Federal contractor · PORTLAND, OR

COULSON AVIATION (USA), INC.

COULSON AVIATION (USA), INC. received $69.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 19 awards (+52% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $234.9M. Its largest customer was Forest Service ($61.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$69.7M
New awards
19
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
10%
UEI
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Small businessForeign-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. -7.5MFY2017
  2. 10.1MFY2018
  3. 5.1MFY2019
  4. 5.2MFY2020
  5. 6.7MFY2021
  6. 28.3MFY2022
  7. 23.8MFY2023
  8. 47.5MFY2024
  9. 45.8MFY2025
  10. 69.7MFY2026
  11. 0FY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Forest Service$61.3M88%
    17 awards
  2. Departmental Offices$8.4M12%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$70.6M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Ada County, ID$62.7M90%
  2. Multnomah County, OR$7M10%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition10%
    US 39% · $7M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions10%
    US 8.7% · $7M
  • 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. COULSON - AIRTANKER MATCO 2023 EXCLUSIVE USE TASK ORDER 160 DAY MAP$36.7M
    Forest Service· Ada County, ID· Facilities & utilities· May 17, 2024 – Sep 4, 2026· 1202SA24K9116
  2. COULSON - AIRTANKER MATCO EXCLUSIVE USE TASK ORDER - 160 DAY MAP$29.6M
    Forest Service· Ada County, ID· Facilities & utilities· May 17, 2024 – Sep 1, 2026· 1202SA24K9113
  3. COULSON - AIRTANKER MATCO 2023 EXCLUSIVE USE TASKER ORDER 120 DAY MAP$28.5M
    Forest Service· Ada County, ID· Facilities & utilities· May 17, 2024 – Sep 25, 2026· 1202SA24K9127
  4. COULSON - AIRTANKER MATCO 2023 EXCLUSIVE USE TASK ORDER 120 DAY MAP$28.2M
    Forest Service· Ada County, ID· Facilities & utilities· May 17, 2024 – Sep 7, 2026· 1202SA24K9125
  5. AIRTANKER SERVICES UNDER TORP #2$11.4M
    Forest Service· Ada County, ID· Facilities & utilities· Jun 8, 2026 – Oct 2, 2026· 1202SA26K9101
  6. CALL WHEN NEEDED (UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-FOREST SERVICE) AIRTANKETER FLIGHT SERVICE IN SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FIRE SUPPRESSION MISSION- 2026 HELICOPTER EXPRESS$8.4M
    Departmental Offices· Ada County, ID· Facilities & utilities· Jul 9, 2026 – Aug 11, 2026· 140D0426F0760
  7. EXCLUSIVE USE: NEXT GENERATION 3.0, N382CG T-138$8M
    Forest Service· Ada County, ID· Transportation & logistics· Mar 7, 2025 – Oct 29, 2025· 1202SA25K9108
  8. EXCLUSIVE USE: NEXT GENERATION 3.0, N137CG T-137$7.1M
    Forest Service· Ada County, ID· Transportation & logistics· May 16, 2023 – Oct 3, 2025· 1202SA23K9113

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. AERO AIR, LLC$177.5M+45% in FY2026
    HILLSBORO, OR · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportation
  2. 10 TANKER AIR CARRIER, LLC$127.4M−44% in FY2026
    ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 78% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportation
  3. NEPTUNE AVIATION SERVICES, INC.$194M+7.1% in FY2026
    MISSOULA, MT · 2 entities · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · 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.