TransDigm Considers Offering $500 Million of Senior Subordinated Notes

CLEVELAND, Oct. 9, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE: TDG) today announced that it will consider offering, subject to market conditions and other factors, up to $500 million aggregate principal amount of senior subordinated notes to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, and to certain non-U.S. persons in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act, assuming that it receives from its lenders the requisite consents to a previously announced proposed amendment to its senior secured credit facilities. The Company would expect to use all or a portion of the proceeds of any such offering to pay a special dividend.