cash or
Permitted Investments (marked-to-market net of all costs and expenses of
liquidation thereof) by the Indenture Trustee in immediately available funds
and deposited for the purpose, pay to the Indenture Trustee an amount equal to
the difference between (a) the amount then so held and (b) the Prepayment
Price or the Sinking Fund Redemption Price, as the case may be. If there
shall so be on deposit and/or deposited the applicable Prepayment Price or
Sinking Fund Redemption Price on or prior to a Prepayment Date or Sinking Fund
Redemption Date, interest shall cease to accrue in respect of all or, in the
case of a mandatory sinking fund redemption, the relevant portion being
prepaid of, the Outstanding Certificates on and after such Prepayment Date or
such Sinking Fund Redemption Date.
Section 6.05. Certificates Payable on Prepayment Date. On the
Prepayment Date, the Outstanding Certificates shall (except (A) if the Owner
Trustee has requested the Indenture Trustee to revoke such notice of
prepayment in accordance with Section 6.03 hereof or (B) as otherwise provided
in the Lease) become due and payable and from and after such Prepayment Date
(unless there shall be a default in the payment of the Prepayment Price) such
Certificates shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender by any Holder of
its Certificate for prepayment in accordance with said notice, such Holder
shall be paid the principal amount of its Certificate then outstanding, accrued
interest thereon to the Prepayment Date, all other sums due to such Holder
hereunder, under the Participation Agreement or the Lease, plus, if a
Make-Whole Premium is payable pursuant to Section 6.02(b) hereof, the
Make-Whole Premium in respect of such Certificate.
If any Certificate called for prepayment shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for prepayment, the principal shall, until paid, continue to
bear interest from the Prepayment Date at the interest rate applicable to such
Certificate.
Section 6.06. Mandatory Sinking Fund Redemption. The Certificates
shall be subject to partial redemption, at the aggregate principal amount set
forth for the Certificates of the respective Series and Maturity, on a pro
rata basis, on each date specified on Schedule I attached hereto (a "Sinking
Fund Redemption Date") for such payment on the Certificates of such Series and
Maturity. The Owner Trustee shall deposit funds sufficient to pay the Sinking
Fund Redemption Price with the Indenture Trustee as provided in Section 6.04
hereof. The Indenture Trustee shall pay from the amounts so deposited on each
applicable Sinking Fund Redemption Date to the Certificates of each Series in
the order of priority set forth in clause "first" of Section 5.01 hereof and
among the Holders of the Certificates of each Series then Outstanding on a pro
rata basis the aggregate principal amount set forth on Schedule I attached
hereto, together with accrued interest to such Sinking Fund Redemption Date,
but without Make-Whole Premium (the "Sinking Fund Redemption Price").
ARTICLE VII
INDENTURE EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES
OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS
Section 7.01. Indenture Event of Default. "Indenture Event of
Default" means any of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Indenture Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or
come about or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to or in compliance
with any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(i) any Event of Default specified in Article 16 of the Lease (other
than an Event of Default arising solely as the result of the failure to
make an Excepted Payment unless the Owner Participant shall notify the
Indenture Trustee in writing that such failure shall constitute an
Indenture Event of Default); or
(ii) any failure of the Owner Trustee to (A) observe any of its
covenants in the fifth paragraph following the Habendum Clause hereof or
Section 3.05(b)(iii) hereof or Section 7.02(b) of the Participation
Agreement (unless otherwise removed as Owner Trustee within 10 days after
notice thereof to the Owner Participant or (B) observe or perform any other
covenant or obligation of the Owner Trustee in this Indenture (other than
any such failure arising by reason of an Event of Default or specified in
clause (iii) below) and the continuance of such failure for a period of
thirty (30) days or, if such covenant is capable of cure and the Owner
Trustee is diligently proceeding to effect such cure, 120 days, after
written notice thereof identified as a "Notice of Indenture Event of
Default" to the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant by the Indenture
Trustee or by the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of Outstanding Certificates specifying such failure to so observe or
perform and requiring it to be remedied; or
(iii) the failure of the Owner Trustee other than by reason of a
Default or an Event of Default (i) to pay principal, interest or Make-Whole
Premium, if any, on any Certificate when due, and such failure shall have
continued unremedied for ten (10) Business Days after the date when due or
(ii) to pay any other amounts hereunder or under the Certificates when due
and such failure shall have continued unremedied for a period of thirty
(30) days after the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant shall receive
written demand therefor from the Indenture Trustee or by the Holders of not
less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Certificates; or
(iv) (A) any representation or warranty made by SSB, the Owner
Trustee, the Owner Participant or the Owner Participant Guarantor or any
Owner Trustee Guarantor, in Article 7 of the Participation Agreement, in
Section 5.01 of the Lease, in the Owner Participant Guaranty or in any
certificate of SSB, the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, or the Owner
Participant Guarantor furnished to the Indenture Trustee or any Holder in
connection herewith or therewith or pursuant hereto or thereto shall prove
to have been incorrect when made and was and remains in any respect
material to the Holders, and such misrepresentation shall not have been
corrected within 30 days following notice thereof identified as a "Notice
of Indenture Event of Default" being given to the Owner Trustee and the
Owner Participant by the Indenture Trustee or by the Holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Certificates; or
(B) any covenant made by SSB or the Owner Trustee in the
Participation Agreement, or by the Owner Participant or the Owner
Participant Guarantor in Article 7 of the Participation Agreement or in the
Owner Participant Guaranty shall be breached in any respect and such breach
shall remain unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after there has
been given to the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant by the Indenture
Trustee or by Certificate Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of Outstanding Certificates a written notice identified as
a "Notice of Indenture Event of Default" specifying such breach and
requiring it to be remedied; or
(v) the Owner Trustee, the Lessor's Estate, any Owner Trustee
Guarantor, the Owner Participant or the Owner Participant Guarantor shall
file any petition or answer seeking for itself any reorganization,
arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar
relief under any present or future bankruptcy, insolvency or similar
statute, law or regulation;
(vi) an order for relief shall be entered in respect of the Owner
Trustee or the Lessor's Estate or any Owner Trustee Guarantor or the Owner
Participant or the Owner Participant Guarantor by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises in an involuntary case under the federal
bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect; or the Owner Trustee or the
Lessor's Estate or any Owner Trustee Guarantor or the Owner Participant or
the Owner Participant Guarantor shall file any answer admitting or not
contesting the material allegations of a petition filed against the Owner
Trustee or the Lessor's Estate or any Owner Trustee Guarantor or the Owner
Participant or the Owner Participant Guarantor in any proceeding referred
to in clause (vi) below or seek or consent or acquiesce in the appointment
of any trustee, custodian, receiver or liquidator of the Owner Trustee or
the Lessor's Estate or any Owner Trustee Guarantor or the Owner Participant
or the Owner Participant Guarantor, as the case may be, or of all or any
substantial part of its properties; or
(vi) without the consent or acquiescence of the Owner Trustee or the
Lessor's Estate or any Owner Trustee Guarantor or the Owner Participant or
the Owner Participant Guarantor, as the case may be, an order shall be
entered constituting an order for relief or approving a petition for relief
or reorganization or any other petition seeking any reorganization,
arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or other
similar relief under any present or future bankruptcy, insolvency or
similar statute, law or regulation, or if any such petition shall be filed
against the Owner Trustee or the Lessor's Estate or any Owner Trustee
Guarantor or the Owner Participant or the Owner Participant Guarantor, as
the case may be, and such petition shall not be dismissed within 90 days,
or if, without the consent or acquiescence of the Owner Trustee or the
Lessor's Estate or any Owner Trustee Guarantor or the Owner Participant or
the Owner Participant Guarantor, as the case may be, an order shall be
entered appointing a trustee, custodian, receiver or liquidator of the
Owner Trustee or the Lessor's Estate or any Owner Trustee Guarantor or the
Owner Participant or the Owner Participant Guarantor, as the case may be,
or of all or any substantial part of the properties of the Owner Trustee or
the Lessor's Estate or any Owner Trustee Guarantor or the Owner Participant
or the Owner Participant Guarantor, as the case may be, and such order
shall not be dismissed within 90 days; or
(viii) any Owner Trustee Guaranty or the Owner Participant Guaranty
shall cease to be a valid and enforceable obligation of any Owner Trustee
Guarantor or the Owner Participant Guarantor, as the case may be, or
otherwise shall not be in full force and effect.
Section 7.02. Remedies. (a) If an Indenture Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing and so long as the same shall be continuing
unremedied, then and in every such case, the Indenture Trustee may, and when
required by the provisions of Article IX or Section 7.02(c) hereof, shall (i)
exercise any or all of the rights and powers and pursue any and all of the
remedies pursuant to this Article VII and (ii) in the event such Indenture
Event of Default is an Indenture Event of Default referred to in clause (i) of
Section 7.01 hereof, exercise any and all of the remedies pursuant to Article
17 of the Lease; provided that without the consent of the Owner Trustee such
exercise of remedies shall not occur until after the latest date on which the
Owner Trustee may cure the related Event of Default pursuant to Section 8.03
hereof. The Indenture Trustee may take possession of all or any part of the
properties covered or intended to be covered by the Lien and security interest
created hereby or pursuant hereto and may exclude the Owner Participant, the
Owner Trustee, the Lessee and any transferee of the Lessee and all Persons
claiming under any of them wholly or partly therefrom. In addition, the
Indenture Trustee may exercise any other right or remedy in lieu of or in
addition to the foregoing that may be available to it under applicable law, or
proceed by appropriate court action to enforce the terms hereof, of the Lease,
or both, or to rescind the Lease. Without limiting any of the foregoing, it
is understood and agreed that the Indenture Trustee may exercise any right of
sale of the Aircraft available to it, even though it shall not have taken
possession of the Aircraft and shall not have possession thereof at the time
of such sale.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that if the
Indenture Trustee shall proceed to foreclose the Lien of this Indenture, it
shall substantially simultaneously therewith, to the extent the Indenture
Trustee is then entitled to do so hereunder and under the Lease, and is not
then stayed or otherwise prevented from doing so, proceed (to the extent it
has not already done so) to declare the Lease in default and commence the
exercise in good faith of one or more of the remedies under Section
17.01(a)(i), (ii), or (vi) of the Lease (as it shall determine in its sole
discretion). It is further understood and agreed that if the Indenture
Trustee is unable to exercise one or more remedies under Article 17 of the
Lease because of any stay or operation or law or otherwise, the Indenture
Trustee shall not be entitled to foreclose the Lien of this Indenture (A)
until the earlier of (i) 60 days from the date of any such stay or applicable
order under Section 1110 of the Bankruptcy Code including any extension
consented to by the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Certificates of such
period permitted under Section 1110(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and (ii) the
date of actual repossession of the Aircraft by the Indenture Trustee or (B) if
the Lessee has agreed to perform or assume the Lease and no Event of Default
other than as specified in Section 16.01(e), (f) or (g) of the Lease shall be
continuing. For the avoidance of doubt, it is expressly understood and agreed
that except as aforesaid the above-described inability of the Indenture
Trustee to exercise any right or remedy under the Lease shall in no event and
under no circumstances prevent the Indenture Trustee from exercising all of
its rights, powers and remedies under this Indenture, including, without
limitation, this Article VII. The Indenture Trustee further agrees that
notice of intent to foreclose shall be given to the Owner Trustee at the
earlier of the commencement of any proceeding or at least 30 days prior to the
consummation of foreclosure of the Lien of this Indenture.
(b) If an Indenture Event of Default under clause (v), (vi) or (vii)
of Section 7.01 hereof shall occur and be continuing, the unpaid principal of
all Outstanding Certificates, together with interest accrued but unpaid
thereon and all other amounts due thereunder, but without Make-Whole Premium,
shall immediately become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest
or notice, all of which are hereby waived.
(c) If any Indenture Event of Default not described in the preceding
paragraph (b) shall have occurred and be continuing, then and in every such
case, the Indenture Trustee may on its own accord or at the direction of
Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding
Certificates, at any time, by written notice to the Owner Trustee and the
Lessee, declare the principal of all the Certificates to be due and payable,
whereupon the unpaid principal amount of all Outstanding Certificates,
together with accrued interest thereon and all other amounts due thereunder,
but without Make-Whole Premium, shall immediately become due and payable
without presentment, demand, protest or other notice, all of which are hereby
waived. At any time after such declaration and prior to the sale or
disposition of the Trust Indenture Estate, however, the Holders of not less
than 50% in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Certificates, by notice
to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Lessee, may rescind such
declaration, whether made by the Indenture Trustee on its own accord or as
directed, if (x) there has been paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay all overdue installments of interest on all Certificates
(together, to the extent permitted by law, with interest on such overdue
installments of interest), the principal on any Certificates that has become
due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, all sums paid or
advanced by the Indenture Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee, its agents and
counsel, or (y) all Indenture Events of Default (other than the nonpayment of
principal that has become due solely because of such acceleration) have been
either cured or waived as provided in Section 7.11 hereof. No such rescission
shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
(d) Each Holder shall be entitled at any sale to credit against any
purchase price bid at such sale by such Holder all or any part of the unpaid
obligations owing to such Holder secured by the Lien of this Indenture (but
only to the extent that an amount equal to such purchase price would have been
paid to such Holder pursuant to Article V hereof if such purchase price were
paid in cash and the foregoing provisions of this subsection (d) were not
given effect).
Section 7.03. Return of Aircraft, etc. Subject to Section 7.02
hereof: (a) If an Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, at the request of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee shall
promptly execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee such documents as the
Indenture Trustee may deem necessary or advisable to enable the Indenture
Trustee or an agent or representative designated by the Indenture Trustee, at
such time or times and place or places as the Indenture Trustee may specify,
to obtain possession of all or any part of the Trust Indenture Estate to which
the Indenture Trustee shall at the time be entitled under this Indenture.
Subject to the foregoing, if the Owner Trustee shall for any reason fail to
execute and deliver such documents after such request by the Indenture
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee may (i) obtain a judgment conferring on the
Indenture Trustee or an agent or representative designated by the Indenture
Trustee, the right to immediate possession and requiring the Owner Trustee to
execute and deliver such instruments and documents to the Indenture Trustee or
an agent or representative designated by the Indenture Trustee, to the entry
of which judgment the Owner Trustee hereby specifically consents, and (ii)
pursue all or part of such Trust Indenture Estate wherever it may be found and
enter any of the premises of the Lessee or the Owner Trustee wherever such
Trust Indenture Estate may be or be supposed to be and search for such Trust
Indenture Estate and take possession of and remove such Trust Indenture
Estate. All expenses of obtaining such judgment or of pursuing, searching for
and taking such Trust Indenture Estate shall, until paid, be secured by the
Lien of this Indenture.
(b) Upon every such taking of possession, the Indenture Trustee may,
from time to time, at the expense of the Trust Indenture Estate, make all such
expenditures for maintenance, insurance and repairs to and of such Trust
Indenture Estate, as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably deem proper. In
each case subject to Section 7.02 hereof, the Indenture Trustee shall have the
right to maintain, use, operate, store, lease, control or manage the Trust
Indenture Estate and to carry on the business and to exercise all rights and
powers of the Owner Trustee relating to the Trust Indenture Estate, as the
Indenture Trustee may reasonably deem best, including the right to enter into
any and all such agreements with respect to the maintenance, insurance, use,
operation, storage, leasing, control, management or disposition of all or any
part of the Trust Indenture Estate as the Indenture Trustee may determine.
Further, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to collect and receive
directly all tolls, rents (including Rent), revenues, issues, income, products
and profits of the Trust Indenture Estate other than Excepted Payments,
without prejudice, however, to the right of the Indenture Trustee under any
provision of this Indenture to collect and receive all cash held by, or
required to be deposited with, the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
Such tolls, rents (including Rent), revenues, issues, income, products and
profits shall be applied to pay the expenses of the use, operation, storage,
leasing, control, management, or disposition of the Trust Indenture Estate,
and of all maintenance and repairs, and to make all payments which the
Indenture Trustee may be required or may reasonably elect to make for any
taxes, assessments, insurance or other proper charges upon the Trust Indenture
Estate (including the employment of engineers and accountants to examine,
inspect and make reports upon the properties and books and records of the
Owner Trustee and the Lessee), and all other payments which the Indenture
Trustee may be required or authorized to make under any provision of this
Indenture, as well as just and reasonable compensation for the services of the
Indenture Trustee and of all persons properly engaged and employed for such
purposes by the Indenture Trustee; provided, that any excess amounts shall be
promptly distributed in accordance with Section 5.03 hereof.
(c) If an Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to exercise remedies
hereunder, and subject to Article VIII hereof, the Indenture Trustee, either
with or without taking possession, and either before or after taking
possession, and without instituting any legal proceedings whatsoever, may
sell, assign, transfer and deliver the whole or, from time to time, to the
extent permitted by law, any part of the Trust Indenture Estate, or any part
thereof, or interest therein, at any private sale or public auction, with or
without demand, advertisement or notice, except as expressly provided for
below in this Section 7.03(c), for cash or credit or for other property, for
immediate or future delivery, and for such price or prices and on such terms
as the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine; provided, that
any such action shall be at the time lawful and that all mandatory legal
requirements shall be complied with. Any notice required pursuant to the
terms hereof in the case of a public sale, shall state the time and place
fixed for such sale. Any such public sale shall be held at such time or times
within ordinary business hours as the Indenture Trustee shall fix in the
notice of such sale. At any such sale, the Trust Indenture Estate may be sold
in one lot as an entirety or in separate lots. The Indenture Trustee shall
not be obligated to make any sale pursuant to such notice. The Indenture
Trustee may, without notice or publication, adjourn any public or private sale
or cause the same to be adjourned from time to time by announcement at the
time and place fixed for such sale, and any such sale may be made at any time
or place to which the same may be so adjourned without further notice or
publication. The Indenture Trustee may exercise such right of sale without
possession or production of the Certificates or proof of ownership thereof,
and as representative of the Holders may exercise such right without notice to
the Holders or without including the Holders as parties to any suit or
proceedings relating to the foreclosure of any part of the Trust Indenture
Estate. The Owner Trustee shall execute any and all such bills of sale,
assignments and other documents, and perform and do all other acts and things
requested by the Indenture Trustee in order to permit consummation of any sale
of the Trust Indenture Estate in accordance with this Section 7.03(c) and to
effectuate the transfer or conveyance referred to in the first sentence of
this Section 7.03(c). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture,
the Indenture Trustee shall not sell the Trust Indenture Estate or any part
thereof unless the Certificates shall have been accelerated.
(d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Indenture Trustee
or any Holder may be a purchaser of the Trust Indenture Estate or any part
thereof or any interest therein at any sale thereof, whether pursuant to
foreclosure or power of sale or otherwise. The Indenture Trustee may apply
against the purchase price therefor the amount then due hereunder or under any
of the Certificates secured hereby and any Holder may apply against the
purchase price therefor the amount then due to it hereunder, under any other
Indenture Document or under the Certificates held by such Holder to the extent
of such portion of the purchase price as it would have received had it been
entitled to share any distribution thereof. The Indenture Trustee or any
Holder or nominee thereof shall, upon any such purchase, acquire good title to
the property so purchased, free of the Lien of this Indenture and, to the
extent permitted by applicable law, free of all rights of redemption in the
Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant in respect of the property so
purchased.
(e) Subject to Article VIII hereof, and effective upon the
occurrence and continuance of an Indenture Event of Default, the Owner Trustee
hereby irrevocably appoints and constitutes the Indenture Trustee the true and
lawful attorney-in-fact of the Owner Trustee in its name and stead and on its
behalf, for the purpose of effectuating any sale, assignment, transfer or
delivery for the enforcement of the Lien of this Indenture, whether pursuant
to foreclosure or power of sale or otherwise, to execute and deliver all such
bills of sale, assignments and other instruments as the Indenture Trustee may
consider necessary or appropriate, with full power of substitution, and the
Owner Trustee hereby ratifies and confirms all that such attorney or any
substitute shall lawfully do by virtue hereof. Nevertheless, if so requested
by the Indenture Trustee or any purchaser, the Owner Trustee shall ratify and
confirm any such sale, assignment, transfer or delivery, by executing and
delivering to the Indenture Trustee or such purchaser all bills of sale,
assignments, releases and other proper instruments to effect such ratification
and confirmation as may be designated in any such request.
(f) The Indenture Trustee shall, as a matter of right, be entitled to
the appointment of a receiver (who may be the Indenture Trustee or any
successor or nominee) for all or any part of the Trust Indenture Estate,
whether such receivership be incidental to a proposed sale of the Trust
Indenture Estate or the taking of possession thereof or otherwise, and the
Owner Trustee hereby consents to the appointment of such receiver and will not
oppose any such appointment. Any receiver appointed for all or any part of
the Trust Indenture Estate shall be entitled to exercise all of the rights and
powers of the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Trust Indenture Estate.
