Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$168M
Total assets
467
Participants
95th
Percentile by assets
$360,588
Avg per participant

Sponsored by National Aerospace Solutions · Tennessee · Professional & Technical Services

What the 2022 filing shows

Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan holds $168M for 467 participants - about $360,588 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 9.8% over the 2022 plan year.

$168M
total plan assets (2022 EOY)
467
covered participants
95th
percentile by assets (of 139,258 plans)
$360,588
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Professional & Technical Services

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

What the Filing Says About Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan

Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by National Aerospace Solutions, headquartered in Tennessee. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $168M in total end-of-year assets and covers 467 participants across the Professional & Technical Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 471669555, and the plan has been effective since 1951-12-27. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $153M at the beginning of 2022 to $168M at year-end - up 9.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $167M, with reported net income of $14M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 1 prior plan-year filing from the same sponsor shown below.

Across the 2 plan years National Aerospace Solutions has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2023), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $523M to $408M, a decline of 22.0%, while reported participants moved from 1,973 to 1,531 (-22.4%). Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $523M in assets across 3 plans covering 1,973 participants; 2023 - $408M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,531 participants.

By assets, Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan outranks 95% of the 139,258 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2022 plan year, and holds roughly 1.7x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.

Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.

How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2022 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (139,258 plans), rank Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.

Financial Summary (2022)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$153M
Total Assets (End of Year)$168M
Net Assets (End of Year)$167M
Net Income$14M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN471669555
Plan Effective Date1951-12-27
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (National Aerospace Solutions)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 3 1,973 $523M
2023 2 1,531 $408M

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan?
As of the 2022 Form 5500 filing, Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan holds $168M in total assets with 467 participants. It is sponsored by National Aerospace Solutions.
What type of plan is Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan?
Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1951-12-27. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 471669555.
Who sponsors the Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan?
Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan is sponsored by National Aerospace Solutions, located in Tennessee. The sponsor's EIN is 471669555 and the plan operates in the Professional & Technical Services industry.
How did Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan perform in 2022?
Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan grew at a solid clip - up 9.8% during 2022, moving from $153M to $168M in total assets. Net income was $14M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Aedc Contractors Employee Pension Plan ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Tennessee. Compare plans
  • National Aerospace Solutions's sponsor-wide assets have declined 22.0% since 2022 across 2 plan years on file. More Professional & Technical Services plans
  • A Defined Benefit (Pension) plan works differently from other retirement plan types, understand the structural differences before comparing. Compare plan types

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2022.

Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 471669555.

Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.

Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.

Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-05-15.