Larson Helicopters LLC

Larson Helicopters LLC, a Minnesota-based small business, operates as a prime contractor providing aerial herbicide application and vegetation management services to federal natural-resource and environmental agencies under total small business set-asides. The company is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Perham, Minnesota, competing across small-business contract vehicles rather than full-and-open procurements; all nine recent federal awards carry small-business set-aside designations.

The vendor's concrete capability is aerial application of herbicides and pesticides for habitat restoration, invasive-species control, and vegetation management on federal refuge and conservation lands. Representative work includes a $26,840 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (awarded December 2025) for woody vegetation control across approximately 237 acres of upland areas at Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge in Erskine, Minnesota, compensated on a per-acre basis with performance contingent on achieving a minimum 75 percent kill rate; a $24,717 purchase order from the same agency (July 2024) for aerial herbicide application across 222 acres of tallgrass prairie habitat near Mentor, Minnesota; and a $3,358 ratification of an unauthorized commitment from the Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service Central Region (February 2024) for cattail spraying under the Stewardship program in Minnesota.

Customer concentration is split between two principal agencies. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 accounts for four awards totaling $85 thousand combined potential value, while the Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service Central Region holds four awards valued at $18 thousand combined potential value. One additional Fish and Wildlife Service award (non-Region 3) adds $25 thousand, bringing total customer diversity to three distinct federal agencies. All nine awards are concentrated in Minnesota natural-resource locations. Activity has been intermittent — one award each in 2019 and 2021, three in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with combined potential value across all awards at $127 thousand, fully obligated. No subcontract activity is present in the source data; Larson Helicopters operates exclusively as a prime contractor. The vendor's award portfolio aligns with NAICS categories 111100 (Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating) and 113300 (Support Activities for Forestry), with work primarily categorized under PSC Natural Resources/Conservation aerial fertilization and spraying and Environmental Systems Protection pesticides support.