My hangar — keep the aircraft you care about, ask where they are
Ships got fleet tracking; planes now get the hangar. Open /my/hangar — or the new ✈ My hangar link in the profile menu, the pause screen and the mobile drawer — and start collecting the airframes you actually care about.
What it does
Catch an aircraft with Sky Radar on the map and the capture card now has a ☆ Hangar button next to Catch. You can also add any airframe by its ICAO24 hex straight on the hangar page. Each hangared aircraft keeps an identity snapshot — registration, type, airline, flag, rarity — plus a personal note (up to 120 characters) for whatever you want to remember: "saw her at EDDH gate C4", "my first mythical".
The headline feature is the «Where is she now?» button. One press asks ADS-B Exchange for that exact airframe's live position — coordinates, altitude, speed, heading — and stamps it onto the card, so your whole hangar shows the last known fix without asking again. If the aircraft isn't broadcasting at that moment, we say so honestly: she's dark right now.
Why there's no live tracking
This is the deliberate difference from the ship fleet. Marine AIS comes to us as a fixed-cost stream — watching fifty ships costs the same as watching five. Aircraft data doesn't work that way: every single look is a metered API request. Continuous tracking of everyone's favourite planes would burn money whether or not anyone is watching the page.
So the hangar is snapshot-first: position checks are manual and capped at 2 per day per account, with a short cooldown between them. The cap is spent even when the aircraft turns out to be dark — the request happened, and pretending otherwise would just invite refresh-spam. Your remaining checks for the day are always shown on the button. If the model proves out, higher refresh allowances are an obvious candidate for the future mobile tiers.
Public like the fleet
Your profile grows a fourth tab: ✈ Hangar, next to ⚓ Fleet. The list of aircraft you keep is public — collections are for showing off — but your notes and the position fixes you request stay private to you. Same stance the fleet takes: what you track is visible, what you learn from tracking is yours.
The hangar holds up to 50 aircraft, matching the fleet quota, and your preferred sort order roams with your account across devices.
The fine print
There are no bell notifications for hangared aircraft — nothing watches them in the background, so there is nothing to alert about. That's not an oversight; it's the honest consequence of no background tracking. If a plane matters to you today, ask where she is. Twice a day turns out to be plenty for the "did my favourite A380 fly today?" itch — and it keeps the feature sustainable at any number of users.