Shadow Aviation, Inc.

Shadow Aviation, Inc., a Fairbanks, Alaska-based small disadvantaged business, operates as a prime contractor delivering fixed-wing aircraft transportation and support services to federal agencies operating across Alaska's remote terrain, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on its primary Interior Business Center vehicle and in full-and-open competition on task orders issued by individual Interior bureaus.

Shadow Aviation is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and self-certified small disadvantaged business (SDB) founded in 2001 and registered in SAM.gov since that year. The company operates under primary NAICS 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation), with secondary work in freight charter and equipment rental. The vendor holds no subcontract footprint; 100% of its 170 federal awards are prime positions.

The company's core capability is specialized aviation logistics for federal land-management and scientific research operations in Alaska. Work includes fixed-wing aircraft charter for wildlife population surveys (moose, Dall sheep, brown bear monitoring), stream gage maintenance and hydrological monitoring for U.S. Geological Survey operations, vegetation monitoring assessments, and emergency response transportation. All services operate under 14 CFR Part 121 or 135 certification and employ fixed-price pricing with economic price adjustment provisions to absorb fuel-cost volatility. Individual task orders historically range from approximately $1,600 to $40,000. Representative recent orders include a $39,000 delivery order from National Park Service Alaska Region for yellow-billed loon research support, a $30,028 order from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 for ANWR operations, and a $25,000 order from NPS for Yukon-Charley moose survey logistics.

Customer concentration sits heavily within Department of the Interior bureaus. The top five funding entities account for 67% of awards (based on award count) but 100% of combined potential value by design: the Interior Business Center accounts for 10 awards carrying $38.8 million in combined potential value; the Office of Policy Management and Budget carries one award for $20 million; and the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center holds three awards for $7.5 million. Operating-level customers—National Park Service Alaska Region (66 awards, $708 thousand), USGS Alaska Science Center (17 awards, $58 thousand), Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 (12 awards, $103 thousand), and Forest Service R10-Alaska (9 awards, $88 thousand)—generate high volume but lower individual task-order ceiling values. The vendor serves 12 distinct federal agencies across the portfolio.

Shadow Aviation holds or has held four named vehicle positions. The $18.6 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Interior Business Center, awarded April 1, 2026, and running through March 31, 2031, is the anchor vehicle under total small business set-aside (NAICS 481211). The predecessor Interior Business Center IDIQ ($20 million, effective through March 31, 2026) generated 47 task orders and $346 thousand in combined potential value under the BPA IND12PA00154 designation and 33 task orders under contract 140D8121D0024. The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center BOA ($7.5 million) carries three historic awards. Older Interior-issued IDIQs—DOI Fixed Wing Flight Services (2017–2018) and other BPA vehicles—account for 30 and 11 task orders respectively.

Activity volume has remained modest and flat. The source records six awards in 2026 year-to-date, seven in 2025, seven in 2024, four in 2023, and ten in 2022, reflecting consistent but non-growing order placement across stable Interior customers. Only four awards (combined potential value $117 thousand) complete within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete cliff exposure; the recently awarded $18.6 million IDIQ extending through March 2031 anchors the vendor's medium-term revenue foundation.

Shadow Aviation's combined potential value across all 170 awards stands at $67.5 million, though only $1.6 million (2%) has been obligated across the portfolio—a reflection of the on-call, task-order-driven nature of the work. The vendor's footprint is geographically concentrated in Alaska, with all place-of-performance addresses in Fairbanks and subordinate landing sites (Salcha, Eagle, Bettles) across remote Interior and Arctic regions.