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degrees across Boeing aircraft product types, most notably 717 aircraft. If one or more customers holding
a significant portion of our portfolio assets experiences financial difficulties or otherwise defaults on or
does not renew its leases with us at their expiration, and we are unable to redeploy the aircraft on reasonable
terms, or if the types of aircraft that are concentrated in our portfolio suffer greater than expected declines
in value, our earnings, cash flows and/or financial position could be materially adversely affected.
We may be unable to obtain debt to fund our operations and contractual commitments at
competitive rates, on commercially reasonable terms or in sufficient amounts.
We depend, in part, upon the issuance of debt to fund our operations and contractual commitments. As
of December 31, 2014 and 2013, our airplane financing commitments totaled $16,723 million and $17,987
million. If we require additional funding in order to fund outstanding financing commitments or meet other
business requirements, our market liquidity may not be sufficient. A number of factors could cause us to
incur increased borrowing costs and to have greater difficulty accessing public and private markets for
debt. These factors include disruptions or declines in the global capital markets and/or a decline in our
financial performance, outlook or credit ratings. The occurrence of any or all of these events may adversely
affect our ability to fund our operations and contractual or financing commitments.
We may not realize the anticipated benefits of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures/strategic
alliances or divestitures.
As part of our business strategy, we may merge with or acquire businesses and/or form joint ventures and
strategic alliances. Whether we realize the anticipated benefits from these acquisitions and related activities
depends, in part, upon our ability to integrate the operations of the acquired business, the performance
of the underlying product and service portfolio, and the performance of the management team and other
personnel of the acquired operations. Accordingly, our financial results could be adversely affected from
unanticipated performance issues, legacy liabilities, transaction-related charges, amortization of expenses
related to intangibles, charges for impairment of long-term assets, credit guarantees, partner performance
and indemnifications. Consolidations of joint ventures could also impact our reported results of operations
or financial position. While we believe that we have established appropriate and adequate procedures and
processes to mitigate these risks, there is no assurance that these transactions will be successful. We
also may make strategic divestitures from time to time. These transactions may result in continued financial
involvement in the divested businesses, such as through guarantees or other financial arrangements,
following the transaction. Nonperformance by those divested businesses could affect our future financial
results through additional payment obligations, higher costs or asset write-downs.
Our insurance coverage may be inadequate to cover all significant risk exposures.
We are exposed to liabilities that are unique to the products and services we provide. We maintain insurance
for certain risks and, in some circumstances, we may receive indemnification from the U.S. government.
The amount of our insurance coverage may not cover all claims or liabilities and we may be forced to bear
substantial costs. For example, liabilities arising from the use of certain of our products, such as aircraft
technologies, missile systems, border security systems, anti-terrorism technologies, and/or air traffic
management systems may not be insurable on commercially reasonable terms. While some of these
products are shielded from liability within the U.S. under the SAFETY Act provisions of the 2002 Homeland
Security Act, no such protection is available outside the U.S., potentially resulting in significant liabilities.
The amount of insurance coverage we maintain may be inadequate to cover these or other claims or
liabilities.