American Airlines closes private offering of enhanced equipment trust certificates

American Airlines, the principal operating subsidiary of AMR Corporation, reported the closing of its private offering of two tranches of enhanced equipment trust certificates (the “Certificates”) in the aggregate face amount of $663,378,000. The Certificates are comprised of a senior tranche of Class A Certificates with an interest rate of 4.000% per annum and a final expected distribution date of July 15, 2025 and a junior tranche of Class B Certificates with an interest rate of 5.625% per annum and a final expected distribution date of January 15, 2021. The Certificates represent an interest in the assets of two separate pass through trusts, each of which will hold equipment notes expected to be issued by American. Such equipment notes are expected to be secured by eight currently owned Boeing 737-823 aircraft and one currently owned Boeing 777-223ER aircraft, each of which aircraft is either unencumbered or is subject to a private mortgage financing, and four new Boeing 777-323ER aircraft currently scheduled for delivery to American during the period from April 2013 to July 2013.