Brackett Aircraft Company, Inc.

Brackett Aircraft Company, Inc., a small for-profit aerospace manufacturer based in Kingman, Arizona, supplies aircraft ground support equipment and specialized aircraft components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, competing on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations across the vast majority of its awards.

Brackett's core capability is manufacturing aircraft maintenance and logistics components—hydraulic hand jacks, aircraft tow bars, wheel sets for transport, aircraft tires and wheels, bearing cones, fork assemblies, handle assemblies, and related fasteners and hardware. The company has built its federal footprint almost entirely through single-award and multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts with Defense Logistics Agency divisions and the Naval Supply Systems Command, issuing firm fixed-price delivery orders and purchase orders against those vehicles. Representative work includes a $249,999.99 indefinite delivery contract with DLA Aviation for hydraulic hand jacks running through September 2027, from which the company has drawn over 100 delivery orders; a series of large total small business set-aside purchase orders for wheel sets and aircraft tow bars from DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment ranging from $54,758 to $176,300; and delivery orders against Naval Supply Systems Command contracts for aircraft components. The company has also executed sub-million-dollar purchase orders across DLA Land and Maritime and other DoD agencies for miscellaneous aircraft parts and pneumatic tubes.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 82% of recent awards, dominated by DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (170 awards, $6.1 million combined potential value) and DLA Aviation (106 awards, $1.1 million). When ranked by dollar value, the Navy's Naval Supply Systems Command enters the top three with $3.7 million across 34 awards, displacing some smaller-dollar DLA activity. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment accounts for 96% of the combined potential value across the entire customer set, making Brackett fundamentally a single-customer vendor. The source lists 37 distinct customer agencies, but the remaining 32 are noise; the company's business is DLA, with Navy as a secondary secondary customer.

Brackett holds one named indefinite delivery contract on the source data—the $249,999.99 DLA Aviation hydraulic jack IDC running to September 2027—but operates across multiple unnamed or partially named parent vehicles. The vendor_award_portfolio block identifies five top parent vehicles by task-order volume, all unnamed indefinite delivery contracts (SPE4A615D0152, SPE4A622D5AAC, N6833508G0007, W58RGZ04D0136, N6833519D0031), aggregating fewer than 30 task orders and suggesting Brackett's primary volume flows through direct purchase-order awards rather than against large standing vehicles. The company holds no GWACs, GSA Schedules, or government-wide acquisition contract positions in the source.

Activity has been flat to declining. Over the past five fiscal years, Brackett averaged 19 awards annually (2022–2026), with a peak of 28 in 2024 and a sharp drop to only 5 in 2026 year-to-date as of March. The combined potential value across all 486 awards is $13 million, with $13.9 million obligated—a 107% ratio indicating the company has invoiced and delivered to that ceiling. Awards cluster in two high-volume product categories: Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (277 awards, NAICS 336413) and Tire Manufacturing except Retreading (41 awards), grounded in the company's actual output—wheels, tires, jacks, tow bars, and fasteners for aircraft maintenance operations.

Brackett competes entirely on a full-and-open basis; only a handful of awards across the portfolio carry small business or service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-aside designations, and the company holds no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other SBA certifications in the source. The company has no subcontract footprint; all 486 awards are prime contracts or single-award IDCs. Since its federal registration in 2002, Brackett has operated as a narrow-gauge supplier of commodity aircraft parts and ground support equipment, holding no diversified vehicle positions, no teaming arrangements visible in the source, and no meaningful presence outside the DLA and Navy customer base. The steep 2026 award decline and the absence of large, multi-year prime contract vehicles other than the aging hydraulic jack IDC suggest Brackett is exposed to recompete risk and lacks pipeline depth.

MANUFACTURER OF GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT SUCH AS GROUND HANDLING WHEELS FOR ALL SKID TYPE HELICOPTERS, TOWING EQUIPMENT FOR HELICOPTERS & FIXED WING AIRCRAFT.