Kentucky Airmotive, Inc.

Kentucky Airmotive, Inc., a small business aviation services provider based in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, delivers aerial firefighting, aircraft maintenance, and fixed-wing aviation logistics to federal agencies as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to defense primes, competing predominantly in full-and-open and total small business set-aside categories across a $134 million combined potential value footprint.

The company operates as a for-profit corporate entity and is registered as a small business in the System for Award Management since 2002. Its federal footprint centers on wildland fire suppression and emergency response aviation, with concrete capability work including aerial firefighting, aircraft maintenance and inspections, logistics coordination, and fixed-wing aviation operations. Representative work includes a $254,064.83 firm fixed-price delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center for light fixed-wing services (July 2025), a $10,580.09 total small business set-aside BPA call from Naval Sea Systems Command for aircraft rental supporting USS Gerald R. Ford testing in Pascagoula, Mississippi (May 2023), and a $40,000 delivery order from USDA Wildlife Services for maintenance, inspections, and repair to fixed-wing aircraft (April 2022).

Customer concentration is extremely high and agency-specific. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center dominates with 117 awards carrying $58.9 million combined potential value—86% of all awards by count and 44% by dollars. The Department of the Interior Interior Business Center accounts for $31.8 million in combined potential value across five awards (primarily the $9.98 million on-call fixed-wing aircraft rental BPA running through December 2027), and the Department of the Interior Office of Policy Management and Budget carries $22 million in a single award. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region supplies seven awards worth $17.3 million. These four customers account for 99% of combined potential value.

Kentucky Airmotive holds three named federal contract vehicles anchoring the footprint. The primary vehicle is a $44 million multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center on January 1, 2024, for National Light Fixed Wing Services, running through December 31, 2033, with total small business set-aside designation at the IDIQ level. This vehicle has generated 71 task orders (combined potential value $6.7 million) and individual delivery order values ranging from $9,569.49 to $254,064.83. A $9.98 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Interior Interior Business Center for on-call fixed-wing aircraft rental services runs through December 31, 2027 and has generated task orders from Naval Sea Systems Command for Navy testing support. A $4.8 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the National Interagency Fire Center for aviation services, equipment, and maintenance support expired December 31, 2023.

Activity has been volatile but sustained. Awards per year ranged from 15 (2026, year-to-date) to 36 (2023), with 70 awards (combined potential value $6.7 million) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. Across the two top parent vehicles (contract numbers 1202SA23T9415 and 1202SA22T9884), Kentucky Airmotive has 71 and 47 task orders respectively.

In its subcontractor role, Kentucky Airmotive performs aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul, and inspection on MH-47, MH-60, and A/MH-6 model series aircraft under Lockheed Martin Corporation on task order 2701-1G2701002147, with work including fuel services, National Guard Lakota paint support, and material disposition direction. The subcontract footprint is limited—six sub-awards total, all to Lockheed Martin on the same parent task order, with activity dating from August 2023 to September 2025.

Capability posture aligns tightly with civilian wildland fire management. Top NAICS categories are Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (90 awards) and Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (52 awards), with supporting codes in Other Support Activities for Air Transportation (12 awards) and Support Activities for Forestry (6 awards). Top PSC codes are Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (78 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation—Other (48 awards), with subordinate codes for passenger air charter and aircraft maintenance. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements, with recurring total small business set-aside designations on BPA calls and some IDIQ-level set-asides. Most delivery orders carry fixed-price or fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment pricing reflecting fuel cost volatility.