Park Rapids Aviation, Inc.

Park Rapids Aviation, Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Park Rapids, Minnesota, provides aircraft fleet maintenance, repair, and modification services to federal agencies as a 100% prime contractor under small business set-asides and full-and-open designations. The company is self-certified as a woman-owned small business and small disadvantaged business, operating as a Subchapter S Corporation, and competes across both set-aside and non-set-aside vehicles — about 40% of recent awards carry total small business set-aside or competitive small business designations, while the remainder are awarded full-and-open.

Park Rapids Aviation's customer footprint is heavily concentrated with the Department of the Interior. The Department of the Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget accounts for 35 of 41 total awards (85% of the portfolio) worth $52 million in combined potential value; the remaining volume is distributed across the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (two awards, $2.1 million), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (three awards, $563 thousand), and the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Alaska Science Center (one award, $41 thousand). The top-customer rankings by count and by potential value track identically, reflecting deep concentration in a single Interior bureau.

Park Rapids Aviation holds three primary indefinite delivery contracts with DOI. A $30 million multiple-award IDC (Contract 140D0423D0014, awarded December 1, 2022, with a ceiling date of November 30, 2027) designated as total small business set-aside under NAICS 488190 has generated 15 delivery orders valued at $1.6 million combined. An $18.1 million IDC (Contract 140D8020D0010) has produced 14 delivery orders totaling $654 thousand. A third IDC (Contract 140D8119D0014) carries four task orders worth $1.6 million combined. All three vehicles support on-call aircraft maintenance across the lower 48 United States for DOI-owned rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft. Representative delivery orders include a $421,533 order (January 1, 2023) for general fleet maintenance, a $412,625 order (August 21, 2024) for maintenance support, and a $548,388 total small business set-aside purchase order (May 31, 2023) from NIFC for procurement and installation of amphibious floats on a Forest Service Quest Kodiak 100 aircraft. Work is performed at Park Rapids Aviation's facility in Park Rapids, Minnesota, and includes annual and periodic inspections, engine maintenance, avionics and electrical repairs, parts replacement, painting, structural repairs, and float installations to sustain airworthiness and operational readiness.

Activity shows a declining trajectory. Park Rapids Aviation recorded eight awards in 2022, six in 2023, six in 2024, four in 2025, and one in 2026 through June. Only two awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $160 thousand, suggesting limited recompete exposure in the near term. The company carries 41 awards across all roles, all as prime contractor with no subcontract work in the source portfolio. Combined potential value stands at $54.7 million, though only $4.6 million (8%) has been obligated to date, reflecting the indefinite-delivery structure of the underlying contracts and the use of delivery orders to task out incremental work.