Sky Copters Inc.

Sky Copters Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Seneca, Kansas, provides aerial herbicide application and invasive species control services to federal land management agencies as a 100% prime contractor, operating under total small business set-asides on purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements.

Sky Copters holds a $49.5 million national fuels reduction Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1, awarded September 25, 2026, running through March 31, 2029. This BPA is the vendor's anchor vehicle and accounts for 99% of its combined potential value; underlying task orders from the BPA fund aerial herbicide spraying operations at wildlife refuges across the vendor's service area. Recent representative work includes a $24,054 firm-fixed-price purchase order from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 (September 17, 2026) for treatment of approximately 211 acres of phragmites infestation at Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge using imazapyr-based herbicide applied via aerial methods, with work performance constrained to daylight hours and subject to immediate cessation if whooping cranes are observed; a $46,810 order (June 5, 2024) for aerial spraying across approximately 250 acres of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, with the vendor responsible for treating both areas not fully controlled in prior seasons and newly identified infested sites; and a $50,000 order (July 25, 2023) for phragmites control at Quivira.

Customer concentration is extreme and tilted heavily toward the single BPA holder. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 accounts for 100% of combined potential value through the national fuels reduction BPA. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 represents the second-largest customer by award count (9 awards, $224 thousand potential value) but remains dwarfed by dollars. The Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region and the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha represent minor customers. Across all work, Sky Copters operates under primary NAICS 441210 (Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating) and PSC categories for natural resources and conservation aerial fertilization and spraying. Activity is sparse and episodic — one award in 2023, one in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with only $24 thousand in potential value reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $653 thousand, or 1% of combined potential value, indicating that most BPA ceiling remains unexercised.

Aerial spraying, seeding, external load work, survey work, helicopter related. Aquatic applicator certified.