Top 100 Contractors in NAICS 48121: Nonscheduled Air Transportation, FY2021
Parent companies by net contract obligations Oct 1, 2020 – Sep 30, 2021 Code page on GovTribe
The top 10 won 69% of FY2021 NAICS 48121 contract dollars
Ranking facts
- Contract obligations
- $3,899,698,909 Net of deobligations, by contracts coded NAICS 48121 or a code under it
- Contractors
- 325 Parent companies with an obligation
- Largest contractor
- United Launch Alliance, L.L.C. $633 million, 15.1% 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 | $632,893,090 | |||
| 2 |
Patriot Team
Top agencies
|
$582,436,106 | ||
| 3 |
Fedex Corp
Top agencies
|
$546,047,882 | ||
| 4 | $518,817,372 | |||
| 5 | $127,595,283 | |||
| 6 | $112,167,408 | |||
| 7 | $105,307,635 | |||
| 8 | $95,051,201 | |||
| 9 | $80,058,672 | |||
| 10 | $73,944,089 | |||
| 11 | $64,833,250 | |||
| 12 | $58,719,251 | |||
| 13 |
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$50,623,185 | ||
| 14 |
Aero-Flite, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$42,813,088 | ||
| 15 | $40,531,415 | |||
| 16 | $37,584,301 | |||
| 17 | $35,097,432 | |||
| 18 | $35,011,998 | |||
| 19 | $31,908,056 | |||
| 20 |
ERA Helicopters LLC
|
$31,841,197 | ||
| 21 | $28,448,505 | |||
| 22 | $23,723,119 | |||
| 23 | $23,664,772 | |||
| 24 |
Southwest Airlines Co.
Top agencies
|
$21,740,857 | ||
| 25 |
Bridger Air Tanker LLC
Top agencies
|
$21,306,840 | ||
| 26 | $20,289,606 | |||
| 27 |
Aero Air, LLC
Top agencies
|
$16,132,159 | ||
| 28 |
United Continental Holdings Inc.
|
$15,804,539 | ||
| 29 | $14,721,746 | |||
| 30 | $14,125,453 | |||
| 31 | $12,934,256 | |||
| 32 |
Erickson Helicopters, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$12,738,583 | ||
| 33 |
Tactical Air Support, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$11,344,976 | ||
| 34 | $11,211,000 | |||
| 35 | $10,920,124 | |||
| 36 | $10,867,912 | |||
| 37 |
Allegiant Travel Company
Top agencies
|
$10,734,702 | ||
| 38 |
General Atomic Technologies Corporation
Top agencies
|
$10,676,592 | ||
| 39 | $10,443,732 | |||
| 40 |
Vertex Aerospace LLC
Top agencies
|
$9,957,026 | ||
| 41 | $9,950,804 | |||
| 42 | $9,896,601 | |||
| 43 | $9,852,380 | |||
| 44 |
Eastern Airlines LLC
Top agencies
|
$8,460,807 | ||
| 45 | $8,295,526 | |||
| 46 |
The GEO Group, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$7,879,480 | ||
| 47 | $7,262,658 | |||
| 48 | $6,836,789 | |||
| 49 | $6,741,720 | |||
| 50 |
Helistar SAS
Top agencies
|
$6,433,489 | ||
| 51 |
Air Greenland A/S
Top agencies
|
$6,264,163 | ||
| 52 | $6,058,622 | |||
| 53 | $5,982,425 | |||
| 54 | $5,939,007 | |||
| 55 |
Space Systems/Loral LLC
Top agencies
|
$5,885,887 | ||
| 56 |
Air Transport Services Group Inc.
Top agencies
|
$5,584,650 | ||
| 57 | $5,313,966 | |||
| 58 | $5,074,828 | |||
| 59 | $5,065,621 | |||
| 60 | $4,730,850 | |||
| 61 | $4,621,218 | |||
| 62 | $4,580,002 | |||
| 63 |
Northern Vietnam Helicopter Co. Ltd.
|
$4,305,537 | ||
| 64 |
Papillon Airways, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$4,287,334 | ||
| 65 | $4,273,630 | |||
| 66 |
Aero Spray Inc.
Top agencies
|
$4,082,453 | ||
| 67 |
Kenn Borek Air Ltd
Top agencies
|
$3,781,740 | ||
| 68 | $3,516,995 | |||
| 69 | $3,464,996 | |||
| 70 |
UEI YJL4YS8YMWV7
Top agencies
|
$3,413,945 | ||
| 71 | $3,329,147 | |||
| 72 | $3,289,250 | |||
| 73 |
Hawaiian Holdings Inc
Top agencies
|
$3,254,500 | ||
| 74 | $3,191,991 | |||
| 75 | $3,098,830 | |||
| 76 | $2,944,976 | |||
| 77 | $2,926,063 | |||
| 78 |
Pathfinder Aviation LLC
|
$2,853,295 | ||
| 79 |
Swift Air L.L.C.
Top agencies
|
$2,806,170 | ||
| 80 | $2,764,836 | |||
| 81 | $2,764,090 | |||
| 82 | $2,684,067 | |||
| 83 |
Flightworks Inc.
Top agencies
|
$2,676,181 | ||
| 84 |
Eagle Helicopters, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$2,640,350 | ||
| 85 |
Government of Canada
Top agencies
|
$2,448,938 | ||
| 86 | $2,355,000 | |||
| 87 | $2,270,414 | |||
| 88 | $2,258,213 | |||
| 89 | $2,249,791 | |||
| 90 | $2,242,433 | |||
| 91 | $2,159,859 | |||
| 92 |
Oscar Deuce LLC
Top agencies
|
$2,070,847 | ||
| 93 | $2,026,285 | |||
| 94 | $2,017,742 | |||
| 95 | $1,710,193 | |||
| 96 | $1,696,981 | |||
| 97 |
The Bionetics Corp
Top agencies
|
$1,530,059 | ||
| 98 |
Aevum Inc.
Top agencies
|
$1,518,581 | ||
| 99 |
V2X, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$1,438,188 | ||
| 100 |
Swanson Group Inc.
Top agencies
|
$1,404,018 |
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Rankings for the codes under NAICS 48121
| Code | Net obligations | Largest contractor |
|---|---|---|
| 481211 Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation | $2,010,947,687 | Patriot Team |
| 481212 Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation | $1,694,515,890 | United Launch Alliance, L.L.C. |
| 481219 Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation | $194,235,333 | Classic Air Charter 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 $4.19 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.
- Fiscal year 2021 ran Oct 1, 2020 – Sep 30, 2021. The Department of Defense reports its contract actions to FPDS about 90 days late, so a fiscal year is ranked once they're in, in February, and the list doesn't change after.
- Rank changes compare with FY2020. "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. The step from FY2020 takes the color of the rank change beside it.
- 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 48121 contractors in FY2021?
1. United Launch Alliance, L.L.C. ($633M), 2. Patriot Team ($582M), 3. Fedex Corp ($546M), 4. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. ($519M), 5. National Air Cargo, Inc. ($128M), 6. Phoenix Air Group, Inc. ($112M), 7. Classic Air Charter Inc. ($105M), 8. Astrobotic Technology Inc. ($95.1M), 9. Berry Aviation Inc. ($80.1M), 10. Construction Helicopters, LLC ($73.9M).
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