Kalitta Air LLC

Kalitta Air LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Superior Township, Michigan, operates as a prime contractor providing civil reserve air fleet air transportation services and heavyweight cargo delivery to the Air Mobility Command, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies—competing full-and-open with no SBA certifications or set-aside positions across its portfolio.

Kalitta Air is a U.S. certificated all-cargo carrier operating one of the largest privately-owned freighter fleets in the country with over 20 Boeing 747 freighters. The company delivers comprehensive air transportation solutions including air cargo operations, passenger transport, medical evacuation services, and specialized charter flights across domestic and international locations. Recent capability work centers on two core service lines: civil reserve air fleet (CRAF) air transportation services and global heavyweight cargo delivery. Representative CRAF delivery orders from the Air Mobility Command include a $2.31 million October 2025 task order for air transportation in Jordan, a $1.45 million October 2025 task order for services in Japan, a $1.5 million January 2026 task order for services in Jordan, and a $78.6 million master delivery order issued October 1, 2025, for operations based in Ypsilanti, Michigan, with performance through September 30, 2030. Kalitta Air also executes heavyweight cargo delivery work under the Global Heavyweight Services contract; representative awards include an $88 thousand September 2025 delivery order from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for domestic and international shipments, and a $131 thousand September 2025 delivery order for services in Japan.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Air Mobility Command accounts for approximately 97% of awards (432 delivery orders) and 95% of combined potential value ($6.37 billion across all task orders and the master CRAF IDV). The Office of the Secretary of Defense places 124 awards valued at $27.2 million, and the Department of the Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command holds 7 awards worth $269.7 million. This concentration reflects Kalitta Air's positioning as the dominant CRAF contractor rather than diversification across customer agencies.

Kalitta Air holds three major indefinite delivery vehicles. The primary vehicle is the International Charter Airlift Services in support of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet contract, a $479.75 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Air Mobility Command awarded October 1, 2024, extending through September 30, 2030. Against this vehicle, Kalitta Air has received approximately 399 delivery orders (representing $353.3 million in combined potential value) since June 2025, with individual orders ranging from $24 thousand to $78.6 million and performance locations spanning Poland, Japan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Great Britain, Djibouti, Germany, South Korea, Australia, Philippines, Jordan, and multiple other strategic global locations. The second vehicle is the Global Heavyweight Services (GHS) contract, a $1.5 billion multiple-award IDIQ with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, under which Kalitta Air has received 64 delivery orders ($11.2 million combined potential value) for door-to-door delivery of heavyweight and oversized cargo across domestic and international shipments. The third vehicle is an indefinite delivery contract (F1162603D0004) supporting domestic charter air transportation with 43 task orders; individual awards for domestic charter services carry values from $150 thousand to $320 thousand and cover locations including Las Vegas, Edwards Air Force Base, Honolulu, Eielson Air Force Base, and Panama City.

Recent activity has grown sharply. Kalitta Air received 13 awards in 2022, 27 in 2023, 106 in 2024, 289 in 2025, and 68 awards through April 2026—an acceleration driven by the volume of CRAF and GHS delivery order issuance. Combined potential value across all 624 awards (623 prime, 1 sub) totals $6.67 billion, though only 6% ($398.5 million) has been obligated to date, reflecting the preponderance of indefinite delivery vehicle ceiling values against which task orders are issued. The source material shows 432 CRAF delivery orders and 124 OSD heavyweight services orders awarded primarily between June 2025 and April 2026, indicating a recent acceleration in task order exercise against these master vehicles.

Kalitta Air competes full-and-open on all reported awards—there are no set-asides, SBA certifications (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB), or small business designations in the source material. All CRAF and GHS delivery orders carry the designation "No Set-Aside Used," and the company's parent structure (Kalitta Air LLC as parent, with Kalitta Choirs, LLC as a subsidiary) operates as large business entities in federal contracting.

The corporate structure includes Kalitta Air LLC as the parent entity and Kalitta Charters, LLC as a subsidiary. Kalitta Charters has historically secured medical air charter and inmate transportation contracts with set-aside designations, but the source material provided covers only Kalitta Air LLC's prime federal contract footprint and carries no awards under the subsidiary.

Kalitta Air's federal work is concentrated in two NAICS categories: Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (453 awards) and Scheduled Freight Air Transportation (140 awards), with corresponding PSC codes Transportation/Travel/Relocation—Air Charter (460 awards) and Air Freight (138 awards). The overwhelming majority of recent activity stems from CRAF and Global Heavyweight Services task order exercises against fixed master vehicles. Kalitta Air operates as the sole prime contractor on all reviewed awards with no subcontractors identified; the single sub-award in the portfolio is a $0-value SAOC aircraft parts award to Sierra Nevada Company, LLC in June 2025, which appears to be an exception rather than the norm for the vendor's engagement model.