Federal contractor · AMARILLO, TX

RICO AVIATION, LLC

RICO AVIATION, LLC received -$155.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−355% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.3M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs (-$155.8K).

Obligations · FY2026
-$155.8K
New awards
2
Sole-source
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Single offer
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UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 957KFY2017
  2. 530.4KFY2018
  3. 314.3KFY2019
  4. -24.6KFY2020
  5. 214KFY2021
  6. 2MFY2022
  7. 1.3MFY2023
  8. 145.5KFY2024
  9. 61KFY2025
  10. -155.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs-$155.8K0.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs-$155.8K
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. AIR AMBULANCE TRANSPORTATION ORDERING PERIOD 2$381.5K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Potter County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2024 – Mar 31, 2026· 36C25725N0059
  2. AIR AMBULANCE TRANSPORTATION BRIDGE$0
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Potter County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Nov 4, 2025 – Apr 2, 2026· 36C25726N0112

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

  • Sub-contracts: $150K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. PANTEXAS DETERRENCE, LLC$150K100%
    LYNCHBURG, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $325K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $275K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $150K received

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

2 companies · $750K reported

  1. CONSOLIDATED NUCLEAR SECURITY, LLC$600K
    FREDERICK, MD · 5 subawards · Facilities support services
  2. PANTEXAS DETERRENCE, LLC$150K
    LYNCHBURG, VA · 1 subaward · Facilities support 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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK OF ERIE COUNTY$53.6K+52% in FY2026
    ERIE, PA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Other ambulatory health care services
  2. RURAL/METRO CORPORATION$59.7K
    SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Other ambulatory health care services
  3. CARDIO VASCULAR PLUS, INC$59.7K+47% in FY2026
    RIVERSIDE, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Other ambulatory health care services

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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.