Kastle Aviation, Inc.

Kastle Aviation, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Burbank, California, supplies specialized aviation and electrical components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on firm fixed-price purchase orders, competing on full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations. The company operates exclusively as a direct vendor to Defense Logistics Agency divisions — a component-parts supplier with no subcontract footprint and no participation in parent vehicles or IDIQs.

Kastle Aviation's portfolio centers on replacement and maintenance parts for military aviation and maritime equipment. The vendor supplies electrical components (motors, connectors, plugs, resistors, capacitors, heat sinks), mechanical fasteners and assemblies (rivets, setscrews, shims, clamps, springs, couplings), and aircraft subsystem parts (brake armatures, oil level plugs, synchro receivers, distribution covers, pressure valves). Recent representative awards include a $98,730 purchase order from DLA Aviation for oil level stick plugs (August 2024), a $38,122.50 order for distribution covers (June 2024), a $12,378.80 order for electrical brackets from DLA Land and Maritime (March 2025), and a $5,850 order for electric motor covers from DLA Land and Maritime (April 2026).

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward DLA. The top five customers account for 90% of recent awards by count and 98% of combined potential value. DLA Aviation dominates with 56 awards worth $440 thousand combined potential value, followed by DLA Land and Maritime with 33 awards and $182 thousand. Naval-related customers — Naval Air Systems Command (30 awards) and Naval Supply Systems Command (26 awards) — represent significant order volume but carry minimal dollar value, indicating small per-order magnitude. The disparity between volume and value rankings reflects DLA Aviation's larger individual orders versus Navy's frequent low-dollar buys.

Kastle Aviation's top NAICS categories are Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (43 awards), Motor and Generator Manufacturing (13 awards), and Hardware Manufacturing (10 awards), with secondary concentration in fasteners and electrical components. The vendor does not sit on GWACs, BPAs, or agency-wide IDIQs; all work flows through spot purchase orders direct to DLA Aviation and Land and Maritime divisions.

Activity has accelerated in 2025 — 17 awards compared to 7 in 2024 and 4 in 2023 — and the vendor has maintained a small footprint with combined potential value of $691 thousand across 173 awards since 2001. The company operates at sub-million-dollar scale with individual orders typically ranging from $550 to $12,000. Kastle Aviation carries no federal grant work and maintains no listed parent company or subsidiary relationships.

Government Surplus, wholesale sales