Ranger Aviation Enterprises, Inc.

Ranger Aviation Enterprises, Inc., a Subchapter S corporation headquartered in San Angelo, Texas, supplies aviation turbine fuel (Jet Propellant-8, Jet A, and related aviation-grade fuels) to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designation. The vendor operates as a fixed base operator providing fuel procurement, storage, and distribution across nine states—Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas—under a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract from the Defense Logistics Agency Energy.

Ranger Aviation's federal footprint is almost entirely concentrated with one customer. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy accounts for 18,108 awards (99.8% of recent award volume) with $67.4 million in combined potential value across the entire vendor award portfolio. The remaining six awards scattered across the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command, the Defense Logistics Agency (non-Energy), and Air Force entities represent negligible volume. This extreme customer concentration reflects Ranger Aviation's specialized role as a commodity fuel supplier locked into DLA Energy's supply chain rather than a diversified contractor.

Ranger Aviation holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (SPE60719D0114) from DLA Energy, awarded July 1, 2023, and running through March 31, 2027, with a $14.7 million ceiling. The contract authorizes delivery of up to 192 million gallons of aviation turbine fuel across the nine-state service area. All task orders against this vehicle are priced fixed-price with economic price adjustment. The vendor also operates under three other parent IDCs—SP060015D0001 ($9.5 million across 6,483 task orders), SPE60723D0074 ($2.4 million across 2,428 task orders), and SP060011D0039 ($6.8 million across 819 task orders)—suggesting historical contracts from earlier periods still generating residual delivery orders.

Activity has been volatile. Award volume collapsed from 2,330 in 2022 to 81 in 2024, then recovered partially to 341 in 2025 and 829 year to date in 2026 (as of July 2026). The sharp drop in 2023 and 2024 reflects DLA Energy's shift in ordering patterns or consolidation of delivery schedules; the subsequent rebound suggests demand recovery. About 67% of the vendor's combined potential value across all awards has been obligated, indicating mature execution.

Recent representative delivery orders illustrate the transaction pattern: a $14.844 million delivery order on May 21, 2026; a $12.18 million order on June 19, 2026; multiple orders in the $1,000–$3,000 range throughout June 2026; and a high frequency of sub-$1,000 orders on the same dates, reflecting daily or near-daily fuel draws from DLA Energy depots across the service area. All orders carry no set-aside and compete full-and-open.

The vendor's subcontract footprint is minimal. A single sub-award appears in the record: a $35 thousand sub to V2X Aerospace LLC on November 18, 2025, for C-12 aircraft auxiliary equipment manufacturing—a one-off non-fuel item that does not characterize the vendor's primary work.

Ranger Aviation competes exclusively in NAICS 4247 (Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers) and PSC 4140 (Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base). The vendor has no apparent teaming relationships, facilities outside San Angelo, or diversification into services, IT, maintenance, or other categories. It is a single-purpose fuel distributor executing transactional delivery orders against a locked-in DLA Energy contract vehicle with no meaningful competition exposure or growth pathway beyond DLA Energy demand fluctuations and the March 31, 2027 contract recompete.