Federal obligations in other support activities for air transportation (NAICS 488190)

Support services, not airframe production

NAICS 488190 covers establishments that provide specialized services to air transportation other than airport operations and cargo handling as separately classified. On USAspending.gov the code tags contract awards classified as that support: aircraft servicing, inspection, and related activities that contracting officers place in this residual air-transport support line. It is not complete aircraft manufacturing (336411), not engine manufacturing (336412), and not parts manufacturing (336413).

Nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation (481212) is the flying of cargo, not the ground or depot support around it. A logistics program can buy lift under 481212 and maintenance under 488190. The $53.0 billion figure is only the support-activities slice tagged 488190.

Reading $53.0 billion in support obligations

USAspending records obligations on contract awards tagged 488190. Multi-year maintenance vehicles, task orders, and modifications all feed $53,007,298,433.75. This packet has no fiscal-year split and no outlay total. Depot-style support can show a large obligation while work is billed over the performance period.

Outlays are the payments. Quote $53.0 billion as USAspending contract obligations coded to other support activities for air transportation. Do not describe it as the aircraft-procurement account or as cash already spent.

9,959 awards on an aviation-services code

The 9,959 award records sit well below the spare-parts manufacturing count in this industry set and well above the most concentrated platform codes. That middle volume fits services vehicles with many orders but not a spare-parts firehose. The count is not 9,959 aircraft maintained. Open the industry page for the award list.

Hangar-side work is a services remainder, not a factory remainder. NAICS 488190 produced $53,007,298,433.75 in USAspending obligations on 9,959 awards. Inspection, servicing, and other air-transport support that did not fit a more specific transportation code can land here. Complete aircraft stay on 336411. Engines stay on 336412. Parts stay on 336413. Charter freight flying stays on 481212. A sustainment program can touch all of those pages. This guide reports only 488190. The 9,959 award records are support actions, not aircraft serviced. Quote obligations, not outlays. Quote USAspending.gov. Open the industry page for the mix of large depot vehicles and smaller inspection orders.

What 488190 excludes

Assistance awards often lack NAICS and are outside this total. Facilities support at a base (561210) is installation operations, not specifically air-transport support. Search and navigation instrument manufacturing (334511) is hardware production. Those dollars stay on their own pages unless the award was tagged 488190.

SpendingVault aggregates USAspending.gov contract data. The $53,007,298,433.75 total and the 9,959 award count can change after corrections. The live industry page is the table of record.

Using the air-transport support industry page

Open the OTHER SUPPORT ACTIVITIES FOR AIR TRANSPORTATION industry page for the award list under the headline. Compare 488190 with aircraft manufacturing codes and with 481212 on All industries. Cite obligations, not outlays, and keep the 9,959 award count with the dollar figure.

Citing aviation support without buying or flying the plane

Cite $53,007,298,433.75 in USAspending obligations on 9,959 awards tagged NAICS 488190, other support activities for air transportation. Keep support in the sentence so it is not read as airframe production or as chartered freight flying.

The 9,959 award count is not aircraft serviced. Depot-style vehicles generate many orders. Outlays are unpaid in this packet. If maintenance was tagged to a manufacturing or facilities-support code, it will not sit in this total. Use the industry page when you need to see how support actions cluster.

Aviation support is the residual air-transport services line: inspection, servicing, and related activities that are not flying cargo and not building the airplane. The $53,007,298,433.75 total is awards tagged 488190. The 9,959 records are that support footprint. A contractor-operated depot and a smaller inspection order can share the code.

People looking for mission-capable rates will not find them here. People looking for airframe lots should use 336411. People looking for charter lift should use 481212. This page is support. Cite USAspending obligations on 9,959 awards coded 488190. Outlays are unpaid in the packet. Assistance is generally excluded.

Questions

How much is obligated on NAICS 488190 air transportation support?

USAspending.gov contract awards coded NAICS 488190 show $53,007,298,433.75 in obligations across 9,959 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays, for other support activities for air transportation. USAspending.gov records the amount as contract obligations, not outlays, on awards tagged NAICS 488190.

Is this the same as buying airplanes?

No. Complete aircraft manufacturing is NAICS 336411. 488190 is support activities for air transportation. The $53,007,298,433.75 figure does not include airframe production tagged 336411. The packet total is $53,007,298,433.75 across 9,959 awards; assistance awards often have no NAICS and stay outside the industry rollup.

Does 488190 include chartered freight flights?

Nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation is NAICS 481212. This table is support activities, not the freight-flying code. Charter-lift dollars tagged 481212 are outside the $53,007,298,433.75 total. Treat the 9,959 figure as an award-record count, including orders and modifications, not as a physical inventory of products or sites.

Do 9,959 awards mean 9,959 aircraft serviced?

No. The 9,959 figure counts contract award records, including task orders and modifications tagged 488190. It is not a fleet-maintenance tally. This guide does not add a fiscal-year split. Quote the live industry page if you need the current award list under OTHER SUPPORT ACTIVITIES FOR AIR TRANSPORTATION.