Shahram Askarpour
Analyst · Van Clemens & Co
Thank you. Rell. Good morning everyone. As Geoff reiterated, we had good performance in the fourth quarter, which led to the significant year-over-year increase in all of our key financial metrics revenue, margins, earnings and cash flow. Many of the factors that drove our success over the last 12 months are holding pace and in some cases improving. But headed into the New Year, we believe our greatest growth opportunity lies in our latest technology, our ThrustSense Auto-throttle.So let me take a minute to elaborate on some of our comments to provide a better appreciation of why we so strongly believe in this technology. We now have STCs on both single and twin engine general aviation aircraft. And we are working on additional STCs, as well as developing additional features that enhance the value of our existing certified auto-throttles.Included in the new technologies in our proprietary is our proprietary VMCA mitigation technology, which believe is by far the most valuable. The VMCA mitigation is the first of kind STC. And since this catastrophic loss of control mitigation feature has never been done before, the FAA had no reference certification background to consult, when evaluating our technology. Three separate organizations within the FAA being our Aircraft Certification Office, the Small Airplane Standard Branch and Small Aircraft Evaluation Group had to come to terms and develop acceptable means for certification of the safety critical system.With the announcement and demonstrations made by IS&S to me mitigate the fatal condition caused by loss of directional control during an engine out condition, the industry expert and media have published various supporting articles for our technology.Consequently, you can appreciate why the recent receipt of this STC has us greatly excited about the prospects for all auto-throttle especially installed in multiengine aircraft types.While VMCA mitigation is the biggest new feature of our auto-throttle programs, we're making other valuable improvements as well. Previously, we had emphasized on the importance of reducing the installation time and we have cut our King Air auto-throttle installation time almost in half by including our standby instrument within the same unit that performs the auto-throttle functionality as part of this recent STC.A final note on the auto-throttle is that we are in negotiations with some OEMs for inclusion of our auto-throttle as standard equipment in their production aircraft.We believe that these efforts would lead to a strong demand for this technology that not only reduces pilot workload, but is believed to be potentially life-saving. And as previously mentioned, while we are investing heavily in the growth of our auto-throttle business, it comes at a time when the performance of our base business remains solid.Just quickly reviewing the programs, driving current results, the PC-24 program has been running at a fairly healthy level in support of 40 aircraft Pilatus expects to deliver this year. That should jump to around 50 next year to meet the increasing demand for what has been quickly recognized as one of the most successful new aircraft launches in recent memory.Again, since this is a long-term contract, which we believe will span multiple years and generate demand for thousands of units, only a fraction of that ultimate value is in our backlog.In the commercial air transport market, we are experiencing steady demand for our Boeing 75 and 767 portfolio of cockpit technology. As I mentioned last quarter, we believe impart due to the sun setting of support for the remaining CRT displays in service.Many of the domestic and international owners flying these aircraft tend to be smaller operators that typically rely on the MRO channels for upgrades and therefore we continue to support our distribution channels. Many of these sales are of products that are close to off the shelf, making them more profitable.The military market, our production KC-46 program continues forward as new orders are being received. The Navy F-5 engineering contract to develop a new data computer has been completed. We anticipate a production order will be awarded to us to retrofit the U.S. Navy F-5 fleet with the new air data computer.New orders in the fourth quarter were our best in two years, and at September 30th, we had the highest year-end backlog in three years. We have also seen a steady flow of repair and maintenance revenue, as the company continues to ship more equipment in the field it follows that they need to support and maintain that equipment continues to grow.Let me turn the call back to Jeff, for some closing remarks.