Dec. 23, 2025, © Leeham News: Mammoth Freighters yesterday filed a Motion to Dismiss a trade secret theft lawsuit filed in October by Precision Aircraft Solutions, the parent of two passenger aircraft-to-freighter conversion companies.
Precision’s subsidiaries convert Boeing 757s and Airbus A321s to freighters. Mammoth converts Boeing 777-200LRs and 777-300ERs to freighters. Mammoth is awaiting certification of the -200LRs from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The -300ER trails the -200LRF P2F program.
Mammoth was co-founded by Bill Wagner, an aerospace engineer who performed the engineering for Precision’s 757 P2F program when he was a minority partner in Precision Aircraft Solutions, the subsidiary that launched the effort. Wagner left Precision and, after several years unsuccessfully pursuing other P2F concepts, co-founded Mammoth. His company performed engineering for Mammoth.
Precision Aircraft Solutions alleged in its October lawsuit that Mammoth, via Wagner, improperly took trade secrets developed during the 757 program and elements that migrated to the A321 P2F program operated by a separate subsidiary and applied them to Mammoth’s 777 program.
Motion to Dismiss
In its Motion to Dismiss, Mammoth responded that Precision Aircraft Solutions, the parent company, doesn’t have standing to sue under relevant federal and state laws. The subsidiaries hold the trade secrets, licenses, and other intellectual property at issue. The parent company has no standing unless it can show direct harm, which Mammoth claims doesn’t exist.
Furthermore, Mammoth responds, Precision failed to provide the required specificity for its claims as required in trade secret cases. Precision also claimed that Mammoth improperly induced scores of employees to leave Precision’s 757 and A321 P2F subsidiaries, some of whom used trade secrets while employed by Mammoth.
Mammoth responded that Precision’s engineers were underutilized, and this prompted many to leave the latter’s employ. The company also accused Precision of timing its lawsuit to distrupt Mammoth’s pending orders for more conversions.
Mammoth also responded that Wagner was granted licenses and retained “Wagner Know-How” upon his departure from Precision.
Mammoth’s Motion to Dismiss may be downloaded here: Motion to Dismiss
Mammoth’s Wagner license Declaration is here: Declaration-License
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