The hangar is live again
The hangar has been the poor cousin of the fleet page since the day it shipped. A vessel in My fleet shows its position, its status and where it has been. An aircraft in My hangar showed a snapshot from whenever you last pressed a button, and the button was rationed: two presses a day, because each one cost a request to a paid data source.
That reasoning was correct in August 2026. It is not correct now. We have spent the last six weeks growing a receiver network of our own, and the sky over those antennas is free to us. So we measured the hangars instead of guessing about them, and the answer was blunt: of the thirteen aircraft currently kept as favourites, eleven are heard by our own receivers, and nine of those were heard within the last day. Meanwhile the paid button had been pressed zero times in a month. The page was rationing something it no longer had to buy, and hiding something it already had.
What changed. Every card in the hangar now carries a state line, computed when the page loads and costing nothing: in the air now, on the ground now, or the date the network last heard that tail at all. When we are hearing her, the line carries the flight level, the speed, the callsign of the flight she is operating right now, and a link that opens her on the map. The list refreshes itself every thirty seconds while you are looking at it, and stops while the tab is in the background.
What the button became. «Where is she now?» has not been deleted, it has been narrowed. It appears only on a card our own receivers are not hearing, which is the one case where an answer still has to be bought. Its free half spends nothing: if the network turns out to hear her after all, you get the position and the counter does not move. The two-a-day cap now guards the paid source alone, which is what it was always meant to guard.
A quieter repair rode along. Cards keep a snapshot of the aircraft type taken on the day you added it, and some of those snapshots came from a reference table that indexes families rather than models. A 747 sat in the hangar labelled "747 Family", three aircraft had no type name at all, and the network knew the exact designator for all of them. The name is now repaired when the page is read, so nothing needed migrating and a hangar filled in August shows September's answers. A name you actually earned by catching the aircraft is never overwritten.
What we did not do. The hangar still keeps no history you can browse, and still does not ring your bell when a favourite takes off. Both are designed and both are next. Nothing here changed who can see what: the public tab on your profile still shows the list and nothing else, because a list of tail numbers with dates attached stops being a collection and starts being a way to follow a person. Private aircraft cannot be in a hangar at all, for the same reason they cannot be caught: they arrive with no identity to store.