North Wind Aviation LLC

North Wind Aviation LLC, doing business as North Wind Aviation, is a veteran-owned small business based in Chelan, Washington that provides helicopter support services, aerial herbicide application, and wildland fire management aviation to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The company operates 100% as a prime across 20 federal awards with a combined potential value of $54.7 million, competing across both small-business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles.

The National Interagency Fire Center, operating under the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, is North Wind Aviation's dominant customer, accounting for 16 awards (97% of combined potential value, $53.3 million). The vendor holds a $50 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) with the National Interagency Fire Center for Helicopter Support Services - Type 2 running through December 31, 2033, covering Type 1, 2, and 3 rotorcraft for fire suppression, monitoring, law enforcement, and administrative aviation across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Two delivery orders against this vehicle — $215,607 and $87,315, both issued August 2024 — exemplify North Wind Aviation's fire suppression work transporting firefighters and cargo and applying fire retardant. The vendor also operates under a Basic Ordering Agreement with the National Interagency Fire Center (12 task orders, $1 million combined potential value) for call-when-needed helicopter response during wildland fire emergencies. The Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District represents the secondary customer (3 awards, $1.1 million combined potential value). North Wind Aviation holds a small-business-set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contract with ENDIST Seattle (ceiling $1,052,340 through August 2029) for aerial herbicide application to firebreaks and linear features and aerial seeding with shrub mixtures; a $19,500 delivery order issued March 1, 2026 demonstrates activation at Joint Base Lewis-McChord Yakima Training Center with performance through February 28, 2027.

North Wind Aviation's capability portfolio centers on fixed-wing and helicopter aviation for wildland fire suppression, with secondary work in aerial environmental remediation (herbicide and seed application). The vendor operates from Chelan, Washington, with helicopter call-sign N353RC appearing across fire-suppression delivery orders. Primary NAICS concentration is Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (16 awards); secondary work falls under Support Activities for Forestry (4 awards). Activity contracted year over year from 6 awards in 2022 to 1 award each in 2025 and 2026; however, the IDCs and BOA vehicles carry multi-year, multi-option structures that do not surface in annual award counts. Only one award (combined potential value $20 thousand) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, leaving limited recompete exposure in that window. The source does not identify subcontractor relationships or sub-award activity. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $2.6 million (5% of combined potential value), indicating that the majority of the vendor's ceiling value remains unexercised across the active portfolio.