Henrys Aerial Service Inc.

Henrys Aerial Service Inc., doing business as Henry's Aerial Service, operates as a prime contractor delivering single-engine air tanker and amphibious scooper aircraft services for federal wildland fire suppression and wildfire management, with 100% of recent awards issued directly to the company and no subcontractor engagement. The Greenbrier, Arkansas–based for-profit Subchapter S corporation competes as a small business in full-and-open competition and under total small business set-asides, with customer concentration almost entirely focused on the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region.

Henrys Aerial Service holds two major indefinite-delivery contracts anchoring its federal footprint. The first, a $400 million total small business set-aside single-award IDIQ awarded February 8, 2024, and running through April 30, 2029, covers single-engine air tanker flight services for the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Forest Service, and other federal and state agencies. The second, a $237.5 million full-and-open multiple-award IDIQ awarded February 25, 2026, and running through April 30, 2031, provides single-engine scooper flight services. Delivery orders under these vehicles carry firm-fixed-price structures, with economic price adjustment provisions on selected orders. Recent representative delivery orders include a $13.1 million ceiling order (February 25, 2026, through April 30, 2031) for single-engine scooper services; a $4.09 million ceiling order (August 28, 2025, through April 30, 2026) for on-call scooper and air tanker services; and a $2.08 million ceiling order (July 30, 2026, through April 30, 2027) for on-call single-engine air tanker and amphibious aircraft scooping services.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region accounts for 64 of 82 awards (94% of award count) and $1.32 billion of the $1.35 billion combined potential value across all Henrys Aerial Service awards. The remaining portfolio spreads across other Interior bureau components—Bureau of Indian Affairs regions (Mid-West, Albuquerque, Western) contributing $10.8 million combined potential value—and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R1-Northern Region at $2.8 million. Henrys Aerial Service operates exclusively through the BLM Idaho Region and interior departmental offices, with no active awards from defense, civilian technical, or other civilian mission areas. Work is performed from operational bases in Greenbrier and Brinkley, Arkansas, with aircraft deployed nationwide across federal wildfire zones. NAICS coding concentrates in Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (56 awards) and Support Activities for Forestry (25 awards), reflecting the aerial-tanker and fire-suppression scope.

Activity has remained modest year over year—four awards in 2022 declining to two in 2023 and 2025, with three in 2024 and 2026—but the dollar magnitude reflects the scale of the parent IDIQs. Only one award (combined potential value $2.1 million) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, reflecting the long-term nature of the standing IDIQs. Across SCI-reportable service contracts above the $150,000 threshold from FY2022 through FY2025, Henrys Aerial Service invoiced $51.9 million in total federal services revenue, with FY2022 at $16 million, FY2023 at $11.5 million, FY2024 at $12.2 million, and FY2025 at $12.1 million. The SCI dataset shows roughly 19.9 FTEs delivered in FY2022, dropping to 7.8 in FY2023, recovering to 13.0 in FY2024, and rising to 19.3 in FY2025. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran from a 10th percentile of $204.86 per hour to a median of $456.92 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $798.98 per hour at the 90th percentile. The company operates with zero subcontractor hours across its prime contract portfolio, building and maintaining its own delivery teams entirely in-house.