King Aerospace, Inc.

King Aerospace, Inc., a minority-owned and Hispanic American-owned small business headquartered in Addison, Texas, delivers aircraft maintenance and support services to federal customers primarily as a subcontractor (79% of recent awards) beneath Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, with a smaller prime footprint anchored to two single-award IDIQs and one set-aside IDIQ with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense.

King Aerospace's business is concentrated in specialized aircraft maintenance and logistics support. The company operates two primary single-award IDVs: a $41.7 million Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded by the Department of Defense on November 10, 2025, for Beechcraft King Air 300/360 series aircraft maintenance on a labor-hours basis performed at the company's Ardmore, Oklahoma facility (completion November 30, 2030), and a $99.998 million Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ awarded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on August 14, 2026, for broad aircraft support services including alterations, engineering analysis and design, fabrication and installation, heavy maintenance, and parts procurement for CBP's Air and Marine Operations, performed at Addison, Texas (completion August 13, 2031). The December 17, 2025 delivery order under the DoD King Air IDV added base-year funding and expanded funding across multiple contract line items for a ceiling value of $16.344 million. On the CBP IDIQ, King Aerospace received a $2,500 minimum guarantee firm fixed price delivery order on August 14, 2026.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward defense aviation. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command dominates by potential value, accounting for 53 awards worth $6.2 billion combined potential value, while the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Aviation leads by award count with 310 awards carrying $76.8 million combined potential value. These two customers account for roughly 99% of the combined potential value across all awards. The Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection holds $100 million in combined potential value across two awards. This divergence reflects the Navy's concentration in a small number of high-dollar vehicle positions, while Army work is distributed across numerous smaller awards, predominantly as sub-work under Northrop Grumman.

King Aerospace's sub-award footprint is almost entirely routed through Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on Special Electronic Mission Aircraft (SEMA) contractor logistics support contracts for U.S. Army fixed-wing SEMA fleets (MC-12, C-12, RC-12, EO-5, B300, Model 300, and RO-6A platforms). The source lists approximately 118 subcontract awards from Northrop Grumman, spanning September 2022 through August 2026, covering other support activities for air transportation and other direct costs associated with the SEMA CLS program. The Navy IDV N0001912D0014 placed 50 task orders under King Aerospace's prime position, carrying $32.1 million in combined potential value.

Activity has grown significantly year over year. Awards per year increased from 18 in 2022 to 73 in 2025, with 9 awards recorded in 2026 through August. The combined potential value of $6.73 billion sits against $736.7 million in obligated dollars (11% of potential). Neither the source nor SCI data indicates an imminent recompete cliff; the two primary IDV completions are scheduled for August 2031 (CBP) and November 2030 (DoD), placing them outside the twenty-four month horizon.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on prime contracts totaled $14.7 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2025 data not yet complete in source), with FY2023 peaking at $6.6 million across 19.9 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran a median of $160.77 per hour, with rates ranging from $127.32/hr at the tenth percentile to $175.88/hr at the ninetieth percentile. The vendor does not use subcontractors on its SCI-reportable prime work (average sub-hours share of 0%), building delivery teams in-house. The FTE trajectory on SCI shows volatility: 313 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 9.3 FTEs in FY2024, then rising to 122 FTEs in FY2025, reflecting the mix of contract vehicle types and reporting phase-ins. These SCI figures represent only federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and exclude King Aerospace's goods, parts, and product revenue — a significant omission given the company's role in aircraft component parts and maintenance procurement.

King Aerospace competes predominantly under set-asides on the civilian federal side; the CBP IDIQ and related delivery orders are Total Small Business set-asides. Prime work is concentrated, whereas sub-work is voluminous but narrow in scope — almost entirely routed through one prime contractor on a single program family, making the vendor a specialized feeder supplier to Northrop Grumman's Army SEMA logistics mission rather than a broad-market aerospace services competitor.

Specializing in Aircraft CLS, organizational line and depot maint, mods, supply chain management, mission sys integration, Maint/operators/train,electronic equip repair, maint and testing, sensor, engineering, CAD, CFT, cert