Moody's upgrades UCAT 2005-1 aircraft lease backed ABS resecuritization notes

Approximately $7 million of asset backed securities affected

New York, March 28, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has upgraded the rating of Class A Notes issued by UCAT 2005-1 (UCAT).

The complete rating action is as follows:

Issuer: UCAT 2005-1

Cl. A, Upgraded to Ba1 (sf); previously on Dec 22, 2016 Downgraded to Ba2 (sf)

RATINGS RATIONALE

The upgrade rating action reflects deleveraging of the UCAT class A as it pays down, and our expectation about the prospects for future income to UCAT from the Class A-1 and A-2 Notes issued by Lease Investment Flight Trust (LIFT), Series 2001-1 Notes (the underlying LIFT Notes). As UCAT's class A has paid down, its loan to aircraft value (LTV) ratio, based on the appraisal values associated with the underlying LIFT aircraft, has improved to 33% as of February 2019 from 49% as of April 2018.

In its analysis, Moody's considered future prospects for lease income to the underlying LIFT transaction based on its fleet and recent performance as well as recent market lease rate trends. The aircraft portfolio backing the underlying LIFT Notes consists of eight aircraft with a weighted average age of about 19 years, with a 39% concentration in Boeing 767s, 47% in B737s, and 14% in Airbus 320s weighted by aircraft value. All of the aircraft in the portfolio were manufactured between 1998 and 2000.

Interest and principal payments on the underlying LIFT Notes are allocated to pay UCAT's Class A Interest, Class A principal, Class B-1-A principal and Class B-1-B principal, sequentially in that order. Interest payments on the underlying LIFT Notes are greater than interest payments due to the UCAT Notes, and the resulting excess spread is applied as principal to pay down the UCAT Notes.

The principal methodology used in this rating was "Moody's Approach to Monitoring Pooled Aircraft-Backed Securitizations" published in November 2018. Please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.

Factors that would lead to an upgrade or downgrade of the rating:

Changes to underlying lease rates or aircraft values that differ from historical and current trends.

REGULATORY DISCLOSURES

For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and sensitivity analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity to Assumptions of the disclosure form.

The analysis relies on a Monte Carlo simulation that generates a large number of collateral loss or cash flow scenarios, which on average meet key metrics Moody's determines based on its assessment of the collateral characteristics. Moody's then evaluates each simulated scenario using model that replicates the relevant structural features and payment allocation rules of the transaction, to derive losses or payments for each rated instrument. The average loss a rated instrument incurs in all of the simulated collateral loss or cash flow scenarios, which Moody's weights based on its assumptions about the likelihood of events in such scenarios actually occurring, results in the expected loss of the rated instrument.

Moody's quantitative analysis entails an evaluation of scenarios that stress factors contributing to sensitivity of ratings and take into account the likelihood of severe collateral losses or impaired cash flows.

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