Gold Aero Inc.

Gold Aero Inc., a small business based in Arlington, Washington, operates as a prime contractor providing light fixed-wing aircraft services for wildland fire management, aerial reconnaissance, and federal aviation support to the Department of Agriculture, Department of the Interior, and related agencies. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on its Indefinite Delivery Contracts, though individual task orders under those IDCs are issued without separate set-aside designations. Gold Aero Inc. is a for-profit entity with no subcontract footprint in the source data (100% prime awards across 106 recent federal awards).

Gold Aero Inc.'s service portfolio centers on light fixed-wing aircraft operations. Concrete capabilities include air attack supervision, incident transport, aerial reconnaissance, remote camera operation, and fire mapping flights to support federal land management agencies' wildland fire suppression and emergency response. The company operates multiple aircraft under Federal Aviation Administration Part 121 and Part 135 certifications and maintains a fleet positioned at Arlington, Washington and other operational bases. Representative prime work includes a $12,945,920 ceiling delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center (awarded April 30, 2026) for exclusive-use Air Tactical Group Supervisor services in Missoula through December 2030, a $134,221,750 multiple-award IDIQ from the National Interagency Fire Center (awarded January 1, 2024) for National Light Fixed Wing Services through 2033, and a $22,000,000 multiple-award IDIQ from the Department of Interior Idaho Region (awarded May 1, 2023) for on-call air attack flight services through April 2028.

Customer concentration is extreme and concentrated in federal land management. The top five customer entities account for 75% of recent awards by count, led overwhelmingly by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center with 42 awards and $182.6 million in combined potential value — approximately 68% of Gold Aero Inc.'s total federal footprint. The Department of Interior sub-entities (Idaho Region, Interior Business Center, Bureau of Indian Affairs) collectively hold $84 million in potential value across 20 awards, with the remaining customer concentration minimal. The two rankings track closely, indicating that the National Interagency Fire Center dominates both volume and dollars.

Gold Aero Inc. holds five named parent vehicles: the National Interagency Fire Center's National Light Fixed Wing Services IDIQ (28 task orders, $19.6 million combined potential value), the Bureau of Indian Affairs Mid-West Region on-call air attack IDIQ ($19 million ceiling, single award), the Idaho Region on-call air attack flight services IDIQ ($22 million ceiling), the USDA Forest Service single-award IDIQ for 2022 National Air Attack Light Fixed Wing services ($10.164 million), and the Interior Business Center fixed-wing on-call flight services IDIQ (awarded April 1, 2026, $18.6 million ceiling through March 31, 2031). Task orders under the primary National Interagency Fire Center vehicle have been placed consistently; 28 delivery orders valued between $8,859.96 and $597,839.08 were issued between December 2024 and September 2025, all fixed-price with economic price adjustment and completing by December 31, 2026.

Award activity has grown from 8 awards in 2022 to a peak of 16 in 2025, with 106 total awards carrying $266.8 million in combined potential value and $23.4 million obligated to date (9% burn rate). However, thirty awards carrying $17.4 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore represent recompete exposure. The company's category concentration aligns tightly with its service offering: 77 awards carry NAICS 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation), 14 carry NAICS 488410 (Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation), and 34 awards appear under PSC code Z — Natural Resources/Conservation, Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. Gold Aero Inc.'s federal footprint is exclusively dedicated to light-aircraft fire management and federal aviation support, with no diversification into other civilian or defense IT, logistics, or professional-services work. The vendor's business is operationally rooted in the wildland fire management mission and dependent on sustained recompete of the National Interagency Fire Center IDIQ and related Interior Bureau vehicles.