Aero Components, LLC

Aero Components, LLC, a Forest Hill, Texas-based aerospace components manufacturer, supplies military aircraft structural and mechanical parts to the federal government predominantly as a prime contractor through indefinite delivery contracts and purchase orders with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation. The company is a for-profit limited liability company with over 30 years of aerospace manufacturing experience; it competes full-and-open (99% of its recent awards carry no set-aside designation, though several recent IDCs are reserved for total small business).

Aero Components' customer footprint is heavily concentrated in DLA Aviation. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 94% of recent awards, with DLA Aviation dominating at 6,197 awards carrying $393.5 million in combined potential value, followed by the broader Defense Logistics Agency (1,162 awards, $14.2 million), the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center (8 awards, $11.3 million), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (78 awards, $1.3 million), and the Department of the Navy (44 awards). The potential-value ranking mirrors the award-count ranking: DLA Aviation anchors the portfolio, representing 87% of the combined potential value across all awards. Aero Components' capability footprint is concrete and platform-specific. The vendor manufactures structural and mechanical aerospace components for military aircraft maintenance and sustainment, including aircraft skins, structural panels and assembly bonds, brackets (structural, mounting, and multiple), fairings and cover assemblies, aircraft stringers and stiffeners, trailing edges, ribs, wings, formers, spars, doors and fairings, floor assemblies, heat shields, torque tube assemblies for C-5 aircraft, FA-18 bracket assemblies, ductwork, clips, fasteners (washers and adjust-lock washers), bushings, seals, hinges, and fuselage components. Recent representative prime contracts include a $401 thousand aircraft skin purchase order from DLA Aviation (August 2025, no set-aside), a $549.8 thousand aircraft skin delivery order under the same agency (October 2025, no set-aside), a $720 thousand wedge assembly purchase order (August 2025, total small business set-aside), and a $2.0 million indefinite delivery contract for aircraft skins for the B-52 platform (July 2025, total small business set-aside, $1.99 million ceiling). Aero Components also holds several active IDCs with DLA Aviation, including a $6.62 million contract for C-5 torque tube assemblies, a $2.0 million contract for cover assembly fair components, and a $2.0 million contract for aircraft stringers—all supporting baseline production and logistics for legacy military aircraft platforms.

Activity has fluctuated over the past five years (372 awards in 2022, declining to 277 in 2024, then rising to 310 in 2025), with 61 awards recorded in the first quarter of 2026. The vendor faces a recompete cliff of $24.7 million in combined potential value across 232 awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months. Aero Components maintains a subcontractor presence with Bell Textron (Nigerian FMS AH-1Z panel assemblies, July 2025), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (aileron manufacturing, May 2025), The Boeing Company (wing panel assembly, May 2025), and Derco Aerospace, Inc. (aircraft skin and structural panel manufacturing, July–January 2026). The company's prime footprint is characterized by small to mid-sized purchase orders and delivery orders ranging from a few thousand dollars to several hundred thousand dollars, with occasional larger IDC vehicles; the full-and-open posture (absent set-aside designation on most awards) and DLA Aviation concentration indicate a mature, competition-heavy supplier position in the military aircraft spare-parts ecosystem rather than a minority-owned or small-business-focused firm.