Why HangarOS exists.
A flight school runs on four systems that were never introduced to each other. HangarOS was started to make them one.
A school running on three browser tabs and a paper logbook.
Leo started flight training at a Part 61 school in North Carolina. The school was good. The instructors were good. The software holding it together was four unrelated products and a binder.
Dispatch lived in a shared calendar. Maintenance lived in a spreadsheet that one person kept. Training records lived in a binder behind the desk. Invoices lived in QuickBooks. When a student cancelled on a Saturday morning, four of those had to be reconciled by hand — and whichever one got missed was the one that mattered a month later.
None of those tools knew whether the student was endorsed for the flight, whether the aircraft was airworthy that morning, or whether the weather was inside the school’s own minimums. A person had to hold all of it, every time, without forgetting.
HangarOS is the attempt to put those four systems in one place and let the software carry the checking.
What the product is built around.
Three decisions that shaped the product, and that we would rather lose a sale than reverse.
The system enforces what a busy person forgets.
A booking that should not happen is blocked, not flagged. Everything else in HangarOS exists to make that check possible: the endorsement log, the document vault, the maintenance record and the weather all feed one decision about whether a flight may leave.
Restraint over decoration.
An approach plate has two colours and a rigorous layout because a pilot has to read it in turbulence. The software is built the same way. Tail numbers, Hobbs readings, Zulu times and regulation cites carry the identity; nothing is added to make a screen look busier than the job requires.
Pay for what you turn on.
There is no required module and no bundle. If your maintenance still runs fine on a spreadsheet, do not buy the maintenance module. Every module is priced per base, so a second airport costs you only what you actually switch on there.
- Company
- OrangeTree Technologies LLC
- Founded
- 2025
- Based in
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Built for
- 14 CFR 61 and 141
The rules don’t change. Whether anyone checks them does.
Put them somewhere they cannot be forgotten on a busy Saturday. Set your school up in an afternoon and fly the rest of the week on it.
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