Textron Aviation Inc.

Textron Aviation Inc., a large-business subsidiary of aerospace and defense conglomerate Textron Inc., sells fixed-wing general aviation aircraft, aircraft maintenance and sustainment services, and engineering support to federal agencies as a prime contractor (21% of recent awards) and heavily as a subcontractor (79%) across civilian and defense portfolios. The company competes exclusively on full-and-open contract vehicles with no small-business set-asides. Headquarters are in Wichita, Kansas, where the company operates manufacturing, maintenance, and engineering facilities. Primary NAICS framing is Other Support Activities for Air Transportation (718 awards), with secondary activity in Aircraft Manufacturing (79 awards) and Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (36 awards).

Textron Aviation's prime capability portfolio centers on King Air aircraft procurement, King Air and T-44 aircraft maintenance under long-standing IDIQs, aircraft modifications, and sustainment engineering for trainer aircraft platforms. Representative prime contracts include a $16.8 million firm fixed-price definitive contract with the Drug Enforcement Administration (September 2026) for one King Air B300CER aircraft with delivery through September 2030; a $9 million purchase order from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (April 2026) for three factory-new turboprop utility aircraft for sterile fly dispersal operations with delivery through April 2027; a $208.4 million delivery order with the Transportation Department's Franchise Acquisition Services (May 2026) for procurement of modified commercial King Air 360ER aircraft; and multiple maintenance delivery orders under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's $7.5 million five-year King Air Maintenance IDIQ running through August 2029. A single-award Blank Purchase Agreement with the Defense Logistics Agency established a $2.5 million parts and components ceiling through March 2031, with the first call carrying $1.2 million.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward the Department of the Air Force (533 awards by count), the Department of the Navy's Naval Air Systems Command ($1.03 billion combined potential value across 52 awards), and the Army's PEO Aviation ($565.6 million across 59 awards). The Transportation Department's Franchise Acquisition Services anchors significant dollar value ($664.6 million across 11 awards), primarily through the modified King Air 360ER procurement orders. The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center account for $178.5 million across 10 awards. By volume, civilian agencies (NOAA, FAA, USDA, DOJ Drug Enforcement Administration) cluster in the lower single-digit millions per order, while defense platforms generate substantially larger cumulative value.

Textron Aviation holds positions on multiple Air Force IDIQs, most notably the indefinite-delivery contract FA861718D6213 (503 task orders), and sits on the Naval Air Systems Command's NAVAIR Strategic Sourcing for CMMARS vehicle (37 task orders). An indefinite-delivery contract FA810621D0001 carries 18 task orders for T34/T44 engineering data support and services running through March 2031. These vehicles enable rapid response to Air Force trainer sustainment (T-6, T-44, T-1A platforms) and Navy training aircraft support.

In its dominant subcontractor role, Textron Aviation supplies aircraft parts, components, engineering labor, and maintenance support to JPATS Logistics Services LLC (the bulk of sub activity, with parts and materials under Contractor Operated and Maintained Base Supply contracts), Amentum Services Inc. (aircraft maintenance and logistics support, UC-35 contractor logistics support), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (contractor logistics support for government-owned fixed-wing fleets performing special electronic mission aircraft operations), and Textron Aviation Defense LLC (T-6 aircraft sustainment engineering and program management services, T-1A SEPM, Foreign Military Sales ferrying services). Sub-award activity has grown sharply—28 awards in 2026 through early September, 363 in 2025, and 259 in 2024—reflecting expanded demand for trainer and tactical aircraft sustainment across the Air Force and Navy.

Activity trajectory shows strong growth from 2022 (19 awards) through 2025 (363 awards), with 2026 awards reported at 28 through early September (a partial-year snapshot). Eleven awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.04 billion, signaling substantial recompete exposure in the King Air and King Air 360ER procurement contracts as well as the Franchise Acquisition Services delivery orders anchoring the transportation sector.

Textron Aviation Defense LLC, a named subsidiary, appears in sub-award records as a performing entity on sustainment engineering and program management contracts for the T-6 trainer platform under Air Force contracts, including work on field repair drawings, fatigue crack growth testing, FAA certification support, and Foreign Military Sales ferrying services. Another subsidiary, Able Aerospace Services Inc., is registered in the corporate structure but does not appear in the recent award sample.