Willis Austin Chandler, President and CEO of Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), has filed 69 Form 4 transactions, all in the single company. The pattern is one-sided: zero open-market purchases and 22 recent open-market sales. His total sell value across all filings is $9,156,597.77, while his total acquired value is $1,999,997.44, which comes from grants and option exercises, not cash buys.
The recent trades cluster around the first trading day of each month. On September 1, 2026, Chandler sold WLFC shares worth $808,564.50. In August, he filed two sales on the same day, totaling $1,100,103.11. July shows the heaviest activity, with seven separate sale transactions on July 1, 2026, ranging from $45,018 to $377,072.07, for a combined value near $1.05 million. May and April each had four sales, with April also including a tax withholding event (code F) valued at $4,319,373.90. The March filings include an option exercise (code M) with a value of zero, a tax withholding of $131,236.30, and five sales on March 2, 2026, the smallest being $8,035.60.
The code legend clarifies that code S sales are open-market dispositions, while code F transactions are automatic share withholdings to cover taxes and code M exercises are mechanical. Chandler has not made a single open-market purchase in the filing history. The sales are consistent in timing and size, appearing on scheduled dates, and the dollar amounts vary from under $10,000 to over $800,000. The most recent direction is entirely selling, with the last purchase activity absent from the record.
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