Alpine Air Alaska, LLC

Alpine Air Alaska, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Girdwood, Alaska, provides on-call helicopter flight services to federal agencies across Alaska's remote terrain as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) and occasionally as a subcontractor on research and logistics programs. The company is structured as a limited liability partnership and is held by parent entity Alpine Acquisition, LLC.

Alpine Air Alaska's federal footprint centers on the Department of Interior's Interior Business Center $16.47 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract for helicopter services across Alaska, awarded March 1, 2022, and set to expire February 28, 2027. This IDIQ anchors the majority of the company's workload—63 task orders across the source data account for $1.5 million in combined potential value—and enables rapid issuance of delivery orders by Interior bureaus and other federal agencies for scientific research, infrastructure maintenance, wildlife surveys, and personnel transport in remote locations including Girdwood, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Valdez, Port Alsworth, and Glennallen. Recent task orders under this vehicle (issued April through July 2026) ranged from $2,850 for Fish and Wildlife Service training operations to $81,573 for Bureau of Indian Affairs allotment reconnaissance, with pricing structured as firm fixed price or fixed price with economic price adjustment. Alpine Air Alaska also holds a $7.5 million National Interagency Fire Center Basic Ordering Agreement for wildfire response and aerial support, which has generated 11 task orders totaling $7.6 million in combined potential value.

Customer concentration is geographically and mission-driven. The top five funding agencies—measured by award count—represent 76 percent of recent awards: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R10-Alaska Region (67 awards, $667 thousand), the USGS Alaska Science Center (66 awards, $981 thousand), NPS Alaska Region (47 awards, $697 thousand), USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants (22 awards, $253 thousand), and BLM Alaska Region (14 awards, $563 thousand). However, dollar concentration is skewed by a single $38.2 million award from DOI Departmental Offices for what appears to be the parent Interior Business Center IDIQ vehicle itself; excluding that outlier, the Interior Business Center's 12 awards carry $19.3 million in combined potential value. The company's revenue footprint is heavily distributed across dozens of small-dollar delivery orders rather than anchored to large single awards, reflecting the on-call helicopter services model.

Alpine Air Alaska competes entirely under total small business set-asides on its prime work. The majority of recent delivery orders (245 awards across the source data) fall under PSC code H216 (Passenger Air Charter), with secondary concentrations in forest fire suppression (11 awards) and general transportation. NAICS coding reflects the same focus: 238 awards under nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation, 40 under nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation. Work performed spans helicopter transport for USGS stream gage maintenance at Wolverine Glacier and Olsen Bay, NPS natural resource surveys and weather station maintenance, BLM stream surveys and mine operations support, Fish and Wildlife Service raptor nest surveys and repeater maintenance, and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service aerial markers work.

Activity has remained relatively flat year over year (20 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 19 in 2024, 19 in 2025, and 12 through mid-2026), generating $6.9 million in obligated dollars against $68.6 million in combined potential value across 284 awards—reflecting the fragmented, task-order-driven nature of helicopter services procurement. Ten awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $398 thousand, representing minimal recompete exposure in the near term. Alpine Air Alaska subcontracts sparingly; recent sub-award work includes helicopter support for Battelle Memorial Institute's Arctic Research Support and Logistics Services (ARSLS) program under awards dated March 2024, March 2025, and April 2026, and helicopter transport support to Chugach Dynamic Solutions LLC for mission-critical communications infrastructure work in October 2025 (subsequently cancelled via modification in February 2026). The company has operated as a federal contractor since at least 1999, establishing itself as the pre-positioned helicopter logistics provider for Interior and Forest Service operations across Alaska's expansive federal lands.