SME is a full-service air-medical base construction & logistics company.

SME Aviation creates high-quality, affordable
workplace environments for critical care transport crews.

From aviation hangars to helipads, our products are designed to setup your program for success. Whatever the task, our team brings seasoned expertise to deploy custom commercial buildings that meet both functional and financial needs.

Our Mission is to efficiently meet the needs of clients who are charged with building, expanding, or relocating their base of operation by helping them respond quickly to new opportunities and shifting markets.

Dedication to flight crews is at the heart of everything we do. With a diverse team of experts at the helm, our deep knowledge of emergency services, healthcare, and real estate development allows us to provide a full suite of industry-specific buildings, products, and construction services to programs in the critical care transport industry.

Our specialized team manages the complex design-build construction process for your critical care flight programs — so you don’t have to. We handle leasing for air medical transport bases and provide rapid deployment of hangars and crew quarters — Opening bases on time and on budget.

From university hospitals to critical-care transport companies, our clients have a need to stay focused on their core mission of saving and protecting lives. We help by building and upfitting their bases of operation, taking care of every detail from project conception to handoff.

Whether your team flies fixed/rotor-wing missions or is focused on ground transport, SME’s comprehensive services can have a big impact on your operational and financial efficiencies.

Leasing

SME provides flexible leasing options for build-to-suit aviation and medical projects. We provide comprehensive leasing options for crew quarters, aviation hangars, maintenance facilities, fuel systems and helipads.

Qualifying lessees enjoy a full spectrum of options including:
Custom Build to Suit • Flexible Lease Terms • Little or No Money Down Payments

The comprehensive lease package provides our clients with one easy lease payment that can help to simplify budget planning and reduce requests for capital.

Items included in the lease can include any or all of the air medical base components or aviation project, including:
Aviation hangars • Land, Crew Quarters • FF&E • Fuel Farms • Maintenance • Facilities • Helipads

We offer leasing options that include flexible lease terms and down payments.

Planning & Consulting

We offer our clients insights on long and short-term solutions planning that can decrease time-to-market.

  • Consultation – SME will help you design and visualize a base that is ideal for your program.
  • Due Diligence – After evaluating your program’s needs, we will execute fact-finding and design.
  • Proposal – SME will deliver a proposal that includes building and site designs, realistic timelines, and financial options.

Building

  • STEP ONE
    Permitting & Due Diligence
  • STEP TWO
    Site Work & Construction
  • STEP THREE
    Occupancy Permit & Hand-off

We are a tech-forward company and employ an in-house team that uses geo-location, 3D modelling, and virtual reality walk-throughs to expedite decision making and reduce overall costs with thorough planning – allowing you to visualize your finished project and resolve any challenges before the construction phase starts. Video tours of planned buildings can be shared with your stakeholders and marketing department.

Products

Standard Air Medical Base

Our industry-standard base includes a steel hangar, a conventional or modular crew quarters, a helipad, and any necessary peripherals, such as a fuel system and/or build-outs for offices, restrooms, etc. The steel hangar can be any size, and we offer custom or standard, industry-inspired floorplans for crew quarters buildings.

Multi-Use Air Medical Base

A single building crafted to house the aircraft and the crew. These steel buildings can be any size and incorporate the crew living space, offices, training compound, and hangar space into one composite building.

NextBase

For clients who may need to relocate their base of operation in response to market demands, SME offers a fully portable base, called NextBase. The key components of NextBase include a containerized crew quarters, high-quality tension fabric hangar, and portable helimat. NextBase can be deployed in 1-3 weeks, allowing flight programs to quickly secure market areas and giving the option for future base portability. This base pays for itself if even one base relocation becomes necessary.

Portable Crew Quarters

Our containerized crew quarter is designed specifically for portability, decreased footprint, and increased speed to market, with a crew-inspired floor plan to support workplace comfort and efficiency. The unibody steel design allows for integrity retention through multiple relocations, and the building pays for itself if even one relocation is necessary.

Rapid-Deploy Hangars

Our fabric-membrane hangars feature rapid deployment, require a minimal foundation, and have massively reduced relocation costs. Full deployment is usually accomplished in 2-3 weeks, compared to the few months required for steel hangar deployment. With military-grade durability, these structures can be quickly relocated many times and have similar life expectancies to steel buildings.

RapidBase

For clients who need to have a new base opened quickly, SME offers a fully self-contained mobile crew quarters unit designed to be temporarily deployed to any location, even sites where infrastructure and utilities are not yet available. This capability enables bases that are under construction to be operational anywhere in the country in a very short time (1-3 days). This unit has also been leveraged to support disaster relief efforts.

Product Selection Tailored for the Industry

Our individual offerings below are available solo or can be substituted for any of the components of the packages above.

Steel Aircraft Hangars

Standard steel hangars designed for critical care transport aircrafts, custom builds to fit your program’s needs, buildouts with living quarters, offices, and restrooms.

Movable Aircraft Hangars

High-tension fabric membrane structures that offer rapid, low-cost relocation, a broad range of design options, and military-grade durability.

Helipads

Temporary, permanent, and portable models to meet your tactical and environmental conditions at the best price.

Movable Crew Quarters

Portable crew quarters and office spaces/buildouts. Efficient footprints and long lifespans even through multiple base relocations. High ROI and off-site fabrication.

Conventional Crew Quarters

Standard buildings are built on-site and can be crafted to any size/specification, or choose from our industry-inspired floorplans crafted with crew comfort and efficiency in mind.

Modular Crew Quarters

High-quality buildings with standard floor plans specially designed for life flight crews. Custom builds also available from manufacturing partners across the country.

Mobile Unit

A fully self-contained mobile crew quarters unit for instant base functionality or disaster relief.

Aircraft Tugs & Dollies

Options range from remote controlled landing dollies that provide ultimate ease of aircraft movement to dollies and tug systems.

Fueling Systems

Fixed and Rotor Wing Fueling Systems – We work with manufacturers to create custom solutions for your fueling needs.

Our Clients

From university hospitals to critical-care transport companies, our clients have a need to stay focused on their core mission of saving and protecting lives. We help by building and upfitting bases of operation, taking care of every detail from project conception to handoff.

Watch as Kim and Richard Guzan explain how SME’s comprehensive services can have a big impact on your operational and financial efficiencies.