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…