Maritime Helicopters, Inc.

Maritime Helicopters, Inc., a Homer, Alaska-based Subchapter S corporation founded in 2002, operates as a prime contractor delivering rotary-wing air transportation and aerial support services to federal agencies across Alaska's remote terrain, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on a $16.47 million Department of Interior multiple-award IDIQ and holding additional indefinite delivery vehicles with the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Interagency Fire Center.

Maritime Helicopters operates a fleet of Bell 206L and Bell 407 helicopters providing on-call helicopter flight services for personnel and light cargo transport, emergency wildfire support, geologic mapping, stream gauge maintenance, mining compliance monitoring, facility inspections, and search and rescue operations. Recent representative work includes a $789,142 delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center for the 100-Day Map for Anchorage Alaska project, a $483,231 USGS Alaska Science Center task order for research drilling program support, a $195,997 task order for Kuskokwim Metallogeny and Assessment geologic surveying, and a $1.01 million Coast Guard definitive contract for Remote Mission Systems Alaska Detachment helicopter transportation awarded September 2021 through September 2026.

Customer concentration is wide but heavily weighted toward Department of Interior bureaus and the Coast Guard. The top five customers by potential value—Interior Business Center ($63.9 million), Coast Guard ($52.1 million), Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management ($7.7 million), Forest Service R10-Alaska Region ($5.4 million), and Pacific Air Forces ($5.4 million)—account for 77 percent of combined potential value. By award count, Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region leads (59 awards, $2 million), followed by Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 (49 awards, $721 thousand), Interior Departmental Offices (42 awards), and USGS Alaska Science Center (35 awards, $2.5 million). Activity has remained relatively flat across the past five years—29 awards in 2022 down to 11 awards through mid-2026—with 15 awards (combined potential value $5 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure.

Maritime Helicopters operates primarily through two anchor parent vehicles. The $16.47 million Department of Interior on-call IDIQ awarded March 1, 2022, designated as total small business set-aside with completion through February 28, 2027, has generated 81 task orders ($4.1 million combined potential value) across the U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service. A $250,000 Coast Guard Blanket Purchase Agreement effective June 16, 2025, through June 15, 2030, for helicopter transportation in western Alaska villages has executed three task orders totaling $203,790 within two months of award. Older vehicles include a 70-task-order DOI on-call vehicle from 2017–2021 ($1.9 million), a 38-task-order BPA with the Forest Service ($415 thousand), and smaller single-award and multiple-award IDIQs.

Maritime Helicopters competes almost exclusively as a prime contractor (98 percent of 477 recent awards); subcontract work is minimal, with eight named sub awards as a secondary performer to Battelle Memorial Institute, ASRC Consulting & Environmental Services LLC, TDX International LLC, and Chugach Dynamic Solutions LLC, providing helicopter transport support for Arctic research, well remediation, and communications infrastructure installation. SCI-reportable invoicing across FY2022–FY2024 totaled $115 thousand, a strict subset that excludes the bulk of Maritime Helicopters' helicopter flight-service revenue and reflects only service contracts above the $150,000 threshold; government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work range from $1,065/hr at the tenth percentile to $3,107/hr at the ninetieth percentile. The vendor's primary NAICS codes are Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (352 awards) and Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (29 awards), with PSC coding dominated by Passenger Air Charter (375 awards) and Air Passenger services (19 awards). Maritime Helicopters holds a small-business certification and operates under total small business set-aside designations on its anchor Interior IDIQ and Coast Guard multi-year definitive contract, positioning it as a niche provider of specialized aviation logistics for civilian and defense federal agencies conducting operations in Alaska's most remote and operationally demanding regions.