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.
3 Oct 2026 · MRO
Add an aircraft from the Dashboard at any time
The Dashboard now always carries Add an aircraft and All aircraft beside your aircraft, not only before the first one is recorded. And the first question in MRO, your own aircraft or a maintenance shop, now opens the page to record it: its two buttons had stopped working.
3 Oct 2026 · MRO
Who is responsible, said on the directive pages and in the notices
Airworthiness directives and Service documents now end with the regulation: the owner or operator is primarily responsible for maintaining the aircraft in an airworthy condition, including compliance with airworthiness directives (14 CFR 91.403(a)). Hangar Flying is a research aid and does not determine whether a directive or service document applies or has been complied with. The notice emails say the same.
3 Oct 2026 · Hangar Flying
Hangar Flying’s home is hangarflying.com, and it is a membership
hangarflying.com now opens Hangar Flying’s own home page, with the Panel Designer at hangarflying.com/panel; every older address still arrives. And one word has changed across the site: what was called your subscription is your membership. Nothing about the price, the renewal or your card has changed. It is under My membership in the account menu.
3 Oct 2026 · Hangar Flying
My requests: what you send us is answered on the site
A problem, a feature request or a question you send us is now a numbered request. Our answer comes by email with a link to the conversation, where you can write back, and My requests in the account menu lists each one and where it stands. Tell us what goes wrong, at the foot of every page, now also takes questions; the separate Contact page is gone.
3 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Ask a question replaces the Contact page
The Contact page is gone. A question, a problem or a feature request now goes through one form, Tell us what goes wrong at the foot of every page, and becomes a numbered request. Our answer comes by email with a link to the conversation, and My requests in your account menu lists each one and where it stands.
3 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Construction lines stay as you left them
Construction lines no longer hide themselves when a design is saved, and a design opens with its lines shown or hidden, the way you left them on that computer. They are still left out of every exported picture.
3 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Every template on its manufacturer's page
A manufacturer's page under Panel templates now shows a card for every template, each with its own picture, size and how many designs are laid out on it. Before, it showed one card per aircraft and the other templates were a click further in.
3 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
The Space box says why, and reads 1,5 as 1.5
When a change to the space above and below cannot be made, the box now stays open and says why, with what you typed still in it. The usual reason: instruments or placards sit in the space you are taking away, so move them onto the panel first. Before, the reason was one line at the top of My designs and was easy to…
3 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Your subscription is your membership
One word has changed across the site: what was called your subscription is your membership. Nothing about the price, the renewal or your card has changed. The page is My membership in the account menu, and a designer tool that needs it is marked a Premium feature. Hangar Flying's home is now hangarflying.com, and the…
2 Oct 2026 · Hangar Flying
The link in a sign-in email opens a Continue button
The link we email you to choose a password or confirm your address now opens a page with one button, Continue. Press it to go on. Some mail services open every link in a message to check it before you see it, which used the link up and left it reading as expired; now only pressing Continue uses it.
2 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
A design sits the same on every screen
Instruments now sit in exactly the same place on the template whatever the size of the window. Until now a design opened in a wider or narrower window showed every instrument, placard and construction line a little to one side of where it was placed, by as much as a quarter inch on a large panel. A design becomes exact…
2 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Instruments stay put when the window changes size
Making the browser window narrower no longer moves a design. Every instrument, placard and line slid to the right of the template each time the window was made narrower, and Save kept it that way. That is fixed. If one of your designs sits to the right of where you placed it, use Report a problem in the designer and we…
1 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
A copy keeps its placards and lines
A copied design keeps everything on it. Copy the design on My designs now carries the placards, construction lines and measurement lines to the copy, with the instruments and add-on panels. A copy made before today has only its instruments; copy the design again to get the rest.
1 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Add-on panels
Size your own panel pieces. For subscribers, the new Add-on panel tool adds a center console, a switch panel or a subpanel beside the aircraft's panel. A new piece starts against the panel's bottom edge; type its width, height and where it sits, and give each corner its own style and size: square, rounded, beveled or…
1 Oct 2026 · Panel Designer
Only what is selected moves
Select it, then move it. An instrument, placard or add-on panel moves only when it is selected: click it first, then drag. Dragging one that is not selected no longer moves it, or anything else you had selected. To move several together, select them all (hold Shift and click each), then drag any one of them.
30 Sep 2026 · Hangar Flying
MRO in the apps menu
MRO, for your aircraft’s maintenance, compliance and records, now has its place in Apps at the top right of every page, a card on Home, and its own section in Help.
30 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
MRO in Apps
Apps, at the top right of every page, now opens MRO too: maintenance, compliance and records for your aircraft, beside Home, Panels, the Marketplace and Help.
27 Sep 2026 · Marketplace
A listing’s photographs: quicker to open, and larger
A listing’s photographs open far faster: each is sent at the size your screen needs — small for the strip and the cards, larger for the listing, sharpest in the full-screen view — instead of the whole file the camera made. Where a card crops a listing’s main photograph, the crop now keeps the aircraft itself in view — its nose and cabin — rather than the middle of the picture. Press the large photograph on a listing to see the photographs as big as your screen allows. The arrows, the arrow keys or a swipe go through them, the strip underneath jumps to any one, and Esc or the × closes it, leaving the listing on the photograph you were looking at.
27 Sep 2026 · Hangar Flying
Every help article in Help, and one foot on every page
The Panel Designer’s help articles now open here, each on a page of its own under Help, and the Panel Designer’s Help button and its old help page lead here too. The foot of every page reads the same across the whole site: Hangar Flying, Panel Designer, Tools and Help, then the terms.
27 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Help in one place, and one foot on every page
Every help article is on the one Help page now. The Panel Designer's articles open at hangarflying.com/help, beside the Marketplace's and the rest of Hangar Flying's, and the old Help page's addresses lead there. The Help button at the bottom right of every page still opens the articles where you are; its Help page…
27 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
No empty strip above the header
The empty strip at the top of the pages is gone. Every page starts with its header again.
26 Sep 2026 · Hangar Flying
Apps, beside the dots
The button at the top right of every page that opens Hangar Flying’s apps now says Apps beside its square of dots, on this site and the Panel Designer alike.
26 Sep 2026 · Marketplace
The Marketplace: its own Help, a dealer’s business name, and feature requests
Help has a Marketplace section of its own — finding, reading a listing, contacting a seller, listing an aircraft or property, your listings, and the paperwork of a sale — reached from Help in the Marketplace’s menu, with the Marketplace’s What’s new under it. A dealer can say so under You sell as on My listings, and their listings then show the business name, marked Dealer. Feature request and Report a problem, beside the Marketplace’s menu, send a few words and the page you were on to the people who build the site.
26 Sep 2026 · Hangar Flying
Home: Hangar Flying, where it is going, and every page
Home now tells the story of Hangar Flying and where it is going — one site for the life of an aircraft, from the build to maintenance and the sale — with each app in the order the work happens, open or coming, and a list of every page on the site: the Panel Designer’s, the Marketplace’s, the tools, Help and What’s new.
26 Sep 2026 · Marketplace
The Marketplace: contact the seller, share a listing, the inspection at a glance
Contact the seller, under the price, holds the seller’s telephone number if they give one and a private conversation between you and the seller — email tells each side there is a message, and nobody’s address is shown. Share passes a listing on from your phone or copies its address. A listing can give the date of its last annual or condition inspection, and shows whether it is current. Research this aircraft now links the manufacturers’ service bulletins and letters, and shows airframe directives only for a standard airworthiness certificate. Each aircraft listing links the FAA forms a sale needs. There is no charge for a 30-day listing until 1 Jan 2027.
26 Sep 2026 · Hangar Flying
Signing in brings you to Home
Signing in or creating an account now lands on the Hangar Flying home page, signed in to the Panel Designer too, unless you were on your way to a particular page — then you go straight back to it. The apps menu names each app in one word: Home, Panels, Marketplace, Help.
26 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Apps, beside the dots
The button at the top right of every page that opens Hangar Flying's apps — Home, Panels, Marketplace and Help — now says Apps beside its square of dots, here and on the rest of the site.
26 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Every tool in the toolbar, for everybody to see
The designer's tool row now shows every tool to everybody. Without a subscription, the subscriber tools — Undo and Redo, Group, Lock, Arrange, Align, Distribute, Move, Placards, Construction Lines, Snap-To, Zoom and Add several — stay in the row, greyed out. Press one to see what it is and how to subscribe for access…
26 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Signing in brings you to the Hangar Flying start page
Sign in or create an account and you arrive at the Hangar Flying start page, with every app in one place, and you are signed in to the Panel Designer too. My designs is on the start page's Panel Designer card. If you were on your way to a particular page when you were asked to sign in, you still go straight back to it.
