Top 100 Contractors in NAICS 481: Air Transportation, Jul 2025–Jun 2026
Parent companies by net contract obligations Jul 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2026 Code page on GovTribe
The top 10 won 66% of NAICS 481 contract dollars from July 2025 through June 2026
Ranking facts
- Contract obligations
- $7,571,089,702 Net of deobligations, by contracts coded NAICS 481 or a code under it
- Contractors
- 333 Parent companies with an obligation
- Largest contractor
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp. $2.26 billion, 27.8% of obligations
- Data as of
Contract actions from FPDS (SAM.gov). How the rankings work · Download all 100 rows as CSV
Full ranking
| Rank | Contractor | Net obligations | Share | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $2,255,189,517 | |||
| 2 |
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc.
|
$655,568,850 | ||
| 3 | $626,762,276 | |||
| 4 |
Air Transport Services Group Inc.
|
$523,805,593 | ||
| 5 | $305,906,033 | |||
| 6 | $286,600,170 | |||
| 7 | $233,752,917 | |||
| 8 | $160,403,496 | |||
| 9 | $144,606,410 | |||
| 10 | $130,107,231 | |||
| 11 | $114,553,319 | |||
| 12 |
Aero-Flite, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$106,300,263 | ||
| 13 | $101,566,335 | |||
| 14 |
Bridger Air Tanker LLC
Top agencies
|
$91,537,980 | ||
| 15 | $82,657,640 | |||
| 16 | $82,189,675 | |||
| 17 |
Astrobotic Technology Inc
Top agencies
|
$62,573,511 | ||
| 18 | $55,562,472 | |||
| 19 | $55,536,938 | |||
| 20 |
Aero Air, LLC
Top agencies
|
$52,621,643 | ||
| 21 | $51,180,310 | |||
| 22 |
Starfish Space Inc.
Top agencies
|
$48,500,000 | ||
| 23 | $48,446,062 | |||
| 24 | $46,332,876 | |||
| 25 |
Siller Helicopters, LLC
Top agencies
|
$40,679,626 | ||
| 26 | $39,893,902 | |||
| 27 | $34,668,374 | |||
| 28 |
Rotak LLC
Top agencies
|
$33,146,457 | ||
| 29 |
10 Tanker Air Carrier LLC
Top agencies
|
$31,916,928 | ||
| 30 | $27,797,367 | |||
| 31 | $27,528,217 | |||
| 32 |
Rivet Operations Company LLC
Top agencies
|
$27,505,086 | ||
| 33 | $26,328,667 | |||
| 34 | $26,172,907 | |||
| 35 |
Bristow Group Inc.
|
$26,104,027 | ||
| 36 | $23,848,674 | |||
| 37 | $22,299,993 | |||
| 38 | $21,304,255 | |||
| 39 | $20,314,535 | |||
| 40 |
Croman Corp
Top agencies
|
$20,080,422 | ||
| 41 |
Textron Inc.
Top agencies
|
$19,996,898 | ||
| 42 | $19,578,924 | |||
| 43 | $18,891,470 | |||
| 44 | $18,579,470 | |||
| 45 |
Alaska Air Group Inc
|
$17,845,491 | ||
| 46 |
Rampart Aviation, Llc.
Top agencies
|
$17,345,280 | ||
| 47 | $16,320,006 | |||
| 48 | $15,911,030 | |||
| 49 | $15,891,838 | |||
| 50 | $14,574,511 | |||
| 51 |
Helimax Aviation LLC
Top agencies
|
$14,556,089 | ||
| 52 |
Hillsboro Aviation Inc.
|
$14,256,665 | ||
| 53 | $13,903,078 | |||
| 54 | $13,532,465 | |||
| 55 | $12,863,511 | |||
| 56 | $12,436,977 | |||
| 57 | $12,433,260 | |||
| 58 | $12,258,296 | |||
| 59 |
Bluesky Helicopters Inc.
Top agencies
|
$12,104,943 | ||
| 60 | $11,877,383 | |||
| 61 | $11,392,226 | |||
| 62 |
Bode Aviation, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$11,006,114 | ||
| 63 |
Swift Air L.L.C.
