Flightsafety International Inc.

Flightsafety International Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, delivers pilot qualification training, recurrent pilot training, maintenance technician instruction, and flight simulation services to federal agencies as a large-business prime contractor competing exclusively in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside utilization. The company operates from Columbus, Ohio, with subordinate training locations in Oklahoma City, Savannah, Melville, Fort Worth, and other cities, and performs training using its own delivery infrastructure without engaging subcontractors on prime contracts.

Flightsafety's federal customer base concentrates heavily in aviation-focused agencies. The top five customers by award count—the Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters, Department of the Air Force, FAA Aeronautical Center, Department of the Navy, and FAA regional offices—account for 51% of recent awards. By dollar value, the concentration is steeper: Air Mobility Command, Naval Air Warfare Center, FAA Franchise Acquisition Services, the FAA Aeronautical Center, and Air Education and Training Command represent 46% of combined potential value, anchored by Air Mobility Command's $284.4 million across 187 awards and Naval Air Warfare Center's $261.5 million across 190 awards. Recent representative work includes a $6.349 million delivery order from Customs and Border Protection for rotary and fixed-wing aircraft pilot training (August 2026 through August 2031), a $4.99 million Air Mobility Command delivery order for Gulfstream pilot and flight engineer training at Joint Base Andrews (October 2025 through October 2026), a $2.017 million Air Mobility Command C-21A pilot training delivery order, a $1.699 million order from Air Forces Europe and Africa for Gulfstream C-37A/B training at Ramstein, and a $1.271 million Coast Guard order for Gulfstream G700 aircraft training.

Flightsafety holds a substantial portfolio of indefinite-delivery vehicles spanning the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Defense components, and civilian agencies. The Air Mobility Command contract for Gulfstream pilot and flight/engineer training carries a $45.2 million ceiling through September 2029, with multiple active task orders supporting training at Joint Base Andrews, Ramstein Air Base, and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam across Air Mobility Command, Air Forces Europe and Africa, and Pacific Air Forces. The Naval Air Warfare Center portfolio includes an $8.025 million C-37B training IDV through December 2030, a $2.289 million C-37A training IDV through October 2029, a $4.064 million C-26D training IDV through December 2032, a $1.614 million training IDV for UC-35 pilot courses, and a $1.579 million UC-12 student pilot and command aircraft crew training IDV. FAA contracts include a $26.7 million crewmember training services IDV through May 2031, a $2.796 million King Air 300 Series maintenance training IDV through November 2030, and a $2.079 million Gulfstream GVIII-G700 pilot qualification IDV through March 2030. Recent additions include a $7.5 million National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration single-award contract for NOAA Aircraft Operations Center pilot training through September 2031, a $33.378 million Customs and Border Protection aircraft pilot training IDIQ through August 2031, a $25.697 million Coast Guard Gulfstream G700 training contract through July 2031, and a $5.5 million NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center flight and maintenance crew training IDV through June 2030.

Activity has grown moderately year over year from 93 awards in 2022 to 127 in 2024, with 133 awards in 2025 and 67 awards in 2026 (year to date). The source data reflects 53 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carrying combined potential value of $113.5 million facing recompete. The vendor holds 99% prime awards and 1% sub awards, operating as an established prime contractor across federal aviation training programs rather than as a feeder to larger primes. On the rare sub-award side, Flightsafety subcontracts to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on battlefield airborne communications node platform maintenance and pilot training work, and to AAR Government Services on worldwide aviation support services and operations and maintenance aviation training.

Across the flight training category (NAICS 611512), Flightsafety dominates the federal portfolio, holding 2,153 awards with flight training as the primary classification. The company's capability framing centers on concrete delivery across fixed-wing platforms (Gulfstream variants G-IV, G-V, G500, G550, G600, G700, G800; Cessna Citation; Beechcraft King Air; Bombardier Challenger; Dassault Falcon; Embraer; Boeing commercial variants) and rotary-wing platforms (Sikorsky S-70/UH-60 Black Hawk, AgustaWestland AW-139, Bell 407/429/505), with training modes spanning initial pilot qualification, recurrent pilot instruction, maintenance technician certification, flight engineer training, emergency evacuation procedures, and aircraft systems familiarization delivered through FAA-certified simulator instruction, classroom academics, and e-learning. SCI-reported invoicing of $14.5 million across FY2022–FY2025 reflects federal services contracts above the $150,000 threshold; FY2022 invoicing was $5.3 million, declining to $520 thousand in FY2025 as contracts moved through their cycles. The SCI dataset shows roughly 41.3 FTEs delivered to federal government customers in FY2022, declining to 0.7 FTEs in FY2025 as a function of contract performance timing and funding. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $475/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $613/hr and entry-level training rates near $425/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor performed zero percent of hours through subcontractors, reflecting the company's stated policy of delivering training using its own infrastructure without sub-engagement on prime work.

Flightsafety is part of the Berkshire Hathaway corporate structure alongside named subsidiaries including Frasca International, Flightsafety Textron Aviation Training LLC, and Flightsafety Defense Corporation. The vendor competes full-and-open across all customer agencies with no reliance on set-aside categories, positioning it as an established large-business provider of specialized federal aviation training serving Department of Defense mobility, training, and naval aviation commands, the FAA, civilian federal agencies, and homeland security operators through dedicated indefinite-delivery vehicles and recurrent task orders anchored in decades of experience delivering mission-critical pilot qualification and aircraft systems instruction across diverse federal aviation platforms.