Army Aviation Heritage Foundation And Flying Museum, Inc.

Army Aviation Heritage Foundation And Flying Museum, Inc., doing business as Army Aviation Heritage Foundation, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Hampton, Georgia that operates vintage military helicopters — principally AH-1F, AH-1, and UH-1H aircraft — to provide flight demonstration, test and evaluation support, and training services to the Department of the Navy and Department of the Air Force as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders, competing without set-aside designation.

The foundation's federal footprint centers on specialized aviation services tied to its operational inventory of historically significant rotorcraft. Recent representative work includes a $115,272 purchase order from the Naval Air Warfare Center (May 2026) for 22 demonstration flight hours in AH-1F aircraft supporting squadrons' qualitative evaluation flight exercise at Patuxent River, Maryland; a $115,806 purchase order (September 2025) from the Naval Air Warfare Center for AH-1F flight hours under the Test Pilot School (TPS) program at Lusby, Maryland; a $149,106 purchase order (March 2025) from the Naval Air Warfare Center for AH-1F ferry flights, flight hours, maintainer days, and travel costs supporting test pilot school and tactical aviation operations at Patuxent River; and a $16,780 purchase order (August 2025) from Air Education and Training Command for Army Aviation Heritage Foundation Air Show Act 2026 support at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. The foundation also delivered a $130,860 fly-over of two UH-1 and one AH-1 helicopters in support of a Washington, D.C. parade (June 2025).

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for 12 awards and $1.3 million of the foundation's $1.7 million combined potential value across all 33 awards (79% of award count, 76% of dollars), with the Department of the Air Force holding six awards worth $104 thousand and Air Education and Training Command holding four awards worth $37 thousand. The foundation operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontract footprint. Activity has grown modestly year over year — one award in 2022 to four in 2025 — with recent completions reaching into 2026. The combined potential value of $1.7 million across three decades of contracting reflects the niche and episodic nature of the work: small firm-fixed-price purchase orders for discrete flight hours, ferry flights, maintenance days, and demonstration support rather than sustained IDIQs or blanket vehicle positions. The foundation does not hold seats on government-wide acquisition contracts or BPAs; all awards are spot purchase orders issued directly by customer agencies.