Federal contractor · HOWELL, MI

HELIMAX AVIATION LLC

HELIMAX AVIATION LLC received $14.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 14 awards (−39% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $158.2M. Its largest customer was Forest Service ($12.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$14.6M
New awards
14
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
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Small businessVeteran-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 25.4MFY2017
  2. 15.1MFY2018
  3. 15.1MFY2019
  4. 2.2MFY2020
  5. 21.9MFY2022
  6. 21.5MFY2023
  7. 18.4MFY2024
  8. 23.9MFY2025
  9. 14.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Forest Service$12.5M85%
    13 awards
  2. Departmental Offices$2.1M15%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$12.5M85%
  2. Transportation & logistics$2.1M15%

Where the work was performed

  1. Livingston County, MI$12.5M85%
  2. Clark County, NV$2.1M15%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $14.6M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $14.6M
  • Urgency justifications15%
    US 5.1% · $2.1M

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 (UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-FOREST SERVICE) HELICOPTER FLIGHT SERVICE IN SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WILDLAND FIRE SUPPRESSION MISSION- 2026 HELIMAX AVIATION$2.1M
    Departmental Offices· Clark County, NV· Transportation & logistics· Aug 10, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026· 140D0426F0772
  2. 0801-081526 N948CH PKG-72775$1.6M
    Forest Service· Livingston County, MI· Facilities & utilities· Aug 1, 2026 – Aug 1, 2026· 1202SA26M1007
  3. 0816-083126 N950CH PKG-73136$1.4M
    Forest Service· Livingston County, MI· Facilities & utilities· Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026· 1202SA26M1100
  4. 0718-073126 N950CH PKG-72419$1.3M
    Forest Service· Livingston County, MI· Facilities & utilities· Jul 18, 2026 – Jul 18, 2026· 1202SA26M0793
  5. 0816-083126 N948CH PKG-72963$1.2M
    Forest Service· Livingston County, MI· Facilities & utilities· Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026· 1202SA26M1022
  6. 0801-081526 N950CH PKG-72656$1.1M
    Forest Service· Livingston County, MI· Facilities & utilities· Aug 1, 2026 – Aug 1, 2026· 1202SA26M0918
  7. 0901-091526 N950CH PKG-73435$1M
    Forest Service· Livingston County, MI· Facilities & utilities· Sep 1, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026· 1202SA26M1238
  8. 0616-063026 N948CH PKG-71716$983.9K
    Forest Service· Livingston County, MI· Facilities & utilities· Jun 16, 2026 – Jun 16, 2026· 1202SA26M0588

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. ORBIC AIR, LLC$48M+154% in FY2026
    BURBANK, CA · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportationDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation
  2. HELI-1 CORP$61.1M+52% in FY2026
    RENO, NV · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveForest Service · Nonscheduled air transportationDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation
  3. CAPITOL HELICOPTERS, INC.$65.1M−14% in FY2026
    SACRAMENTO, CA · 96% 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.