Wing & A Prayer Aviation Inc.

Wing & A Prayer Aviation Inc., a small-business subchapter S corporation based in Cantwell, Alaska, provides fixed-wing on-call aviation services to the Department of the Interior and related federal land management agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, with no subcontract activity. The vendor specializes in nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation (NAICS 481211) for wildlife surveys, aerial tracking, search and rescue operations, personnel and cargo movement, and general operational support across Alaska's remote federal lands. Recent work includes a $52,883 delivery order from the National Park Service Alaska Region on April 17, 2026, for wildlife tracking in Healy; a $126,192 BPA call from the Interior Business Center on March 18, 2026, for aerial wildlife location services at Denali National Park; and a $19,600 delivery order from the Bureau of Land Management on September 15, 2026, for caribou composition survey support in Fairbanks, all priced on fixed-price or fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment terms.

Wing & A Prayer operates almost entirely within the Department of the Interior ecosystem. The vendor's customer base is highly concentrated: the National Park Service Alaska Region accounts for 104 awards (88% of award count) with $1.9 million combined potential value, while the Interior Business Center anchors the dollar base with seven awards carrying $38.7 million combined potential value. The Office of Policy Management and Budget contributes two awards with $20.5 million combined potential value. The Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Geological Survey, and Fish and Wildlife Service round out the active set with smaller volumes. Dollar concentration diverges sharply from award count; the Interior Business Center's large-ceiling IDIQs dominate the potential-value ranking despite representing only 7% of award count.

Wing & A Prayer holds three parent contract vehicles: a $18.6 million total-small-business-set-aside multiple-award indefinite delivery contract awarded by the Interior Business Center on April 1, 2026, running through March 31, 2031, for fixed-wing on-call flight services across Alaska; a $500,000 single-award BPA awarded by the Office of Policy Management and Budget on September 5, 2024, for on-call fixed-wing transportation through September 2, 2029; and a $250,000 single-award BPA awarded by the Alaska Region on August 20, 2025, for wildlife location services through August 19, 2030. Legacy vehicles generating residual task-order activity include BPA IND12PA00160 (54 task orders, $377 thousand combined potential value) and the DOI Fixed Wing Flight Services 2017–2018 vehicle (52 task orders, $595 thousand combined potential value). The vendor operates exclusively under small-business set-asides or no set-aside designation; recent awards split between Total Small Business set-aside delivery orders against the Interior Business Center IDIQ and non-set-aside BPA calls. Activity has remained flat at four to six awards annually over the past five years, and only three awards worth $199 thousand combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure.