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Investment in finance leases, net (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2025
Flight Equipment, Net [Abstract] |
Schedule of Components of the Net Investment in Finance and Sales-type Leases | Components of investment in finance leases, net as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 were as follows:
| As of December 31,
| 2025 |  | 2024
Future minimum lease payments to be received, net | $ | 1,376,169 |  |  | $ | 1,189,932 |
Estimated residual values of leased flight equipment | 1,138,541 |  |  | 516,550 |
Less: Unearned income | (694,940) |  |  | (487,729) |
Less: Allowance for credit losses (Note 27) | (12,276) |  |  | (10,168) |
| $ | 1,807,494 |  |  | $ | 1,208,585 |
Schedule of Sales-type Leases, Lease Receivable, Maturity | As of December 31, 2025, the cash flows receivable, including the estimated residual value at lease termination, from sales-type leases were as follows:
| Cash flows receivable
2026 | $ | 551,622 |
2027 | 435,613 |
2028 | 347,056 |
2029 | 212,885 |
2030 | 139,192 |
Thereafter | 828,342 |
Undiscounted cash flows receivable | $ | 2,514,710 |
Less: Unearned income | (694,940) |
Less: Allowance for credit losses (Note 27) | (12,276) |
| $ | 1,807,494 |

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