Fletcher Flying Service Inc.

Fletcher Flying Service Inc., doing business as Coastal Air Strike, operates as a prime contractor providing single engine air tanker (SEAT), amphibious scooping aircraft, and fireboss aircraft services for federal wildland fire suppression and aerial firefighting operations. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on specific delivery orders while holding two large indefinite-delivery contracts (one set-aside, one full-and-open) that anchor its federal footprint. Headquartered in Immokalee, Florida, Fletcher Flying Service is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation that self-performs all contracted work without subcontractor engagement.

The Department of the Interior dominates Coastal Air Strike's customer base, accounting for 94% of recent awards by count and 100% of combined potential value. The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region alone represents 48 awards with $1.22 billion in combined potential value, driven primarily by two major IDIQs: a $400 million single-award Total Small Business SEAT flight services contract awarded February 8, 2024, extending through April 30, 2029, and a $237.5 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract for Single Engine Scooper (SES) flight services awarded February 25, 2026, extending through April 30, 2031. These two vehicles alone account for the vast majority of Coastal Air Strike's $1.23 billion combined potential value across all 77 prime awards. The National Park Service Southeast Region (13 awards, $1.1 million), Bureau of Indian Affairs Northwest Region (5 awards, $798 thousand), and the Forest Service R1-Northern Region (3 awards, $2.3 million) round out the customer set. Representative delivery orders include a $7.6 million order from BLM Idaho Region for on-call SEAT flight services awarded June 10, 2025, a $9.7 million exclusive-use SEAT order for Mesquite, Nevada awarded May 2, 2024, and a $1.3 million order from the same region awarded June 18, 2026. Work is performed at Immokalee and LaBelle, Florida, with aircraft positioned across multiple regions including Bemidji, Minnesota, Mesquite, Nevada, and support locations across the Everglades.

Activity has remained relatively flat in recent years — three awards in 2026, four in 2025, seven in 2024 — with only one award (valued at $1.3 million) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's two primary IDIQ vehicles carry extended performance periods well beyond the twenty-four-month window, with the $400 million SEAT contract running through April 2029 and the $237.5 million SES contract through April 2031. On the service contract side, SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $16.5 million across FY2022 through FY2024 ($6.7 million in FY2022, $4.6 million in FY2023, $5.2 million in FY2024), with FTE delivery declining from 33.6 in FY2022 to 8.9 in FY2024, reflecting the shift toward IDIQ ceiling-based contracting rather than task-order burn-down under smaller vehicles. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable service contracts ranged from approximately $99.89 per hour at the 10th percentile to $976.40 per hour at the 90th percentile, with a median of $241.24 per hour, pricing pilot, aircraft operations, and support labor across multiple aircraft types and geographic regions. The vendor self-performed 100% of contractor hours on SCI-reportable prime contracts with zero subcontractor engagement, indicating a fully integrated delivery model built around company-owned aircraft and internal pilot staffing.

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