Aircastle Ltd. (AYR) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-03-31.

Aircastle Ltd. has a market cap of $925.5 million; its shares were traded at around $11.64 with a P/E ratio of 8.8 and P/S ratio of 1.6. The dividend yield of Aircastle Ltd. stocks is 3.4%.AYR is in the portfolios of Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC.

Highlight of Business Operations: We are a global company that acquires leases and sells high-utility commercial jet aircraft to passenger and cargo airlines throughout the world. High-utility aircraft are generally modern, operationally efficient jets with a large operator base and long useful lives. As of March 31, 2010, our aircraft portfolio consisted of 129 aircraft and we had 59 lessees located in 33 countries. At March 31, 2010, the average age of the aircraft in our portfolio was 11.1 years and the average remaining lease term was 4.8 years, in each case weighted by net book value. Our revenues and income from continuing operations for the three months ended March 31, 2010 were $130.6 million and $21.2 million, respectively.
We intend to pay regular quarterly dividends to our shareholders. On March 12, 2010, our board of directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.10 per common share, or an aggregate of $8.0 million, for the three months ended March 31, 2010, which was paid on April 15, 2010 to holders of record on March 31, 2010. This dividend may not be indicative of the amount of any future dividends.
Amortization of net lease discounts and lease incentives. The increase in amortization of net lease discounts and lease incentives of $3.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009 results from an increase in amortization of lease incentives of $2.8 million for 18 aircraft transitions during 2009 and a decrease in amortization of net lease discounts of $0.9 million.
Maintenance revenue. The decrease in maintenance revenue of $1.3 million is the result of $1.2 million of higher maintenance revenue from scheduled lease terminations ($4.6 million in the three months ended March 31, 2010 as compared to $3.4 million in the three months ended March 31, 2009) and $2.5 million of lower maintenance revenue from early terminations of leases ($0.7 million in the three months ended March 31, 2010 as compared to $3.2 million in the three months ended March 31, 2009).
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