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Notes Payable and Accrued Interest
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Notes Payable and Accrued Interest [Abstract]  
Notes Payable and Accrued Interest
6.
Notes Payable and Accrued Interest

At December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the Company’s notes payable and accrued interest consisted of the following:

  
December 31,
2018
  
December 31,
2017
 
Credit Facility:
      
Principal
 
$
122,400,000
  
$
134,000,000
 
Unamortized debt issuance costs
  
(674,300
)
  
(2,216,000
)
Accrued interest
  
139,300
   
278,900
 
Special purpose financing:
        
Principal
  
9,211,200
   
13,511,900
 
Accrued interest
  
16,000
   
23,400
 
  
$
131,092,200
  
$
145,598,200
 

(a)
Credit Facility

The Company’s Credit Facility is provided by a syndicate of banks and is secured by all of the assets of the Company, including its aircraft and engine portfolio, except for the aircraft that serve as collateral for the Company’s UK LLC SPE Financing.  As discussed in Note 14, in February 2019, the Credit Facility, which had availability of $170 million (with the ability for the Company to request an increase up to $180 million) and was to mature on May 31, 2019, was extended to February 19, 2023, reduced to $145 million (with the ability for the Company to request an increase up to $160 million) and amended in certain other respects, including with respect to certain of the Company’s financial covenants thereunder.  Also in February 2019, the Company refinanced, with new non-recourse Term Loans totaling $44,310,000, four aircraft that previously served as collateral under the Credit Facility and two aircraft that served as collateral for the UK LLC SPE Financing, as discussed in (b) UK LLC SPE Financing below.

As of September 30, 2018, the Company was not in compliance with the interest coverage, debt service coverage and revenue concentration covenants under the Credit Facility.  The Company obtained a waiver from the Credit Facility lenders in November 2018 for  the September 30, 2018 noncompliance.  There were no fees or penalties related to the waiver.  In addition, based on appraisals obtained in October 2018 for four assets held for sale, the Company had a borrowing base deficiency of approximately $1,400,000 at September 30, 2018.  The Company cured the deficiency in October 2018 by making a principal payment of $2,000,000 on the Credit Facility.   

As of December 31, 2018 the Company was not in compliance with the interest coverage, debt service coverage, no -net -loss and revenue concentration covenants under the Credit Facility.  The noncompliance resulted primarily from the Company recording aircraft impairment charges on aircraft  and losses on sale of aircraft totaling $3,408,700 during 2018.  The February 2019 amendment to the Credit Facility discussed above and in Note 14 cured the December 31, 2018 noncompliance and revised the compliance requirements through the extended maturity date of the Credit Facility.

The unused amount of the Credit Facility was $47,600,000 and $36,000,000 as of December 31, 2018, and December 31, 2017, respectively.  The weighted average interest rate on the Credit Facility was 5.92% and 5.21% at December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.
 
 
(b)
UK LLC SPE Financing

In August 2016, the Company acquired two regional jet aircraft using cash and financing separate from the Credit Facility.  The separate UK LLC SPE Financing resulted in note obligations of $9,805,600 and $9,804,300, which were being paid from a portion of the rent payments on the related aircraft leases through October 3, 2020 and November 7, 2020, respectively, and which bore interest at the rate of 4.455% per annum.  The borrower under each note obligation was the special purpose subsidiary of AeroCentury that owns each aircraft.  The notes were collateralized by the aircraft and were recourse only to the special purpose entity borrower and its aircraft asset, subject to standard exceptions for this type of financing.  Payments due under the notes consisted of quarterly principal and interest.  The combined balance of the principal amount and accrued interest owed on these notes at December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017 was $9,227,200 and $13,535,300, respectively. 

As discussed in Note 14, in February 2019, the UK LLC SPE Financing was repaid and cancelled in full when the Company refinanced the aircraft securing the UK LLC SPE Financing with the proceeds from the Term Loans.