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Top 25 Heavy lift aircraft operators based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 217 heavy lift aircraft operators headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 14,263 professional contacts across them, including 5,298 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers heavy lift aircraft operators headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest heavy lift aircraft operators based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atlas Air Worldwide is the world’s leader in outsourced aviation logistics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,992 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bristow Group Inc.(NYSE: VTOL) is the leading global provider of innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 768 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ATI is a US passenger and cargo airline headquartered in Wilmington, Ohio with maintenance bases in across the US and world-wide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 757 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than 50 years of experience in the air cargo industry, Amerijet is a leading cargo airline, operating a dedicated fleet of Boeing 767-300 freighters from its hub at…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 468 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Columbia Helicopters, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Deep South Crane & Rigging provides heavy-lift, heavy-haul, and heavy-rigging solutions for industrial, energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure projects throughout the Americas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 264 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Western Global Airlines has redefined the contracted air cargo transportation services model, which had been static for almost 50 years, by developing an improved model that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 183 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Phoenix Air is an FAA-certificated Part 135 company with worldwide operating authority, providing passenger services, worldwide air ambulance services and high priority air cargo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kalitta Charters provides air charter services for cargo, passenger, and medical transport, either by contract or on-demand, to a highly diverse customer base.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A renowned aviation leader in scheduled and on-demand cargo charter services, avionic installations and aircraft maintenance, AirNet operates as a Federal Aviation Administration…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crane Service Inc (CSI) has been raising the standard since 1960.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Experience means everything when your bottom line is, well, on the line.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Skylease Cargo, headquartered at Miami International Airport, stands as a premier provider of air cargo services, connecting destinations across 4 continents and over 10 countries…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PJ Helicopters is a world class precision helicopter lift service serving all industries nationwide since 1970.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CHI Aviation is a veteran-owned leader in heavy-lift helicopter services, specializing in support for the construction, HVAC, fire-suppression and defense industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1995, Helicopter Express has offered the very best in personnel and aviation equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Radia is revolutionizing air logistics with the WindRunner™, the world’s largest aircraft by volume, capable of transporting oversized payloads to locations previously unreachable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kalitta Charters II LLC is a company based out of 843 Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lynden Air Cargo carries materials and supplies to remote and challenging destinations in the Alaskan Bush and beyond, and has been called upon to fly relief missions for some of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Delivering Discovery” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “StratAir is a Miami-based freight company specializing in scheduled air freight, charters, ground handling services, and warehousing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “American Jet International is a direct air carrier providing on-demand charter, aircraft management, air ambulance, and air cargo services from our Houston headquarters and Dallas…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Saltchuk Aviation is a North America–based air cargo and aviation services group connecting some of the most remote communities in the United States with the goods and services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: heavy lift aircraft operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names heavy lift aircraft operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of heavy lift aircraft operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name heavy lift aircraft operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Heavy lift aircraft operators based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 217 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among heavy lift aircraft operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “heavy lift aircraft operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names heavy lift aircraft operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among heavy lift aircraft operators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,298 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names heavy lift aircraft operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many heavy lift aircraft operators are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 217 heavy lift aircraft operators headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Atlas AIR, headquartered in White Plains, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most heavy lift aircraft operators?
Houston leads with 16 headquartered companies, followed by Miami (8) and Wilmington (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,298 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 217 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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