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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 2  RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

LEASED AIRCRAFT

 

From 1992 to 2018, we leased an aircraft from AMI Aviation, Inc., of which our former President and Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Sealfon, was a majority shareholder. The lease payments were $0 and $3,876 for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.  Upon the termination of Mr. Sealfon as President and Chief Executive Officer on July 25, 2018, the Company ceased leasing this aircraft.

 

BUILDING LEASE

 

Mr. Pastreich, our former board of director, is a principal in the entity that owns the building leased by us for our corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility at 24 Carpenter Road, Chester, New York 10918.  On February 28, 2019, we completed year twenty of a twenty year lease with monthly lease payments of $11,042.  On November 14, 2017, we executed a lease extension, which calls for six month extensions beginning March 1, 2019 with the option to renew six times at a monthly lease amount of $12,088.  The lease payments were $34,172 for the three months ended March 31, 2019, and $33,126 for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The Company also paid property taxes for the three months ended March 31, 2019 in the amount of $12,427 and $12,712 for the three months ended March 31, 2018.