Mitchell Aircraft, LLC

Mitchell Aircraft, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Trout Valley, Illinois, supplies electrical connectors, aircraft hardware, and specialty components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, competing predominantly full-and-open without set-aside designations on the majority of awards while holding recurring small-business set-aside orders.

Mitchell Aircraft operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor—2,281 awards across the portfolio are all prime work—with no subcontractor footprint. The vendor competes across DLA's three operating divisions, with the customer split nearly even between DLA Land and Maritime (942 awards, $9.5 million combined potential value) and DLA Aviation (982 awards, $5.3 million combined potential value), alongside smaller volume from DLA Troop Support Hardware (334 awards, $844 thousand) and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (21 awards, $134 thousand). A single Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard award rounds out the agency roster.

Capability framing is narrow and hardware-focused. Mitchell Aircraft specializes in electrical connectors, backshells, covers, adapters, antennas, cable clamps, dummy connectors, knobs, adapters, and related fasteners—components identified by National Stock Number and procured in recurring delivery orders under DLA indefinite delivery contracts. Recent named work includes a $72,600 antenna order under DLA Land and Maritime TSB set-aside (December 2025), a $52,140 terminal box purchase from DLA Aviation (February 2024), a $105,372 antenna delivery under TSB set-aside (April 2023), and a $100,800 antenna procurement under TSB set-aside (August 2023). The portfolio carries no systems-integration, engineering, or prime manufacturing work—Mitchell Aircraft warehouses and ships pre-manufactured components by NSN.

Set-aside posture reflects a dual approach: the majority of the 2,281 awards carry no set-aside designation and compete full-and-open, but recurring high-value orders—particularly for antennas, electrical covers, and backshells—are competed under Total Small Business set-asides when available. The source notes no SBA 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic certifications; the vendor appears to compete as an unrestricted small business.

Mitchell Aircraft holds four single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each with a $250,000 ceiling: knobs (awarded March 2022, completed March 2023); dummy connectors (awarded August 2021, completed August 2022); adapters and connectors (referenced in summaries as an active vehicle); and electrical covers (referenced across multiple task orders). These IDCs are the primary vehicles through which delivery orders flow—individual task orders range from $130 to $87,168, with firm fixed-price pricing throughout. No GWACs, GSA schedules, or agency-wide vehicles appear in the portfolio; all work originates from DLA purchase orders or delivery orders against Mitchell Aircraft's own single-award IDCs.

Activity has plateaued. The vendor recorded 80 awards in 2022, 93 in 2023, 80 in 2024, then declined to 16 in 2025 and 6 in the first quarter of 2026. Combined potential value across all 2,281 awards stands at $15.8 million; $13 million (83%) has been obligated to date. No recompete cliff is visible in the source data, as DLA purchase orders are discrete and non-recurring; the IDC vehicles expired (knobs in March 2023, dummy connectors in August 2022) but the source does not indicate whether Mitchell Aircraft has recompeted or renewed them.

Mitchell Aircraft performs all work from its Trout Valley, Illinois facility; places of performance are exclusively that location or DLA distribution depots receiving shipment. The vendor does not subcontract and delivers components directly. The category concentration shows electronic connector manufacturing (360 awards), bolt/nut/screw/rivet/washer manufacturing (309 awards), current-carrying wiring devices (303 awards), and aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment (245 awards) as the dominant NAICS buckets, with connectors (659 awards), commercial hardware (145 awards), and miscellaneous aircraft accessories (118 awards) leading the PSC distribution.