WWD Woodward Inc

Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

This Amendment No. 1 to Current Report on Form 8-K/A (“Amendment”) is being filed by Woodward, Inc. (the “Company”) solely for the purpose of amending and supplementing Item 9.01 of that certain Current Report on Form 8-K originally filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on June 4, 2018 (the “Original Form 8-K”) in connection with the acquisition by the Company, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Woodward Aken GmbH, from MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH (“MTU”) and MTU America Inc. (together with MTU, the “Sellers”), both of which were subsidiaries of Rolls-Royce PLC (“Rolls-Royce”) of all of the outstanding shares of stock of L’Orange GmbH, together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries in China and Germany, as well as all of the outstanding equity interests of its affiliate, Fluid Mechanics LLC, and their related operations (collectively, “L’Orange”) pursuant to the terms of a Share Purchase Agreement (the “L’Orange Agreement”) entered into on April 8, 2018.  The transactions contemplated by the L’Orange Agreement were completed on June 1, 2018 and L’Orange became a subsidiary of the Company (now, “Woodward L’Orange”) .  As indicated in the Original Form 8-K, this Amendment is being filed to provide the information required by Item 9.01(a) of Form 8-K, which was not previously filed with the Original Form 8-K, and is permitted to be filed by amendment no later than 71 calendar days after the date the Original Form 8-K was required to be filed with the SEC.  The financial statement and information filed within this Form 8-K/A should be read in conjunction with the Original Form 8-K.