Ground Equipment Restoration Experience
Contract # W911 RQ-08-D-0001 with RRAD was awarded to BOI for painting and marking 500 M939 series 5 ton trucks, at the rate of 10 trucks per week.  The purpose of the contract is to facilitate additional paint capabilities to support RRAD production.  RRAD exercised its option to award a second year in January of 2009.  Work on the sixth delivery order under this contract is still in progress at the De Kalb facility.
Director of Contracting:  Don Kennedy – Telephone 903.334.3989

Contract # W911 RQ-07-C-0006 with RRAD was awarded to BOI for painting, undercoating and marking 78 M939 series 5 ton trucks.
Director of Contracting:  Don Kennedy ­­­– Telephone 903.334.3989

In 2006, BOI subcontracted to SECO Equipment Company to strip, paint and repair 100 M939 Series 5 ton Cargo Beds for RRAD.  These beds had been reworked and painted by SECO, but were rejected by Quality Inspectors at RRAD.  Blast Off was hired to provide the high quality restoration and paint services required to pass the inspection process.
POC:  Roger Wolfgram – Telephone 706.724.7326 ext.307  
Contract # N62604-06-D-9004 with Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport, Mississippi was awarded to BOI to strip and paint Sixcon Trucks and fuel tanks.
POC:  Cindy Webb – Telephone 228.871.2313

Blast Off, Inc. has restored both ground equipment and aircraft for the USS Alabama Battleship Commission in Mobile, Alabama for many years.
POC:  Mike Thompson – Telephone 251.433.2703

Aircraft Restoration Experience

Blast Off, Inc. supplied aircraft restoration services to the aircraft industry for many years before moving into military ground transportation restoration.  Success in aviation restoration required superior skills in detailed masking, careful coatings removal, substrate inspection for corrosion, surface protection coatings application and painting.  These skills paved the way for the company to carry services over into restoration of ground equipment.

As early as 1995, BOI provided “onsite” aircraft strip and paint restoration services to National Museum of Naval Aviation, requiring the construction of a containment system approved by the NAS Environmental Office. (This containment facility successfully survived several hurricanes).  One of our high profile aircraft museum restorations was the “Que Sera Sera” RF5D (C47), on loan from the Smithsonian Museum, which was the first aircraft to land on the South Pole.

            Blast Off, Inc. has provided “Museum Quality” restoration of many U.S. Marine Corps historical aircraft.  These aircraft are presently on display at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia, which opened November 2006.

            Blast Off, Inc. restored a high-profile KC-135 on static display for NASA Johnson Space Center at Ellington Field, Texas.  This project required complete containment work at 20 feet in the air.

            Blast Off, Inc. built a temporary containment shelter around a F-15 model aircraft on static display outside the Arnold AFB Tennessee Main Gate, completing the historical paint restoration within a week.

            Blast Off, Inc. contracted with White Sands Missile Range to strip, paint and repair two missiles – the Hound Dog and the Athena.  SAM #2009-00095 strip and SAM #2009-00920 paint
POC:  Richard Finch – Telephone 361.362.0219 ext 113

            Blast Off, Inc. stripped two UH-60A Blackhawks in January 2009.  BOI is presently on contract with Sikorsky Aerospace Maintenance (SAM) to paint these two aircraft at the Chase Field Beeville, Texas facility.

            In August of 2008, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. hired Blast Off, Inc. to completely strip and paint an AH-1 Whiskey Cobra at NAS China Lake, CA. The contract number for this appointment was BHTI 45000093312.
POC:  Randy Williams – Telephone 817.280.3132