Ranger Aviation Enterprises, Inc.

Ranger Aviation Enterprises, Inc., a Subchapter S corporation headquartered in San Angelo, Texas, operates as a fixed base operator providing aviation turbine fuel procurement, storage, and distribution to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on a full-and-open basis with no set-asides. The company holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy with a ceiling of $14.7 million, awarded July 1, 2023, and running through March 31, 2027, authorizing delivery of up to 192 million gallons of aviation turbine fuel (Jet Propellant-8, Jet A, and related aviation-grade turbine fuels) across nine states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow: DLA Energy accounts for 17,818 of 17,853 total awards (99.8%) and $67 million of the $67.1 million combined potential value across Ranger Aviation's recent footprint. Secondary customers—the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command (12 awards), Defense Logistics Agency (non-Energy, 9 awards), and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command facilities at Tinker Air Force Base (7 awards combined)—are negligible in dollar and award volume. The vendor competes entirely as a prime; sub-award activity represents fewer than 20 awards and is immaterial. Representative work includes individual delivery orders for aviation turbine fuel ranging from several hundred dollars to over $9,000 per order, all structured fixed-price with economic price adjustment, completing in the calendar periods from March through April 2026.

Activity has contracted sharply. Ranger Aviation received 2,330 awards in 2022, 1,321 in 2023, then dropped to 81 in 2024 before recovering partially to 341 in 2025 and 539 in 2026 year to date. This pattern reflects the nature of the parent IDC: numerous small-dollar, frequent delivery orders for fuel, with order frequency declining as DLA Energy's delivery scheduling or demand adjusted. The contract vehicle itself runs through March 31, 2027; no recompete cliff is present in the near term because the parent IDC does not expire within twenty-four months from the source date of July 15, 2026.

The top four parent vehicles listed in the source—IDCs designated SPE60719D0114, SP060015D0001, SPE60723D0074, and SP060011D0039—carry the vast majority of task orders (17,812 of 17,834 prime awards) and are all DLA Energy fuel procurement contracts. These are DLA's standard indefinite delivery vehicles for aviation fuel supply across multiple regions and vendor bases. Ranger Aviation's position on these vehicles is a commodity fuel supplier role, not a systems integrator or capability-based contract vehicle.

The vendor operates in a single, highly concentrated market segment: NAICS 4247 (Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers), with 16,996 awards categorized as Petroleum Refineries (a classification artifact reflecting the fuel commodity itself rather than Ranger Aviation's refining status—the company is a distributor, not a refiner) and 825 awards under Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers. PSC coding mirrors this: 17,832 awards under Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base (PSC 1935). One award under Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment—Aircraft and Airframe Structural Components reflects the Vertex Aerospace sub-award noted in the source (C-12 CLS parts, November 2025, immaterial volume).

Ranger Aviation's federal profile is narrowly specialized: aviation fuel distribution to military customers under commodity-style full-and-open delivery-order competition. The vendor holds no prestigious IDIQs, no GWAC seats, and no significant secondary customer relationships. The extreme customer concentration on a single agency and single contract vehicle, combined with the sharp award-volume decline from 2023 peaks, signals dependence on a mature, potentially shrinking logistics function rather than growth opportunity or market diversification.