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Exhibit 99
Spirit AeroSystems Announces Public Stock Offering by Existing Equity Holders
WICHITA, Kan., April 7, 2011 Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. [NYSE: SPR] (the Company)
today announced that it intends to commence a public secondary
offering of 10,307,375 shares of
class A common stock. The Company will not receive any proceeds from the offering. The shares are
being offered primarily by affiliates of Onex Corporation (Onex) and members of management of the
Company. Onex is expected to maintain voting control of the Company following this offering. The
shares are being offered pursuant to an automatic shelf registration statement filed today with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Form S-3.
Morgan
Stanley is acting as underwriter for the offering. The underwriter will have a 30-day
option to purchase up to an additional 15 percent of the offered amount of the class A common
stock sold.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy,
nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities
law of any such jurisdiction. The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus supplement
and accompanying base prospectus, copies of which may be obtained
from Morgan Stanley Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd
floor, New York, NY 10014, or email prospectus@morganstanley.com,
or by telephone at 866-718-1649, and from the SECs website
at www.sec.gov, when available.
Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This press
release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking
statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the secondary offering of shares
of class A common stock. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors discussed in the Companys filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the SEC). Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press
release and, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws, Spirit AeroSystems
Holdings, Inc. expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise any of them to reflect actual
results, any changes in expectations or any change in events. If Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.
does update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that it will make
additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. For additional
information concerning risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to
differ from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, and risks to Spirit AeroSystems
Holdings, Inc.s business in general, please refer to the Companys SEC filings.
On the web: http://www.spiritaero.com
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