(g) Any sale of the Trust Indenture Estate or any part thereof or
any interest therein, whether pursuant to foreclosure or power of sale or
otherwise hereunder, shall be a perpetual bar against the Owner Trustee after
the expiration of the period, if any, during which the Owner Trustee shall
have the benefit of prepayment laws which may not be waived pursuant to
Section 7.13 hereof.
Section 7.04. Indenture Trustee May Prove Debt. If the Owner
Trustee shall fail to pay any amount payable hereunder or under the
Certificates, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or
proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final
decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Owner
Trustee and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Owner Trustee wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable;
provided, that any sale of any portion of the Trust Indenture Estate shall be
done in accordance with Section 7.03(c) hereof.
In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Owner
Trustee under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable Federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee
or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or
similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the
Owner Trustee or its property, or in case of any other comparable judicial
proceedings relative to the Owner Trustee, or to the creditors or property of
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the
principal of the Certificates shall then be due and payable as therein or
herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether
the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of
this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceedings or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal, interest and other amounts owing and unpaid in respect of the
Certificates or hereunder, and to file such other papers or documents as
may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture
Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture
Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of the Indenture
Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of
negligence or bad faith) and of the Holders allowed in any judicial
proceedings relative to the Owner Trustee or to the creditors or property of
the Owner Trustee,
(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on
behalf of the Holders in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in
arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency
proceedings or person performing similar functions in comparable
proceedings, and
(c) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with
respect to the claims of the Holders and of the Indenture Trustee on their
behalf;
and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator, custodian or other similar official
is hereby authorized by each of the Holders to make payments to the Indenture
Trustee, and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the
making of payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Indenture Trustee
such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the
Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities
incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor
Indenture Trustee except as a result of negligence or willful misconduct.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture
Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of
any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Certificates or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to
authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder
in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a
trustee in bankruptcy or similar person.
All rights of action and rights to assert claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Certificates, may be enforced by the Indenture
Trustee without the possession of such Certificates on any trial or other
proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own
name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to
the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture
Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and
attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders, as provided herein.
In any proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any
proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to
which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party) the Indenture Trustee shall be
held to represent all the Holders of the Certificates, and it shall not be
necessary to make any Holders parties to such proceedings.
Section 7.05. Remedies Cumulative. Each and every right, power and
remedy given to the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall be cumulative
and shall be in addition to every other right, power and remedy specifically
given herein or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute, and
each and every right, power and remedy whether specifically given herein or
otherwise existing may be exercised from time to time and as often and in such
order as may be deemed expedient by the Indenture Trustee or the Holders, and
the exercise or the beginning of the exercise of any power or remedy shall not
be construed to be a waiver of the right to exercise at the same time or later
any other right, power or remedy. No delay or omission by the Indenture
Trustee or of any Holder in the exercise of any right, remedy or power or in
the pursuance of any remedy shall impair any such right, power or remedy or be
construed to be a waiver of any default on the part of the Owner Trustee or
the Lessee or to be an acquiescence in any such default.
Section 7.06. Suits for Enforcement. If an Indenture Event of
Default has occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Indenture
Trustee may in its discretion and subject to its rights of appropriate
indemnification under Sections 7.08 and 9.03 and Article XI hereof proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and rights of the Holders by such appropriate
judicial proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in equity or in
bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant
or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any
power granted in this Indenture or to enforce any other legal or equitable
right vested in the Indenture Trustee or the Holders by this Indenture or by
law; provided, that any sale of any portion of the Trust Indenture Estate
shall be done in accordance with Section 7.03(c) hereof.
Section 7.07. Discontinuance of Proceedings. In case the Indenture
Trustee or any Holder shall have instituted any proceeding to enforce any
right, power or remedy under this Indenture by foreclosure, entry or
otherwise, and such proceeding shall have been discontinued or abandoned for
any reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee or
such Holder, then the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Participant, the Holders and the Lessee shall, subject to any binding
determination in such proceeding, be restored to their former positions and
rights under this Indenture with respect to the Trust Indenture Estate, and all
rights, remedies and powers of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders shall
continue as if no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 7.08. Limitations on Suits by Holders. No Holder of any
Certificate shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of
this Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or in
bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or
for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other
similar official or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such Holder
previously shall have given to the Indenture Trustee written notice of an
Indenture Event of Default shall then have occurred and be continuing, as
hereinbefore provided, and the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of Outstanding Certificates shall have made written request
upon the Indenture Trustee to institute such action or proceedings in its own
name as trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee such
reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby and the Indenture Trustee for 60
days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall
have failed to institute any such action or proceedings and no direction
inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to Section 7.10 hereof; it being understood and intended, and
being expressly covenanted by the Holder of each Certificate with every other
Holder of each other Certificate and the Indenture Trustee, that no one or
more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of any other Holder or the Lien of this Indenture or any
part of the Trust Indenture Estate or to obtain or seek to obtain priority
over or preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner provided herein and for the equal, ratable and
common benefit of all Holders. For the protection and enforcement of the
provisions of this Section, each and every Holder and the Indenture Trustee
shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
Section 7.09. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Interest and Make-Whole Premium, and to Institute Certain Suits.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture and any provision of any
Certificate, the right of any Holder to receive payment of the principal of
and interest and Make-Whole Premium, if any, on such Certificate on or after
the respective due dates and in the manner expressed in such Certificate, or,
subject to Section 7.08 hereof, to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after such respective dates as provided herein, shall not
be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
Section 7.10. Control by Holders. The Majority in Interest of
Certificate Holders shall have the right to direct the Indenture Trustee as to
the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the Indenture Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
on the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture; provided that such direction shall
not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of this
Indenture and the Indenture Trustee shall have received, to the extent
provided in Sections 7.08 and 9.03 and Article XI hereof, such reasonable
indemnification as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities
to be incurred by the Indenture Trustee; and provided further that (subject to
the provisions of Section 9.02 hereof) the Indenture Trustee shall have the
right to decline to follow any such direction if the Indenture Trustee, being
advised by counsel, shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed
may not lawfully be taken or if the Indenture Trustee in good faith by its
board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors
or Responsible Officers of the Indenture Trustee shall determine that the
action or proceedings so directed would involve the Indenture Trustee in
personal liability or if the Indenture Trustee in good faith shall so
determine that the actions or forebearances specified in or pursuant to such
direction shall be unduly prejudicial to the interests of Holders not joining
in the giving of said direction, it being understood that (subject to Section
9.02 hereof) the Indenture Trustee shall have no duty to ascertain whether or
not such actions or forebearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders.
Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Indenture
Trustee in its discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Indenture
Trustee and which is not inconsistent with the direction by the Majority in
Interest of Certificate Holders.
Section 7.11. Waiver of Past Indenture Default. Upon written
instructions from the Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders, the
Indenture Trustee shall waive any past Indenture Default and its consequences
and upon any such waiver such Indenture Default shall cease to exist and any
Indenture Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been
cured for every purpose of this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to
any subsequent or other Indenture Default or impair any right consequent
thereon; provided, however, that in the absence of written instructions from
all Holders and each Liquidity Provider, the Indenture Trustee shall not waive
any Indenture Default (a) in the payment of the principal of or Make-Whole
Premium, if any, or interest on, or other amounts due under, any Certificate
then Outstanding, or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision of this
Indenture which, under Article XIII hereof, cannot be modified or amended
without the consent of each Holder.
Section 7.12. Notice of Indenture Default. The Indenture Trustee
shall transmit to the Owner Trustee, the Holders and to the Owner Participant
notice of any Indenture Defaults actually known to a Responsible Officer of
the Indenture Trustee, such notice to be transmitted by mail to the Holders
within 90 days, and to the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant promptly
after the occurrence thereof, unless such Indenture Default shall have been
cured before the giving of such notice; provided that under no circumstances
shall the Indenture Trustee give such notice to the Holders until the
expiration of a period of 60 days from the occurrence of such Indenture
Default; and provided further that, except in the case of default in the
payment of the principal of or interest on or any other amount due under any
of the Certificates, the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in withholding
such notice to the Holders if and so long as the board of directors, the
executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees and/or
Responsible Officers of the Indenture Trustee in good faith determines that
the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders.
Section 7.13. Waiver of Appraisement, etc.; Laws. The Owner Trustee
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any
time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the
benefit or advantage of, any appraisement, valuation, stay, extension or
prepayment law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, in
order to prevent or hinder the enforcement of this Indenture or the execution
of any power granted herein to the Indenture Trustee, or the absolute sale of
the Trust Indenture Estate, or any part thereof, or the possession thereof by
any purchaser at any sale under this Article VII; and the Owner Trustee for
itself and all who may claim under it, so far as it or any of them now or
hereafter lawfully may, hereby waives the benefit of all such laws. The Owner
Trustee for itself and all who may claim under it waives, to the extent that
it lawfully may, all right to have the property in the Trust Indenture Estate
marshalled upon any foreclosure hereof, and agrees that any court having
jurisdiction to foreclose this Indenture may order the sale of the Trust
Indenture Estate as an entirety.
If any law referred to in this Section 7.13 and now in force, of
which the Owner Trustee or its successors might take advantage despite this
Section 7.13, shall hereafter be repealed or cease to be in force, such law
shall not thereafter be deemed to constitute any part of the contract herein
contained or to preclude the application of this Section 7.13.
ARTICLE VIII
RIGHTS OF THE OWNER TRUSTEE
AND THE OWNER PARTICIPANT
Section 8.01. Certain Rights of Owner Trustee and Owner Participant.
(a) Subject to Section 13.01 hereof, without the consent of a Majority in
Interest of Certificate Holders, the respective parties to the Indenture
Documents may not modify, amend or supplement any of said agreements, or give
any consent, waiver, authorization or approval thereunder, for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions thereof or of modifying in any manner the rights of the respective
parties thereunder; provided, however, that the actions specified in
subsection (b) of this Section 8.01 may be taken without the consent of the
Indenture Trustee or any Holder.
(b) Subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this Section
8.01, the respective parties to the Indenture Documents, at any time and from
time to time, without the consent of the Indenture Trustee or of any Holder,
may:
(1) so long as no Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, modify, amend or supplement the Lease, or give any waiver
with respect thereto, except that without compliance with subsection (a) of
this Section 8.01 the parties to the Lease shall not modify, amend or
supplement, or give any waiver for the purpose of adding any provisions to
or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions thereof or
of modifying in any manner the rights of the respective parties thereunder,
with respect to the following provisions of the Lease as in effect on the
effective date hereof: Article 2 (provided that, if in respect of the
Term, the result thereof would not be to shorten the Term of the Lease to a
period shorter than the period ending with the Maturity of any
Certificate), Section 3.03 (except to the extent such Section relates to
amounts payable (whether directly or pursuant to this Indenture) to Persons
other than Holders, each Liquidity Provider, the Subordination Agent and
the Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity), Section 3.05, Section
3.06 (except insofar as it relates to the address or account information of
the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee) (other than as such Sections
3.03, 3.05 and 3.06 may be amended pursuant to Section 3.04 of the Lease as
in effect on the effective date hereof), Section 5.01, Article 6, Article
10 (except that further restrictions may be imposed on the Lessee), Article
11 (except that additional requirements may be imposed on the Lessee),
Article 13 (except for Section 13.05 and except that additional insurance
requirements may be imposed on the Lessee), Article 14 (except in order to
increase the Lessee's liabilities or enhance the Lessor's rights
thereunder), Article 15 (except in the case of an assignment by the Lessor
in circumstances where the Aircraft shall remain registrable under the
Transportation Code), Section 16.01 (except to impose additional or more
stringent Events of Default), Article 17 (except to impose additional
remedies), Section 19.01 (except to impose additional requirements on the
Lessee), Section 20.01, Article 22, Section 23.01, Section 26.03 and any
definition of terms used in the Lease, to the extent that any modification
of such definition would result in a modification of the Lease not
permitted pursuant to this subsection (b); provided that the parties to the
Lease may take any such action without the consent of the Indenture Trustee
or any Holder to the extent such action relates to the payment of amounts
constituting, or the Owner Trustee's, the Owner Participant's or the
Lessee's rights or obligations with respect to, Excepted Payments (other
than the place, time and manner of payment of Basic Rent constituting an
Excepted Payment);
(2) modify, amend or supplement the Trust Agreement and any other
Indenture Document (other than the Lease and the Participation Agreement),
or give any consent, waiver, authorization or approval with respect
thereto, in each case only to the extent any such action shall not
adversely impact the interests of the Holders;
(3) modify, amend or supplement the Participation Agreement, or give
any consent, waiver, authorization or approval with respect thereto, except
that without compliance with subsection (a) of this Section 8.01 the
parties to the Participation Agreement shall not modify, amend or
supplement, or give any consent, waiver, authorization or approval for the
purpose of adding provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions thereof or of modifying in any manner the rights of
the respective parties thereunder, with respect to the following provisions
of the Participation Agreement as in effect on the effective date hereof:
Articles 6, 8 and 9 and Section 10.01(b) (insofar as such Articles 6, 8 and
9 and Section 10.01(b) relate to the Indenture Trustee, the Pass Through
Trustee and the Holders), Article 7 and Sections 3.05, 15.01, 17.02 and
17.11 and any definition of terms used in the Participation Agreement, to
the extent that any modification of such definition would result in a
modification of the Participation Agreement not permitted pursuant to this
subsection (b); and
(4) modify, amend or supplement any of said agreements in order to
cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions thereof which
may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision thereof or of any
provision of this Indenture, or to make any other provision with respect to
matters or questions arising thereunder or under this Indenture which shall
not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, provided the
making of any such other provision shall not adversely affect the interests
of the Holders.
(c) No modification, amendment, supplement, consent, waiver,
authorization or approval with respect to the Lease or the Participation
Agreement, whether effected pursuant to subsection (a) or pursuant to
subsection (b) of this Section 8.01 and anything in such subsections or
elsewhere in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, shall, without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Certificate affected thereby,
and each Liquidity Provider,
(1) modify, amend or supplement the Lease in such a way as to extend
the time of payment of Basic Rent or Stipulated Loss Value or Supplemental
Rent payable to the Holders or any Liquidity Provider or any other amounts
payable to the Indenture Trustee for its own account or for the account of
the Holders or any Liquidity Provider (subject in any event to Section 3.05
of the Lease) upon the occurrence of an Event of Loss or Termination Value
and any other amounts payable to the Indenture Trustee for its own account
or for the account of the Holders (subject in any event to Section 3.05 of
the Lease) upon termination of the Lease with respect to the Aircraft
payable under, or as provided in, the Lease as in effect on the effective
date hereof, or reduce the amount of any installment of Basic Rent or
Supplemental Rent so that the same is less than the payment of principal
of, and interest on the Certificates and Make-Whole Premium, if any, and
amounts due to each Liquidity Provider, as the case may be, to be made from
such installment of Basic Rent or Supplemental Rent, or reduce the
aggregate amount of Stipulated Loss Value, or any other amounts payable
under, or as provided in, the Lease as in effect on the effective date
hereof upon the occurrence of an Event of Loss so that the same is less
than the accrued interest on and the principal as of the Loss Payment Date,
of the Certificates at the time Outstanding or reduce the amount of
Termination Value and any other amounts payable under, or as provided in,
the Lease as in effect on the effective date hereof upon termination of the
Lease with respect to the Aircraft so that the same is less than the
accrued interest on and principal as of the Lease Termination Date and
Make-Whole Premium, if any, of Certificates at the time Outstanding, or
(2) modify, amend or supplement the Lease in such a way as to, or
consent to any assignment of the Lease or give any consent, waiver,
authorization or approval which would, release the Lessee from its absolute
and unconditional obligations in respect of payment of Basic Rent or
Supplemental Rent, or Stipulated Loss Value and any other amounts payable
to the Indenture Trustee for its own account or the account of the Holders
(subject in any event to Section 3.05 of the Lease) upon the occurrence of
an Event of Loss, or Termination Value and any other amounts payable to the
Indenture Trustee for its own account or the account of the Holders
(subject in any event to Section 3.05 of the Lease) of the Lease with
respect to the Aircraft, payable under, or as provided in, the Lease as in
effect on the effective date hereof, except for any such assignment
pursuant to Section 2.12 hereof, and except as provided in the Lease as in
effect on the effective date hereof.
(d) At all times so long as this Indenture is in effect, the consent
of the Owner Trustee (at the direction of the Owner Participant) shall be
required in order (i) to amend, modify or supplement the Lease or any other
Operative Document to which the Owner Trustee is a party or to waive
compliance by the Lessee with any of its obligations thereunder, (ii) to grant
any consent requested under the Lease and (iii) to exercise discretion on the
Lessee's option to substitute a Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engines
after an Event of Loss pursuant to the Lease.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, but subject always to the provision of Section
15.05 hereof, the Indenture Trustee shall at all times have the right, to the
exclusion of the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant, to (A) declare the
Lease to be in default under Article 17 (other than with respect to Excepted
Payments) thereof and (B) subject only to the provisions of this Indenture,
exercise the remedies set forth in such Article 17 of the Lease (other than in
connection with Excepted Payments) and in Article 7 hereof.
Nothing in this Indenture shall be deemed to prohibit the Owner
Participant or the Owner Trustee from making demand on the Lessee for, or from
commencing an action at law to obtain the payment of, or from receiving
payment of, any Excepted Payment; provided, however, that if the Owner Trustee
is proceeding under the Lease, the Owner Trustee shall proceed pursuant to
Section 17.01(a)(v), and only Section 17.01(a)(v), of the Lease.
Section 8.02. Owner Participant's Right to Elect to Prepay or
Purchase the Certificates. (a) If (i) an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing for more than 180 days or the Certificates shall have become
due and payable pursuant to Section 7.02(b) or (c) hereof or (ii) an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing for not more than 180 days and
the Certificates shall not have become due and payable pursuant to Section
7.02(b) or (c) hereof, the Owner Participant (or the Owner Trustee on behalf
of the Owner Participant) may, but shall be under no obligation to, do either
of the following:
(1) direct the Owner Trustee to cause the prepayment of all, but not
less than all, of the Certificates then Outstanding by notifying the
Indenture Trustee of such election, which notice in order to be effective
shall state that it is irrevocable and shall designate a Prepayment Date
which shall be a Business Day and which shall be not less than 30 days
after the date of such notice on which the Owner Trustee shall, in the
manner provided for in Section 6.04 hereof, deposit the sum of amounts
contemplated by paragraph "first" under Section 5.03 and the aggregate
Prepayment Price of all such Certificates with the Indenture Trustee. If
such payment by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee is made, the
Certificates shall cease to accrue interest from and after the Prepayment
Date, and after distribution of such payment to the Holders, the Indenture
Trustee shall release the Trust Indenture Estate from the Lien of this
Indenture; or
(2) purchase all, but not less than all, of the Outstanding
Certificates by notifying the Indenture Trustee of such election, which
notice in order to be effective shall state that it is irrevocable and
shall designate a date which shall be a Business Day and which shall be not
less than 30 days after the date of such notice on which the Owner Trustee
shall pay to the Indenture Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of all Outstanding Certificates, together with accrued
interest on such amount to the date of purchase, the aggregate amount of
any Make-Whole Premium applicable to each Outstanding Certificate (if such
purchase occurs prior to the Premium Termination Date for such Outstanding
Certificate) in the case of a purchase pursuant to clause (a)(ii) above,
plus all other sums due any Holder or the Indenture Trustee hereunder or
under the Participation Agreement or the Lease. Upon receipt of the
Indenture Trustee of such amount, each Holder will be deemed, whether or
not Certificates shall have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee on such
date, to have thereupon sold, assigned, transferred and conveyed (and shall
promptly take such actions as the Owner Participant shall reasonably
request to evidence such sale, assignment, transfer and conveyance) to the
Owner Participant (without recourse or warranty of any kind except for its
own acts), all of the right, title and interest of such Holder in and to
the Trust Indenture Estate and this Indenture and all Certificates held by
such Holder and the former Holders shall not be entitled to receive any
interest on the principal amount of such Certificates after the purchase
date, and the Owner Participant shall be deemed to have assumed (and shall
promptly take such actions as any Holder shall reasonably request to
evidence such assumption) all of such Holder's obligations under the
Participation Agreement and this Indenture arising subsequent to such sale.
If the Owner Trustee shall so request, such Holder will comply with all the
provisions of Section 2.06 of this Indenture to enable new Certificates to
be issued to the Owner Participant in such authorized denominations as the
Owner Participant shall request. All charges and expenses required pursuant
to Section 2.06 hereof in connection with the issuance of any such new
Certificates shall be borne by the Owner Participant.
