Federal contractor · SHERIDAN, WY

BIGHORN AIRWAYS INC

BIGHORN AIRWAYS INC received $28.1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 26 awards (+9.5% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $132.8M. Its largest customer was Forest Service ($15.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$28.1M
New awards
26
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 6.8MFY2017
  2. 4.9MFY2018
  3. 7.1MFY2019
  4. 7.4MFY2020
  5. 10MFY2021
  6. 14MFY2022
  7. 12.3MFY2023
  8. 16.7MFY2024
  9. 25.6MFY2025
  10. 28.1MFY2026
  11. 0FY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 17 awards
  2. 9 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$22.5M80%
  2. Transportation & logistics$5.6M20%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

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

Largest awards

  1. Forest Service· Missoula County, MT· Facilities & utilities· Mar 21, 2025 – Sep 28, 2026· 1202SA25K9118
  2. Forest Service· Shasta County, CA· Facilities & utilities· Apr 23, 2025 – Oct 2, 2026· 1202SA25K9122
  3. Departmental Offices· Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK· Transportation & logistics· Mar 5, 2026 – Aug 13, 2026· 140D0426F0268
  4. Departmental Offices· Sheridan County, WY· Facilities & utilities· Mar 11, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026· 140D0426F0264
  5. Forest Service· Okanogan County, WA· Facilities & utilities· Apr 29, 2025 – Sep 29, 2026· 1202SA25K9121
  6. Forest Service· Gallatin County, MT· Facilities & utilities· Mar 24, 2025 – Sep 8, 2026· 1202SA25K9120
  7. Forest Service· Idaho County, ID· Facilities & utilities· Mar 21, 2025 – Aug 19, 2026· 1202SA25K9113
  8. Departmental Offices· Sheridan County, WY· Transportation & logistics· Apr 3, 2025 – Jun 26, 2026· 140D0425F0400

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 · $40.5M reported

  1. PASCAGOULA, MS · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related 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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SPUR AVIATION SERVICES, LC$48.3M+12% in FY2026
    TWIN FALLS, ID · 69% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportationDepartmental Offices · Support activities for forestryDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation
  2. BRAINERD HELICOPTERS, INC$59.8M+19% in FY2026
    LEESBURG, FL · 73% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportationDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation
  3. HILLSBORO AVIATION, INC.$50.2M−3.7% in FY2026
    HILLSBORO, OR · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportationDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation

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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.