Pilatus Aircraft USA LTD.

Pilatus Aircraft USA LTD, doing business as Pilatus Business Aircraft, manufactures single-engine turbine aircraft (the PC-12 platform) and supplies aircraft parts and aviation training services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on a $140 million FBI indefinite delivery contract and as a subcontractor through Sierra Nevada Company on Department of the Air Force Big Safari programs. The company is foreign-owned, for-profit, and based in Broomfield, Colorado with additional operational facilities in Westminster, Colorado. Pilatus competes full-and-open across all prime awards; no set-aside categories apply to its federal posture.

Pilatus's federal footprint divides sharply between prime and sub work. Prime awards (12% of total) center on aircraft procurement and aviation services for the FBI and Customs and Border Protection. The $140 million FBI indefinite delivery contract, awarded September 2022 through September 2027, anchors the prime portfolio and covers procurement of PC-12 aircraft equipped with pressurization, electro-optical/infrared sensing, and capacity for nine occupants and 900 pounds of cargo for the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group fleet. Recent prime delivery orders against this IDC include $21.5 million (September 2022, completion February 2025), $10.8 million (September 2023, completion April 2025), and $11.1 million (September 2024, completion August 2026). Pilatus also holds two single-award blanket purchase agreements under the FBI contract: a $5 million BPA for aviation training services (through December 2028) and a $1 million BPA for Pilatus tools and parts (through July 2029). On the CBP side, Pilatus received a $25.8 million delivery order in September 2025 for PC-12 aircraft procurement with completion by September 2027. Most recently, the Department of Defense Headquarters Division issued a $40.5 million delivery order on May 7, 2026, for PC-12 aircraft under the FBI parent contract, with completion target of November 2027.

Sub-contract work (88% of all awards) flows entirely through Sierra Nevada Company and centers on Big Safari aircraft parts, engineering services, and contractor logistics support. The source lists more than 130 sub-awards dating from 2022 through late 2025, predominantly for Big Safari aircraft components including compressors, actuators, landing gear, and assemblies, alongside return-to-service field support and logistics for PC-12 aircraft deployed to Uzbekistan. This sub-engagement characterizes Pilatus as a specialized parts and support supplier within the Big Safari modification and sustainment ecosystem rather than as a systems integrator.

Customer concentration is extreme on the prime side. The FBI Headquarters Division accounts for $230 million in combined potential value across ten prime awards (88% of all prime dollars); CBP accounts for $25.8 million (10% of prime dollars). On the sub side, the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command's Aeronautical Systems Center (Big Safari) hosts 136 of 136 sub-awards, representing near-total reliance on a single integrator and program office. Sub-awards carry no disclosed potential-value ceiling but obligated spend ($121.3 million cumulative across all work) suggests substantial cumulative value over the 2022–2025 period.

Parent vehicle positioning shows two distinct channels. Prime work rides on the $140 million FBI indefinite delivery contract (5 delivery orders totaling $109.6 million potential value) and two associated single-award BPAs ($6 million combined ceiling). Sub-work against Big Safari flows through a Basic Ordering Agreement (FA862021G4009) with 125 task orders and an Engineering, Procurement, Integration, and Contractor Logistics Support vehicle with 11 task orders; neither vehicle carries a disclosed ceiling in the source.

Activity has accelerated sharply. Pilatus recorded four awards in 2022, 22 in 2023, 64 in 2024, and 56 in 2025, with one award as of May 2026. This growth trajectory reflects ramping Big Safari sub-engagement and multiple FBI delivery orders issued against the 2022 IDC award. Three awards with combined potential value of $77.4 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure concentrated on the FBI and CBP channels where Pilatus holds incumbent positions. The obligated-to-potential ratio (46%) indicates significant unexercised option value across the FBI IDC and Big Safari vehicles, signaling pipeline visibility for the vendor through 2027 and into 2028 where the FBI BPAs extend.