ILFC and American Airlines complete 15 aircraft sale-leaseback deliveries

International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), announced the final delivery of an American Airlines 737-800 as part of a 15-aircraft sale-leaseback program. The agreement provided for 15 previously ordered Boeing 737-800 Next Generation aircraft to be purchased by ILFC from American and immediately leased back to American under a sale-leaseback financing arrangement. The program began in November of 2011 and the fifteenth aircraft in the transaction delivered on November 14, 2012.