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Lease Revenue | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Lease Revenue [Abstract] |
Lease Revenue | 23. Lease revenue Our current operating lease agreements expire up to and over the next 15 years. The contracted minimum future lease payments receivable from lessees for flight equipment on non-cancelable operating leases as of December 31, 2015 were as follows:
| Contracted minimum future lease payments receivable
2016 | $ | 4,272,946
2017 |  | 3,708,698
2018 |  | 3,017,322
2019 |  | 2,395,271
2020 |  | 1,895,549
Thereafter |  | 5,814,243
| $ | 21,104,029

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