What’s new
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.
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.
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.