Hillsboro Aviation, Inc.

Hillsboro Aviation, Inc., doing business as Hillsboro Aviation Inc., is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Hillsboro, Oregon, that provides rotary-wing and fixed-wing helicopter flight services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards), with particular depth in exclusive-use helicopter operations for wildland fire suppression, aerial attack, personnel and cargo transport, search and rescue, and natural resource stewardship across the Western United States. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open; recent activity shows a small business set-aside posture on National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management contracts but no consistent set-aside category footprint across the prime portfolio.

Hillsboro Aviation's customer concentration sits heavily with wildfire and land-management agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 59% of awards, led by the National Interagency Fire Center (92 awards, $227.9 million combined potential value), followed by Department of the Interior departmental offices (51 awards), National Park Service Pacific West Region (37 awards, $18.6 million), Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (30 awards, $48.1 million), and National Park Service Intermountain Region (23 awards, $25.7 million). The potential-value ranking diverges slightly: Interior Business Center emerges as the second-largest dollar holder at $66.5 million across 11 awards, reflecting the vendor's position on the $49.5 million On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services IDIQ (May 1, 2022–April 30, 2027, total small business set-aside) and the $9.98 million on-call fixed-wing aircraft rental agreement (January 1, 2023–December 31, 2027, total small business set-aside). Primary NAICS framing is 481211 (nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation, 193 awards) and 481212 (nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation, 106 awards); PSC codes center on passenger air charter (194 awards) and forest-range fire suppression support (73 awards).

Hillsboro Aviation holds a commanding position on federal helicopter support IDIQs anchoring its work volume. The vendor operates under six named parent vehicles, the largest by task-order count being the Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SA22T9857 (37 task orders, $2.9 million combined potential value), the Type 3 Helicopter Support Services 2023–2032 IDIQ issued by the National Interagency Fire Center ($40 million ceiling through December 31, 2032, 14 task orders, $8.6 million combined potential value), and the Helicopter Support Services - Type 2 IDIQ, also National Interagency Fire Center ($50 million ceiling through December 31, 2033, multiple task orders). Hillsboro Aviation also holds a $7.5 million single-award IDIQ with the National Park Service Pacific West Region 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), an $11 million single-award IDIQ with Bureau of Land Management for Type 2 helicopter services in wildfire fighting (May 22, 2024–April 30, 2029, total small business set-aside), and a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract issued September 29, 2026, with a $475,000 ceiling running through September 28, 2031. Recent named delivery orders include a $20,000 National Park Service order for exclusive-use helicopter flight services at Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades National Parks (September 17, 2026), a $532.5 thousand Department of Agriculture Forest Service order for helicopter flight services in support of Department of the Interior wildland fire suppression operations (July 17, 2026), a $1.9 million Department of Interior order for exclusive-use helicopter flight services (May 28, 2026), and a $7.8 million Department of Defense PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation order for rotary-wing flight services at Fort Irwin (May 1, 2025, total small business set-aside).

Activity volume is stable but has declined from 2022 peak. Awards per year ran 33 in 2022, dropped to 24 in 2023 and 21 in 2024, then recovered to 24 in 2025 and 20 in 2026 year-to-date. The vendor carries a modest recompete cliff: 11 awards (combined potential value $5.1 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined potential value across the entire 393-award portfolio stands at $6.17 billion, with $159.1 million obligated (3% rate), reflecting the vendor's reliance on large-ceiling IDIQs and the episodic draw-down of delivery orders against them. The source data spans awards from April 15, 1989 to September 29, 2026.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $50.3 million across FY2022–FY2025 (44 records, all prime), with FY2022 at $15.8 million across 31.2 FTEs, FY2023 at $7.2 million across 14.6 FTEs, FY2024 at $14 million across 20.8 FTEs, and FY2025 at $13.3 million across 17.9 FTEs. Government-paid median rates for federal services work run approximately $244 per hour, with rates clustering in the $172–$287 per hour range across the 10th to 90th percentile. Hillsboro Aviation self-performs all labor; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average subcontractor hours share is zero percent, indicating no reliance on subs for service delivery. The vendor operates as a pure prime across its federal footprint, with no sub awards present in the source data.

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