26 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Hangar Flying's home page — the story, the apps coming, and every page
Home now tells the story of Hangar Flying and where it is going: one site for the life of an aircraft, from the build and the panel to maintenance for as long as it is owned, and the sale at the end. It lists each app in the order the work happens — the Panel Designer and the Marketplace open today; the Builders Log,…
25 Sep 2026 · Hangar Flying
Move between the apps, a new home page, and one Help
The square of nine dots at the top right of every page opens Hangar Flying’s apps — Home, the Panel Designer, the Marketplace and Help — on this site and the Panel Designer alike. Home shows a card for each app with what is waiting for you there. Help is now one page for every app, in sections, with one search across all of them; it opens at the section for the app you came from.
25 Sep 2026 · Marketplace
The Marketplace: aircraft and airpark property for sale
List an aircraft, a project or kit, an airpark home or lot, a hangar or a tie-down, and find them at hangarflying.com/marketplace. Type an aircraft’s registration number and the FAA registry finds it for you; then photos (up to thirty), a video, documents, the engine and propeller, and List it. Buyers search by make, model, year, price, total time and state, save a search and get an email when something new answers it, ask questions on the site, and research the aircraft from its card. Nobody’s email address is shown, and Hangar Flying takes nothing from the sale. Listings are a dollar a day, and there is no charge during the opening offer.
25 Sep 2026 · Hangar Flying
Sign in with your Panel Designer account, and Profile
If you have an account on the Hangar Flying Panel Designer, sign in here with the same email and password — your account is made here as you sign in, with your name and your membership, and your Panel Designer account carries on exactly as before. New to Hangar Flying? Create an account is on the sign-in page. The page that holds your name, email and password is now called Profile, in the menu under your name; old bookmarks still find it.
25 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Selecting an instrument no longer moves it
A click selects; it does not move. Until now the smallest wiggle of the mouse while you clicked, most often while Shift-clicking to select several, could start a tiny drag: the instrument crept a pixel or two, or jumped onto a nearby edge with Snap-To on. A drag now starts only once the pointer has moved a few pixels…
25 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Change the space above and below a panel
The space above and below the panel can now be changed after a design is made. Until now it was set only when the design was created. On My designs, press the new Space above and below button on the design's card (the up-and-down arrows), choose Yes or No for each, and the inches. Everything on the design, instruments,…
25 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Move between Hangar Flying's apps
A new button at the top right, a square of nine dots, opens Hangar Flying's apps: Home, the Panel Designer, the Marketplace and Help. It is in the same place on every page of the site, so the way from one app to another is always one click. Help is now one page for every app. The Help links open it at the Panel…
25 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
One sign-in and one account page for every Hangar Flying app
Signing in and creating an account now happen on one page for every app — the Panel Designer, the Marketplace and the rest. Sign in with the email and password you already use; you come back to the page you were on. Signing out of any app signs you out of them all. My account opens your Profile, the one page for your…
25 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Every Premium tool, on one page
See everything Panel Designer Premium does before you subscribe. A new page shows each subscriber tool at work, placards, span placards, add several, distribute, align, snapping, zoom, construction lines and the rest, with the price, and what every account gets without it. Find it under Premium in the menu, or at…
25 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
New placards can start from your last settings
Use these settings for new placards. A new checkbox at the foot of the Placard box. Check it, and each new placard starts with the settings of the last one you finished: the font, letter height, justification, colors, border and distance from the instrument, and for a span placard the bracket height and ends. The words…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
A new construction line shows straight away
Adding a construction line now shows the lines. Construction lines are hidden when a design opens, and until now Add Horizontal or Add Vertical added a line you could not see until you pressed the eye. Adding one now turns the lines on, so the new line appears in the middle of the panel ready to drag.
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
A span placard across a row of switches
One placard bracket for a whole row. Select a row of switches (click the first, then Shift-click the others) and click Placard, then type the words, such as OFF. The span placard is centered under the row with a solid line from the first switch to the last, broken around the words, each end turned up toward the…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Click to add an instrument, and Undo from the keyboard
Instruments are now added by clicking, not by dragging. Click one in the search results and a card opens with its manufacturer, model, part number, size, weight and notes. Press Add, and the instrument follows your pointer at its true size; click on the panel where you want it, and it goes down centered right there.…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Space instruments evenly with Distribute
The tool row has three new buttons beside Align for spacing instruments evenly. Distribute Horizontally and Distribute Vertically: select three or more instruments. The two at the ends stay where they are and the ones between move so the gaps between them are all the same. Distribute Across a Total: select two or more,…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Instruments no longer get stuck moving one way
Dragging an instrument now moves it freely unless you are holding Shift. Holding Shift while dragging keeps an instrument moving only across or only up and down, which is what it is for. But if Shift was let go while another window had the keyboard, for example after taking a screenshot on a Mac with Command+Shift+4,…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
New icons in the tool row
The tools have a new, matching set of icons. Every tool is where it was and does what it did; the icons are now drawn in one clean line style, and each shows what the tool does: the Align buttons show the edge or center they line up to, and the four stacking buttons show layers moving back and forward. Point at any…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Placards in the Panel Designer
Subscribers can now put placards on the panel. Select a switch, a breaker or any instrument and click Placard, the tag in the tool row, then type the words: BOOST PUMP, AVIONICS MASTER, PITOT HEAT. The placard sits just below the instrument, drawn to scale, and moves with it. Placards of their own. With nothing…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Positions are measured from the center of the panel
The X / Y readout now measures from the center of the panel template. X is positive to the right of center and negative to the left; Y is positive above center and negative below. Click an instrument and Instrument center gives its center the same way, so an instrument reading X 0.00, Y 0.00 sits dead center on the…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Quantities on the Equipment List
The Equipment List now has a Qty column. Identical instruments on the panel are one line with their count, so six toggle switches read as one line with a Qty of 6. The downloaded PDF carries the same column. Equipment you add with Add equipment has a quantity too. It starts at 1; type the number you need, from 1 to…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Click selects one; Shift-click selects several
Selecting works the way most drawing programs do now. A click on an instrument or a placard selects just that one, so picking a different instrument no longer means clearing the selection first. To select several, hold Shift (or Ctrl, or Command on a Mac) and click each one; Shift-clicking one that is already selected…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Smaller fixes across the designer and the site
Zooming in no longer covers the information box. From about 120% the panel used to draw over the Design, Aircraft and selected-instrument details on the right. The panel now scrolls under the box's edge, and the box stays in view at every zoom. Lock and Unlock keep your selection, so you can press one straight after…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
A Panel Designer fix when the canvas scrolls
Moving several instruments at once works again when the canvas is scrolled. If you had zoomed or scrolled the canvas, then selected a few instruments and dragged them, only the one under your pointer went where you put it. The rest jumped away, often far down the panel. They now all move together, the same distance.…
24 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Your uploads as cards, and tidier pages on a phone
Panel templates and Instruments, the pages that list what you have uploaded, are now cards, like My designs. Each card shows the picture, the name, and whether it is In the library or Waiting for our review, with a pencil to change it and a trash can to delete it. Search and Sort by sit above the cards, and the long…
21 Sep 2026 · Hangar Flying
One appearance, and a new icon in the tab
The product is light only now. The dark appearance and “follow my device” are gone, and so is the chooser for them in the menu under your name — every page reads the same on every machine, whatever that machine is set to. The colors that carry meaning have not moved: red still stops a signature, amber still waits, green is still settled. And the icon in the browser tab, in your bookmarks and on a phone’s home screen is now the Hangar Flying mark itself — the same one hangarflying.com wears. A tab left open from before may keep the old icon until you reload it.
