Summary of ESTERLINE TECHNOLOGIES CORP

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Effective June 4, 2009, Esterline Technologies Corporation ("Esterline") appointed R. Bradley ("Brad") Lawrence to the new position of President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Robert W. Cremin, who is relinquishing his role as President, will continue as Chairman and CEO. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Lawrence, 62, served as Group Vice President for Esterline beginning in January 2007, in which capacity he has had operating oversight responsibility for approximately half of Esterline's businesses. Mr. Lawrence joined Esterline in November 2002 as President of its Coeur d' Alene, Idaho-based Advanced Input Systems subsidiary. During that time, he also held general management responsibility for Esterline's Interface Technology Group, encompassing five operating locations that primarily serve the medical equipment industry's need for sophisticated interface and control systems.

Mr. Lawrence has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University and an Executive MBA from the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

In connection with the new appointment, effective June 4, 2009, Esterline increased Mr. Lawrence's annual base salary rate to $400,000.00. He also received an option grant for 20,000 shares of Esterline common stock with an exercise price of $29.86 per share under Esterline's 2004 Equity Incentive Plan. Mr. Lawrence will continue to participate in Esterline's Annual Incentive Compensation Plan for fiscal year 2009 at a target award amount of 35% of base salary and in Esterline's Long-Term Incentive Plan at target award amounts ranging from 26% to 35% of base salary as established earlier for the current three open plan cycles. The other components of Mr. Lawrence's compensation will also continue without change; as such, he will continue to be eligible to participate in Esterline's standard retirement, health care, car allowance, and other benefit plans and in the Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan and the Supplemental Executive Retirement and Deferred Compensation Plan. As before, he remains party to a change in control agreement with Esterline in the same form as that provided to other executive officers. Mr. Lawrence, like all other executive officers of Esterline, will serve at the pleasure of the board of directors.

A copy of the Company's press release announcing Mr. Lawrence's appointment is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

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