(b) From and after the deposit by the Owner Trustee of the applicable
Prepayment Price or purchase price with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 8.02(a) hereof, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to exercise all
remedies of the Indenture Trustee under Article VII hereof as well as of the
Lessor under the Lease.
Section 8.03. Certain Rights of Owner Participant. (a) If (A)
there shall occur an Event of Default under the Lease as a result of the
Lessee's failure to make any payment of an installment of Basic Rent, and (B)
the Owner Trustee shall have paid or caused to be paid on or prior to the date
which is 15 Business Days after such Event of Default all principal and
interest on the Certificates then due (as well as any interest on overdue
principal and (to the extent permitted by applicable law) interest), but not
including any principal or interest becoming due on account of such Event of
Default, then the failure of the Lessee to make the payment of such
installment of Basic Rent or of interest on account of such installment's
being overdue shall not constitute or result in an Indenture Event of Default
under this Indenture and any declaration based solely on the same shall be
deemed to be automatically rescinded. Nothing contained in the preceding
sentence shall be deemed to entitle the Owner Trustee to exercise any rights
and powers or pursue any remedies pursuant to Article 17 of the Lease or
otherwise except as set forth in this Indenture, and except that the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant may attempt to recover any amount paid by it
or them under this Indenture by demanding of the Lessee payment of such
amount, or by commencing an action at law against the Lessee for the payment
of such amount or taking appropriate action in a pending action at law against
the Lessee pursuant to Section 17.01(a)(v), but only said Section 17.01(a)(v),
of the Lease. Upon curing any such Event of Default pursuant to this Section
8.03, the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant, as the case may be, shall,
so long as no Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, be subrogated on an unsecured basis to all the rights of the
Indenture Trustee under the Lease in respect of the payment giving rise to such
Event of Default, and any right to any interest in respect of the same, and
shall be entitled to any payment of Basic Rent (or interest thereon) actually
made by the Lessee in respect of such cured payment upon receipt by the
Indenture Trustee; provided that no such amount shall be paid to the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant until all amounts then due and payable to
each Certificate Holder hereunder and thereunder shall have been paid in full
and no Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture or the Lease to the contrary, the
Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee collectively, shall not be entitled to
cure more than six (6) Events of Default (no more than three (3) of which may
be consecutive) occasioned by defaults in the payment of Basic Rent.
(b) If (A) there shall occur an Event of Default under the Lease for
any reason other than the Lessee's failure to make any payment of an
installment of Basic Rent and (B) the Owner Trustee shall have taken or caused
to be taken such action necessary to cure and shall have cured such Event of
Default prior to the date which is 15 Business Days after such Event of
Default, then the failure of the Lessee to perform such covenant, condition or
agreement, the observance or performance of which was accomplished by the
Owner Trustee hereunder shall not constitute or result in an Indenture Event
of Default under this Indenture and any declaration based solely on the same
shall be deemed to be automatically rescinded. Nothing contained in the
preceding sentence shall be deemed to entitle the Owner Trustee or the Owner
Participant to exercise any rights and powers or pursue any remedies pursuant
to Article 17 of the Lease or otherwise except as set forth in this Indenture,
and except that the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant may attempt to
recover any amount paid by it or them in effecting such cure by demanding of
the Lessee payment of such amount, plus any interest due, or by commencing an
action at law against the Lessee for the payment of such amount or taking
appropriate action in a pending action at law against the Lessee pursuant to
Section 17.01(a)(v), but only said Section 17.01(a)(v), of the Lease. Upon
curing any such Event of Default pursuant to this Section 8.03(b), the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant, as the case may be, shall be subrogated to
all the rights of the Indenture Trustee under the Lease in respect of the
payment, agreement or covenant giving rise to such Event of Default, and any
right to any interest in respect of the same, and shall be entitled to any
payment or other performance upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee; provided
that no such amount shall be paid to the Owner Trustee or the Owner
Participant until all amounts then due and payable to each Certificate Holder
hereunder and thereunder shall have been paid in full and no Indenture Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
ARTICLE IX
CONCERNING THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
Section 9.01. Acceptance of Trusts. The Indenture Trustee hereby
accepts the trusts imposed upon it by this Indenture, and covenants and agrees
to perform the same as expressed herein and agrees to receive and disburse all
moneys constituting part of the Trust Indenture Estate in accordance with the
terms hereof.
Section 9.02. Duties and Responsibilities of the Indenture Trustee;
During an Indenture Event of Default; Prior to an Indenture Event of Default.
(a) The Indenture Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Indenture Event of
Default and after the curing or waiving of all Indenture Events of Default
which may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such
duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Indenture
Event of Default has occurred (which has not been cured or waived) the
Indenture Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by
this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise,
as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct
of his own affairs. No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to
relieve the Indenture Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its
own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) prior to the occurrence of an Indenture Event of Default and
after the curing or waiving of all Indenture Events of Default which may have
occurred:
(x) the duties and obligations of the Indenture Trustee shall be
determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the
Indenture Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such
duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read in to this Indenture against
the Indenture Trustee; and
(y) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Indenture
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any
statements, certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such
statements, certificate or opinions which by any provision hereof are
specifically required to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not
they conform to the requirements of this Indenture;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers
of the Indenture Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Indenture Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or not taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction
of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Certificates relating to the time, method and place of conducting
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Indenture Trustee, under this
Indenture.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the
Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise
of any of its rights or powers, if the Indenture Trustee shall have determined
in good faith that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against
such liability is not reasonably assured to it.
The Indenture Trustee will execute and the Owner Trustee will file or
cause to be filed such continuation statements with respect to financing
statements relating to the security interest created hereunder in the Trust
Indenture Estate as may be specified from time to time in written instructions
of the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of
Certificates (which instructions may, by their terms, be operative only at a
future date and which shall be accompanied by the execution form of such
continuation statement so to be filed); provided that, notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Indenture Trustee may execute and file or cause to be filed any
financing statement which it from time to time deems appropriate.
(b) If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
and, after the latest date on which the Owner Trustee may cure such Event of
Default pursuant to Section 8.03 hereof, on request of the Holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Certificates and subject
to indemnification, to the extent provided in Sections 7.08 and 9.03 and
Article XI hereof, as it may require against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise such remedies
under Article 17 of the Lease as shall be specified in such request.
(c) The Indenture Trustee agrees that it will, in its individual
capacity and at its own cost and expense (but without any right of indemnity
in respect of any such cost or expense under Article XI hereof) promptly take
such action as may be necessary duly to discharge all Liens on any part of the
Trust Indenture Estate which result from claims against it in its individual
capacity not related to the administration of the Trust Indenture Estate or
any other transaction pursuant to this Indenture or any document included in
the Trust Indenture Estate.
(d) The Indenture Trustee will execute and deliver to the Lessee for
filing in accordance with Article 18 of the Lease any properly presented
document, instrument or financing or continuation statement specified in any
opinion delivered pursuant to Section 6.03(e) of the Participation Agreement.
The Indenture Trustee may rely on the act of presentation of any such
document, instrument, financing or continuation statement as evidencing the
fact that it is properly prepared and presented, provided that the Indenture
Trustee shall promptly correct any error in any such document, instrument,
financing or continuation statement of which a Responsible Officer of the
Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge.
(e) The Indenture Trustee will furnish to each Holder promptly upon
receipt thereof, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests,
demands, certificates, financial statements and other instruments furnished to
the Indenture Trustee, to the extent that the same shall not have been
otherwise furnished to such Holder pursuant to this Indenture or to the extent
the Indenture Trustee does not reasonably believe that the same shall have
been furnished by the Lessee directly to such Holder.
Section 9.03. Certain Rights of the Indenture Trustee. Subject to
Section 9.02 hereof:
(a) the Indenture Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting
or refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officer's Certificate or any
other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented
by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Owner Trustee
mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer's
Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein
specifically prescribed) upon which the Indenture Trustee may rely to prove
or establish a matter set forth therein;
(c) the Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel and any advice or
Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection
in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it
hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of
Counsel;
(d) the Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request,
order or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred therein or thereby;
(e) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken
or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or
within the discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;
(f) prior to the occurrence of an Indenture Event of Default
hereunder and after the curing or waiving of all Indenture Events of
Default, the Indenture Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval,
appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security, or other paper or
document unless requested in writing to do so by the Majority in Interest
of Certificate Holders; provided that, if the payment within a reasonable
time to the Indenture Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely
to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion
of the Indenture Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Indenture Trustee
by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the
Indenture Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such expenses or
liabilities as a condition to proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every
such examination shall be paid by the Owner Trustee or, if paid by the
Indenture Trustee or any predecessor trustee, shall be repaid by the Owner
Trustee upon demand; and
(g) the Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents or attorneys not regularly in its employ and the Indenture Trustee
shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of
any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.
Section 9.04. Indenture Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals,
Disposition of Certificates or Application of Proceeds Thereof. The Indenture
Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the recitals
contained herein and in the Certificates, except the Indenture Trustee's
certificates of authentication. The Indenture Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Certificates. The Indenture Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Owner Trustee of any of the Certificates or of the proceeds
thereof.
Section 9.05. Indenture Trustee and Agents May Hold Certificates;
Collections, etc. The Indenture Trustee or any agent of the Indenture Trustee
in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of
Certificates with the same rights it would have if it were not the Indenture
Trustee or such agent and may otherwise deal with the Owner Trustee and
receive, collect, hold and retain collections from the Owner Trustee with the
same rights it would have if it were not the Indenture Trustee or such agent.
Section 9.06. Moneys Held by Indenture Trustee. Subject to Sections
5.08 hereof and 14.04 hereof, all moneys received by the Indenture Trustee
shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the
purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law. Neither
the Owner Trustee nor, subject to Section 5.08 hereof, the Indenture Trustee
nor any agent thereof shall be under any liability for interest on any moneys
received by it hereunder.
Section 9.07. Right of Indenture Trustee to Rely on Officer's
Certificate, etc. Subject to Sections 9.02 and 9.03 hereof, whenever in the
administration of the trusts of this Indenture the Indenture Trustee shall
deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking or suffering or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless
other evidence in respect thereof be specifically prescribed herein) may, in
the absence of bad faith on the part of the Indenture Trustee, be deemed to be
conclusively proved and established by an Officer's Certificate delivered to
the Indenture Trustee, and such certificate, in the absence of bad faith on
the part of the Indenture Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Indenture
Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it under the provisions
of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
Section 9.08. Replacement Airframes and Replacement Engines. At any
time and from time to time any Airframe or Engine which has been subject to an
Event of Loss and may, or is required to, be replaced under Section 10.03,
11.03 or 11.04 of the Lease by a Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine,
as the case may be, shall be replaced in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 9.08 and the provisions of said Sections of the Lease, the Owner
Trustee shall, from time to time, direct the Indenture Trustee to execute and
deliver to or as directed in writing by the Owner Trustee an appropriate
instrument releasing such Airframe and/or Engine as appropriate from the Lien
of this Indenture and the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver such
instrument as aforesaid without recourse or warranty, but only upon receipt by
or deposit with the Indenture Trustee of the following:
(1) A written request from the Owner Trustee requesting such release
and specifically describing the Airframe and/or Engine(s) to be so released.
(2) A certificate signed by a duly authorized officer of the Lessee
stating the following:
A. With respect to the replacement of any Airframe:
(i) a description of the Airframe subject to the Event of Loss
including the manufacturer, model, FAA registration number (or other
applicable registration information) and manufacturer's serial
number;
(ii) a description of the Replacement Airframe, including the
manufacturer, model, FAA registration number (or other applicable
registration information) and manufacturer's serial number;
(iii) that on the date of the Indenture and Security Agreement
Supplement relating to the Replacement Airframe the Owner Trustee
will be the legal owner of and have good and marketable title to such
Replacement Airframe free and clear of all Liens except Liens
permitted under Section 6.01 of the Lease, that such Replacement
Airframe will on such date be in at least as good operating condition
and repair as required by the terms of the Lease, and that such
Replacement Airframe has been or, substantially concurrently with
such replacement, will be duly registered in the name of the Owner
Trustee under the Transportation Code or under the law then
applicable to the registration of the Airframe subject to the Event
of Loss and that an airworthiness certificate has been duly issued
under the Transportation Code (or such other applicable law) with
respect to such Replacement Airframe and that such registration and
certificate is, or will be, in full force and effect, and that the
Lessee will have the full right and authority to use such Replacement
Airframe;
(iv) that the insurance required by Article 13 of the Lease is in
full force and effect with respect to such Replacement Airframe and
all premiums then due thereon have been paid in full;
(v) that the Replacement Airframe is of the same or an improved make
or model as the Airframe requested to be released from this Indenture;
(vi) that the value of the Replacement Airframe as of the date of such
certificate is not less than the value of the Airframe requested to
be released (assuming such Airframe was in the condition and repair
required to be maintained under the Lease);
(vii) that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or
would result from the making and granting of the request for release
and the addition of a Replacement Airframe;
(viii) that the release of the Airframe subject to the Event of Loss
will not impair the security of the Indenture in contravention of any
of the provisions of this Indenture;
(ix) that upon such replacement, the Lien of this Indenture will
apply to the Replacement Airframe and such Lien will be a first
priority security interest in favor of the Indenture Trustee; and
(x) that each of the conditions specified in Section 11.03 of the
Lease with respect to such Replacement Airframe has been satisfied.
B. With respect to the replacement of any Engine:
(i) a description of the Engine subject to the Event of Loss
including the manufacturer's serial number;
(ii) a description of the Replacement Engine including the
manufacturer's name, the engine model and serial number;
(iii) that on the date of the Indenture and Security Agreement
Supplement relating to the Replacement Engine the Owner Trustee will
be the legal owner of such Replacement Engine free and clear of all
Liens except Liens permitted under Section 6.01 of the Lease, and
that such Replacement Engine will on such date be in at least as good
operating condition and repair as required by the terms of the Lease;
(iv) that the value of the Replacement Engine as of the date of such
certificate is not less than the value of the Engine to be released
(assuming such Engine was in the condition and repair required to be
maintained under the Lease);
(v) that the release of the Engine subject to the Event of Loss will
not impair the security of the Indenture in contravention of any of
the provisions of this Indenture;
(vi) that upon such replacement, the Lien of this Indenture will
apply to the Replacement Engine; and
(vii) that each of the conditions specified in Section 10.03, 11.03
or 11.04 of the Lease with respect to such Replacement Engine has
been satisfied.
(3) The appropriate instruments (i) transferring to the Owner
Trustee title to the Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine to be received
as consideration for the Airframe or Engine to be released and (ii) assigning
to the Owner Trustee the benefit of all manufacturer's and vendor's
warranties, if any, generally available with respect to such Replacement
Airframe or Replacement Engine, and an Indenture and Security Agreement
Supplement subjecting such Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine to the
Trust Agreement and to the Lien of this Indenture.
(4) A certificate from a firm of independent aircraft appraisers of
national standing satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee
confirming the accuracy of the information set forth in clause (2)A.(vi) of
this Section 9.08.
(5) The opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell, special counsel to the
Lessee, or other counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee,
stating that:
(i) the certificates, opinions and other instruments and/or property
which have been or are therewith delivered to and deposited with the
Indenture Trustee conform to the requirements of this Indenture and the
Lease and, upon the basis of such application, the property so sold or
disposed of may be properly released from the Lien of this Indenture and
all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such release have
been complied with; and
(ii) the Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine has been validly
subjected to the Lien of this Indenture and covered by the Lease, the
instruments subjecting such Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine to
the Lease and to the Lien of this Indenture, as the case may be, have been
duly filed for recordation pursuant to the Transportation Code or any other
law then applicable to the registration of the Aircraft, and no further
action, filing or recording of any document is necessary or advisable in
order to establish and perfect the title of the Owner Trustee to and the
Lien of this Indenture on such Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine
and the Indenture Trustee would be entitled to the benefits of Section 1110
of the Bankruptcy Code with respect to such Replacement Airframe or
Replacement Engine, provided, that such opinion need not be to the effect
specified in the foregoing clause to the extent that the benefits of such
Section 1110 would not have been, by reason of a change in law or
governmental interpretation thereof after the date hereof, available to the
Indenture Trustee with respect to the Aircraft immediately prior to such
substitution had such Event of Loss not occurred.
Section 9.09. Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement for
Replacements. In the event of the substitution of a Replacement Airframe or a
Replacement Engine as contemplated by Section 10.03 or Article 11 of the
Lease, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee agree for the benefit of
the Holders and the Lessee, subject to fulfillment of the conditions precedent
and compliance by the Lessee with its obligations set forth in Section 10.03
or Article 11 of the Lease, to execute and deliver an Indenture and Security
Agreement Supplement as contemplated by Section 9.08(3) hereof and, provided
no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, execute and deliver
to the Lessee an appropriate instrument releasing the Airframe or Engine being
replaced from the Lien of this Indenture.
Section 9.10. Effect of Replacement. In the event of the
substitution of a Replacement Airframe or a Replacement Engine as contemplated
by Section 10.01 or Article 11 of the Lease and Section 9.08 hereof, all
provisions of this Indenture relating to the Airframe or Engine or Engines
being replaced shall be applicable to such Replacement Airframe or Replacement
Engine or Engines with the same force and effect as if such Replacement
Airframe or Replacement Engine or Engines were the same Airframe or engine or
engines, as the case may be, as the Airframe or Engine or Engines being
replaced but for the Event of Loss with respect to the Airframe or Engine or
Engines being replaced.
Section 9.11. Compensation. The Owner Trustee covenants and agrees
to pay, and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, reasonable
compensation and payment or reimbursement for its reasonable advances,
expenses and disbursements (including the reasonable compensation and expenses
and disbursements of its counsel, agents and other persons not regularly in
its employ) in connection with its services rendered hereunder or in any way
relating to or arising out of the administration of the Trust Indenture Estate
and shall have a priority claim on the Trust Indenture Estate for the payment
of such compensation, advances, expenses and disbursements to the extent that
such compensation, advances, expenses and disbursements shall not be paid by
the Lessee, and shall have the right to use or apply any moneys held by it
hereunder in the Trust Indenture Estate toward such payments; provided that,
so long as the Lease is in effect, the Indenture Trustee shall not make any
claim for payment under this Section 9.11 against the Owner Trustee without
first making demand on the Lessee for payment of such claim. The Indenture
Trustee agrees that it shall have no right against any Holder, SSB or the
Owner Participant for any fee as compensation for its services as trustee
under this Indenture.
ARTICLE X
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS
Section 10.01. Evidence of Action Taken by Holders. (a) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be
embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in
writing, and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Indenture Trustee and, if expressly required herein, to the Owner Trustee.
Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent
shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Sections
9.02 and 9.03 hereof) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the
Owner Trustee, if made in the manner provided in this Article.
(b) For the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to vote or
consent to any direction, waiver or other action of such Holders under Section
7.10 or 7.11 hereof, the Lessee may set a record date for such vote or consent
by specifying such record date in an Officer's Certificate delivered to the
Indenture Trustee. Such record date shall be a date not more than 15 days
prior to the first solicitation of such vote or consent.
Section 10.02. Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of
Certificates. Subject to Sections 9.02 and 9.03 hereof, the execution of any
instrument by a Holder or his agent or proxy may be proved in accordance with
such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Indenture
Trustee. The holding of Certificates shall be proved by the Register or by a
certificate of the Registrar.
Section 10.03. Holders to Be Treated as Owners. Prior to due
presentment for registration of transfer of any Certificate, the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, any agent of the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee, the Paying Agent, if any, the Registrar and the Lessee may
deem and treat the Person in whose name such Certificate shall be registered
upon the Register as the absolute owner of such Certificate (whether or not
such Certificate shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of
ownership or other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of
or on account of the principal of and, subject to the provisions of this
Indenture, interest on such Certificate and for all other purposes; and
neither the Owner Trustee nor the Indenture Trustee (nor any agent of the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee) nor the Paying Agent, if any, nor the
Registrar nor the Lessee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All
such payments so made to any such person, or upon his order, shall be valid,
and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and
discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any such Certificate.
Section 10.04. Certificates Owned by Owner Trustee and the Lessee
Deemed Not Outstanding. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite
aggregate principal amount of Certificates have concurred in any direction,
consent or waiver under this Indenture, Certificates which are owned by the
Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, SSB, the Lessee or by any Affiliate
thereof shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose
of any such determination; provided that for the purpose of determining
whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such
direction, consent or waiver, only if a Responsible Officer of the Indenture
Trustee has actual knowledge that certain Certificates are so owned by any
person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or
indirect common control with the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant or SSB
shall such Certificates be so disregarded; and provided further that if all
Certificates which would be deemed Outstanding in the absence of the foregoing
provision are owned by the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant or by any
Affiliate thereof, then such Certificates shall be deemed Outstanding for the
purpose of any such determination. Certificates so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the pledgee's right
so to act with respect to such Certificates and that the pledgee is not the
Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, SSB or the Lessee or any Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, SSB or the Lessee. In
case of a dispute as to such right, the advice of counsel shall be full
protection in respect of any decision made by the Indenture Trustee in
accordance with such advice, unless the Lessee, the Owner Trustee, SSB, or the
Owner Participant are actually named in the Register. Upon request of the
Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, SSB and the
Lessee shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee promptly an Officer's Certificate
listing and identifying all Certificates, if any, known by the Owner Trustee,
the Owner Participant, SSB or the Lessee to be owned or held by or for the
account of any of the above-described persons; and, subject to Sections 9.02
and 9.03 hereof, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to accept such
Officer's Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts set forth therein
and of the fact that all Certificates not listed therein are outstanding for
the purpose of any such determination.
