Ashe Aircraft Enterprises LTD.

Ashe Aircraft Enterprises LTD., doing business as Rocky Mountain Aircraft, is a woman-owned aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) company based in Calgary, Alberta, that provides corrosion inspection, maintenance, and component upgrade services for federal research aircraft as a prime contractor on full-and-open (non-set-aside) delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts. Rocky Mountain Aircraft operates an FAA-approved facility in Ottawa, Ontario, and has held federal contractor registration since 2004.

Rocky Mountain Aircraft's federal footprint is heavily concentrated with a single customer. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 37 of 47 prime awards (89% of recent award count) and $31.1 million of the $32.7 million combined potential value across all awards — the result of a $6.95 million single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded by NOAA in September 2022 through September 2027 for corrosion inspection and maintenance services on the agency's fleet of DeHavilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter aircraft. Secondary customers are the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research (2 awards, $383 thousand) and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (3 awards, $41 thousand). The concentration is acute: NOAA orders represent 96% of combined potential value.

Under the NOAA IDC, Rocky Mountain Aircraft operates three active sub-IDVs (DOCWC133M15CQ0061 with 14 task orders generating $7.1 million, 1305M222DNMAN0017 with 10 task orders and $4.2 million, and DOCWC133M11CQ0069 with 3 task orders and $1.5 million). Representative NOAA delivery orders include a $1.14 million firm fixed-price order awarded September 20, 2026 (the most recent award in the source) for Twin Otter corrosion and maintenance services with completion by February 20, 2027; a $583.8 thousand order from September 2025 for maintenance services across NOAA's Twin Otter fleet; and a $651.7 thousand order from October 2023 for 60-month inspections and corrosion assessments. Work encompasses 30-month and 60-month corrosion inspections per manufacturer specifications, avionics upgrades, primary flight-control replacement, oxygen-system overhaul, and comprehensive maintenance cycles supporting NOAA's atmospheric research and weather forecasting missions. The Navy work includes a $355.2 thousand purchase order from April 2022 for a 5-year corrosion inspection program on a Naval Research Laboratory Twin Otter.

Activity has remained flat at 2–3 awards per year in 2023–2026 after higher velocity in 2022 (4 awards). The recompete exposure is minimal: only two awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.3 million. Service Contract Inventory data shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $653 thousand in FY2022 and $553 thousand in FY2023 across roughly 1.6–1.7 FTEs per year; SCI reporting drops to zero FTEs in FY2024–FY2025, indicating either work performed under firm fixed-price delivery orders (which do not map to SCI labor hours) or a shift in work volume away from SCI-reportable contract types. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ran a median of $179.52/hr, with 10th percentile at $164.22/hr and 90th percentile at $194.82/hr. Rocky Mountain Aircraft performs all work as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) and engages no named subcontractors; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, zero percent of hours were performed by subs. The vendor competes entirely in open, full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations across the entire footprint.