Top agencies
|
$10,952,333 | ||
| 64 | $10,854,060 | |||
| 65 | $10,615,887 | |||
| 66 | $9,904,204 | |||
| 67 | $9,845,128 | |||
| 68 | $9,584,119 | |||
| 69 | $9,284,112 | |||
| 70 | $9,173,923 | |||
| 71 |
United Airlines Holdings Inc.
|
$9,144,068 | ||
| 72 |
C.c. Calzone, LLC
Top agencies
|
$8,960,891 | ||
| 73 |
Addx Corporation
Top agencies
|
$8,922,539 | ||
| 74 |
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Top agencies
|
$8,802,024 | ||
| 75 | $8,710,575 | |||
| 76 | $8,473,605 | |||
| 77 |
Ponderosa Aviation Inc.
Top agencies
|
$8,226,888 | ||
| 78 |
Allegiant Travel Company
Top agencies
|
$8,225,736 | ||
| 79 |
Central Copters, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$7,986,646 | ||
| 80 | $7,929,350 | |||
| 81 | $7,774,935 | |||
| 82 | $7,637,316 | |||
| 83 | $7,540,853 | |||
| 84 | $7,393,993 | |||
| 85 |
Concur Technologies Inc.
|
$7,381,063 | ||
| 86 |
Reeder Flying Service Inc.
|
$7,275,523 | ||
| 87 | $6,995,228 | |||
| 88 | $6,988,674 | |||
| 89 |
Idaho Helicopters Inc.
Top agencies
|
$6,963,731 | ||
| 90 |
Papillon Airways Inc
|
$6,948,889 | ||
| 91 |
Siertek Ltd.
Top agencies
|
$6,814,094 | ||
| 92 | $6,174,298 | |||
| 93 | $6,024,537 | |||
| 94 |
Air Greenland A / S
Top agencies
|
$5,999,216 | ||
| 95 | $5,935,780 | |||
| 96 | $5,902,834 | |||
| 97 |
Phoenix Aviation Limited
Top agencies
|
$5,874,559 | ||
| 98 | $5,783,400 | |||
| 99 |
Drodex Inc.
Top agencies
|
$5,752,867 | ||
| 100 |
Gold Aero Inc.
Top agencies
|
$5,736,136 |
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Rankings for the codes under NAICS 481
| Code | Net obligations | Largest contractor |
|---|---|---|
| 4812 Nonscheduled Air Transportation | $7,448,811,244 | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| 4811 Scheduled Air Transportation | $122,278,458 | Air Transport Services Group Inc. |
How this ranking works
- Source: every contract action FPDS records (as published on SAM.gov) in the period, as GovTribe received it.
- Amounts are net obligations: what was obligated, less what was deobligated. Shares are of $8.11 billion obligated before deobligations, so they never pass 100%.
- Parent companies: each action counts under the ultimate parent its award record names, or under the awardee when it names none, so no dollar counts twice. Parents of the same name (Inc., LLC and the like aside) count as one company, since FPDS records a company's parent under more than one UEI over time. GovTribe corrects a few parents and names by hand; see the corrections.
- Period: the trailing 12 months end with the last month that ended at least 90 days ago, because the Department of Defense reports its contract actions to FPDS about 90 days late. The list is rebuilt each night.
- Rank changes compare with Jul 2024–Jun 2025. "New" marks a company outside that period's top 500, and "Returned" one of those that was on an earlier fiscal year's list.
- Rank lines show each company's rank on every fiscal year's list since FY2021, #1 at the top, on a scale that gives the top of the list more room. A dashed stretch spans years it wasn't on the list.
- Placeholder recipients FPDS uses when it names no company ("Miscellaneous Foreign Contractors" and the like) aren't ranked.
Quick answers
Who were the top 10 NAICS 481 contractors in Jul 2025–Jun 2026?
1. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. ($2.26B), 2. Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. ($656M), 3. Salus Worldwide Solutions Corp. ($627M), 4. Air Transport Services Group Inc. ($524M), 5. Blue Origin, LLC ($306M), 6. United Launch Alliance, L.L.C. ($287M), 7. Kalitta Air LLC ($234M), 8. Daedalus Aviation Corporation ($160M), 9. Firefly Aerospace Inc. ($145M), 10. National Air Cargo Group, Inc. ($130M).
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