A flying club knows its aircraft by heart and writes almost nothing down: the hours are on a sheet pinned to the hangar wall, and the answer to “can I take F-GKLM on Saturday” is whoever picks up the telephone, until that person is on holiday.
Aero Hangar is the register that answers instead, written for the fleet manager who does the job in the evening, between two flights. The free plugin is the whole register, with no cap on aircraft, documents or readings.
- Identity. Registration, serial number, type taken from an illustrated catalogue of 29 machines, and 24 silhouettes.
- A dated status journal. In service, unavailable, grounded, archived: each said by a person, on a date, with a reason, and the history stays readable.
- Counter readings that never add up wrongly. A reading carries what it counts and the instrument it is read on: two pairs are two series.
- On-board documents kept out of reach. Eleven kinds with their dates, stored outside the media library, served only to the accounts you allow.
- The fleet on the club’s own site. One block and two shortcodes: the grid of the fleet, and the hourly rate inside a sentence.
- Plus the dashboard of the day, a sortable register, five shared permissions, and a facade for developers.
Aero Hangar Pro
Aero Hangar Pro is a separate download from the publisher, which replaces this plugin and keeps everything it recorded, for the club that keeps its maintenance schedule in a spreadsheet and would rather keep it here.
It adds expiry reminders by e-mail with a weekly summary, hour packs shown under the rate, the public page of one aircraft, printing of the dashboard, maintenance (due items, remaining potential, a planner, workshop return, unavailability announced ahead on the public card, maintenance programmes by type), ownership (shares, contracts, bases, rates), the import of flight logs and bookings, a report of availability and cost per hour, and defect reports sent by pilots from a QR code on board.
Nothing there is part of this plugin: what you install here is the whole register, and it stands on its own.
Part of the Aero range
Beside Aero Courses, Aerodrome METAR TAF and Aero Users: one job each, and they talk when installed together.
What this plugin does not claim
It issues no release to service and extends no airworthiness review certificate. An aircraft shown here as in service means one person said so on one date; judging airworthiness belongs to those entitled to judge it.
Third-party services
The plugin contacts one external address, only when an administrator asks for it, and it concerns the club’s data in no way. The dashboard shows the other plugins of the Aero range from a list shipped with the plugin. The “Update the list” button reads the current list from wptechnology.com, the publisher’s own site; an administrator can also tick “Keep the list up to date automatically”, and the list is then read again every 7 days. Nothing is read before that button or that box. It is a plain GET on a public address that sends nothing about the club; like every request WordPress makes, it carries WordPress’s standard header with the site’s address. If the site does not answer, the list stays as it was. Whether a plugin is installed here is read locally and never sent. Legal notice · privacy.
Nothing else about your club, your aircraft or your documents leaves the site: no tracking, no usage reporting, no remote asset, no call to any other address of ours or of anybody else’s.
Aero Hangar Pro, the separate extension described above, is sold by the publisher through Freemius. This package makes no call to it and carries none of its code.
Its three type families, Archivo, Barlow Condensed and IBM Plex Mono, travel with the plugin as WOFF2 files and are served from the site itself, never from a font network. All three are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which is compatible with the GPL. Their licence and attribution are in assets/fonts/LICENSE.txt.
The 24 aircraft silhouettes in assets/silhouettes/ were drawn for WPTechnology (Leadovation SAS) and are published under the same GPL-2.0-or-later licence as the plugin.
Screenshots
The fleet this morning: the state of the day in five figures, the whole fleet as a band of tiles under them, then the aircraft that need a decision today, each with its status, its last reading and its next document expiry, and the buttons lined up on the right of every row.
The identity of an aircraft: registration, serial number, type taken from the catalogue, base, rules and rate, the silhouette library and the equipment that decides.
The on-board documents of one aircraft: each kind with its expiry on a band you read at a glance, the date corrected on the spot, the file kept out of reach, and the visibility the club gave it.
Adding an aircraft over the register: the illustrated catalogue of 29 common types, what the type fills in shown beside the registration, and the hourly rate on the same line.
The settings: what the public grid shows, what each permission opens, and whether uninstalling erases the data.
The fleet on the club's own site: each aircraft with its state of the day, its seats, its fuel, its rate, and what it asks of a pilot.