Wrangell Mountain Air Inc.

Wrangell Mountain Air Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Glennallen, Alaska, provides fixed-wing on-call aircraft transportation and aviation support services to federal land management and scientific agencies as a prime contractor under multiple-award indefinite-delivery and blanket-purchase vehicles. The vendor competes under a Total Small Business set-aside on its flagship $18.6 million Interior Business Center IDIQ awarded April 1, 2026, but also holds and executes task orders under full-and-open vehicles, with 81% of recent award volume concentrated in small-dollar delivery orders issued without set-aside designation.

The Department of the Interior National Park Service Alaska Region dominates Wrangell Mountain Air's recent award volume — 88 awards across 122 total prime awards — but represents only $286 thousand of the vendor's $67 million combined potential value. The divergence reflects the vendor's portfolio structure: NPS issues hundreds of small, recurring on-call delivery orders for fixed-wing transportation, wildlife surveys, backcountry operations, airstrip and cabin maintenance, and search-and-rescue flight support, while the Interior Business Center anchors the dollar value through two larger vehicles. The Interior Business Center's $18.6 million IDIQ, awarded under NAICS 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation) with a five-year performance window through March 31, 2031, procures fixed-wing services for fire and resource management, law enforcement support, general transportation, and special-use operations across Alaska. A second Interior Business Center BPA established June 15, 2026, with a $500 thousand ceiling through June 4, 2029, procures as-needed fixed-wing transportation on a government purchase-card basis. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management also holds a $7.5 million multiple-award vehicle with the vendor for aerial firefighting resources.

Recent delivery-order activity illustrates the vendor's service portfolio. A June 6, 2026, delivery order from the Interior Business Center's Alaska Region Bureau of Land Management valued at $32,467.50 procured on-call aviation support for cadastral survey operations in Wrangell, Alaska. NPS Alaska Region issued recurring small-value orders in 2023 and 2024 for backcountry operations ($10,792.69), cultural resource surveys ($9,337.09), helicopter fuel system maintenance ($6,056.72), and airstrip maintenance ($2,365.95). A July 3, 2025, NPS delivery order for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park backcountry operations valued at $8,451.18 was issued without set-aside designation, reflecting the vendor's ability to compete full-and-open. The U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center also uses the vendor for earthquake hazards-related flight support.

Award activity peaked in 2023 with nine awards before declining to five awards in 2024, two in 2025, and five through mid-2026, reflecting small-order volatility within a stable base of recurring NPS task orders. All 122 awards are prime contracts; the vendor carries no sub-award footprint. Place of performance spans Anchorage, Fairbanks, Copper Center, Glennallen, and Wrangell, Alaska, with operations across remote terrain requiring FAA Part 121 or Part 135 aircraft certification.

Charter and scheduled, passenger and freight air service in Alaska