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Lease revenue | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2025
Leases [Abstract] |
Lease revenue | Lease revenue 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, engines and helicopters as of December 31, 2025 were as follows:
| Contracted minimum future lease payments receivable
2026 | $ | 6,599,733 |
2027 | 6,187,029 |
2028 | 5,650,264 |
2029 | 5,124,589 |
2030 | 4,618,120 |
Thereafter | 14,928,566 |
| $ | 43,108,301 |

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