What’s new
12 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
The tool row fits a small tablet
On a narrow window, such as an iPad mini held sideways, every tool in the row is now on the screen and the page no longer slides sideways. Before, the last few tools (Panel color, Construction lines, Flange lines and Snapping) could sit past the right edge of a narrow window. The buttons stand a little closer together…
12 Oct 2026 · Builders Log
Builders Log: share a signed entry
Share this entry is on every signed entry of your own log. It opens the entry’s words, which you can change, with its photographs, up to ten. Share hands them to your phone’s or computer’s own sharing, so the post goes to Facebook, Instagram, a message or wherever that device shares to. The site posts nothing itself. Copy the words is beside it.
12 Oct 2026 · Builders Log
Add to my build: the panel’s picture into the Builders Log
On the Add to my build page, opened from the Panel Designer’s menu bar, Add this picture to the Builders Log is under the design’s picture. One press puts the picture of the panel in the aircraft’s log as a draft entry of its own, dated today; Open it takes you there to write what you did and sign it. The instruments are added to the equipment list as before.
12 Oct 2026 · Builders Log
Builders Log: a Photographs page, and a deleted entry can be restored
Photographs, in the row under the bar and in the bar at the bottom of a phone, shows every photograph in the log, the newest work first, each under its entry; press one to open its entry. After Delete this entry, Restore beside the words Entry deleted puts it straight back. Deleted entries, at the foot of the Log page, lists the entries you deleted: press Restore and the entry opens as it was, signed or draft, with its photographs.
11 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
A numbered picture of your panel for your POH
The tool row has a new member tool, POH figure (the open book). It makes a page for a pilot's operating handbook from your design. The page shows your panel as you designed it, with a numbered balloon and an arrow to every instrument, and a numbered list beneath: the name in bold, then what it is. Names and…
11 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Measure between instruments and to the panel's edges
The tool row has a new member tool, Measure. It draws dimension lines on your panel and changes nothing in your design. Select one instrument, placard or add-on piece and click Measure: a line with its length runs from each edge of the item to that edge of the panel. Where the template has flange lines showing, lines…
11 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Select several instruments without a keyboard
The tool row has a new button, Select several, for a tablet, a phone, or any time you would rather not hold Shift. Click Select several. It stays lit while it is on. Click or tap each instrument to add it to the selection. Click one again to take it out. Click Select several again when you are done. The instruments…
11 Oct 2026 · Builders Log
Builders Log: delete an entry, a shorter Plan page, and signing opens the next draft
Delete this entry is at the foot of every entry, draft or signed; it asks once more before it takes the entry out of the log. The Plan page is one line a section: press a section to open New entry, See its entries, Mark complete, How far along and Change. Signing a draft now opens the next draft, and the last one returns you to the log. Import photographs opens on Choose photographs; the questions about the build and the manuals are two buttons at the foot, and each work day’s section, task and rearranging are behind Change this day. The Project page shows the project’s details to read, with Edit these details to change them, and a planned unit on the Equipment list is one line with Record as installed.
11 Oct 2026 · Builders Log
Builders Log: a new entry in one short form
New entry now asks three things: what you did, the photographs, and the hours. The date is today and the section is the one you last worked in. Save and sign finishes the entry in one press and returns you to the log; Save as a draft keeps it to finish later. The task is the first sentence of what you wrote unless you type one. Everything else an entry can carry is behind More detail. A draft opens as the same short form, filled in, with Save and sign; signing returns you to the log with a link to the next draft. The Log page is the entries, newest first: totals are one line, the drafts to sign are one bar, and search and sharing are out of the way.
11 Oct 2026 · Hangar Flying
Help articles brought up to date, with pictures
Every Help article for the Builders Log, MRO, the Marketplace and the site itself has been checked against the pages as they are today, and most now carry a picture of the page they describe. New articles cover starting a project, sharing a Builders Log, sending a panel design to a build, saved searches, reporting a listing, Hangar Debrief and the Wire Size Calculator.
11 Oct 2026 · Hangar Flying
Help is rebuilt: search that answers, What’s new at the top, a page for every article
Help has a new front page. The search box answers as you type and understands everyday words: "login", "picture", "airplane", "ruler". What is new on every part of Hangar Flying is listed first, with a page of its own for everything new. Each app’s articles are a list of titles, and every article opens on its own page with the rest of its app’s articles beside it.
11 Oct 2026 · Hangar Flying
Wire size calculator: a wire in a bundle or a hot area
The calculator has a new choice, Where the wire runs. In free air it rates the wire for a 35 °C rise, as before. In a bundle or a hot area it rates the wire for a 10 °C rise, which usually means a larger wire. Under each answer the sum is worked through with your own numbers, and the page lists the wire and its figures for every size.
