Who buys NAICS 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation) work, who wins it, and what's open right now — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov solicitations.
Contract data as of Oct 18, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 459 | $530.6M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 549 | $265.4M | -50% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 398 | $95.3M | -64% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 450 | $379.8M | +298% |
Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount. The Department of Defense publishes contract awards to USAspending with a 90-day delay, so Q4 FY2026 is still missing most DoD awards (DoD is 61% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ATLAS AIR WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS, INC. | $388.3M | 30.5% |
| 2 | EASTERN AIR EXPRESS LLC | $219.2M | 17.2% |
| 3 | AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES GROUP, INC. | $204.4M | 16.1% |
| 4 | NATIONAL AIR CARGO GROUP, INC | $68.6M | 5.4% |
| 5 | BRISTOW GROUP INC. | $35.8M | 2.8% |
| 6 | BRIDGER AEROSPACE GROUP, LLC | $24.4M | 1.9% |
| 7 | PHOENIX AIR GROUP, INC. | $21.0M | 1.6% |
| 8 | EASTERN AIRLINES LLC | $18.0M | 1.4% |
| 9 | RAMPART AVIATION, LLC. | $16.3M | 1.3% |
| 10 | BRAINERD HELICOPTERS, INC | $10.9M | 0.9% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once.
| Agency | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $778.9M | 61.3% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $226.6M | 17.8% |
| Department of the Interior | $160.7M | 12.6% |
| Department of Agriculture | $59.6M | 4.7% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $15.3M | 1.2% |
| Department of State | $11.0M | 0.9% |
| Department of Justice | $8.9M | 0.7% |
| General Services Administration | $8.4M | 0.7% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $1.7M | 0.1% |
| National Transportation Safety Board | $24K | 0.0% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $45.3M | 16.0% |
| 8(a) | $1.4M | 0.5% |
| SDVOSB | $4.2M | 1.5% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $369K | 0.1% |
| HUBZone | $3K | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $231.7M | 81.9% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 22% of this market's dollars. Most USAspending bulk-archive records leave the field blank, so blank awards are excluded rather than counted as full & open.
Showing the 10 most recently posted of 11. Links open the notice on SAM.gov.
Source: USAspending.gov contract awards (prime awards with a start date from Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2026), SAM.gov contract opportunities, and SBA size standards. Recompetes are contracts whose final end date — options included — falls in the next 12 months. Figures are recomputed when a new USAspending load lands. See our data sources.