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…
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…
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 · 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 · 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…
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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…