Empire Aircraft Services Inc.

Empire Aircraft Services Inc., a South Carolina-based for-profit subchapter S corporation, provides aircraft wash rack, corrosion control, and transient alert ground support services exclusively as a prime contractor to the U.S. Air Force across domestic and overseas installations, competing on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations. The vendor operates from Summerville, South Carolina and has maintained continuous federal registration since May 2001, with no documented subcontractor relationships across its 286 prime awards.

Empire's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Air Mobility Command, which anchors 162 awards worth $135.3 million in combined potential value—roughly 74% of the vendor's total portfolio and 56% of its $181.9 million combined potential value across all awards. The second-ranked customer, United States Air Forces in Europe and Africa, holds 42 awards worth $31.6 million, followed by the Air National Guard, the Navy Installations Command, and Air Force Materiel Command with significantly smaller shares. The top three customers by potential value account for 97% of portfolio value.

Empire operates through a portfolio of indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) rather than task-order vehicles under government-wide acquisition contracts. The top five parent vehicles are single-award IDCs: Indefinite Delivery Contract FA448416D0007 (54 task orders, $8.8 million combined potential value), W911S815D0012 (26 task orders, $7.7 million), FA448412D0001 (25 task orders, $6.6 million), FA560621D0001 (18 task orders, $251 thousand), and FA560616D0003 (14 task orders, $235 thousand). These vehicles support aircraft maintenance and ground-operations work at Travis Air Force Base in California, installations in Germany and the United Kingdom, Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakenhurst in New Jersey. Primary NAICS concentration sits in "Other Support Activities for Air Transportation" (262 awards) and "Other Airport Operations" (14 awards), with work characterized as maintenance and repair of aircraft structural components and housekeeping operations.

Recent activity has contracted: Empire delivered seven awards in 2022, six in 2023, five in 2024, three in 2025, and one in the first five months of 2026. This downward trajectory reflects completion of task orders under IDCs rather than new prime awards or vehicle wins. The portfolio carries $132.6 million in obligated dollars (73% of potential value), indicating steady invoicing against committed work.

Representative awards include a $10.3 million definitive contract awarded December 2024 by USAFE-AFAF for day-to-day transient alert services at Ramstein, Spangdahlem, RAF Lakenheath, and RAF Mildenhall through November 2029; a $4.9 million total small-business set-aside definitive contract with Air Mobility Command for corrosion control at Travis AFB through September 2030; a $785 thousand small-business purchase order from Pacific Air Forces for aircraft wash and aerospace ground equipment wash at Andersen AFB in Guam awarded September 2021; and recurring small task orders (typically $2,700 to $37,120 each) for aircraft wash rack operations at Spangdahlem under a $441 thousand IDC running through April 2026. Empire has no pipeline into government-wide vehicles, no documented teaming, and no sub-award presence.

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