21 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
One mark, on every page and every tab
The Hangar Flying mark is now the same everywhere on the site. Until today the designer wore a blue version of it, and the mark changed again depending on whether your screen was set light or dark. There is one version now — the main Hangar Flying mark, with its red-orange pointer — in the header of every page. The…
20 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
A new logo
Hangar Flying has a new mark — an attitude indicator, which felt like the right symbol for a site about instrument panels. You will see it in the header and on your browser tab, and it stays sharp at any size. Nothing has moved and nothing works differently. Correction, 21 September 2026: this entry said the mark…
20 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Start designing straight away, and confirmation links now last a week
You can use the designer as soon as you create an account. You no longer have to find the confirmation email before you can start. You have seven days to confirm your address, and a reminder sits at the top of the page until you do. Your designs are kept either way. Confirmation links now last seven days. They used to…
20 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Ask for a feature from inside the Panel Designer
The Panel Designer's menu bar has a new Feature request button, beside Report a problem. Tell us what you would like added or changed, and what you are trying to get done. A picture of your canvas and the design's details go with it, so we can see what you mean. We read every request, and reply to the email address on…
20 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
The old Builder's log is retired; a new one is planned
The Builder's log pages on hangarflying.com are retired. They had not been in use for some time. Their addresses now lead to the home page, and the old e-News issues lead here, to What's new. Nothing you wrote was deleted. Every project and entry is kept, and will be carried into the new Builders Log. A new, fully…
19 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
The design's name and MSRP are in the information box
In the Panel Designer, the information box at the right of the canvas now leads with a Design section: the design's name and the running MSRP of the instruments on the panel. They moved there from the right end of the menu bar, so everything about the design reads in one place: the design, then the aircraft and…
19 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Designs on our Facebook page open on their aircraft's page
A design we post on the Hangar Flying page on Facebook now opens on this site, on that aircraft's page, with the design shown at full size at the top. From there, Create an account, or signed in on a computer, Start a panel layout on this template: the New panel design page opens with that design's template selected.…
18 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
Panel templates by aircraft, and a one-click start
Every aircraft has its own page. Panel templates lists the aircraft in the template library by manufacturer. An aircraft's page shows every panel template for it, how many panels have been laid out on them, the newest exported designs, and the equipment builders install most often. All the templates for the aircraft…
18 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
The subscription page, phones, Featured designs, and no more Google tracking
My Account → Subscriptions has been rebuilt for subscribers: your subscription with its renewal date, your card, your billing address and your invoices, each in its own card with one button. Remove your card whenever you like. If it is your only card, renewal turns off with it and your subscription stays until the end…
17 Sep 2026 · Panel Designer
A new look, and a sharper designer
Every page of hangarflying.com has a new look: one clean layout, plain wording, and the same headings and cards everywhere. Your designs, your account and your subscription are exactly as they were. In the Panel Designer Zoom and scroll. Zoom from 50% to 400% with the buttons beside the tools or Ctrl/Cmd and the mouse…
13 Sep 2026 · MRO
A part recorded from an original logbook says so, and a book from another airframe is flagged
On the Equipment page, a part the site recorded from a logbook entry carries a "from the logbook" chip and a line — "From the Airframe log, page 3" — that leads to the entry it was read from, so it is never mistaken for one somebody typed. And when a book finishes reading, the airframe serial its entries name is compared with the aircraft’s: if they differ, the book’s page says so at the top, the bell rings, and the email that announces the book says it too. Nothing is refused on that account — the entries, clocks and parts are recorded as before — but the doubt is stated where a person can settle it against the page.
9 Sep 2026 · MRO
The parts an original logbook says are on the aircraft are recorded from it
As a book finishes reading, every part its entries say was installed, replaced, overhauled or inspected — the engine, the magnetos, a standby attitude indicator, the ELT — is recorded on the Equipment page under its system, with the manufacturer, model, serial and part number as the entry wrote them and a note naming the page it came from. Directives and service documents are then checked against each as with any recorded part. A part the entries say was removed is marked removed on that date, and a part already recorded from its plate is left as it is. The bell says how many were recorded and leads to Equipment to check them.
9 Sep 2026 · MRO
What an original logbook shows done goes on the clock as it is read
When a book finishes reading, the annual or condition inspection its entries record sets the aircraft’s last-inspection date, from which the next one is computed, and the ELT battery, transponder, altimeter and other recurring items the entries show done are started — each told on the bell with the entry it came from. A date already on file is never moved backwards. An entry that did several things — an annual that also replaced the ELT battery — counts for each. Anything the site could not set is offered at the top of Coming due with an Agree button.
9 Sep 2026 · MRO
Reading a data plate takes seconds again, and the "where to find it" lines are corrected
A photograph read was taking a minute or more; it now answers in a few seconds. The line under each part saying where its numbers are was checked through: the engine data plate is riveted to the crankcase (a Lycoming’s at the left rear, ahead of the accessory housing), not the accessory case; the governor is on the accessory housing pad on most engines; the alternator is belt-driven at the front on most Lycomings; and parts that are rarely marked now say so.
9 Sep 2026 · MRO
Reading a data plate on the Equipment page keeps the form open
Pressing "Read attached data" on a part fills in the boxes above it and leaves the form open with a line saying so, instead of folding it away before anything could be checked or saved. What it read is filled in; press "Save this part" once it is checked against the plate. The photograph is kept with the aircraft either way, as on the engine page.
9 Sep 2026 · MRO
Library documents named by their title page
A library document is now titled the way a mechanic would ask for it — manufacturer, model or family, kind, years and publication number, "Cessna 172 Skyhawk Maintenance Manual 1969–1976 (D972-4-13)" — read from its own title page and its filing, rather than by its file name. The author is the manufacturer printed first on the document, never the site that hosted the copy, and the site now knows the electrical and hardware manufacturers of the AeroElectric collection by name.
7 Sep 2026 · MRO
Service documents for every manufacturer, the airframe’s included
Record an aircraft or a part and the site finds its manufacturer’s service documents itself: it identifies the company from the name and what was recorded, finds their service-documents page, and reads it every night. The aircraft’s Service documents page shows the manufacturer’s documents that name the model, with the rest folded beneath for review, and every document is the same card a directive is — read, complied with, not applicable, write it up, recommend. Piper Aircraft’s publications — one list per model on their own site — are fetched for every Piper model recorded, the moment it is recorded. Brochures and spec sheets found beside a manufacturer’s service documents are kept but never offered for audit. Every aircraft has an STCs page: every supplemental type certificate the FAA lists for its type, from the FAA’s own list, mirrored weekly. The Manuals page always says where each manufacturer publishes its manuals, or who sells them — and lists the library: manufacturer manuals, parts catalogs, handbooks and wiring the site holds as copies for the aircraft’s type, searchable page by page. Keeping a manual the search proposed copies it into the library, so the next aircraft of the type has it at once.
6 Sep 2026 · MRO
Plainer pages
Every page was read through. Sentences that explained what a button already said are gone; what remains uses the words of Part 43 and AC 43 — discrepancy, corrective action, approved for return to service. Links that leave the site open in a new tab.
5 Sep 2026 · MRO
A bell in the top bar, and manuals searched as parts are recorded
Everything the site emails you now also lands on the site: a new directive naming a part, a new service document, a manual found, a change in what is coming due, a decision from the shop or the owner, a logbook finished reading. The bell beside the search counts what you have not looked at; it opens the Notifications page, newest first, each line opening its page. And recording an engine, propeller or appliance now starts the search for its manuals at once, with every aircraft re-searched nightly until nothing is left to find.
5 Sep 2026 · MRO
Manuals are looked for the moment an aircraft is added
Adding an aircraft now starts the search for its maintenance and parts manuals at once — the airframe’s and each recorded part’s — and the Manuals page carries what was found within a minute or two, each a proposal for somebody to rule on. The search then repeats nightly for anything a month unsearched, instead of on Sundays only.
5 Sep 2026 · MRO
Only directives with a number reach your list
A Federal Register entry the FAA never gave an AD number — an unparsed copy of a real directive, a correction notice, a proposed rule — no longer appears on any aircraft’s list or part card. Such records are held and read by hand before they enter the flow under their number. One card per directive, too, where the corpus held it twice. And every night the site checks each aircraft against the FAA’s own model lists and reports any directive that should be on a list and is not.
5 Sep 2026 · MRO
Directives: one card, grouped by status, saying why
The Directives page is one column of cards of one shape, grouped by status. Folded, every card says what the directive is about, what it asks, and why it is on this aircraft; a settled one says which FAA fact settled it, with the abstract a press away. Unnumbered Federal Register entries and correction notices now read as what they are instead of a list of model numbers.
5 Sep 2026 · MRO
The airframe’s directives, before any part is recorded
Adding an aircraft now checks its own directives at once — a Cessna 172N shows its seat rails, door post, fuel strainer and fuel selector on the Directives page with nothing else recorded yet. Until now the search started from the recorded parts, so an aircraft with none was compared with nothing at all. Record the engine, propeller and appliances and theirs are checked too.
