Northstar Aerospace announces amended credit agreement

Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:30:00 EST


Symbols: NAS, NASGF
Jan 02, 2009 (AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION via COMTEX) --
NASGF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Northstar Aerospace (TSX: NAS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), a manufacturer of flight critical gears
and transmissions, has announced that it has signed an amendment to its
existing credit agreement.

The amendment includes a waiver of the financial covenant violation at
30 September 2008. Certain covenants at 31 December 2008 have also been
reset.

Under the amended agreement the leverage ratio of debt to earnings
before income, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), as
defined by the credit agreement, has been increased. The fixed charge
ratio has also been modified and the additional interest rate over the
company's option of LIBOR or an alternate base rate has been increased.

The amount available under the facility will be reduced by USD25m in
staged amounts by 30 April 2009, including USD10m through non-operating
liquidity events.

The company currently has USD19m of availability remaining under the
facility.

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