A Burleson aviation support services company is flying high after winning about $166 million in defense contracts.
Air Center Helicopters Inc., a small business based in downtown Burleson, won two contracts — each worth about $83 million — on June 2 and June 3. The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, awarded the fixed-price contracts for “vertical replenishment services.”
“Since its establishment more than three decades ago, Air Center Helicopters has been providing airlift services in support (of) U.S. and foreign governments as well as institutional and commercial customers,” a company release said…