3 Sep 2026 · MRO
One question at the door, and an honest aircraft card
The first time an address signs in it is asked whether the account is for your own aircraft or for a shop working on other people’s, and starts at the right place — an owner at their aircraft, a shop at its first customer. On the Dashboard an aircraft card now turns amber and says how many directives still need a determination, instead of reading "Nothing outstanding" while work waits.
3 Sep 2026 · MRO
Tempest’s technical publications are read nightly
Tempest moved its library to aeroaccessories.com, one page with every tab — maintenance and service manuals, service bulletins, service information letters, service letters, STC and PMA papers, tech tips, letters of engineering concurrence. All of it is now read every night and shown on the cards of Tempest parts, each document under the name Tempest gives it. The documents themselves stay on Tempest’s site.
2 Sep 2026 · MRO
Directive filtering: the airplane itself, and who holds its type certificate
The Directives page now compares the FAA’s model list with the airframe as well as with the parts, and it knows that a directive the FAA files under Textron Aviation was written against a Beechcraft or a Cessna, one under Continental Aerospace Technologies against a Continental. Directives that name your airplane are on the review list where they belong; directives whose FAA model list names only other aircraft — King Airs on a Bonanza, other manufacturers’ hubs on your propeller — are settled from the FAA’s own facts instead of asking to be read. Found with a Bonanza A36 and its full equipment list.
2 Sep 2026 · MRO
Terms of service and a privacy policy
Two pages, linked at the foot of every page, saying in plain words what the service is and is not, what it holds about you and your aircraft, where that goes, and how long it stays. Nothing about how the service works has changed; what it does is now written down where you can read it.
1 Sep 2026 · MRO
A closed account can now be removed, and its address used again
Closing an account has always hidden its records and started a window in which somebody can change their mind. Once that window has run out an administrator can now remove the account for good, which hands back the email address so it can be used to sign up again. Where the account signed maintenance entries the entries are untouched — a signature stays exactly as it was made, the way a paper logbook outlives the mechanic who wrote in it.
31 Aug 2026 · MRO
Changing a date on Coming due no longer lands on “Page not found”
Recording a recurring item as done — an ELT battery, a pitot-static check, an oil change — saved the change correctly and then sent you to a page that does not exist. The work was never lost, but you had to press Back to see it. Fixed.
31 Aug 2026 · MRO
A directive is one line until you open it
An engine with forty directives against it used to be forty open cards stacked under the part, and there was no reading it. Each one is now a single line — the AD number, what it is about, its chip and its dates — and pressing it opens the rest: what it requires, why it reached that part, the FAA’s summary, and the five things you can do about it. Opening one leaves the others where they were, so you can work down a list without it closing behind you. They are grouped by what they ask of you, too: the ones that name the part, the ones still to check, the ones complied with, and the ones set aside — each group saying how many and what they are. The AD compliance record that 91.417 asks you to keep has come out of the middle of the part’s details and become a group of its own beside them.
30 Aug 2026 · MRO
Recurring items reach the coming-due email
Pitot-static and transponder checks, the ELT battery, your own intervals — all of them now ride along on your coming-due email, which they had not been doing. An automatic ADS-B watch was announced here on this date and has since been withdrawn; the times are read off the meters on an aircraft’s Flight Log, which is where they always belonged.
29 Aug 2026 · MRO
Your manuals, found for you and searchable to the page
Every aircraft now has a Manuals page, and it does not start empty. When an aircraft is added — and again each week, because manufacturers publish long after an aircraft arrives — we search for the maintenance manuals and parts catalogs covering its airframe, engine, propeller and recorded parts, open each address ourselves to be sure it answers, and offer what survives. Nothing is adopted: a wrong manual is worse than none, so each one waits for you to keep it or say it is the wrong document, and if you find the right page yourself while checking, the field to paste it into is on the same card. A manual you upload is read page by page, so you can ask it a question instead of scrolling it — type "oil change" or a part number and you get the passage and the page it is on, across every manual on that aircraft at once. Scanned books work; the pages are read the way a person reads them, so a photographed 1978 parts catalog answers as well as a modern PDF.
29 Aug 2026 · MRO
The aircraft page, rebuilt as cards
Every list in the product is now cards rather than a table — the directives waiting for a determination, the ones already settled, the discrepancies, the equipment, and your review queue. Each card carries a chip saying exactly what is outstanding on it, and the cards arrive with the worst first, so what needs doing is the first thing you see rather than something you sort for. An aircraft’s own page is now a card for each part of the job — Due & Coming Due, Airworthiness Directives, Discrepancy Reports, Service Bulletins, Equipment, Data Plates, Logbooks & Records, Inspection and Return to Service — each with a chip saying exactly what is outstanding on it, and draggable into whatever order suits you. An aircraft’s sections also sit in a menu band directly under the title bar, with the tail number leading it — press that to come back to the aircraft from anywhere in it. The breadcrumb trail is gone; the menu says where you are.
29 Aug 2026 · MRO
An aircraft now tells you what to do next
Opening an aircraft used to give you seven doors and leave you to work out which one to go through. It now shows a card for each step of the work, numbered in the order it happens, each with a chip saying exactly what is outstanding — "51 entries to check", "63 plates to photograph", "Nothing open". Press and hold a card to drag it where you want it; a card keeps its own step number wherever you put it. The one to do next — what it is, why it is needed with the regulation linked, and how to do it — followed by the whole sequence of eight steps, so you can see what is finished, what you are on, and what is still coming. The order is the order the work happens in: record the aircraft, upload the original logbooks, record what is installed, photograph the data plates, determine the directives, do the work that was written up, inspect, approve for return to service. The button names the page it takes you to, and once you are there a bar across the top says which step you are on and carries one link back to the aircraft — so you finish a step, come back, and the page has moved on to the next one.
29 Aug 2026 · MRO
Your books can start a clock, and the reader’s doubts get answered
Two more things now gather in the Review inbox, both read out of your original logbooks. Where a book shows a recurring item being done — an altimeter and static system check, a transponder check, an ELT battery — and the aircraft is tracking no clock for it, the entry is offered so the next one due computes forward into Coming due; you are never offered one already tracked. And where the reader was unsure of a transcription, the entry now carries "Agrees with the page": open the scan beside it, read the two together, and press it. Nothing is rewritten — the scan stays the record — but the doubt is answered and it leaves the inbox. Review is also a fixed stop in the phone’s bottom bar now, and every aircraft’s Overview carries a "For your review" tile with that aircraft’s own count.