Section 10.05. Right of Revocation of Action Taken. At any time
prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Indenture Trustee, as provided
in Section 10.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage
in aggregate principal amount of the Certificates specified in this Indenture
in connection with such action, any Holder of a Certificate, the serial number
of which is shown by the evidence to be included among the serial numbers of
the Certificates the Holders of which have consented to such action, may, by
filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Department and upon proof of
holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns
such Certificate. Except as aforesaid, any such action taken by the Holder
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders
and owners of such Certificate and of any Certificates issued in exchange or
substitution therefor, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard
thereto is made upon any such Certificate or otherwise. Any action taken by
the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the
Certificates specified in this Indenture in connection with such action shall
be conclusively binding upon the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the
Holders of all the Certificates.
Section 10.06. ERISA. Any Person, other than the Subordination
Agent and the Pass Through Trustee, who is acquiring the Certificates will be
deemed to represent and warrant that (i) no assets of an employee benefit plan
subject to Title I of ERISA or an individual retirement account or plan
subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or any trust established under any such
plan or account, have been used to acquire or hold any of the Certificates, or
(ii) that one or more administrative or statutory exemptions from the
prohibited transaction rules under Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of
the Code applies to its purchase and holding of the Certificates such that its
purchase and holding of the Certificates will not result in a non-exempt
prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code.
ARTICLE XI
INDEMNIFICATION OF INDENTURE
TRUSTEE BY OWNER TRUSTEE
The Owner Trustee, not individually but solely in its capacity as
Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, hereby agrees, whether or not any of
the transactions contemplated hereby shall be consummated, to assume liability
for, and does hereby indemnify, protect, save and keep harmless the Indenture
Trustee, in its individual capacity, and its successors, assigns, agents and
servants solely from the Lessor's Estate, with respect to the claims of the
Indenture Trustee for payment or reimbursement under Section 9.11 hereof and
from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
penalties, taxes (excluding any taxes payable by the Indenture Trustee on or
measured by any compensation received by the Indenture Trustee for its
services under this Indenture), claims, actions, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements (including legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature
whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the
Indenture Trustee (whether or not also agreed to be indemnified against by any
other person under any other document) in any way relating to or arising out
of this Indenture, or any other Indenture Documents or the enforcement of any
of the terms of any thereof, or in any way relating to or arising out of the
manufacture, purchase, acceptance, nonacceptance, rejection, ownership,
delivery, lease, possession, use, operation, condition, sale, return or other
disposition of the Aircraft or any Engine (including, without limitation,
latent and other defects, whether or not discoverable, and any claim for
patent, trademark or copyright infringement), or in any way relating to or
arising out of the administration of the Trust Indenture Estate or the action
or inaction of the Indenture Trustee hereunder, except only (a) in the case of
willful misconduct or gross negligence of the Indenture Trustee in the
performance of its duties hereunder, (b) as may result from the inaccuracy of
any representation or warranty of the Indenture Trustee in the Participation
Agreement, (c) as otherwise provided in Section 9.02(c) hereof or (d) as
otherwise excluded by the terms of Article 8 or Article 9 of the Participation
Agreement from the Lessee's indemnity to the Indenture Trustee under said
Articles; provided that so long as the Lease is in effect, the Indenture
Trustee shall not make any claim under this Article XI for any claim or
expense indemnified by the Lessee under the Participation Agreement without
first making demand on the Lessee for payment of such claim or expense. The
Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification, from the Trust
Indenture Estate, for any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty, claim,
action, suit, cost, expense or disbursement indemnified against pursuant to
this Article XI to the extent not reimbursed by the Lessee or others, but
without releasing any of them from their respective agreements of
reimbursement; and to secure the same the Indenture Trustee shall have a prior
Lien on the Trust Indenture Estate. The indemnities contained in this Article
XI shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the resignation or
removal of the Indenture Trustee. Upon payment in full by the Owner Trustee
of any indemnity pursuant to this Article XI, the Owner Trustee shall, so long
as no Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, be
subrogated to the rights of the Indenture Trustee, if any, in respect of the
matter as to which the indemnity was paid.
ARTICLE XII
SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES
Section 12.01. Notice of Successor Owner Trustee. In the case of any
appointment of a successor to the Owner Trustee pursuant to the Trust
Agreement or any merger, conversion, consolidation or sale of substantially
all of the corporate trust business of the Owner Trustee pursuant to the Trust
Agreement, the successor Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice
thereof to the Indenture Trustee.
Section 12.02. Resignation and Removal of Indenture Trustee;
Appointment of Successor. (a) The Indenture Trustee or any successor thereto
may resign at any time without cause by giving at least 30 days' prior written
notice to the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Lessee and each
Holder, such resignation to be effective upon the acceptance of the
trusteeship by a successor Indenture Trustee. In addition, the Majority in
Interest of the Certificate Holders or the Owner Trustee, with the consent of
the Lessee and the Majority in Interest of the Certificate Holders may at any
time remove the Indenture Trustee without cause by an instrument in writing
delivered to the Lessee, the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, and the
Indenture Trustee, and the Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify each Holder
thereof of such action in writing, such removal to be effective upon the
acceptance of the trusteeship by a successor Indenture Trustee. In the case
of the resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee, the Majority in
Interest of the Certificate Holders, or the Owner Trustee, with the consent of
the Lessee and the Majority in Interest of the Certificate Holders, may
appoint a successor Indenture Trustee by an instrument signed by such Holders.
If a successor Indenture Trustee shall not have been appointed within 30 days
after such notice of resignation or removal, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Trustee, the Lessee, the Owner Participant, or any Holder may apply to any
court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Indenture Trustee to
act until such time, if any, as a successor shall have been appointed as
provided above. The successor Indenture Trustee so appointed by such court
shall immediately and without further act be superseded by any successor
Indenture Trustee appointed as provided above.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Indenture Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of Section 12.03 hereof and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Owner Trustee or by any such Holder; or
(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall
be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of the
Indenture Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public
officer shall take charge or control of the Indenture Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation;
then the Owner Trustee may remove the Indenture Trustee and, with the consent
of the Lessee, appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in
duplicate, executed by a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee, one copy of
which instrument shall be delivered to the Indenture Trustee so removed and
one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section
7.13 hereof, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder for at least six
months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Indenture Trustee
and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after
such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Indenture
Trustee and appoint a successor trustee, which removal and appointment shall
become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as
provided in Section 12.04 hereof. The successor Indenture Trustee so
appointed by such court shall immediately and without further act be
superseded by any successor Indenture Trustee appointed as provided above
within one year from the date of appointment by such court.
Section 12.03. Persons Eligible for Appointment as Indenture
Trustee. There shall at all times be an Indenture Trustee hereunder which
shall be (i)(x) a bank or trust company organized and doing business under the
laws of the United States of America or any state or the District of Columbia
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 or (y) a bank
or trust company whose obligations hereunder are fully guaranteed by a direct
or indirect parent thereof having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$100,000,000 and (ii) a Citizen of the United States authorized under
applicable law to exercise corporate trust powers and subject to supervision of
examination by Federal, state or District of Columbia authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law
or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority,
then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of
such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set
forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any
time the Indenture Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Indenture Trustee shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect specified in Section 12.02 hereof.
Section 12.04. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee. Any
successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 12.02 hereof shall execute
and deliver to the Owner Trustee, the Lessee, and to its predecessor trustee
an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and
such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall
become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations of its
predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as trustee
herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Owner Trustee or of
the successor trustee, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, the trustee
ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 14.04 hereof, pay over to the
successor trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder and shall
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all
such rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any such
successor trustee, the Owner Trustee shall execute any and all instruments in
writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such
successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act
shall, nevertheless, retain a prior claim upon all property or funds held or
collected by such trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the
provisions of Article XI hereof.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section 12.04 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee
shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 12.03 hereof.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in
this Section 12.04, the successor trustee shall mail notice thereof by
first-class mail to the Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear
in the Register, and shall mail a copy of such notice to the Lessee and the
Owner Trustee. If the acceptance of appointment is substantially
contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for by the
preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 12.02
hereof.
Section 12.05. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business of Indenture Trustee. Any corporation into which the Indenture
Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or
any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to
which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to
the corporate trust business of the Indenture Trustee, shall be the successor
to the Indenture Trustee hereunder, provided that, anything herein to the
contrary notwithstanding, such corporation shall be eligible under the
provisions of Section 12.03 hereof, without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
In case at the time such successor to the Indenture Trustee shall
succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Certificates shall
have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture
Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor
Indenture Trustee and deliver such Certificates so authenticated; and, in case
at that time any of the Certificates shall not have been authenticated, any
successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Certificates either
in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor
Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificate shall have the full
force which it is anywhere in the Certificates or in this Indenture provided
that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have; provided, that the
right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Indenture
Trustee or to authenticate Certificates in the name of any predecessor
Indenture Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger,
conversion or consolidation.
Section 12.06. Appointment of Separate Trustees. (a) At any time or
times, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction
in which any part of the Trust Indenture Estate may at the time be located or
in which any action of the Indenture Trustee may be required to be performed
or taken, the Indenture Trustee, by an instrument in writing signed by it, may
appoint one or more individuals or corporations to act as a separate trustee
or separate trustees or co-trustee, acting jointly with the Indenture Trustee,
of all or any part of the Trust Indenture Estate, to the full extent that
local law makes it necessary for such separate trustee or separate trustees or
co-trustee acting jointly with the Indenture Trustee to act.
(b) The Indenture Trustee and, at the request of the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee, shall execute, acknowledge and deliver all such
instruments as may be required by the legal requirements of any jurisdiction
or by any such separate trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee for the
purpose of more fully confirming such title, rights or duties to such separate
trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee. Upon the acceptance in writing of
such appointment by any such separate trustee or separate trustees or
co-trustee, it, he or they shall be vested with such title to the Trust
Indenture Estate or any part thereof, and with such rights, powers, duties and
obligations, as shall be specified in the instrument of appointment, and such
rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be conferred or imposed upon and
exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee and
such separate trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee jointly with the
Indenture Trustee subject to all the terms of this Indenture, except to the
extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or
acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or
unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers,
duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed by such separate
trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee, as the case may be. Any separate
trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee may, at any time by an instrument
in writing, constitute the Indenture Trustee its or his attorney-in-fact and
agent with full power and authority to do all acts and things and to exercise
all discretion on its or his behalf and in its or his name. In case any such
separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign
or be removed, the title to the Trust Indenture Estate and all assets,
property, rights, powers, duties and obligations and duties of such separate
trustee or co-trustee shall, so far as permitted by law, vest in and be
exercised by the Indenture Trustee, without the appointment of a successor to
such separate trustee or co-trustee unless and until a successor is appointed.
(c) All provisions of this Indenture which are for the benefit of
the Indenture Trustee (including without limitation Article XI hereof) shall
extend to and apply to each separate trustee or co-trustee appointed pursuant
to the foregoing provisions of this Section 12.06.
(d) Every additional trustee and separate trustee hereunder shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act and the Indenture Trustee
shall act, subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(i) all powers, duties, obligations and rights conferred upon the
Indenture Trustee in respect of the receipt, custody, investment and
payment of moneys shall be exercised solely by the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) all other rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed and
exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such additional trustee
or trustees and separate trustee or trustees jointly except to the extent
that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts
are to be performed, the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or
unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights,
powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust
Indenture Estate in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed
by such additional trustee or trustees or separate trustee or trustees;
(iii) no power hereby given to, or exercisable by, any such additional
trustee or separate trustee shall be exercised hereunder by such additional
trustee or separate trustee except jointly with, or with the consent of,
the Indenture Trustee; and
(iv) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any
act or omission of any other trustee hereunder.
If at any time the Indenture Trustee shall deem it no longer necessary or
prudent in order to conform to any such law, the Indenture Trustee shall
execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto and all other instruments
and agreements necessary or proper to remove any additional trustee or
separate trustee.
(e) Any request, approval or consent in writing by the Indenture
Trustee to any additional trustee or separate trustee shall be sufficient
warrant to such additional trustee or separate trustee, as the case may be, to
take such action as may be so requested, approved or consented to.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 12.06, the
powers of any additional trustee or separate trustee shall not exceed those of
the Indenture Trustee hereunder.
ARTICLE XIII
SUPPLEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS TO THIS
TRUST INDENTURE AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
Section 13.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
The Owner Trustee (when authorized by the Owner Participant) and the Indenture
Trustee, without consent of the Holders, may enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property or
assets to the Indenture Trustee as security for the Certificates;
(b) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Owner
Trustee or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor
corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Owner
Trustee herein and in the Certificates;
(c) to add to the covenants of the Owner Trustee such further
covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as it and the Indenture
Trustee shall consider to be for the protection of the Holders, and to make
the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such
additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an Indenture
Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several
remedies provided herein; provided, that in respect of any such additional
covenant, restriction, condition or provision such supplemental indenture
may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period
may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults)
or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such an Indenture Event of
Default or may limit the remedies available to the Indenture Trustee upon
such an Indenture Event of Default or may limit the right of not less than
the Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders to waive such an Indenture
Event of Default;
(d) to surrender any right or power conferred herein upon the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant;
(e) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision
contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or
inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any
supplemental indenture; or to make such other provisions in regard to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture or under any supplemental
indenture as the Owner Trustee may deem necessary or desirable and which
shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders;
(f) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any
time subject to the Lien of this Indenture or better to assure, convey and
confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or required to be
subject to the Lien of this Indenture or to subject Replacement Airframe or
Replacement Engines to the Lien of this Indenture in accordance with the
provisions hereof or with the Lease or to release from the Lien of this
Indenture property that has been substituted on or removed from the
Aircraft as contemplated in Section 3.07 hereof; provided that supplements
to this Indenture entered into for the purpose of subjecting Replacement
Airframe or Replacement Engines to the Lien of this Indenture need only be
executed by the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee;
(g) to provide for the issuance under this Indenture of Certificates
in coupon form (including Certificates registrable as to principal only)
and to provide for exchangeability of such Certificates with Certificates
issued hereunder in fully registered form, and to make all appropriate
changes for such purpose;
(h) to effect the re-registration of the Aircraft pursuant to
Section 6.03(b) of the Participation Agreement; and
(i) to add, eliminate or change any provision hereunder so long as
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders.
The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution
of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements
and stipulations which may be contained therein and to accept the conveyance,
transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property thereunder, but the
Indenture Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such supplemental
indenture which adversely affects the Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties
or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Any such supplemental indenture may be executed without the consent of
the Holders of Outstanding Certificates, notwithstanding any of the provisions
of Section 13.02 hereof.
Section 13.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.
With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article X) of the Majority in
Interest of Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee (when authorized by the
Owner Participant) and the Indenture Trustee may, from time to time and at any
time, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders; provided, however, that,
without the consent of each Holder and each Liquidity Provider, no such
amendment of or supplement to this Indenture or any indenture supplemental
hereto, or modification of the terms of, or consent under, any thereof, shall
(a) modify any of the provisions of Section 7.11 hereof or this Section 13.02,
(b) reduce the amount or extend the time of payment of any amount owing or
payable under any Certificate or reduce the interest payable on any
Certificate (except that only the consent of the Holder shall be required for
any decrease in any amounts of or the rate of interest payable on such
Certificate or any extension for the time of payment of any amount payable
under such Certificate), or alter or modify the provisions of Article V hereof
with respect to the order of priorities in which distributions thereunder shall
be made as among Holders of different Series of Certificates or as between the
Holder and the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant or with respect to the
amount or time of payment of any such distribution, or alter or modify the
circumstances under which a Make-Whole Premium shall be payable, or alter the
currency in which any amount payable under any Certificate is to be paid, or
impair the right of any Holder to commence legal proceedings to enforce a
right to receive payment hereunder, (c) reduce, modify or amend any
indemnities in favor of any Holder or in favor of or to be paid by the Owner
Participant (except as consented to by each Person adversely affected
thereby), or (d) create or permit the creation of any Lien on the Trust
Indenture Estate or any part thereof prior to or pari passu with the Lien of
this Indenture, except as expressly permitted herein, or deprive any Holder of
the benefit of the Lien of this Indenture on the Trust Indenture Estate,
except as provided in Section 7.02 hereof or in connection with the exercise
of remedies under Article VII. This Section 13.02 shall not apply to any
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto permitted by, and complying with
the terms of, Section 13.06 hereof.
Upon the request of the Owner Trustee (at the direction of the Owner
Participant) and upon the filing with the Indenture Trustee of evidence of the
consent of Holders and other documents, if any, required by Section 10.01, the
Indenture Trustee shall join with the Owner Trustee and the Lessee in the
execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture
affects the Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Indenture Trustee may in its
discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental
indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance
thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee and the Lessee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, the Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice thereof
by first-class mail to the Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on
the registry books of the Registrar, setting forth in general terms the
substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Indenture
Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any
way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
Section 13.03. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution
of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this
Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance
therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations,
duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Trustee, the Lessee and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised
and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and
amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental
indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of
this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 13.04. Documents to Be Given to Indenture Trustee. The
Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 9.02 and 9.03, may
receive an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive
evidence that any such supplemental indenture complies with the applicable
provisions of this Indenture.
Section 13.05. Notation on Certificates in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures. Certificates authenticated and delivered after the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article may bear
a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to any matter provided
for by such supplemental indenture. If the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee shall so determine, new Certificates so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, to any modification of
this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by
the Owner Trustee, authenticated by the Indenture Trustee and delivered in
exchange for the Outstanding Certificates.
Section 13.06. No Request Necessary for Lease Supplement or Indenture
and Security Agreement Supplement. Notwithstanding anything contained in
Section 13.02 hereof, no written request or consent of the Indenture Trustee,
any Holder or the Owner Participant pursuant to Section 13.02 hereof shall be
required to enable the Owner Trustee to enter into any supplement to the Lease
with the Lessee pursuant to the terms of the Lease to subject a Replacement
Airframe or Replacement Engine thereto or to execute and deliver an Indenture
and Security Agreement Supplement pursuant to the terms hereof.
Section 13.07. Notices to Liquidity Providers. Any request made to
any Holder for consent to any amendment, supplement or waiver pursuant to
Section 7.11, 8.01 or this Article XIII shall be promptly furnished by the
Indenture Trustee to each Liquidity Provider.
ARTICLE XIV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Section 14.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture; Termination
of Indenture. If at any time after (a) the Owner Trustee shall have paid or
caused to be paid the principal of and interest on all the Certificates
outstanding hereunder, as and when the same shall have become due and payable,
or (b) the Owner Trustee shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation all Certificates theretofore authenticated (other than any
Certificates which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.07 hereof) or (c) (i) all
such Certificates not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to
become due and payable within one year or are to be called for prepayment
within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for
the giving of notice of prepayment by the Indenture Trustee in the name and at
the expense of the Owner Trustee, and (ii) the Owner Trustee shall have
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Indenture Trustee as
trust funds the entire amount in cash (other than moneys repaid by the
Indenture Trustee or any paying agent to the Owner Trustee in accordance with
Section 14.04 hereof) or Government obligations maturing as to principal and
interest in such amounts and at such times as will insure the availability of
cash sufficient to pay at maturity all such Certificates not theretofore
delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation, including principal and
interest due or to become due to such date of maturity as the case may be, and
if, in any such case, the Owner Trustee shall also pay or cause to be paid all
other sums then payable hereunder by the Owner Trustee, then this Indenture
shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (A) rights of registration
of transfer and exchange, and the Owner Trustee's right of optional prepayment
pursuant to Section 6.02(a)(ii) hereof, (B) substitution of mutilated,
defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates, (C) rights of Holders to
receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, upon the original
stated due dates therefor (but not upon acceleration), (D) the rights,
obligations, indemnities and immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder and
(E) the rights of the Holders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the
property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of
them), and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of the Owner Trustee accompanied
by an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (covering such matters
reasonably requested by, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to,
the Indenture Trustee) and at the cost and expense of the Owner Trustee, shall
execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging
this Indenture. The Owner Trustee agrees to reimburse and indemnify the
Indenture Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly
incurred and to compensate the Indenture Trustee for any services thereafter
reasonably and properly rendered by the Indenture Trustee in connection with
this Indenture or the Certificates.
