Trans Aero LLC

Trans Aero LLC, doing business as Trans Aero LTD, operates as a prime contractor providing Type 1, 2, and 3 rotary-wing helicopter support services for wildland firefighting, fire suppression, aerial ignition, search and rescue, and emergency response missions across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The company is a small business based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, competing in full-and-open procurements with no SBA set-aside designations across its prime federal footprint.

Trans Aero's customer concentration is extreme: the National Interagency Fire Center under the Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 181 of 247 total awards (73% by count) and $278.3 million of the combined $416.1 million potential value (67% by dollars). The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center holds a secondary position with 8 awards valued at $80.8 million, anchored by a single $40 million IDC for on-call Type III helicopter flight services. The National Park Service Intermountain Region, Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, and other Interior sub-offices round out the active customer set, collectively accounting for less than 10% of awards and roughly 2% of potential dollars. This concentration in NIFC wildfire suppression work is the dominant signal in Trans Aero's portfolio.

Trans Aero holds four active parent indefinite-delivery contracts under which the vast majority of task orders flow. The Type 1 Helicopter Support Services 2025–2034 IDIQ, a $50 million multiple-award vehicle awarded by USDA Forest Service effective January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2034, carries 41 task orders valued at $17.8 million. The Type 3 Helicopter Support Services 2023–2032 IDIQ, a $40 million multiple-award vehicle awarded April 12, 2023 through December 31, 2032, holds 14 task orders valued at $3.6 million. The Helicopter Support Services – Type 2 parent vehicle (IDC awarded January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2033, $50 million ceiling) supports delivery orders for emergency-use mobilization program helicopter services. The Department of the Interior's On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services 2022–2027 vehicle, a $49.5 million multiple-award contract designated as total small business set-aside and awarded May 1, 2022, funds 21 task orders for National Park Service search-and-rescue and Bureau of Land Management fire operations. Task orders across all vehicles are structured as firm fixed-price delivery orders with no set-aside designation, ranging from sub-$10,000 routine maintenance orders to multi-million-dollar emergency-response and seasonal surge mobilizations.

Trans Aero operates exclusively as a prime contractor: all 247 awards in the source data are prime contracts or IDCs, with zero subcontractor engagement. The company maintains its own fleet of Airbus Helicopters and related rotary-wing aircraft and performs all work internally, with no material subcontractor footprint noted across any delivery order or parent vehicle documentation.

Activity has remained relatively stable, ranging from 29 to 41 awards annually over the past five years (2022–2026). The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: only 13 awards with ultimate completion dates falling within that window carry combined potential value of $1.9 million. The most significant recompete risk is implicit in the parent IDCs, particularly the Type 1 and Type 3 vehicles, which are multiple-award contracts subject to periodic rebid cycles; the 2025–2034 Type 1 vehicle and the 2023–2032 Type 3 vehicle will both reach expiration within the strategic planning horizon.

Service Contract Inventory captures only $7.3 million in invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2025 (prime records), with 15.1 FTEs reported in FY2022, zero in FY2023, 0.1 in FY2024, and 0.7 in FY2025. This steep decline in SCI-reportable service-contract activity and workforce suggests that Trans Aero's federal revenue is predominantly goods-based (aircraft operations and leasing of rotary-wing assets) rather than reportable labor-hour service contracts above the $150,000 SCI threshold. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts averaged $138.10/hr (median), with rates spanning $96.42/hr at the 10th percentile to $198.37/hr at the 90th percentile. Trans Aero reported zero sub-hours share across prime contracts in the SCI dataset, confirming vertically integrated delivery with no subcontractor labor engagement.

Trans Aero's primary NAICS codes are Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (168 awards) and Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (66 awards). The portfolio is narrowly focused: 183 awards carry PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, and 63 carry PSC Transportation/Travel/Relocation–Passenger Air Charter. This specialization in rotary-wing aircraft operations for federal wildland fire management represents a concentrated, mission-critical capability that anchors Trans Aero's federal footprint to a single customer (NIFC) and a narrow set of parent vehicles. Competitive exposure centers on IDIQ rebids and task order competition within those parent vehicles, all conducted on a full-and-open, lowest-price-technically-acceptable basis.