29 Aug 2026 · MRO
The Review inbox
One queue for everything the machine proposed that waits on your agreement. When an original logbook is read and its entries look like directive compliance, when directives are settled from the FAA’s own facts, or when new ones queue up to be read or determined, a "For your review" card appears on the Dashboard with the count. It opens the Review page — one sortable row per aircraft per kind of waiting item, each row leading straight to the page where the agreement is made. When nothing waits, the card is not there at all.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
The Guide, rebuilt whole
The user guide was rewritten front to back to match the product as it stands after the reorganization — twenty-six articles grouped by the work: starting out, recording the aircraft, airworthiness directives, findings and sign-off, and everything around the product. It opens with a contents card where every line jumps to its article, covers what was missing — the Dashboard and calendar, the tables and their sorting, the Directives page whole, how matching finds a part, coming due, hours, your account, and where the data comes from — and every stale page name from before the reorganization is gone.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
What’s new lives in the Guide
This list has a home again: the foot of the Guide, each change folded behind its dated title, newest first. The Guide’s search reads these too, so a half-remembered change is findable by any word it carried.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
Searching an AD by its own number, manufacturer names confirmed by you, and the new-AD feed
Typing a directive’s own number into the Directive Search — 2026-17-10, with or without the AD, spaces or slashes — now puts that directive first, marked as its own number. It used to find only documents whose text mentioned the string, which read as the search being broken the morning a new AD dropped. The Administration console gained Manufacturer names: where a part’s plate spells a manufacturer in a way the FAA never writes — CLEVELAND (PARKER HANNIFIN) against Parker Hannifin — the machine queues it with its best guess, and your confirmation immediately widens the directive matching for every part carrying that plate; recording that a manufacturer genuinely shares no service data is an answer too. And administrators now receive the unfiltered feed: every new airworthiness directive the nightly sync brings in, emailed the same night, matched to an aircraft or not.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
The Directives page says what it was checked against
At the top of the Directives page, under the title: how many FAA airworthiness directives this aircraft was checked against, the recorded manufacturers the check ran for — spelled as their plates spell them — and the date the nightly sync last brought the corpus current. The provenance a mechanic should not have to wonder about.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
Contact cards lead the shop page, admin tiles drag, Accounts fixed
On Your aircraft at the shop, the two contact cards — how to reach the shop, and what they have on file for you — now sit at the top, with the aircraft following. The Administration launcher’s tiles arrange by press-and-hold drag like every other launcher. The console’s Accounts page, which crashed on opening, is fixed — and a crawl of every link on the site, signed in as a shop, an owner, and an administrator, found nothing else broken.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
The Administration console joins the reorganization
The console now opens the way everything else does: a launcher of tiles — Deleted records, Reports, Checklist gaps, Accounts, Activity log, External sources, Settings — each with one fact and an amber count where something waits. Deleted records moved to its own page under the launcher, the menu lost its explanations like every other menu, and the pages carry the standard headings.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
The aircraft pages load in a blink
Opening an aircraft took about four seconds, because every view re-checked all of its parts against every directive the FAA has ever published — thirteen thousand documents, every time. That answer is now computed once and kept, and recomputed only at the moments it can actually change: when a part is recorded or edited, and when the nightly directive sync lands. Pages now answer in a fraction of a second, and what they show is exactly as current as before — the very first view after a change does the fresh check, and everyone after gets it instantly.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
Status columns sort by urgency
Clicking a Status or Directives column header now puts the worst at the top — required for airworthiness before recommended, action required before review before settled — instead of alphabetizing the chip words. Nobody sorts a status column to spell it; they sort it to find the work.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
The top bar rights itself on wide screens
On a wide screen the account menu had slid into the middle of the bar, under the search box. It sits at the right edge again, and the search box centers itself only where there is genuinely room for it — on narrower windows it stays beside the account menu.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
Sortable tables, citations under titles, and honest exits
Every table now sorts by clicking a column header — once for A to Z, again to reverse, a third time for the page’s own order — and the systems on the Equipment page became a table too, one row per system with its status. On a phone the equipment table shows just the item and its directives; the row opens the rest. Page titles lost their explanatory sentences and gained the regulation instead: the CFR part that requires each page’s function sits under the title, linked. Coming due items are now closed cards — click one and it opens to the task, with recording and rescheduling right there. The Inspection page’s cards run in work order — the checklist, then recording a finding, then the directive review pointer — and a Maintenance records card takes you to the paperwork. On the records page the section is called Original logbooks now, the page’s address says /records (saved /maintenance links still arrive), and every line under What has been complied with opens the entry, the uploaded logbook page, or the settled table that stands behind it — no card is a dead end. And two ways out of a slip of the finger: an inspection started by accident can be deleted while nothing has been worked, and a discrepancy report written by accident can be deleted while it is untouched — after that, discontinuing and declining keep the record honest. The pile of directives the FAA’s own facts rule out now says so on its face, with Read each reason and Agree — record all — the same card, in plainer words.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
Lists are tables now — a row opens the card
The long lists became tables, one row per record, so a page of many reads at a glance and the card only appears when you open it. The directives needing review are a table — reference, subject, what it is on, and a Review chip — and clicking a row unfolds the same card with every exit on it. Discrepancy reports are a table under each heading — status, DR number, what was found, and the date — and a row opens today’s card with deciding, correcting, and signing off unchanged. Inside a system on the Equipment page, the slots are rows — item, make, model, serial, and a directives chip — and a row opens the part as the full page it already was; an arrangement you made of the old tiles still decides the row order. The Discrepancies page’s pointer to the directive review now goes to the Directives page, where the review has lived since this morning.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
The reorganization begins — new section names, icons, and a carousel
The site is being reorganized around simpler navigation, and this is the first piece. An aircraft’s sections are now Overview · Equipment · Inspection · Discrepancies · MX records — each with its own icon, in the strip under the breadcrumbs on a computer. On a phone, the bottom bar became a carousel: Dashboard, Calendar, the aircraft you are on, and Find stay put at the left, and a swipe carries on through every section of that aircraft. The aircraft’s Overview now opens with a tile for each section — a name, one fact, and one status chip — so the whole aircraft reads in a glance and every tile is a door. Recurring items moved to their own Coming due section, notes and photographs have their own page, the cards arrange to your own order — press and hold one until it lifts, drag it where you want it, and the phone follows the same order; the Equipment page’s system cards and the part cards inside each system arrange the same way, the “How this page works” links are gone in favor of the Guide — highlighted in the menu and one tap from the phone’s bar — and archiving an aircraft is a plainly named fold on the identity card — "Archive", nothing fancier. Every card on the aircraft page is now the same shape, and opening one takes you to the page where the work happens; parts no longer installed moved to the Equipment page, with the parts. Every address you have saved or printed still works — only the names and the doors changed. Airworthiness directives now have their own section — what the old logbooks answer, what the machine settled and awaits your agreement on, the review needing your determination, and a table of everything already settled, all in one place; the Inspection and Discrepancies pages point there instead of carrying pieces of it. The review also now finds a directive whichever way the manufacturer’s name is spelled — the plate’s spelling and the FAA’s own field both match. The calendar sits above its lists on every screen and lost the spanning stay bar — single-day chips only, still draggable. On a phone: every form field that sat cramped beside another now takes its own line, the bottom bar follows the same order as the site’s own pages (search left the bar — it lives at the top), and adding a photograph opens the phone’s own chooser with the camera, the photo library, and files together. The Dashboard is now the one home page: your aircraft under Aircraft in the shop, one Coming up list, and the calendar itself, stacked — click any day on the calendar to intake an aircraft on that date. The separate Calendar page is gone (old links land here, month intact), the MRO heading and its explanation are gone, Customers moved into the account menu and Manage-my-account (where employee settings will live), the section label is now Records, uploads everywhere say and do the same thing — Upload photo or doc, opening your phone’s own chooser — the way back is one arrow in the same place on every page, and the search box says just Search anything, centered when there is room. More is coming: the remaining tables, and a Review inbox that gathers everything the machine has worked out and is waiting for your agreement on.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
A bottom bar on the phone, and the morning list answered
On a phone the product now keeps four buttons at your thumb: Dashboard, Calendar, the aircraft you are on, and Find. Tapping the aircraft slides up its five sections — Overview, Systems, Inspection, Airworthiness, Maintenance records — where the cramped second row of tabs used to be. The calendar shows a real month on a phone — each marked day wears its aircraft’s colored dots and jumps to that day in the list — and "This month, in order" and "Coming up" now sit above the wall planner everywhere. Directive cards no longer run off the edge of a phone screen (a stubborn file-upload box was the culprit), discrepancies listed on a part’s card are now the same cards the Airworthiness page shows, and a directives block that says none reach an experimental part now folds the full list instead of spilling it open. Where a part has no model recorded, each directive now says whose model is missing and where to enter it — and directives reaching a part through the FAA’s own make field are no longer dropped when the data plate spells the manufacturer differently.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
The old logbooks answer the directive review
Where a transcribed logbook entry cites a directive still needing review, the Inspection page now offers it as evidence: "The old logbooks answer N of these" sits above the review, each proposal showing the entry’s own words, the date, who signed, and one click to the scanned page. Agree and prior compliance is recorded — method, date, and the page as evidence, the AD status 91.417(a)(2)(v) asks for — and the directive leaves the review. Clear readings can be agreed in one press; entries the reader marked "check against the page" are agreed one at a time. Nothing is recorded until you agree.