Upon (or at any time after) payment in full to the Indenture Trustee,
as trust funds, of the principal of and interest on and Make-Whole Premium, if
any, and all other amounts due hereunder and under all Certificates and
provided that there shall then be no other amounts due to the Indenture
Trustee hereunder or under the Participation Agreement or otherwise secured
hereby, the Owner Trustee shall direct the Indenture Trustee to execute and
deliver to or as directed in writing by the Owner Trustee an appropriate
instrument releasing the Aircraft from the Lien of this Indenture and
releasing the Indenture Documents from the assignment thereof hereunder, and
the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver such instrument as aforesaid
and, at the Owner Trustee's expense, will execute and deliver such other
instruments or documents as may be reasonably requested by the Owner Trustee
to give effect to such release; provided, however, that this Indenture and the
trusts created hereby shall terminate earlier and this Indenture shall be of
no further force or effect upon any sale or other final disposition by the
Indenture Trustee of all property forming a part of the Trust Indenture Estate
and the final distribution by the Indenture Trustee of all moneys or other
property or proceeds constituting part of the Trust Indenture Estate in
accordance with the terms hereof. Except as aforesaid otherwise provided, this
Indenture and the trusts created hereby shall continue in full force and
effect in accordance with the terms hereof.
Section 14.02. Application by Indenture Trustee of Funds Deposited
for Payment of Certificates. Subject to Section 14.04 hereof, all moneys
deposited with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 14.01 hereof shall be
held in trust and applied by it to the prompt payment, either directly or
through any Paying Agent, to the Holders of the particular Certificates for
the payment or prepayment of which such moneys have been deposited with the
Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal,
interest and Make-Whole Premium, if any, but such money need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law.
Section 14.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. Upon the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture all moneys then held by any
Paying Agent under the provisions of this Indenture shall, upon demand of the
Owner Trustee, be repaid to it or paid to the Indenture Trustee and thereupon
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such moneys.
Section 14.04. Transfer of Moneys Held by Indenture Trustee and
Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years and Eleven Months. Any moneys deposited
with or paid to the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent for the payment of
the principal of or interest or Make-Whole Premium on any Certificate and not
applied but remaining unclaimed for two years and eleven months after the date
upon which such principal, interest or Make-Whole Premium shall have become
due and payable, shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of
applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law, be paid to the
Owner Trustee (or, if the Trust Agreement shall no longer be in effect, to the
Owner Participant) by the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent and the
Holder of such Certificate, as a general unsecured creditor, shall, unless
otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned
or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Owner Trustee (or the
Owner Participant) for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to
collect, and all liability of the Indenture Trustee, or any Paying Agent with
respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease.
ARTICLE XV
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 15.01. Capacity in Which Acting. Each of SSB (or its
permitted successors or assigns) and the Indenture Trustee acts hereunder not
in its individual capacity but solely as trustee except as expressly provided
herein and in the other Operative Documents, and, in the case of SSB (or its
permitted successors or assigns), in the Trust Agreement.
Section 15.02. No Legal Title to Trust Indenture Estate in Holders.
No Holder shall have legal title to any part of the Trust Indenture Estate.
No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any Certificate or other
right, title and interest of any Holder in and to the Trust Indenture Estate
or hereunder shall operate to terminate this Indenture or entitle such Holder
or any successor or transferee of such Holder to an accounting or to the
transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Trust Indenture Estate.
Section 15.03. Sale of Trust Indenture Estate by Indenture Trustee is
Binding. Any sale or other conveyance of all or any part of the Trust
Indenture Estate by the Indenture Trustee made pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture or of the Lease shall bind the Lessee, the Owner Trustee, the
Holders and the Owner Participant and shall be effective to transfer or convey
all right, title and interest of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the
Owner Participant and such Holders therein and thereto. No purchaser or other
grantee shall be required to inquire as to the authorization, necessity,
expediency or regularity of such sale or conveyance or as to the application
of any sale or other proceeds with respect thereto by the Indenture Trustee.
Section 15.04. Indenture for Benefit of Owner Trustee, Indenture
Trustee, Owner Participant, Holders and Liquidity Providers. Nothing in this
Indenture, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any
person other than SSB, the Owner Trustee, the Lessee, the Indenture Trustee,
as trustee and in its individual capacity, the Owner Participant, each
Liquidity Provider and the Holders any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under or in respect of this Indenture.
Section 15.05. No Action Contrary to the Lessee's Rights Under the
Lease. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Indenture or the Trust
Agreement to the contrary, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Trustee will
take any affirmative acts that interfere with the peaceful and quiet
possession and enjoyment of the Aircraft by the Lessee.
Section 15.06. Notices. Unless otherwise expressly specified or
permitted by the terms hereof, all notices, requests, demands, authorizations,
directions, consents, waivers or documents provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be made, given, furnished or filed shall be in writing, mailed by
certified mail, postage prepaid, or by confirmed telecopy, and (a) if to the
Owner Trustee, addressed to it at its office at 225 Asylum Street, Goodwin
Square, Hartford, Connecticut 06103, Attention: Corporate/Muni Administration,
facsimile (860) 244-1889 with a copy to State Street Bank and Trust Company,
Two International Place, 4th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, Attention:
Corporate Trust Department, telephone (617) 664-5526, facsimile (617)
664-5371, (b) if personally delivered to the Indenture Trustee, addressed to
it at its office at 79 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111,
Attention: Corporate Trust Department, telephone: (801) 246-5630, facsimile:
(801) 246-5053 or (c) if to the Owner Participant, a Liquidity Provider or the
Lessee, addressed to such party at such address as such party shall have
furnished by notice to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, or, until
an address is so furnished, addressed to the address of such party if any, set
forth in Section 14.01 of the Participation Agreement. Any party hereto may
change the address to which notices to such party will be sent by giving
notice of such change to the other parties to this Indenture.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders, such notice
shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise expressly provided herein) if in
writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder entitled
thereto, at such Holder's last address as it appears in the Register. In any
case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail
such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder
shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be
waived in writing by the person entitled to receive such notice, either before
or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.
Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular
mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Owner Trustee
and Holders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision
of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient
giving of such notice.
Section 15.07. Officer's Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to Be Contained Therein. Upon any application or demand by the
Lessee or the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under
any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Lessee or the Owner Trustee, as
the case may be, shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee upon request (a) an
Officer's Certificate stating that all conditions precedent provided for in
this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and
that the proposed action is in conformity with the requirements of this
Indenture, and (b) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except
that in the case of any such application or demand as to which the furnishing
of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular application or demand, no additional certificate
or opinion need be furnished.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of SSB may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion
of or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon
which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are
erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are
erroneous. Any certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters information with respect to which is
in the possession of the Lessee or SSB, upon the certificate, statement or
opinion of or representations by an officer or officers of the Lessee or SSB,
as the case may be, unless such counsel knows that the certificate, statement
or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his
certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or
in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Lessee or
SSB or of counsel thereto may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting
matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant
or firm of accountants employed by the Lessee or the Owner Trustee, as the
case may be, unless such officer or counsel, as the case may be, knows that
the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the accounting
matters upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as
aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know
that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public
accountants filed with the Indenture Trustee shall contain a statement that
such firm is independent.
Section 15.08. Severability. Any provision of this Indenture which
is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any
such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate
or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 15.09. No Oral Modifications or Continuing Waivers. No
terms or provisions of this Indenture or the Certificates may be changed,
waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an instrument in writing
signed by the party or other person against whom enforcement of the change,
waiver, discharge or termination is sought; and any waiver of the terms hereof
or of any Certificate shall be effective only in the specific instance and for
the specific purpose given.
Section 15.10. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, each of
the parties hereto and the successors and permitted assigns of each, all as
herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other
instrument or action by any Holder shall bind the successors and assigns of
such Holder. This Indenture and the Trust Indenture Estate shall not be
affected by any amendment or supplement to the Trust Agreement or by any other
action taken under or in respect of the Trust Agreement, except that each
reference in this Indenture to the Trust Agreement shall mean the Trust
Agreement as amended and supplemented from time to time to the extent
permitted hereby and thereby.
Section 15.11. Headings. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein and in the table of contents hereto are for the convenience of
reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions
hereof.
Section 15.12. Normal Commercial Relations. Anything contained in
this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the Owner Participant, the
Indenture Trustee and any Holder, or any bank or other affiliate of any such
party, may conduct any banking or other financial transactions, and have
banking or other commercial relationships, with the Lessee fully to the same
extent as if this Indenture were not in effect, including without limitation
the making of loans or other extensions of credit to the Lessee for any
purpose whatsoever, whether related to any of the transactions contemplated
hereby or otherwise.
Section 15.13. Governing Law; Counterparts. THIS INDENTURE AND
EACH CERTIFICATE SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING ALL MATTERS OF
CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE. This Indenture may be executed by the
parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed as of the date first written above by their respective
officers thereunto duly authorized and acknowledge that this Indenture has
been made and delivered in the City of New York, and this Indenture shall be
effective only upon such execution and delivery.
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity,
except as specifically set forth herein
but solely as Owner Trustee
By
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Name: Paul D. Allen
Title: Vice President
FIRST SECURITY BANK,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity,
but solely as Indenture Trustee
By
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Name: Greg A. Hawley
Title: Vice President
Exhibit A
to
Trust Indenture and Security Agreement
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Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement No. ___
Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement No. ___ (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE) dated ________, ____, of STATE STREET BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking
association, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee
(herein called the "Owner Trustee") under the Trust Agreement (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE) dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended and
restated as of September 1, 1998 (the "Trust Agreement") between State Street
Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National Association and the Owner
Participant named therein.
W I T N E S S E T H :
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WHEREAS, the Trust Agreement provides for the execution and delivery
of this Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement which shall particularly
describe the Aircraft and any Replacement Airframe or Replacement Engine
included in the property covered by the Trust Agreement.
WHEREAS, the Trust Indenture and Security Agreement (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE) dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended and
restated as of September 1, 1998 (the "Indenture") between the Owner Trustee
and First Security Bank, National Association (herein called the "Indenture
Trustee") provides for the execution and delivery of an Indenture and Security
Agreement Supplement substantially in the form of this Indenture and Security
Agreement Supplement No. __, which Supplement shall particularly describe the
Aircraft included in the Trust Indenture Estate, and shall specifically
mortgage such Aircraft to the Indenture Trustee.
(1)WHEREAS, the Indenture relates to the Aircraft and the Engines
described in the following paragraph and a counterpart of the Indenture is
attached to and made a part of this Indenture and Security Agreement
Supplement No. 1, and this Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement No. 1,
together with such attachment, is being filed for recordation on or promptly
after the date of this Supplement No. 1 with the Federal Aviation
Administration as one document.
(2)WHEREAS, the Indenture and Indenture and Security Agreement
Supplement No. ___ dated _________________, ______ (the Indenture being
attached to and made a part of such Indenture and Security Agreement
Supplement and filed therewith) have been duly recorded pursuant to Subtitle
VII of Title 49 of the United States Code, on ____________, _____, as one
document and have been assigned Conveyance No. _________.
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(1)This recital is to be included only in the first Indenture Supplement.
(2)This recital is not to be included in the first Indenture Supplement.
NOW, THEREFORE, this Supplement witnesseth, that, to secure the prompt
payment of the principal of and Make-Whole Premium, if any, and interest on,
and all other amounts due with respect to, all Outstanding Certificates under
the Indenture and all other amounts due hereunder and the performance and
observance by the Owner Trustee of all the agreements, covenants and
provisions for the benefit of the Holders contained in the Indenture, in the
Lease, in the Participation Agreement and the Certificates, and the prompt
payment of any and all amounts from time to time owing under the Participation
Agreement by the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant or the Lessee to the
Holders and for the uses and purposes and subject to the terms and provisions
of the Indenture and the Certificates, and in consideration of the premises
and of the covenants contained in the Indenture, and of the purchase of the
Certificates by the Holders, and of the sum of $1 paid to the Owner Trustee by
the Indenture Trustee at or before the delivery of the Indenture, the receipt
of which is hereby acknowledged, the Owner Trustee has granted, bargained,
sold, assigned, transferred, conveyed, mortgaged, pledged, granted a security
interest in, and confirmed, and does hereby grant, bargain, sell, assign,
transfer, convey, mortgage, pledge, grant a security interest in, and confirm,
unto the Indenture Trustee, its successors and assigns, in trust for the equal
and ratable security and benefit of the Holders, in the trust created by the
Indenture, and subject to all of the terms, conditions, provisions and
limitations set forth in the Indenture, a first priority security interest in
and mortgage lien on all estate, right, title and interest of the Owner Trustee
in, to and under the following described property:
Airframe
One (1) Airframe identified as follows:
FAA Manufacturer's
Registration Serial
Manufacturer Model Number Number
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together with all appliances, equipment, instruments and accessories
(including, without limitation, radio and radar) from time to time belonging
thereto, owned by the Owner Trustee and installed in or appurtenant to said
aircraft.
AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Two (2) aircraft engines, each such engine having 750 or more rated takeoff
horsepower or the equivalent thereof, identified as follows:
Manufacturer's
Serial
Manufacturer Model Number
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together with all equipment and accessories belonging thereto, by whomsoever
manufactured, owned by the Owner Trustee and installed in or appurtenant to
said aircraft engines.
Together with all substitutions, replacements and renewals of the
property described above, and all property which shall hereafter become
physically attached to or incorporated in the property described above,
whether the same are now owned by the Owner Trustee or shall hereafter be
acquired by it.
As further security for the obligations referred to above and secured
by the Indenture and hereby, the Owner Trustee has granted, bargained, sold,
assigned, transferred, conveyed, mortgaged, pledged and confirmed, and does
hereby grant, bargain, sell, assign, transfer, convey, mortgage, pledge and
confirm, unto the Indenture Trustee, its successors and assigns, for the
security and benefit of the Holders, in the trust created by the Indenture,
and subject to all of the terms, conditions, provisions and limitations set
forth in the Indenture, all of the estate, right, title and interest of the
Owner Trustee in, to and under the Lease Supplement (other than Excepted
Payments, if any) covering the property described above.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular the aforesaid property unto the
Indenture Trustee, its successors and assigns, for the benefit and security of
the Holders for the uses and purposes and subject to the terms and provisions
set forth in the Indenture.
This Supplement shall be construed as supplemental to the Indenture
and shall form a part thereof, and the Indenture is hereby incorporated by
reference herein and is hereby ratified, approved and confirmed.
This Supplement is being delivered in the State of New York.
AND, FURTHER, the Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges that the
Aircraft/Engines referred to in this Supplement and the aforesaid Lease
Supplement has been delivered to the Owner Trustee and is included in the
property of the Owner Trustee and covered by all the terms and conditions of
the Trust Agreement, subject to the Lien of the Indenture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee has caused this Supplement to
be duly executed as of the date first written above by one of its officers
thereunto duly authorized.
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity,
except as specifically set forth herein
but solely as Owner Trustee
By
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Name: Paul D. Allen
Title: Vice President
Exhibit B
to
Trust Indenture and Security Agreement
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[Form of Certificate]
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND MAY
NOT BE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE IN CONTRAVENTION OF SAID ACT
No. ______ $_____________
EQUIPMENT TRUST CERTIFICATE
(Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE)
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
not in its individual capacity but solely as
OWNER TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT
(Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE)
dated as of June 15, 1998,
as amended and restated as of September 1, 1998
SERIES ___
Interest Rate Maturity
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State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National
Association, a national banking association, not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee (herein in such capacity called the "Owner
Trustee") under that certain Trust Agreement (Federal Express Corporation
Trust No. N678FE) dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended and restated as of
September 1, 1998, between the Owner Participant named therein and State
Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National Association (herein as
such Trust Agreement may be amended or supplemented from time to time called
the "Trust Agreement"), hereby promises to pay to FIRST SECURITY BANK,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Subordination Agent, or its registered assigns, the
principal sum of ________________ _______________ Dollars, payable as set
forth below for the Maturity specified above, in such coin or currency of the
United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for
the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest on the principal
outstanding from time to time, semiannually on each January 15 and July 15, on
said principal sum in like coin or currency at the rate per annum set forth
above from the January 15 or the July 15, as the case may be, next preceding
the date of this Certificate to which interest on the Certificates has been
paid or duly provided for, unless the date hereof is a date to which interest
on the Certificates has been paid or duly provided for, in which case from the
date of this Certificate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the date hereof
is after any January 15 or July 15 and before the following January 15 or July
15, as the case may be, this Certificate shall bear interest from such January
15 or July 15; provided that, if the Owner Trustee shall default in the
payment of interest due on such January 15 or July 15, then this Certificate
shall bear interest from the next preceding January 15 or July 15 to which
interest on this Certificate has been paid or duly provided for. The interest
so payable on any January 15 or July 15 will, except as otherwise provided in
the Indenture referred to below, be paid to the person in whose name this
Certificate is registered at the close of business on the January 15 or July
15 preceding such January 15 or July 15, whether or not such day is a Business
Day.
This Certificate shall bear interest at the Past Due Rate on any
principal hereof and on any other amount payable hereunder or under the
Indenture which shall not be paid in full when due (whether at stated
maturity, by acceleration, by mandatory prepayment or otherwise), for the
period from and including the date thereof to but excluding the date the same
is paid in full, payable from time to time on demand of the Indenture Trustee.
Principal and interest and other amounts due hereunder shall be
payable at the office or agency of First Security Bank, National Association
(the "Indenture Trustee") maintained for such purpose; provided that, at the
option of the Indenture Trustee or its Paying Agent, interest may be paid by
mailing a check therefor payable to or upon the written order of the
registered holder entitled thereto at his last address as it appears on the
Register. If any amount payable under this Certificate, or under the
Indenture, falls due on a day that is not a Business Day, then such sum shall
be payable on the next succeeding Business Day, without (provided that payment
is made on such next succeeding Business Day) additional interest thereon for
the period of such extension.
State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National
Association and First Security Bank, National Association are not acting
individually hereunder, but solely as Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee.
Any Person, other than the Subordination Agent, who is acquiring the
Certificates will be deemed to represent and warrant that (i) no assets of an
employee benefit plan subject to Title I of ERISA or an individual retirement
account or plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or any trust established
under any such plan or account, have been used to acquire or hold any of the
Certificates, or (ii) that one or more administrative or statutory exemptions
from the prohibited transaction rules under Section 406 of ERISA and Section
4975 of the Code applies to its purchase and holding of the Certificates such
that its purchase and holding of the Certificates will not result in a
non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975
of the Code.
This Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates
issued and to be issued under the Trust Indenture and Security Agreement
(Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE) dated as of June 15, 1998, as
amended and restated as of September 1, 1998 (herein as amended, supplemented
or modified from time to time called the "Indenture") between the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.
Reference is made to the Indenture and all supplements and amendments
thereto (a copy of which is on file with the Indenture Trustee at its
principal corporate trust office) for a more complete statement of the terms
and provisions thereof, including a statement of the properties conveyed,
pledged and assigned thereby, the nature and extent of the security, the
respective rights of the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Lessee, the
Indenture Trustee and the Holders, and the terms upon which the Certificates
are, and are to be, executed and delivered, to all of which terms and
conditions in the Indenture each Holder hereof agrees by its acceptance of
this Certificate.
Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings given to them in the Indenture.
The principal amounts of the Certificates are payable as set forth on
Schedule I attached hereto. The Certificates are subject to redemption in
part, pro rata (based on the face amount thereof), in each case through
mandatory sinking fund redemptions providing for the redemption on the Sinking
Fund Redemption Dates of the aggregate principal amounts set forth on Schedule
I attached hereto, together with interest accrued thereon to the applicable
Sinking Fund Redemption Date, but without Make-Whole Premium.
Except as expressly provided in the Indenture, all payments of
principal, Make-Whole Premium, if any, and interest and other amounts to be
made to the Holder hereof by or at the behest of the Owner Trustee hereunder
or under the Indenture shall be made only from the income and proceeds from
the Lessor's Estate to the extent included in the Trust Indenture Estate and
only to the extent that the Owner Trustee shall have sufficient income or
proceeds from the Lessor's Estate to the extent included in the Trust
Indenture Estate to enable the Indenture Trustee to make such distributions in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture; provided that under the Lease, the
Lessee is obligated to pay or cause to be paid, to the extent such payments
are not required to be made from the assets subject to the Lien of this
Indenture or the income and proceeds received by the Indenture Trustee
therefrom, any net loss arising from the investment of funds held by the
Indenture Trustee which but for an Event of Default would be payable to
Lessee, and each Holder hereof, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees
that it will (except as aforesaid) look solely to the income and proceeds from
the Trust Indenture Estate to the extent available for distribution to the
Holder hereof as provided above and that neither the Owner Participant, the
Owner Trustee, SSB nor the Indenture Trustee is personally liable to the
Holder hereof for any amounts payable or any liability under this Certificate
or under the Indenture, except as expressly provided in the Indenture, in the
case of SSB, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.
