Coastal Air Service Inc.

Coastal Air Service Inc., a Panama City, Florida-based small business, provides aerial herbicide application and invasive plant surveying and treatment services to federal land-management agencies exclusively as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates across NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services), delivering grid surveying, visual species identification, and helicopter-based or boom-spray herbicide treatment targeting invasive plants including Melaleuca, Lygodium, and other woody vegetation in federal preserves and wildlife refuges.

Coastal Air's customer footprint is concentrated in the Southeast, anchored by the Department of the Interior. The National Park Service Southeast Region accounts for five awards and $1.6 million in combined potential value — 89% of the vendor's total federal pipeline. Recent work includes a $447.5 thousand firm-fixed-price contract (awarded September 6, 2024, completing November 30, 2025) for aerial invasive plant treatment in the Sandy Wildfire area of Big Cypress National Preserve; a $279 thousand contract (awarded September 6, 2024, completing November 30, 2025) for grid surveying and aerial treatment in the Cypress Camp Wildfire area of the same preserve; a $165 thousand purchase order (awarded August 19, 2024, completing September 19, 2025) for 2024 invasive plant management aerial services at Big Cypress; and a $428.6 thousand purchase order (awarded September 23, 2026, completing September 1, 2027) for broadcast herbicide treatment of Melaleuca at Sandy Loop Bar, also within Big Cypress. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 accounts for one award ($40.2 thousand for aerial herbicide treatment at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, completed December 31, 2025). Secondary customer exposure includes the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center ($69 thousand across two awards) and the Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command ($123 thousand across two awards).

The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no sub-award footprint. Activity is intermittent — one award in 2018, one in 2021, three in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — with combined potential value of $1.8 million across thirteen total awards since 2006. One award ($429 thousand) reaches ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and faces recompete. All work is conducted under total small business set-asides on purchase orders and definitive contracts, with performance concentrated at Ochopee, Florida, and project footprints spanning multiple thousands of acres within Florida's Big Cypress and Everglades ecosystem.

Helicopter air charter services, Helicopter Aerial Application of chemicals and pesticides, Helicopter external load / air crane services