28 Aug 2026 · MRO
An overnight round of polish
The calendar now draws an aircraft’s whole shop stay as a colored bar across every day from check-in to expected out — drag the bar to move the entire stay, or either end chip to move one date. Chips wear their aircraft’s color as a wash behind the edge. Each calendar item now opens the page where it actually lives: a recurring item lands on the aircraft page, a TBO on its part under Systems. On a phone, discrepancy reports read at full width and the aircraft’s tabs sit on their own row under the breadcrumbs instead of hiding off-screen. And in the customer portal, every aircraft now carries "Dates ahead" — the same computed coming-due list the shop plans around.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
The calendar wears colors and takes a drag
Every aircraft keeps its own color on the calendar — an edge on each chip, a dot in the lists, and a legend saying which is whose — so a full month reads at a glance. And the dates the shop itself stated now reschedule by dragging them to another day on the month grid: check-in, due-out, a deferral, parts expected. Computed due dates — an AD’s next due, the inspection, a recurring item — do not drag, and say so if you try: they follow from the records, and they move by changing the record behind them.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
Set a clock from an old logbook entry
Found the entry where the ELT batteries were last replaced? Every entry in a digital log now carries "Set a clock from this entry": say what the entry shows being done — an ELT battery, a transponder check, an oil change, or anything custom with its own interval — and the entry’s date becomes the item’s last-done date. The next due computes forward into Recurring items, Coming due, the calendar, and the daily email, and the item’s notes say which page set it. An item the aircraft already tracks is advanced, never duplicated — and never moved backwards by an older entry. The one search box and the digital log’s filter also now match every word with singular and plural finding each other, and the scanned books no longer crowd the photographs card.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
The digital log — uploaded books are read and transcribed
Every logbook you upload is now read, page by page, and transcribed into a digital log: each entry with its date, time in service, the work performed verbatim, who signed it, and any airworthiness directives it cites. Open the digital log from the book’s card on Maintenance records. Every transcribed entry links to the scanned page it was read from — the signed page remains the record, and where the reading was unsure it says "check against the page" instead of guessing. Reading starts by itself after an upload, the card shows page-by-page progress and keeps itself current without refreshing, and an email arrives when the whole book is read. Uploaded the wrong book? Its card has a remove button — the book is hidden, not destroyed, and an administrator can bring it back. Nothing is created from what is read until you agree to it; proposing found compliance against the directive review is the next piece.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
The old logbooks come aboard
Maintenance records now retains the aircraft’s old paper books. Photograph the pages or upload a scanned PDF — one book at a time, in page order — and they stay with the aircraft records, readable from anywhere. Send up to about six photographs a batch; if a batch is ever too big to send at once, the page now says so in words instead of an error number. This is the first piece of a larger plan: next, the pages will be read and transcribed, and compliance found in them will be proposed against the directive review.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
The aircraft page is the record; the Inspection page is the review
Everything needing a decision left the aircraft’s own page: the directives on the airframe (already in the Inspection review, where they were being shown twice), the manufacturer’s service documents (now one card beside the review, with how many still need deciding), and the new-directive alerts, which now greet you at the top of the Inspection page — the review announcing itself where the review happens. The aircraft’s page keeps the record: identity, recurring items, what is installed, notes, and photographs. It is about half as long.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
An aircraft card opens the aircraft
A red or amber card on the dashboard used to jump straight to the Airworthiness page. Now every aircraft card opens the aircraft itself, and the work flows through its tabs in order — Systems, Inspection, Airworthiness, Maintenance records. The card still says what needs doing; the page order says where.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
Recurring items beyond the annual
An aircraft now carries its recurring items: the 91.411 altimeter/static and 91.413 transponder checks, the 91.207 ELT inspection and its battery’s stamped replace-by date, the 30-day VOR check, the 100-hour, the oil change, and anything of your own with an interval in months, days, or hours. Add one on the aircraft page with when it was last done — the regulation’s own interval fills itself in — and its due date joins the coming-due watch, the calendar, and the daily email like everything else, with the citation on the card. Press “Done — record it” when it’s done and the next one computes. Hours-based items read against the aircraft’s recorded times — which the owner can now keep live from the portal. The section sits near the top of the aircraft’s page, above Systems.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
Owners update the hours from the portal
On “Your aircraft at the shop,” each aircraft now carries “Flown it? Update the hours” — the owner types the tach and Hobbs straight from the meters, the aircraft record picks them up, and the shop is emailed the change, old number to new. Anything due by hours reads against live numbers instead of whatever was on the record at the last visit. Only the boxes you change move anything, and commas or spaces in the number are fine.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
A saved form puts itself away
Press Save on any folded form — the aircraft’s details, a decision, a correction — and once the save lands, the fold closes back to the normal display instead of sitting open with its button still showing. Product-wide. The folds you work many entries in a row, like the directive review groups, stay open while you work them.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
Shorter pages, a way back up, and the kind of aircraft put right
The directive review now folds by the part the call is made against — “20 on the Engine, 12 on the Propeller” — so the Inspection page reads in two screens instead of twenty; open a fold and the same cards are there, choices and all. A “Back to top” button floats in on any page once the top is genuinely out of reach. And the kind of aircraft — Fixed wing, Rotorcraft — is now editable on the aircraft’s record, because it decides which directives can apply: an aircraft recorded as the wrong kind was being shown the wrong kind’s directives, and the registry cannot correct an aircraft it has never heard of.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
Every page says how it works, right beside its name
The “How this page works” link now sits beside every page title, product-wide — each one opening the Guide at the piece about that page, or at the Guide itself where no piece matches yet. The Guide gained a piece on the Inspection page: findings, directive dispositions, the tailored checklist with and without the formal workflow, and how an open inspection ends.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
An aircraft’s address is its N-number
Pages now live at addresses a person can read — /aircraft/N90161/inspection instead of a database number. Every old address keeps working forever: QR labels, links in emails, and bookmarks land where they always did and simply move to the new form. An aircraft with no registration recorded keeps its numeric address. And an open browser tab now notices when the product has been updated underneath it and refreshes itself on your next move, instead of quietly showing you yesterday’s screens.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
The pages now run in the order the work does
An aircraft’s tabs read Systems · Inspection · Airworthiness · Maintenance records — record what is installed, decide what applies, correct and sign, keep the entries. The directive review — every directive still needing a determination of applicability, each with its full set of choices — moved from the Airworthiness page to the Inspection page, where it sits whether or not a formal inspection is open, because directives arrive all year. The Airworthiness page keeps the count and a button to the review, and stays the place where discrepancy reports are worked and the sign-off is made. And an inspection is not always the annual: an aircraft that came in for a landing-gear issue gets its landing gear inspected, so the Inspection page leads with recording what you find and deciding directives — the full Appendix D checklist sits one card away for when it is the annual or condition inspection. Want the checklist without the workflow? The card now offers the printable tailored checklist without opening an inspection — opening one starts the formal, signed event. And an open inspection says “Discontinue it” right in its heading line instead of hiding the way out at the foot of a hundred checklist items.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
In the shop is good news, and a declined repair stays visible
The IN THE SHOP chip — on the dashboard, the aircraft page, and the customer’s portal — now wears the quiet green: an aircraft in the shop is being looked after, and the chip should read that way. Scheduled stays a plain fact. A discrepancy report the owner declined now carries an amber chip instead of the settled green, so “owner said no” stays visible as something worth revisiting at the next annual rather than filing away as finished. And every amber chip now wears dark lettering on the lit-amber lamp, so it reads at a glance in both appearances.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
“Engine” files under Powerplant
Parts filed under “Engine” belong to the Powerplant system, and the two no longer appear as separate groups side by side — on the Systems page and in the customer’s portal view alike. The filing word you typed stays on the record; only the grouping folds.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
Sky tones, light and dark
The grays across the product now carry a subtle sky tint in both appearances — the dark one reads as evening rather than a black void, lifted so nothing on it is truly black, and every card sits clearly off the page. The bar across the top is a deep slate instead of blue-black, and the site name wears a soft sky blue of its own. Amber is now a lit lamp — bright, with dark text on it, the way an annunciator panel does it — instead of a dark yellow that read brown. Red, amber, and green still mean exactly what they meant.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
The way to your aircraft at the shop is on the dashboard
If a shop keeps records on an aircraft of yours, the dashboard now shows a card for it — “Your aircraft at the shop”, with how many they hold — beside Aircraft and Calendar, where the navigation lives. It was reachable only from the menu under your name, and a door only one menu knows about is a door nobody finds. And for a customer whose whole account is that page, the site name at the top left now brings them back to it instead of leading them out to a dashboard about a product they are not using.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
The portal answers first, and a finding is recorded where you are
A customer opening “Your aircraft at the shop” now gets the answer before the reading: a banner says when a recommended repair is waiting on their decision — or that nothing is — and the aircraft come next, with how to reach the shop and the details held on file moved below them and the invitation to keep your own records at the foot. And on the Airworthiness page, recording a discrepancy no longer hides at the bottom of the report lists: “Found something during the inspection? Record it here” now sits beside the inspection card, where the person with the cowling off is actually looking.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
Pages get to the point, and buttons fit a thumb
The working pages — Airworthiness, Find anything, the aircraft page’s sections, and the customer’s at-the-shop view — now open with a single quiet line and a “How this page works” link instead of a standing paragraph. None of the teaching is gone: it moved into the guide, where it can be read when wanted rather than stepped over on every visit, and the guide gained a piece on the search box while the piece on what a customer sees now describes deciding on a recommended repair right from the portal. And the buttons and boxes you actually work with — the five choices on a directive card, writing up a discrepancy, recording work, the sign-off — are taller now, sized for a thumb at the aircraft rather than a mouse at a desk. Later the same day that sweep was finished across the whole product: every button, input box, menu row, and tab now meets the same thumb-sized height, and every button wears its intended color — blue for the main action, quietly outlined for the rest, red-outlined for deleting — with the few strays brought into line.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
A directive card says what the directive is about
With the full abstract folded, a card led with a number and a filing title that says nothing — "Airworthiness Directives; Lycoming Engines" is true of hundreds. Now every directive card leads with the FAA’s own filing subject beside the number — AD 2012-03-07 · Carburetor — and the abstract’s one load-bearing sentence in the open: "This AD requires removing certain HA-6 carburetors…". The rest of the abstract stays one tap away. A discrepancy report written up from a directive now starts from that same line — the subject and the requirement — instead of a cut-off abstract, and that is also what the logbook entry will quote. Manufacturer service documents already say what they are in their titles; where a manufacturer publishes a Required action header, the card shows it. Reports written up before this change, whose description is still the machine-written abstract, read the same way on the card and in the entry — anything you typed yourself is never rewritten. The subject now comes from the AD’s own (d) Subject paragraph where the rule carries one, a discrepancy report’s details show the AD’s own (e) Unsafe Condition — why the rule exists, in the FAA’s words — and re-reading the whole corpus for these also taught the product to read about 1,500 older documents whose applicability it could not parse before.