The Certificates are subject to prepayment in the circumstances and
at the prices determined as set forth in the Indenture.
If, in accordance with and subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Section 7.11 of the Participation Agreement, the
Lessee shall assume all of the obligations of the Owner Trustee hereunder,
under the Certificates and all other Operative Agreements, the Owner
Participant and the Owner Trustee shall (except for prior acts) be released
and discharged from any further obligations hereunder and under the
Certificates and all other Operative Agreements (except any obligations that
have accrued prior to such assumption).
If an Indenture Event of Default under the Indenture shall occur and
be continuing, the principal of the Certificates may be declared due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The
Indenture provides that in certain events such declaration and its
consequences may be waived the Majority in Interest of Holders. Any such
consent or waiver shall be conclusive and binding upon the Holder of this
Certificate and upon all future Holders and owners of this Certificate and any
Certificate that may be issued in exchange or substitution therefor, whether or
not any notation thereof is made upon this Certificate or such other
Certificates. Moreover, if, and only if, an Event of Default shall occur, the
Indenture Trustee may declare the Lease to be in default, and may, to the
exclusion of the Owner Trustee, exercise one or more of the remedies of the
Owner Trustee provided in the Lease.
The Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant may cure a default by the
Lessee under the Lease arising from the failure of the Lessee to make any
Basic Rent payments under the Lease, but the Owner Trustee and the Owner
Participant, collectively, may not cure more than three consecutive such
failures or more than six such failures in total. The Owner Trustee or the
Owner Participant may cure any other default by the Lessee in the performance
of its obligations under the Lease.
(A) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing for
more than 180 days or the Certificates shall have been accelerated or (B) an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing for not more than 180
days and the Certificates shall not have been accelerated, the Owner
Participant (or the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Owner Participant) may:
(1) direct the Owner Trustee to cause the prepayment of all the
Outstanding Certificates by notifying the Indenture Trustee of such
election and depositing the sum of amounts contemplated by paragraph
"first" under Section 5.03 of the Indenture and the aggregate
Prepayment Price of all such Certificates with the Indenture Trustee
for distribution to the Holders; or
(2) purchase all of the Outstanding Certificates by paying to
the Indenture Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of all Outstanding Certificates, plus accrued
interest on such amount to the date of purchase and any Make-Whole
Premium applicable to each Outstanding Certificate, if such purchase
occurs prior to the Premium Termination Date for such Outstanding
Certificate (in the case of a purchase pursuant to clause (ii) of the
first sentence of Section 8.02(a) of the Indenture) plus all other
sums due any Holder or the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, the
Participation Agreement or the Lease.
The right of the Holder hereof to institute an action for any remedy
under the Indenture is subject to certain restrictions specified in the
Indenture, except that the right of the Holder of this Certificate to receive
payment of the principal of and interest and Make-Whole Premium, if any, on
this Certificate on or after the respective due dates, or to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment, shall not be impaired or affected
without the consent of such Holder.
The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof. So long as
any of the Certificates remain Outstanding, the Indenture Trustee will
maintain an office or agency where the Certificates may be presented for
payment and a facility or agency in New York, New York where the Certificates
may be presented for registration of transfer and for exchange as provided in
the Indenture. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein, this Certificate is transferable, and upon surrender of
this Certificate for registration of transfer at the principal corporate trust
office of the Indenture Trustee, or at the office or agency maintained for such
purposes, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, one or
more new Certificates of the same Series and Maturity and interest rate and of
authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
therein, the Certificates are exchangeable for an equal aggregate principal
amount of Certificates of the same Series and Maturity and interest rate and
of authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same,
upon presentation thereof for such purpose at the principal corporate trust
office of the Indenture Trustee, or at an office or agency maintained for such
purpose.
No service charge shall be levied for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Indenture Trustee may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection
therewith.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Certificate, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, any agent of the Owner
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, the Paying Agent, if any, the Registrar and
the Lessee may deem and treat the person in whose name this Certificate is
registered as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes whether or not this
Certificate is overdue, and neither the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee
(nor any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee), nor the Paying
Agent, if any, the Registrar nor the Lessee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
The indebtedness evidenced by this Certificate is, to the extent and
in the manner provided in the Indenture, subordinate and subject in right of
payment to the prior payment in full of the Secured Obligations (as defined in
the Indenture) in respect of [Series A Certificate](1), [Series A and Series B
Certificates](2) and this Certificate is issued subject to such provisions.
The Holder of this Certificate, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall
be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Indenture Trustee
on such Holder's behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate
to effectuate the subordination as provided in the Indenture and (c) appoints
the Indenture Trustee such Holder's attorney-in-fact for such purpose.(*)
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(1) To be inserted in the case of a Series B Certificate.
(2) To be inserted in the case of a Series C Certificate.
(*) To be inserted for each Certificate other than any Series A Certificate.
The Owner Trustee shall have the right, on the Delivery Date to modify
Schedule I attached hereto subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
Section 2.03(b) of the Original Participation Agreement. To give effect to
the foregoing, Schedule I attached hereto and Schedule I to the Indenture
shall be amended accordingly. The Indenture Trustee shall deliver such
amendments to the Subordination Agent on behalf of the Pass Through Trustee
for each of the Pass Through Trusts. To the extent that such amendment of the
Indenture occurs later than the Delivery Date, the Indenture, as amended,
shall, if required, be duly filed for recordation with the Aeronautics
Authority.
As provided in the Indenture, the Indenture and the Certificates
shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of
New York.
This Certificate shall not be secured by or be entitled to any
benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless
authenticated by the Indenture Trustee as evidenced by the manual signature of
one of its authorized officers on the certificate below.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee has caused this Equipment Trust
Certificate (Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE) to be duly executed
in its corporate name by its officer thereunto duly authorized.
Dated: ________, ____ STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF
CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity,
but solely as Owner Trustee
By
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Name: Paul D. Allen
Title: Vice President
[FORM OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION]
This is one of the Equipment Trust Certificates (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE) referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
Dated: ________, ____ FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity,
but solely as Indenture Trustee
By
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Name: Greg A. Hawley
Title: Vice President
SCHEDULE I
TO
CERTIFICATE
Principal Amount
Series [_]
Sinking Fund Certificates with a
Redemption Date Maturity of
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SCHEDULE I
SCHEDULE OF PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS
Series A Series B Series C
Certificates with a Certificates with a Certificates with a
Sinking Fund Maturity of Maturity of Maturity of
Redemption Date January 15, 2019 January 15, 2017 January 15, 2015
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January 15, 1999 $ 0 $ 0 $ 351,858
July 15, 1999 0 0 0
January 15, 2000 24,002 855,443 314,531
July 15, 2000 0 0 0
January 15, 2001 1,014,000 213,307 0
July 15, 2001 0 0 0
January 15, 2002 933,945 380,250 0
July 15, 2002 80,055 0 0
January 15, 2003 938,523 380,250 0
July 15, 2003 75,477 0 0
January 15, 2004 0 0 1,425,628
July 15, 2004 1,014,000 380,250 0
January 15, 2005 0 0 144,726
July 15, 2005 1,014,000 380,250 0
January 15, 2006 0 0 369,673
July 15, 2006 1,014,000 380,250 0
January 15, 2007 0 0 480,287
July 15, 2007 1,014,000 380,250 0
January 15, 2008 0 0 346,002
July 15, 2008 1,014,000 380,250 1,281,964
January 15, 2009 0 0 0
July 15, 2009 1,014,000 380,250 0
January 15, 2010 0 380,250 74,749
July 15, 2010 1,014,000 0 0
January 15, 2011 1,014,000 380,250 1,045,077
July 15, 2011 0 0 0
January 15, 2012 1,014,000 380,250 1,715,253
July 15, 2012 0 0 0
January 15, 2013 1,014,000 380,250 1,781,817
July 15, 2013 0 0 0
January 15, 2014 1,014,000 380,250 2,932,742
July 15, 2014 0 0 0
January 15, 2015 1,014,000 2,265,551 1,356,693
July 15, 2015 0 0
January 15, 2016 1,014,000 3,950,758
July 15, 2016 0 0
January 15, 2017 4,938,097 374,691
July 15, 2017 0
January 15, 2018 5,682,462
July 15, 2018 0
January 15, 2019 4,927,439
SCHEDULE II
DEFINITIONS
(FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION TRUST NO. N678FE)
GENERAL PROVISIONS
The following terms shall have the following meanings for all
purposes of the Operative Agreements (other than the Pass Through Agreement,
the Series Supplements, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Liquidity
Facilities) referred to below, unless otherwise defined in an Operative
Agreement or the context thereof shall otherwise require. In the case of any
conflict between the provisions of this Schedule and the provisions of any
Operative Agreement, the provisions of such Operative Agreement shall control
the construction of such Operative Agreement.
Unless the context otherwise requires, (i) references to agreements
shall be deemed to mean and include such agreements as amended and
supplemented from time to time, and (ii) references to parties to agreements
shall be deemed to include the successors and permitted assigns of such
parties.
DEFINED TERMS:
Additional Insured. As defined in Section 13.01(c)(i) of the Lease.
Adjustment Date. The date of any decrease in the principal amount of
the Series C Certificates pursuant to Section 2.19 of the Indenture.
Aeronautics Authority. As appropriate, the Federal Aviation
Administration and/or the Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration, any successor to the former United States Civil Aeronautics
Board, or any Person, governmental department, bureau, commission or agency
located in the United States succeeding to the functions of any of the
foregoing.
Affidavits. The affidavits of citizenship of the Owner Trustee and
the Owner Participant.
Affiliate. With respect to any Person, any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such
Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" (including "controlled
by" and "under common control with") shall mean the power, directly or
indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
such Person whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract
or otherwise. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Lessor be deemed an
Affiliate of the Owner Participant and SSB shall not be deemed to be an
Affiliate of any of the Owner Trustee, the Lessor or the Owner Participant.
After-Tax Basis. A basis such that any payment received or deemed to
have been received by a Person (the "Original Payment") shall be supplemented
by a further payment to such Person so that the sum of the two payments shall
be equal to the Original Payment, after taking into account (x) all Taxes that
would result from the receipt or accrual of such payments and (y) any
reduction in Taxes that would result from such increased Taxes. In the case
of amounts payable to the Lessor, the Owner Participant, or any corporate
Affiliate of the Owner Participant, it shall be presumed that such Person is at
all times subject to Federal income tax at the maximum marginal rate generally
applicable to corporations from time to time and actual state, local and
foreign income taxes.
Air Carrier. Any U.S. Air Carrier and any "foreign air carrier" (as
defined in the Transportation Code) as to which there is in force a permit
granted under Section 41302 of the Transportation Code.
Airbus Guaranty. The Guaranty to be dated the Delivery Date executed
by the Manufacturer and guaranteeing AVSA's Warranty Bill of Sale.
Aircraft. The Airframe to be sold by AVSA to the Owner Trustee as
provided in the Participation Agreement and to be leased under the Lease (or
any permitted substitute airframe thereunder) together with two Engines
(whether either is an initial Engine or a Replacement Engine) whether or not
any of such initial or Replacement Engines may from time to time be installed
on such Airframe or may be installed on any other airframe or on any other
aircraft, including any aircraft substituted pursuant to Section 11.03 of the
Lease.
Airframe. The Airbus A300F4-605R aircraft (excluding the Engines or
engines from time to time installed thereon) to be leased by the Lessor to the
Lessee pursuant to the Lease and the initial Lease Supplement and having the
United States FAA Registration Number initially and manufacturer's serial
number specified in the initial Lease Supplement, including (i) all Parts in
respect thereof and (ii) any Replacement Airframe which may be substituted
pursuant to Section 11.03 of the Lease.
Ancillary Agreement. Any written agreement of the Lessee to which
the Lessor is a party or to which the Lessor has consented in writing entered
into on or prior to the Delivery Date or any date thereafter in connection
with the transactions contemplated by the Operative Agreements, as such
agreement may be amended and supplemented from time to time with the consent
of the Lessor and delivered to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Pass Through Trustee, the Subordination Agent, each Liquidity Provider and the
Owner Participant.
Ancillary Agreement I. The Ancillary Agreement I (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE), dated the Delivery Date, among the Lessee, the
Owner Trustee, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee,
the Owner Participant and the Indenture Trustee not in its individual
capacity, but solely as Indenture Trustee, as originally executed or as
amended, modified or supplemented with the consent of all the parties thereto.
Application. The application for registration of the Aircraft with
the FAA in the name of the Owner Trustee.
Appraisal. The report prepared by BK Associates, Inc. and to be
delivered to the Owner Participant (with a copy of the fair market value
letter to the Lessee) on the Delivery Date pursuant to Section 4.01(h) of the
Participation Agreement.
Average Life Date. For any Certificate, the date which follows the
prepayment date by a period equal to the Remaining Weighted Average Life of
such Certificate.
AVSA. AVSA S.A.R.L., a societe a responsabilite limitee, organized
and existing under the laws of France.
AVSA Consent and Agreement. The Consent and Agreement dated as of
September 1, 1998, executed by AVSA.
AVSA's FAA Bill of Sale. The bill of sale for the Airframe on AC
Form 8050-2, or such other form as may be approved by the Aeronautics
Authority, executed by AVSA in favor of the Owner Trustee and to be dated the
Delivery Date.
AVSA's Warranty Bill of Sale. The full warranty bill of sale
covering the Aircraft (and specifically referring to each Engine) executed by
AVSA as owner of the Aircraft in favor of the Owner Trustee and to be dated
the Delivery Date.
Bankruptcy Code. The Federal Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended,
and any successor thereto.
Bankruptcy Default. An event specified in Section 16.01(e), (f) or
(g) of the Lease which either does or, with the giving of notice or lapse of
time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
Basic Rent. The periodic rent payable for the Aircraft throughout
the Basic Term pursuant to Section 3.02 of the Lease, adjusted pursuant to
Article 3 of the Lease.
Basic Term. The period commencing at the beginning of the day on the
Delivery Date and ending at the end of the day on March 22, 2023, or such
earlier date on which the Lease shall be terminated as provided therein.
Beneficial Interest. The interest of the Owner Participant (or the
Initial Owner Participant, as the case may be) under the Trust Agreement.
Business Day. Any day on which commercial banks are not authorized or
required to close in New York, New York, Memphis, Tennessee and the city in
the United States in which the office or agency is maintained by the Pass
Through Trustee for the payment of the Pass Through Certificates, and after
the Lien of the Indenture is discharged, Boston, Massachusetts.
Certificate Closing Date. July 7, 1998.
Certificates. The Equipment Trust Certificates (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE), issued by the Owner Trustee pursuant to the
Indenture and any certificate issued in exchange therefor or replacement
thereof pursuant to the Indenture.
Change in Tax Law. Any change in the Code or the Treasury regulations
promulgated thereunder or the publication of any revenue ruling, revenue
procedure or any informational release by the Internal Revenue Service or the
Department of Treasury on or before the Delivery Date, either of which would
change or would allow a change in the tax assumptions or structure upon which
the lease economics in the Commitment Letter were based; provided that the
Owner Participant or the Lessee has notified the other party of such change in
writing on or prior to the Delivery Date.
Citizen of the United States. A citizen of the United States as
defined in Section 40102(a)(15) of the Transportation Code, or any analogous
part of any successor or substituted legislation or regulation at the time in
effect.
Class A Liquidity Provider. Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau, a
corporation organized under the public law of the Federal Republic of Germany
together with any Replacement Liquidity Provider (as defined in the
Intercreditor Agreement).
Class B Liquidity Provider. Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau, a
corporation organized under the public law of the Federal Republic of Germany
together with any Replacement Liquidity Provider (as defined in the
Intercreditor Agreement).
Code. Except as otherwise provided, the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended from time to time.
Collateral Account. The deposit account established and maintained
pursuant to Section 2.13 of the Indenture.
Collateral Agreement. The Collateral Account Control Agreement
(Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE) dated as of June 15, 1998,
among State Street Bank and Trust Company, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner
Trustee.
Commitment. The amount of the Owner Participant's participation in
the Purchase Price required to be made available or paid on the Delivery Date,
as provided in Section 3.02 of the Participation Agreement and as set forth in
Schedule I of the Participation Agreement.
Commitment Letter. The Commitment Letter dated June 29, 1998 by the
Lessee to the Owner Participant.
Consent and Agreement. The Consent and Agreement dated as of
September 1, 1998 executed by the Manufacturer.
Consent and Guaranty. The Consent and Guaranty of the Manufacturer
attached to the Purchase Agreement.
Corporate Trust Administration. The Corporate Trust Administration
office of the Owner Trustee located at 225 Asylum Street, Goodwin Square,
Hartford, Connecticut 06103, Attention: Corporation Trust Administration, or
such other office at which the Owner Trustee's corporate trust business shall
be administered which the Owner Trustee shall have specified by notice in
writing to the Lessee, the Owner Participant and the Indenture Trustee.
Corporate Trust Department. The Corporate Trust Department office of
the Indenture Trustee located at 79 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
84111, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or such other office at which
the Indenture Trustee's corporate trust business shall be administered which
the Indenture Trustee shall have specified by notice in writing to the Lessee,
the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee.
CRAF Program. Has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(a)(iv) of
the Lease.
Cut-Off Date. December 22, 1998.
Debt Portion. The amount specified as such on Schedule I to the
Participation Agreement.
Debt Rate. The weighted average (based on Outstanding principal
amount) rate of interest on the Certificates issued pursuant to the Indenture.
Default. Any event or condition which, with the lapse of time or the
giving of notice, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
Delivery Date. The date on which the Aircraft is delivered and sold
by AVSA to the Lessor and leased by the Lessor to the Lessee under the Lease,
which date shall also be the date of the initial Lease Supplement.
Delivery Notice. Notice of the Aircraft's Delivery Date, given by
the Lessee as provided in Section 3.01 of the Participation Agreement and
including any notice with respect to a postponed Delivery Date given by the
Lessee pursuant to Section 3.05(c) of the Participation Agreement.
EBO Price. Has the meaning set forth in Section 4.02(a)(F) of the
Lease.
Eligible Deposit Account. Either (a) a segregated account with an
Eligible Institution or (b) a segregated trust account with the corporate
trust department of a depository institution with corporate trust powers
organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, or the
District of Columbia, and whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, provided that such institution also has a combined
capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 and a rating of A or better from
the Thomson Bank Watch.
Eligible Institution. A depository institution organized under the
laws of the United States or any one of the states thereof, or the District of
Columbia, or any domestic branch of a foreign bank, which in any such case at
all times (a) has either (x) a long-term unsecured debt rating of at least Aa2
by Moody's or (y) a short-term certificate of deposit rating of P-1 by
Moody's, (b) has either (x) a long-term unsecured debt rating of a least AA
by S&P or (y) a short-term certificate of deposit rating of A-1+ by S&P and
(c) is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Engine. Each of the two General Electric CF6-80C2-A5F engines listed
by its manufacturer's serial number in the initial Lease Supplement and leased
pursuant to the Lease, whether or not from time to time installed on the
Airframe or installed on any other airframe or on any other aircraft, and any
Replacement Engine which may from time to time be substituted for an Engine
pursuant to Section 7.02(a)(vii), 10.02(c), 10.03, 11.03, 11.04 or 12.02 of
the Lease, together with all Parts related thereto. Except as otherwise
provided, at such time as a Replacement Engine shall be so substituted and the
Engine for which the substitution is made shall be released from the Lien of
the Indenture, such replaced Engine shall cease to be an "Engine" under the
Lease. The term "Engines" means, as of any date of determination, both Engines
then leased to the Lessee pursuant to the Lease.
Engine Consent. The Engine Consent dated as of September 1, 1998,
executed by the Engine Manufacturer.
Engine Manufacturer. General Electric Company, a New York
corporation.
Engine Warranty Assignment. The Engine Warranty Assignment (Federal
Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE), dated as of September 1, 1998, between
the Lessor and the Lessee.
ERISA. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
ERISA Plan. An employee benefit plan subject to Title I of ERISA, or
an individual retirement account or plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code.
Estimated Expense Amount. Has the meaning specified in Section
10.01(a) of the Participation Agreement.
Event of Default. Each of the events specified in Article 16 of the
Lease.