10 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
A reminder to save, and a quieter autosave
The designer now reminds you to save, and tells you plainly when a save did not go through. After five minutes with changes not yet saved, a small Save your design button shows at the top left, under the tool row. Click it, or click Save. The designer still saves by itself every 15 minutes, now only when something has…
9 Oct 2026 · Builders Log
Share your Builders Log
A project’s Project page has a Sharing choice: only you, anybody signed in to Hangar Flying, or anybody. A shared log has a page of its own that others can read: the sections, the entries and their photographs, with a draft marked as a draft. Hours, helpers, serial numbers and any entry marked private are not shown. The Builders Log page lists the logs their builders have shared.
9 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Circuit breakers with the rating you choose
The Klixon 7277 and the Tyco W31 circuit breakers can now show any rating from 1 to 35 amperes, and the number on the button is brighter. Search for "breaker". Each breaker is one tile. Click the tile and choose its Rating on the card before you add it: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7.5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 or 35. Or add it, then…
8 Oct 2026 · Hangar Flying
MRO has a front page
Opening MRO without being signed in now shows what it is: maintenance records, airworthiness directives, what is coming due, discrepancies, original logbooks, and how an owner or a shop uses it, with Join and Sign in. Signed in, MRO opens on the Dashboard as before.
8 Oct 2026 · Hangar Flying
A smaller cookie notice, and a corrected Privacy policy
The notice that the site uses cookies is now one small line in the corner. It shows once and goes when you carry on. The Privacy policy now says how visits are counted (by us, with no analytics company and no cookie), lists the cookies the site sets, and says how the site answers a Do Not Track signal.
8 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
The designer says when an instrument is outside the view
An instrument that ends up far off the panel, where it cannot be seen, is no longer lost. It is still on the design and on its equipment list, and the designer now says so. A line under the tool row reads, for example, "2 instruments are outside the view." Press Bring them back and they are set in a row just below the…
8 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
The instrument search lists its results in order
The designer's search now puts its results in a sensible order. Until now they came back in the order the instruments were first entered into the library. Instruments named for the words you typed come first. The library's instruments come before members' uploads. Within each, they run by model and description, so…
8 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Toggle switches in colors, chosen on the switch
Toggle switches now come in white, red, blue, green, yellow and black as well as plain, and the full-size switch with its lever down, up, left or right. Search for "toggle". The search shows one Toggle Switch and one mini toggle, not a tile for every color. Click the tile and choose a color and a position on its card…
5 Oct 2026 · Builders Log
The Builders Log
A new app for anybody building, restoring, rebuilding or upgrading an aircraft. Start a project and write an entry for each piece of work: the date, the task, photographs from the phone, who did it, the hours, and a lesson learned for the next builder. Parts have their own fields for manufacturer, model, part number and serial number, and a part recorded as installed is on the aircraft’s equipment list the same moment, where it is checked against airworthiness directives and manufacturer service documents. Sign an entry when it is right; a correction is a new entry. Your own copies of the kit’s manuals can be kept with the project, searched, and opened at the page an entry names. Import photographs turns the photographs you already have into draft entries, one for each work day, by the date each was taken. Plan lists the sections of the build, Equipment the equipment list, and Project downloads every entry and photograph as one file. The aircraft is in MRO from the first day, marked Under construction. Made for a phone in the hangar. A photograph on an entry opens large with a press; there it can be given a caption, or a pin: a numbered dot on one spot with a note beside it. The Log page shows hours, days worked, entries and photographs, the entries by month, and each section with how far along it is. For work that was photographed and never logged, Import photographs makes a draft for each day from the photographs’ own dates; About this build takes a few answers first, such as whether the kit came partly built. On a draft, Find pages looks in your own manuals for what you wrote and offers the pages to add, and a photograph of a part’s label opens the part form beside it.
4 Oct 2026 · Hangar Flying
One bar across the top of every page
Every page of Hangar Flying now has the same bar across the top: Panel (the Panel Designer), MRO, Marketplace and Tools, with Help, search, the bell and the button with your name at the right. The logo opens Home. The row under the bar lists the pages of the app you are in; on a phone that row is the bar at the bottom of the screen and the apps are behind the square of dots at the top. One Support button replaces Feature request, Report a problem and Ask a question: the form it opens asks which. The Wire Size Calculator is under Tools, and it is the one calculator for the whole site.
4 Oct 2026 · Marketplace
A lowered price shows as Price reduced
When a seller lowers the price of a listing that is showing, the Marketplace now says so: the card and the listing carry Price reduced with the earlier price struck through, and the listing gives the day. Search has a Price reduced box that narrows the results to those listings. If you have a saved search with email on, a listing in it whose price comes down is in your daily email. To lower a price, open your listing, press Edit and change the price. A lowered price is also posted again to the Marketplace’s Facebook Page, as Price reduced, not more than once a week for one listing. A price raised back to where it was shows nothing.
