Sierra Pacific Airlines, Inc.

Sierra Pacific Airlines, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Tucson, Arizona, provides domestic charter air transportation services to the federal government as a prime contractor, competing without set-aside designations on a full-and-open basis. The company operates as a nonscheduled chartered passenger air carrier delivering passenger and cargo transport, aeromedical evacuations, emergency response operations, Civil Reserve Air Fleet support, and military training and contingency mission services to defense and civilian agencies.

Sierra Pacific Airlines anchors its federal footprint almost entirely on a single customer: the Air Force's Air Mobility Command (AMC) accounts for 3,069 awards (85% of the vendor's 3,631 total awards) with $1.46 billion in combined potential value—96% of the company's $1.59 billion total federal potential. The vendor's next-largest customer by dollar value, the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management program, carries only $51.2 million across 17 awards. This extreme concentration on AMC creates both deep operational integration and significant recompete risk. The vendor holds a $76.17 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with AMC awarded April 1, 2024, running through September 30, 2028, under which it has issued hundreds of firm-fixed-price delivery orders. Recent representative orders include a $200,000 delivery order (March 26, 2026) for domestic charter air transportation with performance in New Orleans, a $165,600 order (June 3, 2025) for operations across multiple installations, and a $141,900 order (July 13, 2025) for performance in Riverside, California. Individual task orders under the IDC range from $7,075 to $288,000, executing across military installations and civilian airports nationwide (Riverside, El Paso, Fort Drum, MCAS Cherry Point, Yuma, Travis AFB, and dozens of other locations).

The vendor's parent contract vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract HTC71119DCC42, generated 996 task orders worth $68.1 million in combined potential value. A second legacy vehicle, "Domestic Charter Airlift Services 2014-2016," produced 602 task orders valued at $46 million. These vehicles anchor Sierra Pacific's ability to execute rapid-deployment aviation missions without full-and-open competition for individual orders.

Activity volume has remained stable over the past five years—186 awards in 2022, declining to 146 in 2023, then recovering to 161 in 2024 and 164 in 2025—with 47 awards captured in the first four months of 2026. Of the vendor's 3,631 total awards in the source data, all are prime contracts; the vendor operates as a pure prime contractor with no recorded sub-award activity. Combined dollars obligated stand at $351.3 million (22% of potential value), reflecting the mix of active task orders and future-year contract authority under the AMC IDC.

The vendor does not appear in secondary federal vehicles (GWACs, GSA Schedules, or agency-wide IDIQs beyond AMC). Its only diversified federal exposure outside AMC includes a $3.02 million Government-Wide Acquisition Contract with the U.S. Forest Service for national large jet transportation services supporting wildland firefighting and emergency response, mentioned repeatedly in recent award summaries. The vendor competes full-and-open across all awards with no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic set-aside designations applied to delivery orders, relying instead on its woman-owned small business status and demonstrated capability in responsive charter aviation.