Rust's Flying Service, Inc.

Rust's Flying Service, Inc., doing business as Rusts Flying Service Inc., operates as a woman-owned small business providing fixed-wing on-call aviation services to federal land management agencies in Alaska, competing exclusively as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations. The Anchorage, Alaska-based vendor holds no SBA certifications beyond woman-owned small business status and operates under FAA certifications as a nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation provider under NAICS 481211, with all 78 recent awards concentrated in that single category.

Rust's Flying Service delivers personnel and cargo transportation, mountain patrol flights, VIP overflights, and logistical support using fixed-wing aircraft operated and maintained in-house across Alaska's remote terrain. Representative work includes a $25,086 delivery order from the National Park Service Alaska Region for Denali mountain patrol flights issued in March 2025 under a $20 million small business indefinite delivery contract, a $35,153 fiscal year 2024 NPS delivery order for Talkeetna-based mountain patrol flights, and a $23,316 May 2022 Bureau of Land Management delivery order for on-call Alaska fixed-wing aviation services under firm fixed-price terms with economic price adjustment.

Customer concentration is extreme and geographically narrow. The Department of the Interior's Alaska-based components account for 79% of recent awards by count: the National Park Service Alaska Region alone holds 35 awards ($528 thousand combined potential value), the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region holds 12 awards ($117 thousand), and the Interior Business Center holds 11 awards ($58.6 million combined potential value). The Interior Business Center dominates dollar value despite representing only 14% of award count, reflecting the April 2026 award of an $18.6 million five-year indefinite delivery contract for fixed-wing on-call flight services through March 2031. The Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service Western Region and Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget represent the remaining customer base at negligible scale.

Rust's Flying Service holds position on multiple Interior Alaska vehicles: the primary vehicle is the $18.6 million IDC awarded April 1, 2026 (set aside for total small business, performing through March 2031); a $500 thousand BPA awarded September 5, 2024 (performing through September 2029); and multiple predecessor BPAs and IDCs spanning back to at least 2003. Recent task-order activity shows 31 calls against the Blanket Purchase Agreement IND12PA00150, 11 against the Indefinite Delivery Contract 140D8121D0041, and 10 against BPA IND81ARA2620. Awards per year have ranged between 1 and 5 in the past five years, with five awards issued in 2026 to date. Only one award with a contract value exceeding $6 thousand faces completion within the next twenty-four months, eliminating material recompete cliff risk and suggesting the recently awarded $18.6 million IDC will anchor the vendor's Interior pipeline through at least fiscal 2030.

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