Exposure Summary
44 aircraft, one bankruptcy, two lessors carrying the exposure.
SMBC Aviation Capital and Jackson Square Aviation's combined re-placement position following Spirit Aviation Holdings' Chapter 11 lease rejections and May 2026 shutdown.
FILING Oct 2025
SURRENDER 27 Oct 2025
SHUTDOWN May 2026
STATUS Illustrative draft
01. Fleet Manifest
Every rejected tail, grouped by lessor.
44aircraft rejected
A320-200N (neo)
A320-200 (ceo)
SMBC Aviation Capital25 aircraft - 21 neo / 4 ceo
Jackson Square Aviation19 aircraft - 18 neo / 1 ceo
02. Financial Exposure
Annualised rental value requiring re-placement.
03. Emissions Context
Fuel-burn penalty if neo capacity is backfilled by ceo-equivalent aircraft.
Pending independent validation
04. Market Context
The same crisis cuts both ways.
Source of risk
~700 GTF-powered frames grounded globally - the program delays that pressured Spirit's economics in the first place.
Support for value
That same scarcity of available young narrowbody capacity is propping up lease rates - a natural placement channel for these 44 airframes.