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Lease revenue (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Lease Revenue [Abstract] |
Schedule of contracted minimum future lease payments receivable from lessees for equipment on non-cancelable operating leases | Our current operating lease agreements expire up to and over the next 14 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, 2020 were as follows:
| Contracted minimum future lease payments receivable
2021 | $ | 3,773,352 |
2022 | 3,551,721 |
2023 | 3,363,258 |
2024 | 3,070,849 |
2025 | 2,743,947 |
Thereafter | 9,441,322 |
| $ | 25,944,449 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of maturity of undiscounted cash flows to be received by lessor on annual basis for operating lease. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 842 -SubTopic 30 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=121576215&loc=SL77919396-209981 + Details
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