Mint Turbines LLC

Mint Turbines LLC, a HUBZone-certified, veteran-owned small business based in Stroud, Oklahoma, operates as a prime contractor (88% of recent awards) and subcontractor providing depot-level turboshaft and turboprop engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul services to federal agencies, with particular depth in T53-L-703, PT6A, and T400 series engines. Mint Turbines is structured as a Limited Liability Company and is a subsidiary of M International Inc. (Mintex), a veteran-owned MRO services provider; the company competes predominantly under set-aside vehicles, with Total Small Business and HUBZone designations recurring across its prime footprint.

Customer concentration centers on defense and civilian aviation missions. The top five customers account for 85% of awards by count: the Air Force Sustainment Center (40 awards, $24.4 million potential value), NOAA (13 awards, $14.7 million), the Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement (12 awards, $59.6 million), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (11 awards, $824 thousand), and the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (6 awards, $42 million). By potential value, Naval Air Systems Command dominates at $6.11 billion across two awards — a stark divergence that reflects placeholder or ceiling-value IDIQs rather than executed task-order volume. The Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement holds the second-largest potential-value share at $59.6 million, anchored by an $18 million single-award T53 engine repair IDIQ and a $40 million T700/PT6 engine purchase, overhaul, and repair IDIQ awarded June 4, 2025.

Mint Turbines holds a portfolio of high-value single-award indefinite-delivery vehicles. The largest active IDIQ is the $40 million Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement T700/PT6 engine contract (awarded June 4, 2025, through June 3, 2027) under Total Small Business set-aside, requiring OEM-approved T700-GE-700, PT6T-3B, PT6A-67D, PT6A-114A, and PW123E overhaul and repair capability. The Air Force Sustainment Center holds a $7.1 million single-award IDIQ for T53-L-703 engine overhaul (awarded October 22, 2024, through October 22, 2029) under no set-aside, with recent delivery orders totaling $1.84 million (December 2024), $953 thousand (November 2025), and $166 thousand (February 2025). The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex holds a $23.6 million single-award Total Small Business IDIQ for T53-L-703 depot-level maintenance (awarded November 3, 2021, through June 18, 2026), with recent orders including $4.84 million (November 2024) and $2.41 million (December 2025). NOAA issued a $5.521 million HUBZone single-award IDIQ for PT6A engine maintenance, overhaul, and repair support (awarded September 12, 2024, through September 11, 2029). The Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement holds an $18 million single-award Total Small Business IDIQ for T53 engine repairs and depot-level maintenance at Stroud, Oklahoma, with subordinate performance locations in Peru, Panama, and Melbourne, Florida (awarded October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2026). Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime holds three smaller single-award IDIQs: $250 thousand for counterbalance weights (awarded October 21, 2025), $250 thousand for O-rings (awarded August 12, 2025), and $250 thousand for packing-special items (awarded May 29, 2025), all under Total Small Business set-asides.

Recent prime work underscores the company's T53 and PT6A focus. A $1.795 million HUBZone delivery order from NOAA for PT6A engine maintenance, overhaul, and repair support services (awarded September 15, 2026, completion December 31, 2026) represents current work. The Air Force Sustainment Center awarded a $1.84 million firm fixed-price delivery order for T53-L-703 engine overhaul (December 16, 2024, completion October 22, 2029). The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex issued a $4.84 million T53 depot-level repair and maintenance delivery order (November 3, 2024, completion November 2, 2025). T400 series work includes a $517 thousand Air Force Sustainment Center delivery order for T400 reduction gearbox overhaul (September 28, 2024) and a $382 thousand order for T400 compressor rotor assembly overhaul (September 27, 2024). Smaller consumables work rounds out the portfolio: a $96,720 HUBZone purchase order from DoD Construction and Equipment for a portable light unit (March 24, 2026), and recurring Defense Logistics Agency purchase orders for tube assemblies, gaskets, O-rings, and packing-special items ranging from under $2 thousand to $22 thousand.

Activity has grown substantially — from 7 awards in 2022 to 20 in 2025 — with a combined potential value across all 97 awards of $6.25 billion, though only $36.1 million (1%) is currently obligated, reflecting the ceiling values of large unexercised IDIQs. Only two awards face completion in the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $4.2 million, indicating minimal recompete exposure in that window. Most large IDIQs extend through 2026–2029, positioning Mint Turbines for sustained task-order volume if historical order patterns continue.

In its subcontractor role, Mint Turbines delivers T53 engine repair and maintenance components to Bell Textron (supporting Iraqi Ministry of Defense helicopter fleet CLS requirements, August 2025), Amentum Services (Colombian National Police aviation support including fuel-control and turbine-engine components, June 2025 and earlier), and Vectrus Systems (Army Parachute Team life-cycle maintenance logistics support, October 2024 and earlier). These subs represent foreign military sales and allied-nation aviation support routed through prime relationships rather than direct federal prime awards. Across both prime and sub roles, Mint Turbines' capability concentration lies in T53 and PT6 turboshaft and turboprop engine overhaul, repair, and component restoration at depot level, with secondary exposure in turbine-engine consumables (gaskets, O-rings, packing, seals) procured through Defense Logistics Agency vehicles.