Paraclete Aviation LLC

Paraclete Aviation LLC, a veteran-owned limited liability company based in Raeford, North Carolina, operates as a prime contractor delivering specialized military aviation support services — aircraft lift tickets, military freefall and static line instruction, parachute training, aircraft blade hours, and precision canopy control courses — to Department of Defense components across multiple military branches. The company competes full-and-open without set-aside designation on the vast majority of its awards, though it qualifies for and has won Total Small Business set-asides on occasional purchases from the Air Force and Marine Corps.

Paraclete Aviation's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. Marine Corps. USSOCOM accounts for 17 awards and $1.3 billion in combined potential value—the bulk anchored by a single-award indefinite delivery contract valued at $1.3 billion for military freefall and static line support services running through August 2029. The Marine Corps places the largest number of individual orders, with 51 awards totaling $8.1 million in combined potential value, dominated by aircraft blade hours and air blade hours delivery orders across its installations. Together, these two customers represent the vast majority of Paraclete Aviation's portfolio by dollar value. The Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, and Air Force Air Education and Training Command round out the active customer set, though with substantially lower order volumes and dollar exposure. Representative Army work includes a $249.6 thousand single-award indefinite delivery contract with Army Test and Evaluation Command for CASA aircraft lift tickets at Fort Liberty running through January 2027, and delivery orders such as a $66.8 thousand firm fixed-price air lift support services order awarded in January 2026 and a $22.3 thousand lift ticket delivery order completed in December 2025. Air Force Air Education and Training Command has awarded parachute and jump training services including a $74.3 thousand Total Small Business purchase order for 38th Rescue Squadron jump training at Moody Air Force Base in December 2024 and a $55.4 thousand Total Small Business purchase order for 352nd Special Warfare Training Squadron free fall training in September 2023.

The company's vehicle footprint is dominated by indefinite delivery contracts with individual military commands rather than government-wide acquisition contracts. The top five parent vehicles account for 66 task orders combined: an indefinite delivery contract (M6700120D0006) with 29 task orders worth $902 thousand, an indefinite delivery contract (M6700117D0004) with 17 task orders worth $650 thousand, and three additional Army and Marine Corps IDVs with 10, 9, and 1 task orders respectively. These vehicles are commodity-like, enabling routine lift ticket and blade-hour ordering across fiscal years. The $1.3 billion USSOCOM military freefall and static line support contract, while holding only one explicitly documented $500 delivery order in the source data, represents the vendor's largest strategic vehicle.

Activity has been variable over recent years: eight awards in 2022, nine in 2023, declining to five in 2024, rebounding to six in 2025, with one award to date in 2026. Awards with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months total two, with combined potential value of $227 thousand, presenting minimal recompete risk. The combined potential value across the 112 prime awards in the source is $1.32 billion, though obligated spending stands at only $9.2 million (1% of potential), reflecting the capital nature of the $1.3 billion USSOCOM vehicle and the small, frequent nature of individual lift-ticket and blade-hour delivery orders. The vendor has been registered in SAM since 2006 and maintains an established operational footprint at its Raeford, North Carolina headquarters, with performance locations including Fort Liberty, North Carolina (Army); Jacksonville, North Carolina (Marine Corps); Camp Lejeune, North Carolina (Marine Corps); Moody Air Force Base, Georgia (Air Force); and Japan (Air Force precision landing course). Paraclete Aviation specializes in support aviation services categorized primarily under NAICS 481219 (Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation) and PSC Transportation/Travel/Relocation codes, delivering commodity air charter and specialized military training instruction.