Event of Loss. Any of the following events with respect to the
Aircraft, the Airframe or any Engine: (i) loss of such property or its use
(A) for a period in excess of 30 days due to theft or disappearance or such
longer period not to exceed 60 days from the end of such initial 30-day period
if and so long as the location of such property is known to the Lessee and the
Lessee is diligently pursuing recovery of such property, or to the end of the
Term, if less (unless such loss constitutes an Event of Loss under clause (ii)
of this definition) or (B) for a period in excess of 60 days due to the
destruction, damage beyond economic repair or rendition of such property
permanently unfit for normal use by Lessee for any reason whatsoever; (ii) any
damage to such property which results in an insurance settlement with respect
to such property on the basis of a total loss, or constructive or compromised
total loss; (iii) (1) condemnation, confiscation or seizure of, or requisition
of title to such property by the Government, any foreign government or
purported government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or (2)
condemnation, confiscation, or seizure of, or requisition or taking of, use of
such property (A) by a foreign government or instrumentality or agency of any
such foreign government, for a period in excess of 180 days (or such shorter
period ending on the earlier of the expiration of the Term or on the date on
which an insurance settlement with respect to such property on the basis of a
total loss or constructive or compromised total loss shall occur) or (B) by
the Government for a period extending beyond the Term, provided that no Event
of Loss shall be deemed to have occurred, and the Term shall be extended
automatically for a period of six months (or the date of return of the
Aircraft, if shorter, so long as the Lessor receives at least six months
notice of such date of return) beyond the end of the Term in the event that
the Aircraft, the Airframe or any Engine is requisitioned by the Government
pursuant to an activation as part of the CRAF Program described in Section
7.02(a)(iv) of the Lease; and (iv) as a result of any law, rule, regulation,
order or other action by the Aeronautics Authority or other governmental body
having jurisdiction, the use of the Aircraft or Airframe in the normal course
of air transportation of cargo shall have been prohibited by virtue of a
condition affecting all Airbus A300-600 series aircraft equipped with engines
of the same make and model as the Engines for a period of six (6) consecutive
months, unless the Lessee, prior to the expiration of such six (6) month
period, shall be diligently carrying forward all steps which are necessary or
desirable to permit the normal use of the Aircraft or Airframe or, in any
event, if such use of the Aircraft or the Airframe shall have been prohibited
for a period of twelve (12) consecutive months, unless the Lessee, prior to
the expiration of such twelve (12) month period shall have conformed at least
one Airbus A300-600 series aircraft (but not necessarily the Aircraft or the
Airframe) to the requirements of any such law, rule, regulation, order, or
other action and shall have commenced regular commercial use and shall be
diligently carrying forward, on a non-discriminatory basis, all steps
necessary or desirable to permit the normal use of the Aircraft by the Lessee.
The date of such Event of Loss shall be (s) the 31st day or the 91st day, as
the case may be, following loss of such property or its use due to theft or
disappearance (or the end of the Term, if earlier); (t) the 61st day following
the date of any destruction, damage beyond economic repair or rendition of
such property permanently unfit for normal use; (u) the date of any insurance
settlement on the basis of a total loss or constructive or compromised total
loss; (v) the date of any condemnation, confiscation, seizure or requisition
of title of such property; (w) the 181st day following condemnation,
confiscation, seizure or requisition for use of such property by a foreign
government referred to in clause (iii)(2)(A) above (or the end of the Term or
the date of any insurance settlement described therein, if earlier than such
181st day); (x) the last day of the Term in the case of requisition for use of
such property by the Government; (y) the last day of the 6 month or 12 month
period, referred to in clause (iv) above. An Event of Loss with respect to
the Aircraft shall be deemed to have occurred if any Event of Loss occurs with
respect to the Airframe.
Excepted Payments. Collectively, (i) indemnity or other payments
(and interest thereon to the extent provided in the Operative Agreements) paid
or payable by the Lessee in respect of the Owner Participant, the Owner
Trustee in its individual capacity or any of their respective successors,
permitted assigns, directors, officers, employees, servants and agents or
Affiliates, pursuant to the Participation Agreement or any indemnity hereafter
granted to the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity pursuant to the Lease or the Participation Agreement, (ii) proceeds
of public liability insurance (or government indemnities in lieu thereof) in
respect of the Aircraft payable as a result of insurance claims paid for the
benefit of, or losses suffered by, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee
in their respective individual capacities or by the Owner Participant, or
their respective successors, permitted assigns or Affiliates, (iii) proceeds
of insurance maintained with respect to the Aircraft by the Owner Participant
(whether directly or through the Owner Trustee) maintained in accordance with
the provisions of but not required under Article 13 of the Lease, (iv)
payments of Supplemental Rent by the Lessee in respect of any amounts payable
under the Tax Indemnity Agreement, (v) any amounts payable by the Lessee to
the Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, after
the release thereof from the Lien of the Indenture, (vi) the payment of
incremental out-of-pocket expenses of the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant
or their respective authorized representatives payable by the Lessee under
Section 6.03(b) of the Participation Agreement or Section 14.01 of the Lease
following any reregistration of the Aircraft and (vii) proceeds of, and any
right to demand, collect or otherwise receive and enforce the payment of any
amount described in clauses (i) through (vii) above.
Expense; Expenses. Have the meaning specified in Section 9.01(a) of
the Participation Agreement.
FAA. The United States Federal Aviation Administration and any
successor agency or agencies thereto.
Fair Market Renewal Term. A term with respect to which the Lessee has
exercised its option to renew the Lease pursuant to the second paragraph of
Section 4.01(a) thereof and with respect to which the conditions set forth in
such Section 4.01(a) are met.
Fair Market Rental. An amount determined on the basis of, and equal
in amount to, the rental which would be obtained in an arm's-length
transaction between an informed and willing lessee and an informed and willing
lessor unaffiliated with such lessee, neither being under any compulsion to
lease. In such determination, it shall be assumed that the Aircraft is in the
condition required under the Lease in the case of return of the Aircraft
pursuant to Article 12 of the Lease. Fair Market Rental shall be determined
in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.03 of the Lease.
Fair Market Value. An amount determined on the basis of, and equal
in amount to, the value which would be obtained in an arm's-length transaction
between an informed and willing purchaser under no compulsion to buy and an
informed and willing seller unaffiliated with such purchaser and under no
compulsion to sell, assuming that the Aircraft (or other property) is
unencumbered by the Lease. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable
provisions of any Operative Agreement, in such determination it shall be
assumed that the Aircraft is in the condition required under the Lease in the
case of return of the Aircraft pursuant to Article 12 of the Lease; provided
that in connection with any determination pursuant to or for the purposes of
Article 17 of the Lease, the Aircraft shall be appraised on an "as is, where
is" basis. Fair Market Value shall be determined in accordance with the
provisions of Section 4.03 of the Lease.
Federal Aviation Administration. The United States Federal Aviation
Administration and any successor agency or agencies thereto.
FedEx. Federal Express Corporation.
Final Drawing. Has the meaning specified in Section 1.01 of the
Intercreditor Agreement.
Fixed Renewal Rent. Semi-annual payments of rent during the Fixed
Renewal Term equal to the amount set forth in Ancillary Agreement I.
Fixed Renewal Term. The term with respect to which the Lessee has
exercised its option to renew the Lease pursuant to the first paragraph of
Section 4.01(a) thereof and with respect to which the conditions set forth in
such Section 4.01(a) are met.
French Pledge Agreement. The French Pledge Agreement (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE) dated as of September 1, 1998, between the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.
FSB. First Security Bank, National Association, a national banking
association.
Government. The United States of America or an agency or
instrumentality thereof the obligations of which bear the full faith and
credit of the United States of America.
GTA. The General Terms Agreement dated as of July 3, 1991 between the
Engine Manufacturer and the Lessee related to the purchase by the Lessee of
the Engines as originally executed or as modified, amended or supplemented in
accordance with the terms thereof, but only insofar as the General Terms
Agreement relates to the Engines, to the extent assigned to the Owner Trustee
pursuant to the Engine Warranty Assignment.
Holder of a Certificate; Certificate Holder; Holder. As of any
particular time, the Person in whose name a Certificate shall be registered
(but not including the holder of any Pass Through Certificate).
Indemnitee. Each of SSB, in its individual capacity and as Owner
Trustee and Lessor, the Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee, in its
individual capacity and as trustee, the Subordination Agent, in its individual
capacity and in its capacity as Subordination Agent, each Liquidity Provider,
the Owner Participant Guarantor, and any successor (including any trustee
which may succeed to the Lessor's interest under the Lease), Affiliate,
assign, officer, director, employee, agent and servant of any of the
foregoing, the Lessor's Estate and the Trust Indenture Estate. Neither the
Pass Through Trustee nor any holder of a Pass Through Certificate shall be
deemed to be an Indemnitee.
Indenture. The Trust Indenture and Security Agreement (Federal
Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE), dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended
and restated as of September 1, 1998, between the Lessor and the Indenture
Trustee, as supplemented by the Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement.
Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement. The Indenture and
Security Agreement Supplement No. 1 (Federal Express Corporation Trust No.
N678FE) to be dated the Delivery Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit A
to the Indenture.
Indenture Default. Any event or condition which, with the lapse of
time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute an Indenture Event of
Default.
Indenture Documents. Has the meaning specified in the Granting
Clause of the Indenture.
Indenture Event of Default. Each of the events specified in Section
7.01 of the Indenture.
Indenture Trustee. First Security Bank, National Association, a
national banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.
Indenture Trustee's Liens. Any Lien against, on or with respect to
the Aircraft, the Lessor's Estate or the Trust Indenture Estate or any part
thereof resulting from (i) claims against the Indenture Trustee not related to
the administration of the Trust Indenture Estate or any transactions pursuant
to the Indenture or any document included in the Trust Indenture Estate, (ii)
any act or omission of the Indenture Trustee which is not related to the
transactions contemplated by the Operative Agreements or is in violation of
any of the terms of the Operative Agreements or (iii) Taxes imposed against
the Indenture Trustee in its individual capacity against which the Lessee has
not indemnified (and is not obligated to indemnify) the Indenture Trustee in
such capacity.
Independent Investment Banker. An independent investment banking
institution of national standing appointed by the Lessee that is independent
in fact, does not have any direct financial interests, or any material
indirect financial interest, in the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee, and
is not connected with the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee, as an
officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or Person
performing similar functions; provided, that if the Indenture Trustee shall
not have received written notice of such an appointment at least 10 days prior
to the Prepayment Date, "Independent Investment Banker" shall mean such an
institution appointed by the Indenture Trustee.
Initial Owner Participant. Federal Express Corporation, a Delaware
corporation.
Intercreditor Agreement. The Intercreditor Agreement dated as of
June 15, 1998, among the Pass Through Trustee, the Class A Liquidity Provider,
the Class B Liquidity Provider and the Subordination Agent.
Interest Drawing. Has the meaning specified in Section 1.01 of the
Intercreditor Agreement.
Invoice. The invoice for the Aircraft given by AVSA to the Lessor.
LC Bank. Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau, a corporation organized
under the public law of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Last Cut-Off Date. The later of (i) the Cut-Off Date and (ii) the
"Cut-Off Date" (as defined in the relevant Related Indenture) for the last
Related Aircraft to be delivered.
Lease. The Lease Agreement (Federal Express Corporation Trust No.
N678FE) dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended and restated as of September 1,
1998, entered into by the Lessor and the Lessee concurrently with the
execution and delivery of the Indenture, including, without limitation,
supplementation by one or more Lease Supplements entered into pursuant to the
applicable provisions of the Lease.
Lease Supplement. The Lease Supplement No. 1 (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE) to be dated the Delivery Date, substantially in
the form of Exhibit A to the Lease.
Lease Term. The period commencing on the Delivery Date and ending at
the end of the Basic Term.
Lessee. Federal Express Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
Lessee Documents. Has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01(b) of the
Participation Agreement.
Lessee Shortfall. Has the meaning set forth in Section 3.02(a) of the
Participation Agreement.
Lessor. State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National
Association, a national banking association, not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement.
Lessor's Estate. All estate, right, title and interest of the Owner
Trustee in and to the Collateral Account, the Liquid Collateral, the Aircraft,
the Lease, any Lease Supplement, the Participation Agreement, AVSA's FAA Bill
of Sale, AVSA's Warranty Bill of Sale, the Airbus Guaranty, the Purchase
Agreement, the Purchase Agreement Assignment, the Consent and Agreement, the
AVSA Consent and Agreement, the Consent and Guaranty (to the extent assigned
by the Purchase Agreement Assignment), any Ancillary Agreement, the GTA, the
Engine Warranty Assignment, the Engine Consent, any warranty with respect to
the Airframe and the Engines, all amounts of Basic Rent and Supplemental Rent,
including without limitation, insurance proceeds (other than insurance
proceeds payable to or for the benefit of the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, the Owner Participant or the Indenture Trustee) and requisition,
indemnity or other payments of any kind for or with respect to the Aircraft
(except amounts owing to the Owner Participant, to the Indenture Trustee, to
the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, or to any of their respective
directors, officers, employees and agents pursuant to Articles 8 and 9 of the
Participation Agreement), and all other property of the Owner Trustee
purportedly subjected to the Lien of the Indenture by the Granting Clause
thereof; provided that in no event shall "Lessor's Estate" include any
Excepted Payment.
Lessor's Liens. Liens against, on or with respect to the Aircraft,
the Lessor's Estate or the Trust Indenture Estate or any part thereof, title
thereto or any interest therein arising as a result of (i) claims against the
Lessor, in its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, or the Owner
Participant, in each case not related to the transactions contemplated by the
Operative Agreements, (ii) acts or omissions of the Lessor in its individual
capacity or as Owner Trustee, and, in the case of the Lessor in its individual
capacity, arising from its gross negligence or willful misconduct or expressly
prohibited under the Operative Agreements and any act or omission of the Owner
Participant which is in violation of any of the terms of the Operative
Agreements, (iii) Taxes or Expenses imposed against the Lessor, in its
individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, Lessor's
Estate or the trust created by the Trust Agreement which are not required to
be indemnified against by the Lessee pursuant to the Participation Agreement
by reason of Section 8.01(b) or 9.01(b) thereof or which are not required to
be indemnified against by the Lessee pursuant to the Tax Indemnity Agreement,
or (iv) claims against the Lessor or the Owner Participant arising from the
voluntary transfer by the Lessor or the Owner Participant of its interests in
the Aircraft other than a transfer of the Aircraft pursuant to Section 4.02(a)
or Article 7, 8, 9, 10 or 11 of the Lease and other than a transfer pursuant
to the exercise of the remedies set forth in Article 17 of the Lease.
Letter of Credit. The Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit, dated
the Certificate Closing Date, in the form of Exhibit G to the Original
Participation Agreement and with a Maximum Stated Amount equal to the amount
specified under "Letter of Credit Maximum Stated Amount" on Schedule IV to the
Original Participation Agreement, from the LC Bank to and for the benefit of
the Subordination Agent.
Lien. Any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance, lease or
security interest or other similar interest.
Liquid Collateral. All amounts and securities deposited from time to
time in the Collateral Account and all the products, investments, earnings and
proceeds of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, all proceeds of the
investment or conversion thereof, voluntary or involuntary, into cash,
Specified Investments or other property, all rights to payment of any and
every kind, and other forms of obligations, and instruments and other property
which at any time constitute all or part or are included in the proceeds of
any of the foregoing.
Liquidity Facility. Has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Intercreditor Agreement.
Liquidity Provider. Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau, a corporation
organized under the public law of the Federal Republic of Germany together
with any Replacement Liquidity Provider (as defined in the Intercreditor
Agreement).
Losses. Has the meaning specified in Section 17.02(a) of the
Participation Agreement.
Loss Payee. Has the meaning specified in Section 13.02(b)(i) of the
Lease.
Majority in Interest of Certificate Holders. As of a particular date
of determination, the Holders of more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of all Certificates outstanding as of such date excluding for
purposes of this definition any Certificates held by (i) the Owner Trustee or
the Owner Participant or any interests of the Owner Participant unless all
Certificates then outstanding shall be held by the Owner Participant, (ii) the
Lessee or (iii) any Affiliate of any thereof.
Make-Whole Premium. With respect to any Certificate, the amount (as
determined by an Independent Investment Banker reasonably acceptable to the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Participant) by which (i) the present value of
the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest to the Maturity of
such Certificate computed by discounting such payments on a semiannual basis
on each Payment Date (assuming a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) using a
discount rate equal to the Treasury Yield exceeds (ii) the outstanding
principal amount of such Certificate plus accrued interest.
Mandatory Document Terms. The terms set forth on Schedule V to the
Original Participation Agreement.
Mandatory Economic Terms. The terms set forth on Schedule VI to the
Original Participation Agreement.
Manufacturer. Airbus Industrie G.I.E., a groupement d'interet
economique formed under the laws of France.
Maturity. With respect to any Certificate, the date on which the
final principal amount of such Certificate is scheduled to be due and payable.
Maximum Stated Amount. The amount specified under "Letter of Credit
Maximum Stated Amount" on Schedule IV to the Original Participation Agreement.
Moody's. Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
Net Present Value of Rents. The net present value, as of the
Delivery Date, of Basic Rent set forth in Schedule II of the Lease, discounted
at a rate equal to the Debt Rate per annum compounded semi-annually.
Non-U.S. Person. Any Person other than a U.S. Person.
Obsolete Parts. Parts which the Lessee in good faith determines to
be obsolete or no longer suitable or appropriate for use on the Airframe or
any Engine.
Officer's Certificate. When delivered pursuant to the Indenture, a
certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lessee or the Owner
Trustee, as the case may be, and delivered to the Indenture Trustee. Each
such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 15.07 of
the Indenture.
Operative Agreements. The Participation Agreement, the Trust
Agreement, AVSA's FAA Bill of Sale, AVSA's Warranty Bill of Sale, the Airbus
Guaranty, the Purchase Agreement, the Purchase Agreement Assignment, the GTA,
the Engine Warranty Assignment, the French Pledge Agreement, the Lease, the
Lease Supplement, the Owner Participant Guaranty, the Owner Trustee Guaranty,
if any, any Ancillary Agreement entered into by or with the written consent of
the Indenture Trustee, which by its terms is an Operative Agreement, the
Certificates outstanding at the time of reference, the Indenture, the
Indenture and Security Agreement Supplement, the Consent and Agreement, the
AVSA Consent and Agreement, the Consent and Guaranty (to the extent assigned
by the Purchase Agreement Assignment), the Engine Consent, the Tax Indemnity
Agreement, each Liquidity Facility, the Intercreditor Agreement, the
Collateral Agreement, the Letter of Credit and the Reimbursement Agreement.
Opinion of Counsel. When delivered pursuant to the Indenture, a
written opinion of legal counsel, who in the case of counsel (a) for the
Lessee may be (i) an attorney employed by the Lessee who is generally
empowered to deliver such written opinions, (ii) Davis Polk & Wardwell or a
successor firm or (iii) other counsel designated by the Lessee and reasonably
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and (b) for the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee, an attorney selected by such Person and, in the case of the
Owner Trustee, reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee.
Original Agreements. The documents and instruments delivered on the
Certificate Closing Date in connection with the transactions contemplated by
the Original Participation Agreement.
Original Indenture. The Trust Indenture and Security Agreement
(Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE), dated as of June 15, 1998,
between the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee originally executed and
delivered on the Certificate Closing Date.
Original Lease. The Lease Agreement (Federal Express Corporation
Trust No. N678FE), dated as of June 15, 1998, between the Owner Trustee as
lessor, and the Lessee originally executed and delivered on the Certificate
Closing Date.
Original Participation Agreement. The Participation Agreement
(Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE), dated as of June 15, 1998,
among the Lessee, the Initial Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee, the
Owner Trustee, the Pass Through Trustee and the Subordination Agent originally
executed and delivered on the Certificate Closing Date.
Original Trust Agreement. The Trust Agreement (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE), dated as of June 15, 1998, between the Initial
Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee originally executed and delivered on
the Certificate Closing Date.
Outstanding. When used with respect to Certificates, as of the date
of determination and subject to the provisions of Section 10.04 of the
Indenture, all Certificates theretofore executed and delivered under the
Indenture, with the exception of the following:
(i) Certificates theretofore cancelled by the Indenture Trustee or
delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation pursuant to
Section 2.08 of the Indenture or otherwise;
(ii) Certificates for which prepayment money in the necessary amount
has been theretofore deposited with the Indenture Trustee in trust
for the Holders of such Certificates pursuant to Section 14.01 of the
Indenture; provided, that if such Certificates are to be prepaid,
notice of such prepayment has been duly given pursuant to the
Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee
has been made; and
(iii) Certificates in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Certificates have been executed and delivered pursuant to Article II
of the Indenture.
Outstanding C Account. The collateral account established and
maintained under a Related Indenture relating to an undelivered aircraft.
Owner Participant. The Person to whom on the Delivery Date the
Initial Owner Participant shall transfer its Beneficial Interest pursuant to
Section 3.02 of the Original Participation Agreement and any successors
thereto, and any Person to which the Owner Participant transfers, in
accordance with the Trust Agreement, its right, title and interest in and to
the Operative Agreements and the Lessor's Estate.
