Federal obligations in other nonscheduled air transportation (NAICS 481219)

Nonscheduled air: $1.04 billion on 460 tagged awards

Federal agencies buy charter, on-demand, and other nonscheduled air transportation from vendors classified in 481219. The tagged obligation total is $1,039,656,060.98. That is not a passenger-mile statistic and not a flight count. Operational metrics are not in the packet facts.

Nonscheduled work is often mission-specific: movement of cargo or people outside airline schedules, specialized aviation services classified in this residual, or related air-transport establishments. Scheduled airlines use other NAICS. Mixing 481219 with scheduled air transportation invents a combined “federal air travel” total that this extract does not publish as one tagged number.

460 awards and a high average action size

Four hundred sixty awards against $1,039,656,060.98 averages about $2.26 million per action. That is a concentrated services pattern: fewer rows than ambulance or waste collection, larger typical instruments. Task orders against aviation IDIQs still add count, but 460 is not a catalog of $4,000 parts. The industry hub shows whether a subset of rows dominates the $1,039,656,060.98.

This guide does not name carriers or missions. Those fields are not in the facts object. Neutral public-record tone applies: tagged contract obligations, not commentary on any flight’s purpose.

What the residual air-transport code leaves out

Scheduled passenger air transportation, scheduled freight, and more specific nonscheduled codes (when used) sit elsewhere. Airport operations, air traffic control, and aircraft manufacturing are different industries entirely. The $1,039,656,060.98 is 481219 as tagged on 460 actions.

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. Essential-air-service style assistance or airport grants typically will not add to this contract total. Use program pages for those streams.

A complete citation of this industry is $1,039,656,060.98 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 481219, other nonscheduled air transportation, on 460 awards. Anything less—dropping the NAICS, dropping the word obligations, or dropping the contract-only universe—overstates what the extract contains. The packet facts do not include a fiscal year, so this guide does not invent one. Live tables on the industry hub can move when USAspending posts modifications; the harvested pair remains $1,039,656,060.98 and 460.

Obligations versus flight invoices

Aviation service contracts often obligate a ceiling and invoice per mission or per period. The $1,039,656,060.98 is committed value, not cash already paid for hours flown. Unused ceiling can be de-obligated. Outlay fields in USAspending answer the payment question.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle scheduled airlines, airport operations, and aircraft manufacturing may land in 481219 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Port and harbor operations (488310) is a surface-support code, not aviation. The public-record stance is to keep $1,039,656,060.98 attached to 481219 as tagged, then read the 460 rows for ceiling vehicles versus smaller mission orders. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

Using the industry page

Open the other nonscheduled air transportation industry page for the 460 actions behind $1,039,656,060.98. The all-industries directory links related transportation-support codes. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards. No fiscal year is in the packet, so none is claimed.

Nonscheduled air is not the scheduled-carrier NAICS

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 460 actions producing $1,039,656,060.98 is hundreds of sizable charter-style air-transport vehicles, with about $2.26 million per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 460 is not a count of unique companies and not a count of physical units. Use the hub amount sort to see whether a few large rows plus a long tail make up most of the tagged total.

Outlays remain a separate USAspending concept. An agency can obligate $1,039,656,060.98 across 460 tagged other nonscheduled air transportation actions and pay on a different calendar. De-obligations after cancellations reduce the obligation ledger; they do not rewrite the fact that this NAICS has been a large tagged category in the harvest. Assistance without NAICS still sits outside even when the real-world activity looks similar. Program pages answer the grant question; this page answers the tagged-contract question.

Internal links on this file point only to the other nonscheduled air transportation industry page and the all-industries directory. Those are the packet hrefs. Neighboring industry codes mentioned in prose are classification context only. Source note, copied from the packet: NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. The overlay’s job is to state $1,039,656,060.98, 460, the obligation unit, and the boundary around scheduled airlines, airport operations, and aircraft manufacturing.

Questions

How much federal contract spending is coded to nonscheduled air transportation?

NAICS 481219 shows $1,039,656,060.98 in obligations on 460 USAspending contract awards. That is other nonscheduled air transportation as tagged, not scheduled airline service. The unit is obligations, not outlays or flight hours. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 481219, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 460-award extract behind $1,039,656,060.98.

Does 481219 include commercial scheduled airlines?

No. Scheduled air transportation uses other NAICS. This page’s $1,039,656,060.98 follows the 481219 residual for other nonscheduled air transportation on 460 contract actions. Port and harbor operations (488310) is a surface-support code, not aviation. Keep $1,039,656,060.98 attached to 481219 as tagged on 460 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Why is the average award so large?

460 awards against $1,039,656,060.98 averages about $2.26 million. Nonscheduled air is often bought as sizable service vehicles rather than tiny catalog orders. The industry hub shows the actual mix of the 460 rows. That pattern is hundreds of sizable charter-style air-transport vehicles, with about $2.26 million per action as the simple average of $1,039,656,060.98 over 460 awards. Read the 460 rows for ceiling vehicles versus smaller mission orders.

Are airport grants in this $1.04 billion?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this contract extract. Use program pages for grants and the industry page for tagged 481219 contracts. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $1,039,656,060.98 obligated on 460 other nonscheduled air transportation awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.