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EXHIBIT 4.26
THIS EQUIPMENT NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED PURSUANT TO THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"), OR PURSUANT TO
THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE. ACCORDINGLY, THIS EQUIPMENT
NOTE MAY NOT BE SOLD UNLESS EITHER REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT
AND SUCH APPLICABLE STATE LAWS OR AN EXEMPTION FROM SUCH
REGISTRATIONS IS AVAILABLE.
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY
AS OWNER TRUSTEE
SERIES B EQUIPMENT NOTE DUE DECEMBER 2, 2014 ISSUED IN CONNECTION
WITH THE BOEING MODEL 737-322 AIRCRAFT BEARING UNITED STATES
REGISTRATION NUMBER N398UA.
No. 1994 737 B-B1 Date: December 23, 1997
Original Principal Amount Maturity Date
$2,570,000 December 2, 0000
XXXXX XXXXXX XXXX AND TRUST COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, not individually but solely as
Owner Trustee (herein, in such capacity, the "Owner Trustee") for value
received, hereby promises to pay to FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Subordination Agent as nominee for the Pass Through Trustee under the
Intercreditor Agreement, or registered assigns, the principal sum of Two
Million Five Hundred Seventy Thousand Dollars ($2,570,000) in installments, one
such installment to be due and payable on each Payment Date, each such
installment to be in an amount equal to the amount set forth in Schedule I
hereto, together with interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof from time
to time outstanding from and including the date hereof until such principal
amount is paid in full. Interest shall accrue with respect to each Interest
Period at the Applicable Rate (calculated on the basis of a year consisting of
360 days and the actual number of days elapsed) in effect for such Interest
Period and shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date and on the
date this Equipment Note is paid in full. Interest shall be payable with
respect to the first but not the last day of each Interest Period.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the final payment made on this Equipment Note
shall be in an amount sufficient to discharge in full the unpaid principal
amount and all accrued and unpaid interest on, and any other amounts due under,
this Equipment Note. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
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contained herein, if any date on which a payment under this Equipment Note
becomes due and payable is not a Business Day, then such payment shall not be
made on such scheduled date but shall be made on the next succeeding Business
Day and if such payment is made on such next succeeding Business Day, interest
at the then Applicable Rate shall accrue on the amount of such payment during
such extension.
For purposes hereof, the term "Indenture" means the Amended
and Restated Trust Indenture and Security Agreement (1994 737 B), dated as of
December 23, 1997 between the Owner Trustee and First Security Bank, National
Association (the "Indenture Trustee"), as the same may be amended or
supplemented from time to time. All other capitalized terms used in this
Equipment Note and not defined herein shall have the respective meanings
assigned in the Indenture.
This Equipment Note shall bear interest, payable on demand, at
the Past Due Rate (calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days and the actual
number of days elapsed) on any overdue principal amount, any overdue Break
Amount, if any, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and (to the extent permitted by
applicable law) any overdue interest and any other amounts payable hereunder
which are overdue, in each case for the period the same is overdue. Amounts
shall be overdue if not paid when due (whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise).
The interest rate borne by this Equipment Note shall be
subject to adjustments to the extent, and under the circumstances, specified by
the Note Purchase Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement as more
particularly set forth in the third paragraph of Section 2.01 of the Indenture.
All payments of principal, Break Amount, if any, Make-Whole
Amount, if any, interest and other amounts, if any, to be made by the Owner
Trustee hereunder and under the Indenture shall be made only from the income
and proceeds from the Indenture Estate and only to the extent that the
Indenture Trustee shall have sufficient income or proceeds from the Indenture
Estate to make such payments. Each holder hereof, by its acceptance of this
Equipment Note, agrees that it will look solely to the income and proceeds from
the Indenture Estate to the extent available for distribution to the holder
hereof as above provided and that, none of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Participant is or shall be personally liable or liable in
any manner extending to any assets other than the Indenture Estate to the
holder hereof for any amounts payable or for any liability under this Equipment
Note or the Indenture or, except as provided in Section 2.09 of the Indenture,
under the Participation Agreement or the other Operative Documents; provided,
however, that, nothing herein contained shall limit, restrict or impair the
right of the Indenture Trustee, subject always to the terms and provisions of
the Indenture, to accelerate the maturity of this Equipment Note upon an
Indenture Event of Default under the Indenture, to bring suit and obtain a
judgment against the Owner Trustee on this Equipment Note for purposes of
realizing upon the Indenture Estate and to exercise all rights and remedies
provided under the Indenture or otherwise realize upon the Indenture Estate.
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This Equipment Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless this Equipment
Note has been executed on behalf of the Owner Trustee by the manual or
facsimile signature of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, and
authenticated by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of an authorized
officer or signatory of the Indenture Trustee, in each case as specified in
Section 2.02 of the Indenture.
This Equipment Note is one of the Equipment Notes referred to
in the Indenture which have been or are to be issued by the Owner Trustee
pursuant to the terms of the Indenture. 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 Corporate Trust Department) for a more complete
statement of the terms and provisions thereof, including a statement of the
properties thereby conveyed, pledged and assigned, the nature and extent of the
security, the respective rights thereunder of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders of the Equipment Notes, and the terms upon which
the Equipment Notes are, and are to be, executed and delivered, as well as for
a statement of the terms and conditions of the trust created by the Indenture,
to all of which terms and conditions in the Indenture each Noteholder hereof
agrees by its acceptance of this Equipment Note.
This Equipment Note is subject to redemption as provided in
Article 6 of the Indenture but not otherwise.
If an Indenture Event of Default shall occur and be
continuing, the principal amount remaining unpaid of the Equipment Notes may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture.
As provided in the Indenture, in certain circumstances this
Equipment Note is transferable, and upon surrender of this Equipment Note for
registration of transfer at the principal corporate trust office of the
Registrar, or at the office or agency maintained for such purpose, duly
endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by, the Noteholder or his attorney
duly authorized in writing, one or more new Equipment Notes of the same
maturity and type and of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate
principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Equipment Notes are issuable only as registered Equipment
Notes. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, Equipment Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal
amount of Equipment Notes of the same series, maturity and type and of
authorized denominations, as requested by the Noteholder surrendering the same,
upon presentation thereof for such purpose at the principal corporate trust
office of the Registrar, or at an office or agency maintained for such purpose.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
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Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Equipment Note, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Paying Agent and
the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name this Equipment Note
is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment
of the principal of and interest on this Equipment Note and for all other
purposes whatsoever whether or not this Equipment Note be overdue, and neither
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Paying Agent nor the Registrar
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The indebtedness evidenced by this Equipment Note 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 Equipment Notes and this
Equipment Note is issued subject to such provisions. The Noteholder of this
Equipment Note, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such
provisions and each other provision applicable to it in the Indenture, the
Participation Agreement, the Note Purchase Agreement and each other Fundamental
Document, (b) authorizes and directs the Indenture Trustee on its 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 its attorney-in-fact for such purpose.
AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE, THE INDENTURE AND THIS EQUIPMENT
NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF ILLINOIS WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS OF
THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee has caused this
Equipment Note to be duly executed in its corporate name by its officer duly
authorized as of the date hereof.
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:
Title:
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INDENTURE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Equipment Notes referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
as Indenture Trustee
By:
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Authorized officer and signatory
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SCHEDULE I
AMORTIZATION SCHEDULE
Payment Date Principal Amount (Expressed as a
Percentage of Original Principal Amount)
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