Cline Air Services, LLC

Cline Air Services, LLC, doing business as Central Valley Helicopters, a small business partnership based in Ellensburg, Washington, provides specialized aerial application services — helicopter-based herbicide spraying, aerial seeding, and vegetation management — to federal land management and conservation agencies as a prime contractor exclusively, operating entirely under small business set-asides or no set-aside designations. The company has maintained SAM.gov registration since October 2001 and holds primary NAICS coding in Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating (27 awards) and Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (9 awards), with PSC concentration in Natural Resources/Conservation aerial seeding and spraying.

Cline Air Services operates across fourteen distinct federal customer agencies, with customer concentration driven by two vastly different value signals. By award count, the top five customers — the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Seattle (10 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (7 awards, $101 thousand), the Department of the Army (5 awards), the National Interagency Fire Center (4 awards, $28.5 million), and the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (4 awards, $1 million) — account for 58% of awards. By potential value, however, the National Interagency Fire Center dominates with $28.5 million across four awards, while the Corps of Engineers places steady smaller task orders. Recent capability examples include a $90.2 million firm fixed-price purchase order with the Fish and Wildlife Service for aerial herbicide application at Willapa National Wildlife Refuge (awarded July 2022, extended through August 2025), a $31.9 thousand delivery order with the Army Corps of Engineers for base-period aerial herbicide and firebreak maintenance at Yakima Training Center (February 2024), and a $17.1 thousand small business set-aside purchase order with the Fish and Wildlife Service for aerial herbicide application at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge (April 2026).

Cline Air Services places task orders under three parent IDICs and two BOAs: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (W912DW19D1034) with the Army Corps of Engineers supporting nine task orders totaling $415 thousand, an IDIC (DAKF5700D0008) supporting five task orders of unspecified combined value, a Basic Ordering Agreement (AG024BB155011) supporting two task orders for $623 thousand, and a BOA (AG024BB125013) supporting one task order for $313 thousand. The company also holds a Basic Ordering Agreement with the National Interagency Fire Center for national call-when-needed helicopter services supporting wildfire suppression. Activity has been light and volatile — three awards in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — with only one award (combined potential value $17 thousand) due for ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in that window. Combined across 52 prime awards spanning more than twenty-five years, Cline Air Services has realized $6.8 million in obligated dollars against $32.7 million in combined potential value (21% execution rate), with 100% of recent work as a prime contractor under small business programs or unrestricted competition.