Owner Participant Guarantor. The Northern Trust Company, an Illinois
banking corporation, and any other provider of an Owner Participant Guaranty.
Owner Participant Guaranty. The Owner Participant Guaranty (Federal
Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE) dated the Delivery Date, by the Owner
Participant Guarantor in favor of the Lessee, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee and the Pass Through Trustee, and any guaranty delivered in compliance
with Article 5 of the Trust Agreement.
Owner Trust. Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE.
Owner Trustee. SSB, not in its individual capacity except as
otherwise expressly stated, but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement.
Owner Trustee Guarantor. The provider, if any, of an Owner Trustee
Guaranty.
Owner Trustee Guaranty. Any guaranty delivered in compliance with
Section 11.01(b)(ii) of the Participation Agreement.
Owner's Economic Return. The Owner Participant's anticipated net
after-tax book yield and aggregate after-tax cash during the Basic Term
utilizing the multiple investment sinking fund method of analysis, computed on
the basis of the same methodology and assumptions as were utilized by the
Owner Participant in determining Basic Rent, Stipulated Loss Value and
Termination Value percentages and the EBO Price, as such assumptions may be
adjusted for events which have been the basis of adjustments to Rent pursuant
to Section 3.04 of the Lease.
Participation Agreement. The Participation Agreement (Federal Express
Corporation Trust No. N678FE), dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended and
restated as of September 1, 1998, among the Lessee, the Owner Trustee not in
its individual capacity except as otherwise expressly provided therein, but
solely as owner trustee, the Owner Participant, the Indenture Trustee not in
its individual capacity except as otherwise expressly provided therein, but
solely as indenture trustee, the Pass Through Trustee not in its individual
capacity except as otherwise expressly provided therein, but solely as pass
through trustee, and the Subordination Agent not in its individual capacity
except as otherwise expressly provided therein, but solely as subordination
agent.
Parts. All appliances, parts, components, instruments, appurtenances,
accessories, furnishings and other equipment of whatever nature (other than
complete Engines or engines) which may from time to time be incorporated or
installed in or attached to the Airframe or any Engine or title to which
remains vested in the Lessor pursuant to Article 8 of the Lease.
Pass Through Agreement. The Pass Through Trust Agreement dated as of
May 1, 1997, between the Lessee and the Pass Through Trustee.
Pass Through Certificates. Any of the Pass Through Certificates,
1998-1-A, the Pass Through Certificates, 1998-1-B or the Pass Through
Certificates, 1998-1-C, in each case as issued by the related Pass Through
Trust; and "Pass Through Certificates" means all of the Pass Through
Certificates issued by each of the Pass Through Trusts.
Pass Through Closing Date. July 7, 1998.
Pass Through Trust. The Federal Express Corporation 1998-1 Pass
Through Trust Class A, Federal Express Corporation 1998-1 Pass Through Trust
Class B and Federal Express Corporation 1998-1 Pass Through Trust Class C, in
each case formed pursuant to the related Series Supplement in accordance with
the Pass Through Agreement; and "Pass Through Trusts" means all of such Pass
Through Trusts.
Pass Through Trustee. First Security Bank, National Association, a
national banking association, in its capacity as Pass Through Trustee under
the Pass Through Agreement and each Pass Through Trust.
Past Due Rate. In respect of (A) any amount payable to the Owner
Participant or the Owner Trustee a rate per annum during the period from and
including the due date to but excluding the date on which such amount is paid
in full equal to 2% plus the Debt Rate and (B) any principal of or interest on
any Certificate or any other amount payable under the Indenture, any
Certificate or any other Operative Agreement that is not paid when due
(whether at Maturity, by acceleration, by optional or mandatory prepayment or
otherwise) to any Holder, the Indenture Trustee or the Pass Through Trustee, a
rate per annum during the period from and including the due date to but
excluding the date on which such amount is paid in full equal to (i) in the
case of any such amount payable to the Holder of any Certificate, 2% plus the
interest rate applicable to such Certificate and (ii) in the case of any other
such amount, 2% plus the Debt Rate.
Payment Date. Each January 15 and July 15 commencing on January 15,
1999.
Payment Default. Any event specified in Section 16.01(a) or 16.01(b)
of the Lease which with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both would
constitute an Event of Default.
Permitted Investments. Those investments enumerated in Section
23.01(a) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of the Lease.
Person. Any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint
venture, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, association,
corporation, institution, entity or government (federal, state, local,
foreign or any agency, instrumentality, division or body thereof).
Pool Balance. Has the meaning specified in Article I to the Series
Supplement.
Pool Factors. Has the meaning specified in Article I to the Series
Supplement.
Preliminary Notice. Has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(a) of
the Lease.
Premium Termination Date. With respect to the Series A Certificates,
the scheduled maturity date of the Series A Certificates, with respect to the
Series B Certificates, the scheduled maturity date of the Series B
Certificates and with respect to the Series C Certificates, the scheduled
maturity date of the Series C Certificates.
Prepayment Date. Has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(b) of the
Indenture.
Prepayment Price. Has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(b) of the
Indenture.
Principal Amount. With respect to a Certificate means the stated
original principal amount of such Certificate and, with respect to all
Certificates, means the aggregate stated original principal amounts of all
Certificates.
Property. Any right or interest in or to property of any kind
whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible.
Proposed Termination Date. Has the meaning specified in Section
10.01(a) of the Lease.
Purchase Agreement. The Airbus A300-600R Freighter Purchase Agreement,
dated as of July 3, 1991 between AVSA and the Lessee, including all exhibits,
appendices and letter agreements attached thereto as originally executed or as
modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the terms thereof, but
only to the extent that the foregoing relates to the Aircraft and to the
extent assigned pursuant to the Purchase Agreement Assignment.
Purchase Agreement Assignment. The Purchase Agreement Assignment
(Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE), dated as of September 1, 1998
between the Lessor and the Lessee.
Purchase Price. Has the meaning specified in Ancillary Agreement I.
Rating Agencies. Collectively, at any time, each nationally
recognized rating agency which shall have been requested to rate the Pass
Through Certificates and which shall then be rating the Pass Through
Certificates. The initial Rating Agencies will be Moody's and S&P.
Rating Agency Confirmation. With respect to any Operative Agreement
that is to be modified in any material respect on the Delivery Date a written
confirmation from each of the Rating Agencies that the use of such Operative
Agreement with such modifications would not result in (i) a reduction of the
rating for any Class of Pass Through Certificates below the then current
rating for such Class of Pass Through Certificates or (ii) a withdrawal or
suspension of the rating of any Class of Pass Through Certificates.
Record Date. With respect to Payment Dates under the Indenture
(except a date for payment of defaulted interest), December 31 for January 15
Payment Dates and June 30 for July 15 Payment Dates, whether or not such date
is a Business Day.
Recourse Amount. Has the meaning specified in Section 17.10 of the
Participation Agreement.
Refinancing. A non-recourse loan to the Lessor arranged pursuant to
Section 15.01 of the Participation Agreement.
Register. Has the meaning set forth in Section 3.02 of the Indenture.
Registrar. Has the meaning set forth in Section 3.02 of the
Indenture.
Regulation D. Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System (or any successor), as the same may be modified and
supplemented and in effect from time to time.
Reimbursement Agreement. The Standby Letter of Credit Application and
Agreement, dated the Pass Through Closing Date, between the Lessee and the LC
Bank.
Related Aircraft. Each of the aircraft relating to a Related
Indenture.
Related Indentures. Collectively, the Trust Indenture and Security
Agreement for each of Federal Express Corporation Trust Nos. N679FE, N680FE,
N681FE, N682FE, N620FE, N621FE and N623FE, each dated as of June 15, 1998,
between State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National
Association, as owner trustee and First Security Bank, National Association,
as indenture trustee, the Trust Indenture and Security Agreement for Federal
Express Corporation Trust No. N590FE, dated as of May 1, 1998, as amended and
restated as of June 15, 1998, between State Street Bank and Trust Company of
Connecticut, National Association, as owner trustee and First Security Bank,
National Association, as indenture trustee, the Trust Indenture and Security
Agreement for Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N675FE, dated as of June
1, 1998, as amended and restated as of June 15, 1998, between State Street
Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National Association, as owner trustee
and First Security Bank, National Association, as indenture trustee, the Trust
Indenture and Security Agreement for Federal Express Corporation Trust No.
N676FE, dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended and restated as of July 15,
1998, between State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National
Association, as owner trustee and First Security Bank, National Association,
as indenture trustee, the Trust Indenture and Security Agreement for Federal
Express Corporation Trust No. N677FE, dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended and
restated as of August 1, 1998, between State Street Bank and Trust Company of
Connecticut, National Association, as owner trustee and First Security Bank,
National Association, as indenture trustee, and the Trust Indenture and
Security Agreement for Federal Express Corporation Trust No. N585FE, dated as
of June 15, 1998, as amended and restated as of September 1, 1998, between
State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National Association, as
owner trustee and First Security Bank, National Association, as indenture
trustee.
Related Participation Agreements. Collectively, with respect to each
Related Indenture, the "Participation Agreement" as defined therein.
Remaining Weighted Average Life. On a given date with respect to any
Certificate the number of days equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i)
the sum of each of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each
then remaining scheduled payment of principal of such Certificate by (b) the
number of days from and including such prepayment date to but excluding the
dates on which each such payment of principal is scheduled to be made; by (ii)
the then outstanding principal amount of such Certificate.
Renewal Rent. The amount payable by the Lessee as rent in accordance
with Section 4.01 of the Lease during any Renewal Term.
Renewal Term. One or more terms with respect to which the Lessee has
exercised its option to renew the Lease pursuant to Section 4.01(a) thereof.
Rent. All payments due from the Lessee under the Lease as Basic Rent,
Renewal Rent and Supplemental Rent, collectively.
Rent Payment Date. Each January 15 and July 15 commencing on January
15, 1999, and the last day of the Basic Term.
Replacement Aircraft. Any aircraft substituted for the Aircraft
pursuant to Section 11.03(a) of the Lease.
Replacement Airframe. Has the meaning set forth in Section 11.03 of
the Lease.
Replacement Engine. A General Electric CF6-80C2-A5F engine (or an
engine of the same or another manufacturer) of the same or of equal or greater
value, remaining useful life and utility as the Engine being replaced,
together with all Parts relating to such engine; provided, however, that if
such replacement engine is not a General Electric CF6-80C2-A5F engine, such
replacement engine must then be commonly used in the commercial aviation
industry on Airbus A300-600 airframes.
Responsible Officer. With respect to the Owner Trustee (except for
purposes of the Trust Agreement in which case the definition of Responsible
Officer set forth in Section 3.10 of the Trust Agreement is applicable) or the
Indenture Trustee, any officer in its Corporate Trust Administration, as the
case may be, designated by such Person to perform obligations under the
Operative Agreements, and with respect to any other party, any corporate
officer or (except in the case of the Owner Participant) other employee of a
party who, in the normal performance of his or her operational
responsibilities, with respect to the subject matter of any covenant,
agreement or obligation of such party pursuant to any Operative Agreement,
would have responsibility for and knowledge of such matter and the
requirements of any Operative Agreement with respect thereto.
S&P. Standard & Poor's Ratings Group.
Scheduled Delivery Date. The Delivery Date specified in the Delivery
Notice pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Participation Agreement.
SEC. The Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States and
any successor agencies or authorities.
Secured Obligations. Has the meaning specified in the Granting
Clause of the Indenture.
Securities Act. The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Series "A" or "Series A Certificates". Certificates issued and
designated as "Series A" under the Indenture, in the Principal Amount and
maturities and bearing interest as specified in Exhibit B to the Indenture
under the heading "Series A".
Series "B" or "Series B Certificates". Certificates issued and
designated as "Series B" under the Indenture, in the Principal Amount and
maturities and bearing interest as specified in Exhibit B to the Indenture
under the heading "Series B".
Series "C" or "Series C Certificates". Certificates issued and
designated as "Series C" under the Indenture, in the Principal Amount and
maturities and bearing interest as specified in Exhibit B to the Indenture
under the heading "Series C".
Series C Prepayment Date. July 15, 1999 or any other date designated
by the Lessee, but in no event later than the fifteenth day after the Last
Cut-Off Date.
Series Supplement or Series Supplements. The Series Supplement
1998-1-A, the Series Supplement 1998-1-B or the Series Supplement 1998-1-C,
each dated the Certificate Closing Date, between the Lessee and the Pass
Through Trustee.
Sinking Fund Redemption Date. Has the meaning specified in Section
6.06 of the Indenture.
Sinking Fund Redemption Price. Has the meaning specified in Section
6.06 of the Indenture.
Special Aviation Counsel. Daugherty, Fowler & Peregrin.
Special Distribution Date. Has the meaning specified in Article I to
the Series Supplement.
Specified Investments. Shall mean (a) direct obligations of the
United States of America or obligations fully guaranteed by the United States
of America; (b) commercial paper rated A-1/P-1 by S&P and Moody's,
respectively or, if such ratings are unavailable, rated by any nationally
recognized rating organization in the United States equal to the highest
rating assigned by such rating organization; (c) investments in negotiable
certificates of deposit, time deposits, banker's acceptances, commercial paper
or other direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed by, commercial banks
organized under the laws of the United States or of any political subdivision
thereof (or any U.S. branch of a foreign bank) with issuer ratings of at least
B/C by Thomson Bankwatch, having maturities no later than 90 days following
the date of such investment; (d) overnight federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers; or
(e) overnight repurchase agreements with respect to the securities described in
clause (a) above entered into with an office of a bank or trust company which
is located in the United States of America or any bank or trust company which
is organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof and has
capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating at least $500 million.
SSB. State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, National
Association, a national banking association or any successor Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity.
Stipulated Loss Value. As of any Stipulated Loss Value Determination
Date during the Basic Term, the amount determined by multiplying the Purchase
Price by the percentage set forth in Schedule III of the Lease under the
heading "Stipulated Loss Value Factor" opposite such date (as such Schedule
III may be adjusted from time to time as provided in Section 3.04 of the
Lease), and during any Renewal Term, the amount determined pursuant to Section
4.01(b) of the Lease. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Lease or
the Participation Agreement or the Indenture, each Stipulated Loss Value shall
be, under any circumstances and in any event, an amount, together with so much
of the arrears portion of Basic Rent due and owing through the date of payment
of Stipulated Loss Value as does not constitute an Excepted Payment, at least
sufficient to pay in full as of such date of payment the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of and accrued interest on the Certificates outstanding on
such date of payment. Subject to the immediately preceding sentence, it is
understood and agreed that the amounts set forth on Schedule III of the Lease,
for dates other than Rent Payment Dates on which arrears Basic Rent is due,
fully reflect appropriate Basic Rent accruals and credits of unearned Basic
Rent and, accordingly, no further accrual or credit shall be required whenever
Stipulated Loss Value is to be calculated with reference to any such date.
Stipulated Loss Value Determination Date. Each date set forth on
Schedule III of the Lease.
Subordination Agent. First Security Bank, National Association, a
national banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as
Subordination Agent.
Supplemental Rent. (a) All amounts, liabilities and obligations
which the Lessee assumes or agrees to perform or pay under the Lease or under
the Participation Agreement or Tax Indemnity Agreement or any Ancillary
Agreement or any other Operative Agreement to SSB, the Lessor, the Owner
Participant, the Indenture Trustee, the Subordination Agent, any Liquidity
Provider or others, including, without limitation, payments of Stipulated Loss
Value, EBO Price and amounts calculated by reference to Termination Value and
all amounts required to be paid by Lessee under the agreements, covenants and
indemnities contained in the Lease or in the Participation Agreement or the
Tax Indemnity Agreement or any other Operative Agreement, but excluding Basic
Rent and (b) all amounts that the Owner Trustee is obligated to pay in
accordance with clause (b) of the last paragraph of Section 2.04 of the
Indenture.
Tax. Shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.01(a) of the
Participation Agreement.
Tax Indemnity Agreement. The Tax Indemnity Agreement (Federal
Express Corporation Trust No. N678FE), dated as of September 1, 1998, between
the Lessee and the Owner Participant.
Term. The Basic Term of the lease for the Aircraft under the Lease
and, if renewed pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Lease, each Renewal Term for
the Aircraft for which the Lease is renewed, or such earlier date on which the
Lease is terminated pursuant to its terms.
Termination Date. A Rent Payment Date during the Basic Term that is
on or after December 31, 2005 in the case of Article 10 of the Lease, and in
the case of (i) Section 4.02(a)(A) of the Lease, the Rent Payment Date falling
on January 15, 2015 or July 15, 2018, as the case may be, (ii) Section
4.02(a)(D) or (E) of the Lease, a Rent Payment Date that is on or after the
eighth anniversary of the Delivery Date and (iii) Section 4.02(a)(F) of the
Lease, January 15, 2017.
Termination Value. As of any Termination Date, the amount determined
by multiplying the Purchase Price by the percentage set forth in Schedule IV
of the Lease under the heading "Termination Value Factor" opposite such
Termination Date (as such Schedule IV may be adjusted from time to time as
provided in Section 3.04 of the Lease). Notwithstanding any other provisions
of the Lease, the Participation Agreement or the Indenture, each Termination
Value shall be, under any circumstances and in any event, an amount, together
with so much of the arrears portion of Basic Rent due and owing through the
date of payment of any amount calculated by reference to Termination Value as
does not constitute an Excepted Payment, at least sufficient to pay in full as
of such date of payment the aggregate unpaid principal amount of and accrued
interest on the Certificates outstanding on such date of payment. Subject to
the immediately preceding sentence, it is understood and agreed that the
amounts set forth on Schedule IV of the Lease, for dates other than Rent
Payment Dates on which arrears Basic Rent is due, fully reflect appropriate
Basic Rent accruals and credits of unearned Basic Rent and, accordingly, no
further accrual or credit shall be required whenever Termination Value is to
be calculated with reference to any such date.
Transaction Costs. Those costs and expenses set forth in Section
10.01(a) of the Participation Agreement.
Transportation Code. Title 49 of the United States Code, as amended
and in effect on the date of the Lease or as subsequently amended, or any
successor or substituted legislation at the time in effect and applicable, and
the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
Treasury Yield. At the time of determination with respect to any
Certificate, the interest rate (expressed as a semi-annual equivalent and as a
decimal and, in the case of United States Treasury bills, converted to a bond
equivalent yield) determined to be the per annum rate equal to the semi-annual
yield to maturity for United States Treasury securities maturing on the
Average Life Date on such Certificate and trading in the public securities
markets either as determined by interpolation between the most recent weekly
average yield to maturity for two series of United States Treasury securities,
trading in public securities markets, (i) one maturing as close as possible
to, but earlier than, the Average Life Date of such Certificate and (ii) the
other maturing as close as possible to, but later than, the Average Life Date
of such Certificate, in each case as published in the most recent H.15(519)
or, if a weekly average yield to maturity for United States Treasury
securities maturing on the Average Life Date of such Certificate is reported
on the most recent H.15 (519), such weekly average yield to maturity as
published in such H.15(919). "H.15(519)" means the weekly statistical release
designated as such, or any successor publication, published by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The date of determination of a
Make-Whole Premium will be the third Business Day prior to the applicable
prepayment date and the "most recent H.15(519)" means the H.15(519) published
prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the
applicable prepayment date.
Trust Agreement. The Trust Agreement (Federal Express Corporation
Trust No. N678FE), dated as of June 15, 1998, as amended and restated as of
September 1, 1998, between the Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity.
Trust Estate. The Lessor's Estate.
Trust Indenture Act. The Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
Trust Indenture Estate. All estate, right, title and interest of the
Indenture Trustee in and to any of the property, rights, interests and
privileges granted to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Granting Clause of
the Indenture, other than Excepted Payments and any and all other rights of
the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant expressly reserved to the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant pursuant to the Indenture, and the Letter of
Credit and any rights thereunder.
UCC. Uniform Commercial Code.
Underwriters. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Chase Securities
Inc., Citicorp Securities, Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation and
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Underwriting Agreement. The Underwriting Agreement dated June 30,
1998, among the Lessee and the Underwriters.
United States, U.S. or US. The United States of America.
U.S. Air Carrier. Any United States air carrier as to which there is
in force a certificate issued pursuant to Section 41102(a) or Section 41103 of
the Transportation Code, and as to which there is in force an air carrier
operating certificate issued pursuant to Chapter 447 of the Transportation
Code and Part 121 of the regulations under such Transportation Code, for
aircraft capable of carrying ten (10) or more individuals or 6,000 pounds or
more of cargo, or which may operate as an air carrier by certification or
otherwise under any successor or substitute provision thereof or in absence
thereof.
U.S. Person. A Person described in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.