Pacific Propeller International LLC

Pacific Propeller International LLC, doing business as Pacific Propeller Inc., manufactures, maintains, repairs, and overhauls aircraft propellers and related components as a prime contractor on firm-fixed-price delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts across the Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies, competing predominantly in the open market without set-aside designation. The Kent, Washington-based for-profit limited liability company, established in April 2001, is a small business that performs substantially all work at its Kent facility and holds no SBA certifications.

Pacific Propeller dominates a specialized niche in federal propeller sustainment. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on 54H60 and 54H60-77 propeller overhaul and maintenance for C-130 and P-3 aircraft, including blade assembly repair, propeller control assembly repair, spinner propeller service, alternating current motor and pump component supply, and comprehensive full-service maintenance and training. Representative recent work includes a $1.91 million C-130 54H60 propeller overhaul delivery order from Air Force Materiel Command's Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (December 2025), a $1.04 million P-3 propeller maintenance and training order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under a Total Small Business set-aside (December 2025), a $1.68 million propeller manufacturing and MRO delivery order from Naval Supply Systems Command (February 2023), and a $1.25 million C-130 FMS propeller overhaul and blade assembly order for the Philippines from Warner Robins (April 2026).

Customer concentration is acute and asymmetric. The Naval Supply Systems Command accounts for approximately 81% of award count (1,144 awards) and 32% of combined potential value ($89.5 million), while Air Force Materiel Command's Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex places only 16 awards but anchors 34% of dollars ($95 million in combined potential value). NOAA, Coast Guard, and Naval Air Systems Command round out the top five, collectively representing roughly 13% of dollars. The divergence between count and value concentration reflects the pattern: NAVSUP issues numerous small task orders ($26,000 to $426,000 individually) under standing indefinite delivery contracts, while Warner Robins issues fewer but substantially larger overhaul orders ($907,000 to $1.91 million).

Pacific Propeller sits on four primary indefinite delivery vehicles spanning Defense and civilian agencies. The vendor holds a $75.3 million single-award IDC with Air Force Materiel Command (through February 2028) for C-130 54H60 propeller overhaul—the single largest vehicle by potential value—with 16 delivery orders placed to date. Naval Supply Systems Command maintains five active or recently expired IDCs with Pacific Propeller: IDC N0038308D006F ($10.9 million, 293 task orders), N0038313D015F ($6.1 million, 250 task orders), N0038317DBM01 ($10.8 million, 247 task orders), N0038309D006D ($4.1 million, 128 task orders), and N0038318DN601 ($1.8 million, 49 task orders), representing the bulk of the vendor's recurring task-order volume. Pacific Propeller also holds a $1.55 million single-award IDC with NAVSUP (through May 2027) for C-130 propellers under the HC/MC-130 Recapitalization Aircraft program and a $4.5 million single-award Total Small Business set-aside IDC with NOAA (through January 2030) for full-service P-3 propeller maintenance and training, awarded January 2025.

Activity has been substantial but declining. Pacific Propeller averaged 29 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with the highest year in 2023 (41 awards) and a marked decline in 2025–2026 (19 and 17 awards, respectively). Combined potential value across 1,413 awards totals $282.4 million, with $152.2 million obligated (54%). Only eight awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, totaling $2 million in combined potential value—a minimal recompete cliff relative to the vendor's total active portfolio, suggesting most standing IDC vehicles retain substantial remaining authority and do not face near-term recompete pressure.

Pacific Propeller operates as a prime on 96% of awards (1,361 prime awards and IDVs) and as a subcontractor on 4% (52 sub awards). The vendor subcontracts exclusively to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Yulista Solutions LLC on P-3 aircraft maintenance and logistics support work, including aircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing and taperbore propeller inspection for NASA's P-3 Orion aircraft. SCI-reported invoicing for FY2023 totaled $1.8 million with 1.4 FTEs, representing a narrow slice of the vendor's federal services activity; that single reported record carries a government-paid hourly rate of $614/hr and shows zero sub-hours engagement, consistent with the vendor's primary model of direct manufacturing and repair delivery rather than staffing augmentation.

Pacific Propeller's federal contracting history spans three decades (first award in 1996), with consistent prime activity across propeller overhaul, repair, component supply, and maintenance-training services for legacy platforms—C-130, P-3, WP-3D, and HC-144 aircraft—across defense, civilian, and foreign military sales missions. The vendor competes on the open market without set-aside designation across nearly all prime work, indicating competitiveness in full-and-open procurements against larger aerospace suppliers.