4 Oct 2026 · MRO
A panel design can start the equipment list
An aircraft’s Equipment list has a new Planned section. Bring in a panel design opens your designs from the Panel Designer; pick one, check its instruments, and they are listed as planned, one line for each unit. Planned is not installed: when a unit goes in, Record as installed takes its serial number and the date, and it joins the aircraft’s recorded parts. Blanks, spacers, switches and breakers are left out, and the same design brought in again adds only what is new. In the Panel Designer the same thing is Add to my build, in a design’s menu bar. It is a Premium feature.
4 Oct 2026 · MRO
Your Profile says when you are a member
On your Profile, under Panel Designer, the line Membership, card and invoices now carries a Member label when your membership is active. The site checks with the Panel Designer when you sign in, and again every few hours.
4 Oct 2026 · MRO
A daily reading allowance for each account
The readers in MRO (a data plate photograph, the pages of an original logbook, a search for manuals) now have a daily allowance of 60 readings for each account. A long logbook that needs more is carried on by itself the next day, from the page it reached, and nothing has to be uploaded again. Until now one long logbook could use the whole site’s readings for the day and leave everybody else waiting.
4 Oct 2026 · MRO
No 100-hour inspection clock on an experimental aircraft
When an original logbook is read in MRO, an entry that calls the work a 100-hour inspection no longer starts a 100-hour inspection clock on an aircraft with an experimental certificate: 14 CFR 91.409(c)(1) excepts it from that inspection. The entry stays in the book exactly as it was written.
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Add to my build puts a design's instruments on your aircraft's equipment list
A panel design can now start your aircraft's equipment list. Open a design, click Add to my build in the menu bar, and Hangar Flying opens with that design's instruments listed. Check the ones you are installing and they go on your aircraft's equipment list as planned. Each instrument is listed once, with how many the…
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Align moves a group as one piece
A group now aligns as a whole. Select the instrument or group that should stay put, Shift-click a group, and press an Align button: the group's outer edge, or its center, lines up and the instruments in it keep their spacing. Three grouped switches line up with three other grouped switches as two rows. Before, each…
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Every instrument redrawn, and panel color
Every instrument redrawn. About a thousand instruments are now clean drawings that stay sharp at any zoom: the library's flight instruments, engine monitors, radios, displays, switches, breakers, knobs, jacks and vents, and the instruments members have uploaded that are used most. Each is exactly the size it was, so…
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Featured designs show finished panels
We now look at an exported design before it is shown on the home page, the Featured designs page and its aircraft's page under Panel templates, so that a panel still being laid out is not shown there. Designs already shown stay. Your export and its share link work as before, the moment you make them. A featured design…
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
More placard colors, and room in the tool row
More placard colors. A placard's text and background now have More colors: the full palette of grays, ten colors, and three lighter and three darker shades of each. To match a color exactly, type its number in Color #, such as c8102e. Room in the tool row. Zoom is now in the menu bar beside CAD, Cut, Paint & Label, and…
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
One bar across the top of every page
Every page of Hangar Flying now has the same bar across the top. It names the apps: Panel (the Panel Designer), MRO, Marketplace and Tools, with Help, search, the bell and the button with your name at the right. The logo opens Home from any page. The row under the bar lists the Panel Designer's pages: My designs,…
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Templates redrawn as clean drawings
Sharper panel templates. The library's panel templates are now clean drawings, redrawn from their pictures in the look of the add-on panels: a crisp edge, round openings drawn as true circles, and lines that stay sharp at any zoom. Each template is exactly the size it was, so every design sits where it did. Rivet and…
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
The instrument search shows the library and your own uploads
The designer's instrument search now finds the instruments in the library and the ones you have uploaded yourself. Until now it also returned other members' uploads that we had not reviewed, some with no picture or the wrong size. A design you have already saved opens exactly as before, whatever it holds. An instrument…
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
The instrument search also finds what is already on your designs
The designer's instrument search now also finds any instrument that is already on one of your designs, even one another member uploaded. Since this morning the search showed only the library and your own uploads, so an instrument you had placed before could be missing when you went to add another. It is back. The…
4 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
The space message says how much space the design needs
When you make the space above or below the panel smaller than what is sitting in it, the message now says how much the design needs. It reads, for example, "4 items sit in the space you are taking away. Move them onto the panel first, then change the space. As it is, this design needs at least 1.25 in. above and 0.8…
3 Oct 2026 · MRO
Upload photo or doc shows how far the file has got
In MRO, a file chosen with Upload photo or doc now goes straight to storage as soon as it is chosen, with a percentage beside its name. Save or Read it as before. The pages of an original logbook and the logbook entry on Complied with use the same button now; several pages can be chosen at once. A listing’s documents in the Marketplace go the same way.
3 Oct 2026 · MRO
Marketplace photographs and video upload faster, and show how far they have got
Photographs and the video on a listing now go straight to storage, and the button counts up as they go: Uploading… 42%. Nothing else about a listing changes.
3 Oct 2026 · MRO
The Dashboard says My aircraft on a personal account
On a personal account the Dashboard’s list of aircraft is headed My aircraft. A maintenance shop’s still reads Aircraft in the shop.