Lanic Aerospace LLC

Lanic Aerospace LLC, a small business manufacturer of aircraft skin panels and structural components, operates as a 100% prime contractor to the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, supplying aircraft skins and exterior materials for U.S. military aircraft maintenance and repair operations. The company is a subsidiary of parent firm Lanic Engineering Inc., headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, and competes under total small business set-asides on a portion of its work — most recent awards split between set-aside and full-and-open designations.

Lanic Aerospace's customer concentration is absolute: all fifteen awards in the source data and all $8.6 million in combined potential value flow from DLA Aviation. The company holds two active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation, one established on October 28, 2025 with a $2.5 million ceiling and small business set-aside designation through October 27, 2029, and a second established on January 9, 2026 with a $2.5 million ceiling and no set-aside designation through January 8, 2028. Under these vehicles, DLA Aviation has issued delivery orders and purchase orders for aircraft skins supporting F-35 Lightning II, F-16, V-22 Osprey, and rotorcraft platforms. Representative work includes a $335,335 firm fixed-price delivery order awarded November 14, 2025 for aircraft skins under the small-business IDC, a $235,320 firm fixed-price purchase order also awarded November 14, 2025 under total small business competition, and a $119,556 delivery order from June 2022 for aircraft skin panels. Work is performed in Huntington Beach, California, and categorized under NAICS 336413 (aircraft structural components manufacturing).

Activity volume has accelerated in calendar year 2025 with three awards, following a sparse 2021–2024 period. Two awards with combined potential value of $571 thousand reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure. Lanic Aerospace operates as an approved source under DLA Aviation's Source Approval Request program for aviation critical safety items and serves as a subcontractor to Bell Textron Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing, supplying structural components to those major defense primes. Only $2.3 million of the $8.6 million combined potential value has been obligated as of the source date, reflecting the indefinite delivery vehicle structure under which orders are issued incrementally.

We are a multi-location aerospace machine shop. We hold all tier 1 customer approvals and currently work with all the primes in both commercial and military programs