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Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2025
Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract] |
Financial Assets and Liabilities that are Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis | The table below presents information about Woodward’s financial assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation techniques Woodward utilized to determine such fair value.
|  | At September 30, 2025 |  |  | At September 30, 2024 |
|  | Level 1 |  |  | Level 2 |  |  | Level 3 |  |  | Total |  |  | Level 1 |  |  | Level 2 |  |  | Level 3 |  |  | Total |
Financial assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Investments in banks and financial institutions |  | $ | 30,256 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 30,256 |  |  | $ | 23,128 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 23,128 |
Equity securities |  |  | 37,846 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 37,846 |  |  |  | 30,782 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 30,782 |
Cross-currency interest rate swaps |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Total financial assets |  | $ | 68,102 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 68,102 |  |  | $ | 53,910 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 53,910 |
Financial liabilities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Cross-currency interest rate swaps |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 27,406 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 27,406 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 12,004 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 12,004 |
Total financial liabilities |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 27,406 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 27,406 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 12,004 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 12,004 |
Estimated Fair Values of Financial Instruments | The estimated fair values and carrying costs of other financial instruments that are not required to be remeasured at fair value in the Consolidated Balance Sheets were as follows
|  |  |  | At September 30, 2025 |  |  | At September 30, 2024 |
|  | Fair Value Hierarchy Level |  | Estimated Fair Value |  |  | Carrying Cost |  |  | Estimated Fair Value |  |  | Carrying Cost |
Assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Notes receivable from municipalities |  | 2 |  | $ | 5,444 |  |  | $ | 5,392 |  |  | $ | 6,961 |  |  | $ | 6,514 |
Investments in short-term time deposits |  | 2 |  |  | 67 |  |  |  | 66 |  |  |  | 3,064 |  |  |  | 3,064 |
Liabilities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Long-term debt |  | 2 |  | $ | 566,582 |  |  | $ | 580,547 |  |  | $ | 634,071 |  |  | $ | 656,360 |

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