AAR Aircraft Services, Inc.

AAR Aircraft Services, Inc., a subsidiary of AAR Corp. and the largest maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility in North America, is a prime contractor supplying aviation turbine fuel (NATO F-34/JP-8 specification) to the Department of Defense through a single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Defense Logistics Agency Energy. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurement without set-aside designation and operates with no subcontract footprint—100% of the award portfolio consists of prime contracts.

The vendor's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in a single customer and commodity: Defense Logistics Agency Energy accounts for 27,701 awards valued at $185.2 million combined potential value, representing 99.7% of recent award activity. Within this DLA Energy relationship, AAR Aircraft Services holds a $63.1 million single-award IDV (contract SPE60719D0061, effective July 1, 2023, through March 31, 2027) authorizing delivery of approximately 192.7 million gallons of aviation turbine fuel across nine states—Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas—to support Department of Defense military aircraft operations. The contract employs fixed-price pricing with economic price adjustment mechanisms. The vendor has issued thousands of delivery orders under this vehicle ranging from under one hundred dollars to over twenty million dollars individually, with place of performance in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The remaining portion of the portfolio is marginal by comparison: the Department of Justice US Marshals Service carries 32 awards worth $122.5 million combined potential value (primarily three large prisoner and alien transportation contracts), the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration holds four awards worth $47.3 million, and the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration, Department of the Army, and Department of the Air Force together account for fewer than fifteen awards. This concentration creates significant recompete exposure: the primary DLA Energy IDV contract ceiling and all dependent task orders complete on March 31, 2027, representing the majority of the vendor's federal revenue stream.

Activity declined materially from 2024 (4,146 awards) through the first quarter of 2026 (991 awards year-to-date), reflecting task order cadence fluctuations typical of bulk fuel procurement rather than a loss of contract standing. The vendor operates from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with landing gear and component repair facilities in Miami, Florida and Garden City, New York. AAR Aircraft Services also received a $500 thousand cooperative agreement (award date March 4, 2024, completion March 4, 2026) from an unnamed eastern region federal agency to expand apprenticeship programming for aviation maintenance technicians across six company MRO and repair facilities, targeting 100 additional apprentices through female cohort hiring, military-to-civilian transition support, and high school enrollment expansion. The corporate parent, AAR Corp., is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Wood Dale, Illinois, with federal contracting authority.