Federal contractor · FATE, TX

5-STATE HELICOPTERS, INC.

5-STATE HELICOPTERS, INC. received $3.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (+6.8% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $11.2M. Its largest customer was Forest Service ($1.9M).

Obligations · FY2026
$3.8M
New awards
6
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
LTC9QNLN2NG1
Small businessVeteran-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 0FY2017
  2. 26KFY2019
  3. 63KFY2020
  4. 1.1MFY2022
  5. 1.8MFY2023
  6. 881.4KFY2024
  7. 3.5MFY2025
  8. 3.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Forest Service$1.9M52%
    5 awards
  2. Departmental Offices$1.8M48%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$1.9M52%
  2. Transportation & logistics$1.8M48%

Where the work was performed

  1. Rockwall County, TX$1.9M52%
  2. Collier County, FL$1.8M48%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $3.8M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $3.8M
  • Urgency justifications48%
    US 5.1% · $1.8M

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. CALL WHEN NEEDED TYPE 1 HELICOPTER FLIGHT SERVICE IN SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION ACTIVITY IN 2026- 5 STATE HELICOPTERS$1.8M
    Departmental Offices· Collier County, FL· Transportation & logistics· Apr 30, 2026 – Jun 23, 2026· 140D0426F0379
  2. 0816-082926 N70TX PKG-73064$638.1K
    Forest Service· Rockwall County, TX· Facilities & utilities· Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026· 1202SA26M1063
  3. 0801-081526 N70TX PKG-72689$604.3K
    Forest Service· Rockwall County, TX· Facilities & utilities· Aug 1, 2026 – Aug 1, 2026· 1202SA26M1026
  4. 0716-073126 N70TX PKG-72466$378.6K
    Forest Service· Rockwall County, TX· Facilities & utilities· Jul 16, 2026 – Jul 16, 2026· 1202SA26M0841
  5. 0710-071526 N70TX PKG-72149$192.1K
    Forest Service· Rockwall County, TX· Facilities & utilities· Jul 10, 2026 – Jul 10, 2026· 1202SA26M0692
  6. 1001-100625 N70TX PKG-69748$131.8K
    Forest Service· Rockwall County, TX· Facilities & utilities· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· 1202SA26M0017

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

1 company · $800.9K reported

  1. USA ENVIRONMENTAL, INC.$800.9K
    OLDSMAR, FL · 1 subaward · Remediation and other waste management services

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. GUIDANCE AIR SERVICE LLC$8.1M+4.3% in FY2026
    PRESCOTT, AZ · 93% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportationDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation
  2. SYCAN CORP$8.2M−28% in FY2026
    PASO ROBLES, CA · 92% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportationDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation
  3. ELKHORN AVIATION, INC.$9.4M−20% in FY2026
    BAKER CITY, OR · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportationDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.