Park Rapids Aviation, Inc.

Park Rapids Aviation, Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Park Rapids, Minnesota, provides aircraft maintenance, repair, and modification services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, competing under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with core capabilities in rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft fleet sustainment, including annual and periodic inspections, engine maintenance, avionics and electrical repairs, parts replacement, painting, structural repairs, and float installations for amphibious operations.

Park Rapids Aviation's customer base is tightly concentrated within the Department of the Interior. The DOI Office of Policy Management and Budget accounts for 37 of 43 total awards and $52.2 million of $55 million in combined potential value—94% of the vendor's federal footprint. The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center holds the second position with three awards and $563 thousand in potential value, followed by the DOI Fish and Wildlife Service (two awards, $2.1 million) and the DOI US Geological Survey Alaska Science Center (one award, $41 thousand). Both customer rankings align; DOI dominance spans both award count and dollar concentration.

Park Rapids Aviation holds three active parent indefinite delivery vehicles, all with the Department of the Interior. The primary vehicle is IDC 140D0423D0014, a $30 million multiple-award contract set aside 100% for small businesses under NAICS 488190 (aircraft maintenance and repair services), awarded December 1, 2022 with completion through November 30, 2027. This vehicle has generated 17 task orders valued at $1.9 million combined potential value. Recent delivery orders under this vehicle include a $136,647.76 order (January 30, 2025), a $96,611.59 order (June 2, 2025), a $42,418.90 order (November 5, 2025), and a $38,587.68 order (September 18, 2025). A second vehicle, IDC 140D8020D0010, is an $18.1 million multiple-award contract that has generated 14 task orders valued at $654 thousand. A third vehicle, IDC 140D8119D0014, has produced four task orders valued at $1.6 million combined. Park Rapids Aviation operates 100% as a prime contractor with no recorded sub-award activity.

Award activity has declined from eight awards in 2022 to three in 2026, though the recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months is minimal—only two awards with combined potential value of $267 thousand reach ultimate completion within that window. The vendor's work centers on NAICS categories for Other Support Activities for Air Transportation (37 awards) and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (six awards), with PSC codes emphasizing aircraft and airframe structural component maintenance and repair. Recent representative work includes a $548,387.50 purchase order from the National Interagency Fire Center (May 31, 2023) for procurement and installation of amphibious floats on a U.S. Forest Service Quest Kodiak 100 aircraft, a $421,533.32 delivery order from DOI (January 1, 2023) for aircraft fleet maintenance through August 2023, and a $240,780.65 delivery order from DOI (October 5, 2023) for rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft sustainment through April 2024. All work is performed at Park Rapids Aviation's facility in Park Rapids, Minnesota, supporting DOI aircraft operations across the lower 48 United States.