27 Aug 2026 · MRO
A new look: Modern Hangar
The product wears its own face now — a brighter, warmer page instead of the office blue-gray, one confident cobalt for buttons and links, and three typefaces chosen for the work: Space Grotesk for headings, Public Sans for reading, and JetBrains Mono for the things you compare — tail numbers, serials, AD numbers. Everything is also set a step larger, because 13-pixel labels read fine at a desk and badly at arm’s length in a hangar. The colors that carry meaning have not moved: red still stops a signature, amber still waits, green is still settled. The dark appearance got the same treatment. And the top bar is simpler — Dashboard is a plain link instead of a menu that mostly repeated itself, menu entries no longer carry explanations, “Your aircraft at the shop” lives under your name at the right with the other things that are about you, and the “On this page” row of small links is gone: the strip below the bar now carries just where you are and the aircraft’s four tabs. Links that jump to a spot partway down a page still land there. And every directive card — on the review list, the part cards, the aircraft page and the discrepancy reports — now folds the FAA’s full abstract behind one button, “Read the FAA’s summary”: the determination still starts from their words, one tap away instead of in the way.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
The manufacturer list answers back
The daily-watch list now reads in three groups — government sources, aircraft manufacturers, then engine, propeller, and appliance manufacturers — each alphabetical. The maker-coverage list is now alphabetical inside each group, and every manufacturer’s name is a link to the best address held for it. Manufacturers whose service documents sit behind their own sign-in — Honeywell for BendixKing, Textron for Beechcraft — can be recorded as exactly that: the portal address is kept, the name opens it, and every part card from that manufacturer hands the mechanic the door instead of a dead end. A brand owned by another maker (Hartzell owns Weldon and Sky-Tec) can adopt the parent’s pages from a list, whatever the names share. And a page whose site blocks automated checks — AmSafe answers our nightly fetch with a guard page while a browser sees it fine — can stay linked on part cards while the nightly check leaves it alone.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
An evening record now carries the evening’s date
Work recorded, decisions given, and sign-offs made after six in the evening were dated the next day — the server’s clock runs on universal time, and nobody in a hangar does. Every date box and every recorded decision now uses your own day. Also from tonight’s full walkthrough: a directive already written up as a discrepancy report no longer sits in the review list offering to be written up again; the same Federal Register document no longer appears twice where it reached us from two sources; a revised AD number like 2007-04-19R1 is now cited correctly — “AD” prefix, effective date, and its compliance record — when the logbook entry is written; the portal says when your aircraft is in the shop and when it is expected out; and “not applicable” reads as the settled determination it is, with the shop’s reason, instead of an identifier wearing an action-required chip.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
Amber means amber, and the account page tidied up
The waiting color is now a true amber — clearly yellow beside the red that stops a signature, so the two states can never be mistaken for each other at a glance. And on My account, your details live in a card like everything else, paired boxes sit level, and a phone number tidies itself into (719) 555-0100 the moment you leave the box — however you typed it.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
Installed equipment is called what the FAA calls it
Appliance — 14 CFR 1.1’s word for any instrument, mechanism, equipment, part, apparatus, appurtenance, or accessory installed in or attached to the aircraft that is not part of an airframe, engine, or propeller — now appears throughout the product where “component” used to: the Systems and appliances page, the appliance tag reader, the Lycoming appliance worksheet, the guide. Magnetos, alternators, radios, autopilots, ELTs, transponders, carburetors, fuel pumps, vacuum pumps, propeller governors — all appliances. Nothing about your records changed; only the word.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
The portal says what a directive is for
On "Your aircraft at the shop", every finding written up from an airworthiness directive or service document now carries the document itself: its official title, published and effective dates, the FAA’s summary of what it requires in their own words, and the reference as a link that opens the document. The compliance list gained the same — each AD number now says what it is, and opens the FAA’s page. Deciding on recommended work no longer means deciding on a bare number.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
The complied-with form stands open on the card
The "Already complied with — record it from the logbook" form no longer hides behind a fold: the date, who signed it, next due where recurring, and the logbook photograph or PDF upload are all visible right on the directive card, everywhere the card appears.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
Your records are yours to take, and the account is yours to close
My account now ends with a card that says exactly that: one press downloads everything the account holds — every aircraft, maintenance record, directive assessment and note — as a single plain-text file that opens on anything and stays readable in twenty years. And closing the account is yours to do: it hides everything, holds it unchanged through a waiting period in which one sign-in brings it all back exactly as it was, and only after that can it be removed for good. Nothing about leaving is a phone call.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
Already complied with — and the whole workflow on the review list
Reviewing directives on an aircraft with history: every directive card now offers a fifth answer — already complied with — taking the date from the old logbook, who signed it, next due where recurring, and the entry itself photographed or as a PDF, kept as the evidence behind the AD status (14 CFR 91.417(a)(2)(v)). And the Airworthiness page’s needing-review list now carries the full set of answers on each row — complied with, does not apply, applies, recommend — so working down 48 of them does not mean 48 trips to the part cards. The propeller also became its own system, out from under the engine.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
Equipment lists carry ATA and quantity, and odd files map on screen
The equipment-list file now carries the ATA chapter (filled in automatically where one kind has one chapter — 72 Engine, 61 Propellers, 74 Ignition) and a quantity column for line items that are several of a thing, and both live on the part’s card too. And when an uploaded spreadsheet’s column names are not recognizable, the import now shows each column with a taste of its data and lets you say what each one is, right on the page — no reworking the file in Excel.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
The equipment list as a file — template, export, import
On an aircraft’s Systems page: download a CSV template tailored to that aircraft — its own expected items listed, what is recorded already filled in — work down it in a spreadsheet, and import it back. The import shows exactly what it would do before anything is written, adds parts and fills blanks, and never overwrites or removes a recorded value — disagreements are pointed out and left for the part’s own card. Export the full list any time, for another shop or the records that change hands with the aircraft (14 CFR 91.419). Loose spreadsheets are welcome: TSN, S/N, Mfr, US dates, and a weight-and-balance sheet’s extra columns all land.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
Times on every part, and TBO on the watch
Each recorded part can now carry its times — time since new, time since overhaul (and which overhaul: major, top, hot section, factory remanufacture), cycles, and the manufacturer’s recommended TBO in hours and years. Enter the readings once with the aircraft total time they were true at, and they advance with the aircraft — every signed entry that records total time in service moves the clock, and every part’s time moves with it. The part’s card shows where it stands against TBO, presented as what it is: the manufacturer’s recommendation, not a regulatory limit under Part 91. The calendar side of a TBO joins the coming-due watch and the daily email, and the aircraft can now carry a landings count.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
Airframe directives take their answer on the spot
The aircraft page’s "Directives on the airframe" cards now carry the same three exits every directive card has: read it and mark it not applicable (with a reason, reversible), applies — write it up as a required discrepancy report, or recommend it to the owner. And the section’s color and count now follow your answers — a directive you have dealt with stops counting toward "5 name this aircraft," and a fully dispositioned section goes quiet.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
Owners decide in the portal
When you recommend work, your customer’s portal page now takes their answer directly — go ahead, wait with what brings it back, or decline, with their name and their reason — and you hear by email the moment they decide. The decision lands on the discrepancy report exactly as if you had recorded it; required-for-airworthiness items still take no decision, there or anywhere.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
The sign-off entry now tells the whole story
When a discrepancy report is inspected and accepted, the logbook entry it writes now leads with the original discrepancy — what was found, in the words it was written up in — and then the corrective action beneath it. An entry reading only “hardware replaced” left the next reader asking what was wrong; now the entry stands alone, the way a logbook should read. Entries already written are records and stay exactly as signed.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
Mid-Continent service documents are in
Mid-Continent Instruments numbers a service information letter the same as the service bulletin it accompanies — two documents, one number — and our records refused to hold both, which had quietly kept their whole list out. Fixed: about ninety bulletins and letters for their instruments, batteries and power systems now sync nightly and match against recorded parts like every other manufacturer’s.
