Air Shasta Rotor & Wing, Inc.

Air Shasta Rotor & Wing, Inc., doing business as North Valley Helicopters, is a woman-owned small disadvantaged business (WOSB) operating as a prime contractor delivering helicopter flight operations, aircraft maintenance, and aerial survey services to federal land management and wildfire agencies. Based in Redding, California, the company operates company-owned and internally staffed rotorcraft with no subcontractor footprint, generating $170.8 million in combined potential value across 151 prime awards since 2000, with $14.1 million obligated to date.

The vendor's customer concentration reflects heavy reliance on interior and agricultural wildfire and land-management agencies. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) anchors the portfolio with 107 awards ($56.9 million potential value), accounting for 71% of the award count. The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center holds the largest dollar concentration at $71.3 million across just 4 awards—a structural shift driven by two recent large ceiling vehicles. The Interior Business Center and NIFC together represent approximately 75% of combined potential value. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region contributes 26 awards ($1.8 million) for a secondary volume stream focused on wild horse and burro aerial census operations. The National Park Service Pacific West Region and Bureau of Land Management California Region round out the active set with smaller volumes, collectively covering 95% of awards.

North Valley Helicopters holds six primary parent vehicles. The Type 3 Helicopter Support Services 2023–2032 IDIQ with NIFC carries a $20 million ceiling through December 31, 2032, with 20 task orders totaling $4.8 million potential value; recent orders (FY2025–2026) span $3,750 to $215,605. The On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services 2022–2027 IDIQ with the Department of the Interior holds a $49.5 million ceiling through April 30, 2027, initially designated as total small business set-aside, generating delivery orders for aerial seeding, wildfire support, and wildlife census operations across Nevada and California. The Interior Business Center awarded a new $11 million BPA on May 1, 2025 (effective through April 30, 2030) for on-call Type III helicopter flight services covering animal capture, eradication, tagging, and wild horse and burro programs across the lower 48 states. An Aviation Maintenance Services IDC with NIFC (ceiling $732,835, through June 30, 2027) governs routine and preventive maintenance on SD3-60 Sherpa and Bell 206L-3 LongRanger III helicopters, with steady delivery-order activity across FY2022–2026. A $5.75 million Aviation Maintenance Services IDC with NIFC (total small business set-aside, awarded August 1, 2022) covers maintenance in Redding, California and other regional hubs. A legacy single-award NIFC helicopter contract ($3.5 million, November 2021, now completed) previously supported provision of a Eurocopter EC130 T2+ based in Payson, Arizona for aerial firefighting. The largest parent vehicle by dollar magnitude is a $40 million Interior Office of Policy Management and Budget contract (NAICS 481211, nonscheduled air transportation), though recent delivery orders under the primary vehicles dominate activity flow.

Activity has fluctuated year to year—24 awards in 2022, rising to 34 in 2023, declining to 19 in 2024, rebounding to 26 in 2025, and 22 through September 2026. The vendor is not facing material recompete risk in the next twenty-four months; only 19 awards (combined potential value $1.2 million) reach ultimate completion within that window, representing less than 1% of the portfolio's potential value.

Primary NAICS coverage spans Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (77 awards) and Other Support Activities for Air Transportation (66 awards), reflecting the vendor's core business. PSC coding shows Aircraft Maintenance (66 awards, primary code for preventive and corrective maintenance), followed by Natural Resources Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (40 awards) and Air Passenger Charter (20 awards). The vendor's capability footprint is concrete and narrow: helicopter flight operations for wildfire response, aerial firefighting, wildlife census operations, and aircraft maintenance across company-owned rotorcraft stationed in Redding, California and Minden, Nevada.

Service Contract Inventory data captures a narrow slice of the vendor's federal engagement. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $2.2 million in FY2022 (3.2 FTEs) with no further SCI reporting in FY2024–2025, indicating that most orders fall below the $150,000 threshold or are classified as goods or products rather than federal services. On the orders that do appear in SCI, median government-paid rates ran at $324.52/hr, reflecting internal labor delivery without subcontractor engagement. The vendor operates 100% as prime on both its federal contract portfolio and across SCI records, with zero subcontractor hours reported.

North Valley Helicopters competes predominantly under full-and-open and total small business set-aside designations. Across the prime footprint, the majority of awards carry either no set-aside or total small business set-aside status, consistent with the vendor's WOSB and small disadvantaged business certifications. The company's posture as a pure prime operator—owning and operating its own aircraft fleet and performing all work internally—positions it as a specialized capability provider for federal agencies managing wildland fire, land rehabilitation, and wildlife monitoring missions across the American West. With over 30 years of federal contracting experience noted in multiple award summaries, the vendor has established sustained relationships with NIFC, the Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service.