Hillsboro Aviation, Inc.

Hillsboro Aviation, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Hillsboro, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor providing rotary-wing and fixed-wing helicopter flight services and aerial firefighting support to federal agencies across the Western United States, competing predominantly full-and-open with recurring total small business set-asides on wildfire and emergency response contracts.

Hillsboro Aviation specializes in exclusive-use helicopter flight services, Type 1, 2, and 3 helicopter operations for wildland fire suppression and aerial attack, personnel and cargo transport, search and rescue, and natural resource stewardship missions. The vendor has delivered representative work including a $7.8 million Department of Defense Fort Irwin rotary-wing services contract (awarded May 1, 2025, through October 31, 2030, under total small business set-aside), a $1.08 million National Park Service delivery order for Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades helicopter flight support (March 26, 2026), and a $1.83 million Bureau of Land Management exclusive-use Type 2 helicopter services order for Lakeview, Oregon wildfire operations (May 28, 2025, under total small business set-aside).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to wildfire and land-management agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 58% of awards, led by the National Interagency Fire Center (83 awards, $225.3 million combined potential value), followed by Interior Departmental Offices (51 awards), National Park Service Pacific West Region (36 awards, $18 million), Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (28 awards, $45.7 million), and National Park Service Intermountain Region (23 awards, $25.7 million). The top five customers by potential-value share account for only 7% of the total portfolio's combined value, indicating a portfolio of many small task orders alongside a smaller number of large IDIQs; Interior Business Center and the Office of Policy Management and Budget drive aggregate dollar value despite lower award counts.

Hillsboro Aviation holds position on multiple large IDIQs. The Helicopter Support Services–Type 2 IDIQ (National Interagency Fire Center, $50 million ceiling, December 31, 2033) carries 37 task orders totaling $2.9 million in combined potential value and spans Sierra Vista, Arizona; Piedra, California; Wenatchee, Washington; and Hillsboro, Oregon. The On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services IDIQ (Interior Business Center, $49.5 million ceiling, April 30, 2027, total small business set-aside) has generated multiple delivery orders including a $692,025 fiscal-year 2024 fire operations order (August 28, 2024). The Type 3 Helicopter Support Services IDIQ (National Interagency Fire Center, $40 million ceiling, December 31, 2032) carries 19 task orders for operations in Ely, Minnesota and Wenatchee, Washington. Hillsboro also holds a $7.5 million single-award IDIQ with the National Park Service for exclusive-use helicopter flight services at Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades National Parks (April 7, 2025–April 6, 2027, total small business set-aside) and an $11 million single-award IDIQ with the Bureau of Land Management for Type 2 helicopter services (May 22, 2024–April 30, 2029, total small business set-aside). An Interior Business Center Blanket Purchase Agreement for on-call fixed-wing aircraft rental carries a $9,982,083 ceiling through December 31, 2027.

Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years, averaging 22 awards annually (2022–2025), with a recent slowdown to eight awards in the first half of 2026. Sixteen awards carrying combined potential value of $3.8 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete opportunity.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $37 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($15.8 million in FY2022, $7.2 million in FY2023, $14 million in FY2024), representing a small slice of the vendor's total federal revenue and enterprise operations. The SCI dataset shows roughly 31.2 FTEs delivered in FY2022, declining to 14.6 in FY2023 and recovering to 20.8 in FY2024. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid median rates ran around $244/hr, with senior labor pricing through $287/hr. Hillsboro Aviation self-performs all reported labor with zero subcontractor engagement across SCI-reportable prime contracts.

The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor; no sub-award footprint appears in the source data. Portfolio composition clusters around passenger air charter and freight air charter PSC codes (192 and 64 awards respectively) and Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger and Freight Air Transportation NAICS codes, reflecting the core helicopter-services business model. The total portfolio spans 381 awards across 41 distinct federal agencies, with combined potential value of $6.16 billion and $155.2 million in obligations to date (3% call-down rate), indicating substantial pipeline depth rooted in long-term IDIQs issued to the National Interagency Fire Center, Bureau of Land Management, and Department of the Interior.

HELICOPTERS, FIXED WING, AERIAL SEEDING/FERTILIZING, AERIAL HYDROMULCHING, TRANSPORTATION, AERIAL SLASH BURNING. FIRE SUPPRESSION, PASSENGER TRANSPORT, INFRARED DETECTION, AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE, EXTERNAL LOAD OPERATIONS.