Heloair, Incorporated

Heloair, Incorporated, a Virginia-based small business helicopter service provider, operates as a prime contractor (99% of awards) delivering Type III helicopter flight services—including wildland fire suppression, prescribed burns, search and rescue, aerial reconnaissance, and resource monitoring—to federal land management and emergency response agencies under total small business set-aside and full-and-open vehicles.

Heloair holds four active indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring its federal footprint. The largest is a $49.5 million Department of the Interior On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services contract (total small business set-aside, May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2027) covering the Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Interagency Fire Center across the continental United States. The second is a $40 million U.S. Forest Service Type 3 Helicopter Support Services multiple-award IDIQ (full-and-open, April 12, 2023 through December 31, 2032) authorizing the National Interagency Fire Center to issue task orders nationwide, with delivery orders ranging from $29,312 to $3.31 million. The third is a $4 million single-award Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 exclusive-use Type III helicopter contract (total small business set-aside, December 19, 2025 through December 31, 2030) for McBee, South Carolina operations, under which FWS Region 3 issued a $393,098 delivery order on December 22, 2025 for Type III services with completion scheduled June 15, 2026. The fourth is a now-expired $3.5 million single-award Forest Service helicopter legacy contract (November 23, 2021 through October 11, 2022). Recent representative prime awards include a $1.66 million Army total small business set-aside purchase order (November 1, 2023, through October 31, 2026) for exclusive-use Bell B3 heavy-lift helicopter support and prescribed burning at Fort Stewart, Georgia and Hunter Army Airfield; a $3.31 million National Interagency Fire Center delivery order (May 1, 2025) for Type 3 helicopter services at Custer, South Dakota through December 31, 2029; and a $1.795 million delivery order (February 1, 2025) for Type 3 operations in Huger, South Carolina through December 31, 2032.

Customer concentration aligns tightly with federal wildland fire and resource management. The top five funding sub-offices account for 61% of awards by count and 95% by combined potential value. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads with 37 awards carrying $66.5 million combined potential value, followed by the Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center (10 awards, $62.7 million), the Department of the Interior Office of Policy Management and Budget (2 awards, $44 million in combined potential value anchored by the new FWS Region 3 exclusive-use contract), the Forest Service R8-Southern Region (10 awards, $21.8 million), and the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (7 awards, $8 million).

Activity shows growth through 2023, then contraction. Heloair received 19 awards in 2023, 9 in 2024, and 11 in 2025, with only 1 award (the June 29, 2026 Interior delivery order for $142,065 in Alaska fire suppression) recorded to date in 2026. Eleven awards with combined potential value of $2.5 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore recompete exposure. Combined potential value across all 148 awards (prime and sub) sits at $213.2 million, with $39.3 million obligated (18% of potential value), reflecting the characteristic IDIQ structure where ceiling values far exceed near-term draws.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold declined across the three-year window: $931 thousand in FY2022 (2.3 FTEs), $814 thousand in FY2023 (2.5 FTEs), and $654 thousand in FY2024 (1.1 FTEs). These figures represent a narrow slice of Heloair's federal aviation activity—SCI excludes goods, products, equipment leases, and classified work—and do not reflect the bulk of Heloair's helicopter delivery-order revenue flowing through the three large active IDIQs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI prime contracts ran a median of $193.87/hr, with the 10th percentile at $167.11/hr and the 90th percentile at $249.87/hr. Heloair performed all SCI-reported work in-house; across SCI prime contracts, the sub-hours share was 0%.

The source identifies Heloair as headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, with operations centers and places of performance at Custer, South Dakota; Huger, South Carolina; McBee, South Carolina; and Fort Wainwright, Alaska. The vendor also maintains secondary address data indicating Chesapeake, Virginia as an alternative location. Primary NAICS coding reflects the aviation focus: Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (481211) dominates with 82 awards, followed by Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (481212) with 41 awards and Support Activities for Forestry (115310) with 19 awards. Heloair holds a single subcontract award (1% of portfolio) as a subcontractor to Reliance Test & Technology, LLC on an Atlantic Ranges and Targets Department flight-support services task.