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Lease revenue | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Lease Revenue [Abstract] |
Lease revenue | 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 for our owned aircraft and engines as of December 31, 2019 were as follows:
| Contracted minimum future lease payments receivable
2020 | $ | 4,106,827 |
2021 | 3,870,189 |
2022 | 3,615,500 |
2023 | 3,348,230 |
2024 | 3,016,714 |
Thereafter | 10,848,862 |
| $ | 28,806,322 |

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