XML 44 R30.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT v3.8.0.1
Note 22 - Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Text Block]
22.
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
 
The Company is involved in various
other legal actions and claims arising in the ordinary course of business. Management believes that these matters, if adversely decided, would
not
have a material adverse effect on the Company's results of operations or financial position.
 
In
July 2016,
p
ursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement, Contrail Aviation agreed to pay as contingent additional deferred consideration up to a maximum of
$1,500,000
per year and
$3,000,000
in the aggregate (collectively, the “Earnout Payments” and each, an “Earnout Payment”), calculated as follows:
 
(i) if Contrail Aviation generates EBITDA (as defined in the Asset Purchase Agreement) in any Earnout Period (as defined below) less than
$1,500,000,
no
Earnout Payment will be payable with respect to such Earnout Period;
 
(ii) if Contrail Aviation generates EBITDA in any Earnout Period equal to or in excess of
$1,500,000,
but less than
$2,000,000,
the Earnout Payment for each such Earnout Period will be an amount equal to the product of (
x
) the EBITDA generated with respect to such Earnout Period minus
$1,500,000,
and (y)
two
(
2
);
 
(iii) if Contrail Aviation generates EBITDA in any Earnout Period equal to or in excess of
$2,000,000,
but less than
$4,000,000,
the Earnout Payment for each such Earnout Period will be equal to
$1,000,000;
 
(iv) if Contrail Aviation generates EBITDA in any Earnout Period equal to or in excess of
$4,000,000,
the Earnout Payment for each such Earnout Period will be equal to
$1,500,000;
and
 
(v) if, following the
fifth
Earnout Period, Contrail Aviation has generated EBITDA equal to or in excess of
$15,000,000
in the aggregate during all Earnout Periods, but the Seller has received or is owed less than
$3,000,000
in aggregate Earnout Payments pursuant to clauses (i) through (iv), above, Contrail Aviation will make an additional Earnout Payment to the Seller in an amount equal to the difference between
$3,000,000
and the aggregate Earnout Payments already received or payable pursuant to clauses (i) through (iv), above.
 
As used in the Asset Purchase Agreement, “Earnout Period” means each of the
first
five twelve
-full-calendar-month periods following the closing of the acquisition.
The company has estimated its liability with respect to the Earnout Payment of
$2,900,000,
which amount is included in the “Other non-current liabilities” in the consolidated balance sheet at
March 31, 2017.
As a result of the EBITDA of Contrail Aviation being approximately
$2.1
million for the
first
Earnout Period, the Earnout Payment with respect to that Earnout Period is
$1,000,000,
which amount is payable in
October 2017.
 
On the Contrail Closing Date, Contrail Aviation and the Seller entered into an Operating Agreement (the “Operating Agreement”) providing for the governance of and the terms of membership interests in Contrail Aviation and including put and call options (“Put/Call Option”) permitting, at any time after the
fifth
anniversary of the Contrail Closing Date, Contrail Aviation at its election to purchase from the Seller, and permitting the Seller at its election to require Contrail Aviation to purchase from the Seller, all of the Seller
’s equity membership interests in Contrail Aviation at a price to be agreed upon, or failing such an agreement to be determined pursuant to
third
-party appraisals in a process specified in the Operating Agreement.
 
O
n
October 31, 2016,
GAS acquired, effective as of
October 1, 2016,
substantially all of the assets of D&D GSE Support, Inc. (“D&D”) which was in the business of marketing, selling and providing aviation repair, equipment, parts, and maintenance sales services and products at the Fort Lauderdale airport. The total amount paid at closing in connection with this acquisition was
$400,000,
with an additional
$100,000
paid
30
days after closing and an additional
$100,000
payable in equal monthly installments of
$16,667
commencing on
November 1, 2016.
Earn-out payments of up to
$100,000
may
also be payable based on specified performance for the
twelve
-month period ending
September 30, 2017.
 
In
June 2016,
the Company acquired land and entered into an agreement to construct a new corporate headquarters facility in Denver, North Carolina for an aggregate amount of approximately
$1.9
million.
 Construction was completed and the Company relocated its corporate offices to this facility in
July 2017.
This facility will replace the Company’s current headquarters which is leased from an entity owned by certain former officers and directors at an annual rental payment of approximately
$178,000.
 
There are currently
no
other commitments for significant capital expenditures.