Ashe Aircraft Enterprises LTD.

Ashe Aircraft Enterprises LTD., doing business as Rocky Mountain Aircraft, is a woman-owned aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul company based in Calgary, Alberta, competing as a prime contractor on federal aircraft maintenance and corrosion inspection work with no set-aside designation. The company operates from an FAA-approved facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and has held federal contractor status since 2004.

Rocky Mountain Aircraft's federal footprint is narrowly concentrated on a single customer. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 36 awards (78% of the total award count) worth $29.9 million in combined potential value — effectively the entire operating portfolio. The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Station round out customer exposure with two and three awards respectively, totaling $424 thousand. This concentration reflects Rocky Mountain Aircraft's specialization: the company holds a $6,952,622.07 single-award indefinite delivery contract with NOAA running through September 2027 for comprehensive corrosion inspection, maintenance, repair, and overhaul services on NOAA's fleet of DeHavilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter aircraft. Under that IDV, NOAA has issued fourteen delivery orders (combined potential value $7.1 million), representing the largest vehicle footprint. Two subordinate indefinite delivery contracts with NOAA carry nine and three task orders respectively, with combined values of $3.1 million and $1.5 million.

Capability work centers on aircraft maintenance and inspection: 30-month and 60-month corrosion inspections per manufacturer specifications, avionics system upgrades, primary flight-control replacement, oxygen-system overhaul, and comprehensive maintenance cycles supporting NOAA's atmospheric research and weather forecasting missions. Representative recent work includes a $583.8 thousand delivery order awarded September 2025 for Twin Otter aircraft maintenance, a $313.5 thousand order in May 2025 for a 30-month inspection and audio system upgrade on aircraft N57RF, and a $651.7 thousand order in October 2023 for 60-month maintenance services. Office of Naval Research awards include a $355.2 thousand five-year corrosion inspection program and maintenance contract for a Naval Research Laboratory Twin Otter, awarded April 2022.

Activity has remained low and flat over the past five years — four awards in 2022, two each in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 — reflecting order placement under existing IDVs rather than new prime vehicle wins. Only one award (combined potential value $112 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting immediate recompete exposure. The vendor operates 100% as a prime contractor with no subcontractor footprint; across Service Contract Inventory records from FY2022–FY2023, Rocky Mountain Aircraft reported $1.2 million in invoiced federal service revenue with 1.6–1.7 FTEs at government-paid rates averaging $179.52 per hour (median), with the 10th percentile at $164.22/hr and the 90th percentile at $194.82/hr. SCI figures cover only service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and represent a strict subset of the vendor's federal revenue, which includes goods, lower-value contracts, and non-federal work not captured in that dataset. Combined potential value across all 46 awards stands at $31.5 million, with $17 million obligated (54% of ceiling).