Air Instro, Inc.

Air Instro, Inc., doing business as Air Instro Inc., supplies specialized aviation components and aircraft instrument repair services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor operating from Moorpark, California. The vendor competes in both full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside procurements, with 100% of recent awards as prime contracts across purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts.

Air Instro is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and FAA-approved aviation instrument repair station. The company delivers turbine inlet and exhaust gas temperature measurement instruments, circuit card assemblies, shaft assemblies, knobs, connectors, relays, pressure switches, bearings, gears, gaskets, rotors, synchronous receivers, position indicators, counter assemblies, and hundreds of other specialized aviation components used across military aircraft platforms. Representative awards include a $173.6 million firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Aviation for spring and shaft assemblies (April 2025), a $147.75 million award for the same component type (June 2025), and a $95.25 million purchase order for position indicators (April 2025). Air Instro also holds a $250 thousand indefinite delivery contract with DLA Land and Maritime for window dial components and a matching $250 thousand small-business set-aside IDC for dirt deflector components, both awarded March 2025 and November 2024 respectively.

Customer concentration is extreme and defense-focused. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation represents 353 awards (53% of the 668-award portfolio) with $4.5 million in combined potential value; DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 159 awards with $1.7 million. Together, DLA aviation and maritime divisions represent 77% of awards and 94% of dollars. The Air Force Sustainment Center (41 awards, $189 thousand) ranks third. The vendor serves 18 distinct federal agencies, but concentration in DLA logistics operations is decisive.

Activity has contracted sharply. Awards per year ran at 57 (2022), 167 (2023), then fell to 108 (2024) and 89 (2025), with only 9 awards logged in 2026 through mid-April. Combined potential value across all 668 awards totals $6.6 million; obligated dollars to date stand at $9 million, suggesting significant overrun on smaller individual purchase orders characteristic of DLA's repetitive component procurement model.

The vendor's procurement footprint skews heavily toward small-dollar, high-frequency purchase orders under DLA's Aviation and Land and Maritime indefinite delivery vehicles (SPE-series IDCs). Top NAICS categories reflect this: search, detection, and navigation system manufacturing (82 awards); aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (79 awards); engine equipment manufacturing (59 awards). PSC codes emphasize engine instruments (128 awards) and flight instruments (107 awards). The vendor holds no parent GWAC, BPA, or agency-wide IDIQ position; work flows through DLA's legacy SPE purchase-order vehicles and two active $250 thousand small-business IDCs renewed annually.

Air Instro is registered in the System for Award Management since 2001 and holds no visible subcontract work. The vendor operates solely as a prime contractor supplying discrete, specialized aviation hardware to DLA, with no disclosed teaming arrangements or sub relationships. Recompete posture is continuous and rolling; the two active small-business IDCs expire March 2025 and November 2025 respectively, requiring renewal to sustain the vendor's revenue base, which depends entirely on order frequency and urgency-driven DLA replenishment cycles.