Van Arsdale Air Service, L.L.C.

Van Arsdale Air Service, L.L.C., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Bentonville, Arkansas, operates as a 100% prime contractor providing fixed-wing on-call charter flight services to federal wildland fire management and resource operations under Total Small Business set-asides. The company is a limited liability partnership competing exclusively under small-business set-asides across a narrow customer base of Interior and Agriculture agencies.

Van Arsdale's capability portfolio centers on nonscheduled charter passenger and freight air transportation under 14 CFR Part 121 or 135 operations, with platform concentration in wildland fire suppression, resource management support, law enforcement transport, and general tactical aviation. The top two customer agencies — the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) within Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management and the Department of the Interior Interior Business Center — account for 98% of the vendor's combined potential value. NIFC dominates the relationship, with seven awards worth $20.9 million, including a single-award IDIQ for National Light Fixed Wing Services valued at $18 million running through December 31, 2033, under which three delivery orders have been issued as of March 2026 (ceiling values of $106,946.40, $190,321.24, and $153,980.84, all for performance in Bentonville, Arkansas and completion by December 31, 2026). The Interior Business Center holds two awards worth $18.6 million: a five-year multiple-award IDIQ for fixed-wing on-call flight services in Alaska with a ceiling of $18.6 million awarded April 1, 2026 and running through March 31, 2031, encompassing fire and resource management, law enforcement support, general transportation, and special-use flights, excluding direct fire suppression and tactical fire support aircraft operations. A smaller Department of Agriculture Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region relationship contributes $19 thousand.

Activity has accelerated sharply in 2025 and 2026, with five awards issued across 2026 alone compared to one award each in 2022, 2019, and 2016. However, only three awards (combined potential value $451 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. Of the $40.2 million combined potential value across all sixteen awards, only $1.2 million has been obligated to date (3%), indicating these are largely unexercised ceiling amounts on new IDIQ vehicles. The vendor holds one parent vehicle position: Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SA25T9406, with four task orders and $679 thousand in combined potential value. Van Arsdale maintains FAA certifications for charter operations and operates in Alaska and Arkansas, with work concentrated on forest-range fire suppression and presuppression activities under PSC Natural Resources/Conservation codes.

Provide fire recon and initial attack for State Forestry,USFS and other government depts.. Provide Air Attack Platform Type I aircraft. Provides on call aircraft charter Faa 135 certificate.