Aircastle Announces Proposed Offering of $400 Million Aggregate Principal Amount of Senior Notes

STAMFORD, Conn., March 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Aircastle Limited (NYSE: AYR) (“Aircastle”) announced today that it plans to offer an aggregate of $400 million principal amount of its senior notes due 2021 (the “notes”). Aircastle plans to use the net proceeds of the offering, together with cash on hand, to fund the repayment or redemption of its 9.75% senior notes due 2018.

Goldman, Sachs & Co., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., and RBC Capital Markets, LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering.

Aircastle has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) and a preliminary prospectus supplement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for the offering of the notes. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and preliminary prospectus supplement included in that registration statement and other documents Aircastle has filed with the SEC for more complete information about Aircastle and the notes. You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the preliminary prospectus supplement and prospectus may be obtained by contacting Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, or e-mail: prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com.