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Other Liabilities (Schedule of Other Liabilities) (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Sep. 30, 2020
Oct. 01, 2019
Sep. 30, 2019
Other Liabilities [Line Items]      
Net accrued retirement benefits, less amounts recognized within accrued liabilities $ 114,013   $ 111,257
Total unrecognized tax benefits 10,230   10,644
Noncurrent income taxes payable [1] 18,322   20,251
Deferred economic incentives [2] 9,105   11,535
Loss reserve on contractual lease commitments [3]     1,754
Cross currency swap derivative liability [4] 51,387    
Operating lease liabilities 14,569    
Net noncurrent contract liabilities [5] 366,642   337,165
Other 33,637   13,482
Other liabilities 617,905   $ 506,088
Finance Leases, Total lease obigations $ 2,807    
Loss Reserve On Contractual Lease Commitments [Member]      
Other Liabilities [Line Items]      
Finance Leases, Total lease obigations   $ 2,688  
[1]

See Note 20, Income taxes for more information on the noncurrent income taxes payable.
[2]

Woodward receives certain economic incentives from various state and local authorities related to capital expansion projects.  Such amounts are initially recorded as deferred credits and are being recognized as a reduction to pre-tax expense over the economic lives of the related capital expansion projects.
[3]

In connection with the construction of a new production facility in Niles, Illinois, Woodward vacated a lease facility in Skokie, Illinois, and recorded a loss reserve on the estimated remaining contractual lease commitment, net of anticipated sublease income.  As of September 30, 2019, the current portion of the accrued loss reserve on contractual lease commitments was included in “accrued liabilities” (see Note 17, Accrued liabilities).  Woodward adopted ASC 842 on October 1, 2019, which requires that any pre-adoption liabilities related to exit or disposal cost obligations reduce the amount of the ROU asset recognized upon adoption.  Accordingly, as of October 1, 2019, Woodward recognized a finance lease liability of $2,688 consisting of the future lease component payments, with no corresponding ROU asset recognized, and reduced the current and noncurrent portions of the loss reserve on contractual lease commitments to zero.  The amount of the finance lease liability will be reduced in an amount equal to the lease payments made over the remaining term of the lease, which ends in 2022.  Future non-lease component payments on the lease and future sublease income received will be recognized in the periods in which they are earned.  
[4]

See Note 8, Financial instruments and fair value measurements for more information on the cross currency swap derivative liability.
[5] See Note 3, Revenue, for more information on net noncurrent contract liabilities.