26 Aug 2026 · MRO
The formal inspection, start to signature
An aircraft’s Airworthiness page can now open its annual or condition inspection. Opening one prepares a checklist for that specific aircraft — the scope and detail of Appendix D to Part 43, worded for the inspection the aircraft actually gets, every recorded part on its own line with its serial number, and items for equipment it does not have recorded not applicable with the reason on the document. Work the checklist item by item, write up findings as discrepancy reports as you go, and the sign-off writes the maintenance record entry in the FAA’s own wording — with the dated discrepancy list, frozen as provided, when the aircraft is not approved. Closing an inspection also sets the date the next one is figured from, so the coming-due watch follows on by itself.
25 Aug 2026 · MRO
New manufacturer service documents arrive by email too
When a manufacturer whose documents we hold — Garmin, Dynon, Advanced Flight Systems and the rest of the parsed tier — publishes something new that names an aircraft’s model or a recorded part, the account now hears by email the night it appears, once per document. Shop accounts hear alone and verify first, exactly as with a new directive; recommending the work is what reaches the owner.
25 Aug 2026 · MRO
New directives arrive by email, and the shop speaks first
When a newly published airworthiness directive names an aircraft — the airframe, its engine, or a recorded part — the account now hears by email that night, once per directive. On a shop account the email goes to the shop alone, so the shop verifies it applies before the owner hears anything; recommending the work from the directive’s card is what tells the owner, by email, with a link to their portal view. A personal account hears directly.
25 Aug 2026 · MRO
Dates read the way a logbook writes them
Every date on a record now reads day-first — 26 Aug 2026 — the way aviation paperwork has always written them: logbook entries, discrepancy reports, compliance records, coming-due notices, the daily email. Nothing about how dates are stored changed; only how a record reads.
25 Aug 2026 · MRO
Manufacturer pages: several per manufacturer, checked on the spot
A manufacturer can now have more than one confirmed service-documents page — Hartzell publishes across four — and every page joins the daily watch and the part cards. Confirming a page tests it immediately and answers in plain words; a Check it now button does the same for any page later; a pasted address works with or without the https://; and a wrong page can simply be removed.
25 Aug 2026 · MRO
The calendar shows today, and what comes next
Today wears the filled circle a wall calendar uses, so the current day is findable at a glance. And below the month, a new Coming up section lists everything ahead over the next year — and anything overdue, first — one card per item with the aircraft, what it is, the date, and how far off it is. Each card opens its aircraft.
25 Aug 2026 · MRO
Choose how your coming-due email behaves
Under My account there is a new Coming-due alerts card: pick how far ahead the daily email looks (30, 60 or 90 days), which kinds of item it covers, and up to five additional addresses to copy — the aircraft owner, or the IA who does your inspection. The dashboard and calendar always show everything regardless; this only decides what arrives by email.
25 Aug 2026 · MRO
The inspection due date is watched
Enter the date of the last annual or condition inspection on the aircraft’s identity card (Edit these details) and the product works out when the next is due — the end of the 12th calendar month, per 91.409 — shows it on the card, and watches it: the dashboard, the calendar, and the daily coming-due email all carry it, amber inside 30 days and red once overdue. The sign-off form also now takes the aircraft total time in service, which AC 43-9D recommends recording on every entry.
25 Aug 2026 · MRO
The regulations answer for themselves
Search "far 91.205" and the regulation’s own text comes back as a card — all 6,281 sections of Title 14, mirrored weekly from the eCFR, searchable by number or by words. Registry results now carry the rest of the FAA record too: certificate and airworthiness dates, engine, kit, and Mode S code. The foot of the search page lists every source the box reads, with live counts.
25 Aug 2026 · MRO
The search speaks sentences, and holds the data sheets
Type a whole question — "search for all AD that apply to the lycoming 10-360-a1b6" — and the search sets the filler aside, corrects 10-360 to IO-360 the way a grubby plate reads, and answers: the directives, and now the FAA’s own Type Certificate Data Sheet index, 2,227 current sheets searchable by model, number or holder, each one a click from the FAA’s current revision.
24 Aug 2026 · MRO
A calendar of what comes in, goes out, or is due
The Calendar, in the first menu on the bar, shows the month: aircraft scheduled to come in, in the shop with an expected-out date, and the dated compliance items — AD next-due dates, work deferred to a date, parts on order. The dashboard lists what is in the shop and scheduled right now.
24 Aug 2026 · MRO
The dashboard says what needs doing
One card per aircraft across the whole account, worst first — the status color on its edge, Action required or Nothing outstanding, and a sentence saying why. An aircraft can be marked Scheduled or In the shop from its own page, and the dashboard shows that too. Clicking a red or amber card goes straight to the work.
24 Aug 2026 · MRO
Take a photo, right from the aircraft
Everywhere a photograph goes in — a data plate, a finding on a discrepancy report, the aircraft itself — there are now two buttons: Take a photo, which opens the phone camera, and Choose a file. No more hunting through a file browser with one hand on the cowling.
24 Aug 2026 · MRO
Opening a job asks only for what it needs
Adding an aircraft starts with the registration and the FAA registry fills in what it knows. The times at intake — tach, Hobbs, total time in service, engine and propeller — are separate boxes, because they are separate readings. And every aircraft page can print a QR label: stick it on the aircraft, and scanning it opens the record.
23 Aug 2026 · MRO
Your aircraft at the shop now shows the findings
A customer signed in to their read-only view sees every discrepancy report on their aircraft as a card — what was found, what is required and what was left to them, what they decided, what is waiting on parts or the inspector, and what is signed off into the logbook. It says plainly when one is waiting on their decision.
22 Aug 2026 · MRO
From finding to signed off, on one card
Every directive on a part ends one of three ways: not applicable, with the reason; applies — written up as a discrepancy report required for airworthiness; or recommended to the owner to decide. The DR then walks through the work — parts on order with an ETIC, corrected by the A&P, inspected by the IA — and "Inspected and accepted" writes the maintenance record entry in the words 14 CFR 43.9 requires, and records the AD status 14 CFR 91.417(a)(2)(v) asks for — the AD, the method of compliance and, for a recurring one, when it is next due. The directive then reads Complied with.
22 Aug 2026 · MRO
One system at a time, one part per page
The aircraft page leads to a Systems page of tiles, each colored by the worst thing inside it; a system shows its components as cards; a component is its own page with the directives that name it, and maintenance records, notes, photographs and documents in a column on the right. Breadcrumbs across the top are all links. Shop notes and files now live on each discrepancy report too, and a replaced part is recorded as a new one pointing back at the old.
21 Aug 2026 · MRO
The whole FAA library, and the manufacturers' own service documents
Every current airworthiness directive the FAA publishes — thirteen thousand, with the FAA's own manufacturer and model fields — refreshed nightly, and the service bulletins, alerts and letters that Van's, Garmin, Dynon, Advanced Flight, Mid-Continent and others publish on their own sites, shown beside the directives on the parts they name. The Guide, reachable from the top bar, explains how the product reads them.
19 Aug 2026 · MRO
Aircraft records
An aircraft can now be added and kept. Engine, propeller and equipment go on the aircraft they are installed on, so a compliance answer is about the whole aircraft rather than a part on its own.
19 Aug 2026 · MRO
Service bulletins and letters alongside the directives
Engine compliance now covers the manufacturer publications as well as the airworthiness directives — sorted into what needs doing, what needs a part number before it can be answered, and what does not apply. It arrives with the engine pages, which are being rewritten to sit inside an aircraft.
18 Aug 2026 · MRO
Airworthiness directives, straight from the Federal Register
Directives are read from the official source and re-checked nightly, with the date of the last check shown so you can see how current the answer is.
18 Aug 2026 · MRO
Wire size calculator
The wire sizing tool, moved here — AC 43.13-1B Chapter 11. Continuous and intermittent ratings, voltage drop, and the protection device that suits the run.