ACE Maker Aviation LLC

ACE Maker Aviation LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in San Rafael, California, operates as a prime contractor providing vintage military aircraft aerial demonstrations and flight training services exclusively to the U.S. Air Force and Navy, competing full-and-open with no set-aside dependency despite SDVOSB eligibility.

The company specializes in T-33 Shooting Star operations and demonstrations. Core capability work includes the Naval Air Warfare Center's recurring T-33 flight-hour contracts supporting the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School's Qualitative Evaluation Program — notably a $623,381 purchase order (April 2024, ultimate completion March 2027) for up to 24 flight demonstration hours, ferry flights, pilot days, and maintainer support, and a prior $105,579 contract (October 2022, completed September 2023) for the same program. ACE Maker also executes Air Force demonstration contracts across multiple commands: a $84,750 delivery order (December 2022) from Air Force Materiel Command for T-33 qualification and evaluation services, and recurring air show performance purchase orders in the $7,000–$16,000 range from Air Combat Command, Air Education and Training Command, and Air Mobility Command for T-33 solo and multi-aircraft aerobatic displays at bases including Seymour Johnson, Kirtland, Davis-Monthan, Luke, and Eielson.

Customer concentration is bifurcated by value and volume. The top five agencies account for 69% of recent awards by count, but the dollar distribution is heavily weighted toward test-support contracts. The Department of Navy Naval Air Warfare Center anchors 9 awards worth $1.4 million (40% of all dollars), while the Air Force's disaggregated commands — Air Materiel Command (8 awards, $1.5 million), Air Combat Command (19 awards, $122 thousand), Air Education and Training Command (16 awards, $111 thousand), and broader Air Force assignments (15 awards, $89 thousand) — collectively dominate volume but deliver lower individual order values. This reflects a mixed customer portfolio: recurring sole-source test-pilot support from Navy and Air Force Materiel Command, combined with competitive full-and-open air show demonstration bookings across distributed Air Force major commands.

ACE Maker holds position under one IDC, Indefinite Delivery Contract FA930218D0010, which carries 6 task orders worth $732 thousand. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of 98 total awards) with no subcontract footprint, indicating vertically integrated operations around owned or operated T-33 aircraft.

Activity has grown modestly — 6 awards in 2022, 8 in 2023, 5 in 2024, and 10 in 2025, with 2 awards captured through April 2026. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is concentrated: one award (the $623 thousand Naval Air Warfare Center T-33 flight-hours contract) completes by March 2027. Over 98 total awards tracked since 2010, the company has accumulated $3.5 million in combined potential value with $2.6 million obligated (74% realization rate), reflecting consistent but modest contract volume and the episodic nature of air show and training-support bookings. Award classification skews toward independent performing arts (42 awards under NAICS 711510) and flight training (16 awards under NAICS 611512), with social-recreational PSC coding dominating (53 awards).