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Lease Revenue | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Lease Revenue [Abstract] |
Lease Revenue | 24. 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, 2016 were as follows:
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﻿ | Contracted minimum future lease payments receivable
﻿2017 | $ | 3,985,709
﻿2018 |  | 3,422,297
﻿2019 |  | 2,849,348
﻿2020 |  | 2,319,871
﻿2021 |  | 1,941,373
﻿Thereafter |  | 6,563,776
﻿ | $ | 21,082,374

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