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Your fleet and client aircraft

Once an owner links you to their aircraft (see Getting connected to a client's aircraft), it appears in your Fleet view on the provider dashboard. This guide covers what the Fleet view shows, what you can and can't see on a client aircraft, and how to communicate with the owner from there.

The Fleet view

The Fleet view lists every client aircraft you're linked to, ordered by what needs attention first — so the airplane with the most pressing items rises to the top. Alongside the list you get fleet-level stats and a 90-day fleet-wide maintenance timeline. The timeline is filterable by tail number, and it raises a regulatory alert when the records show something overdue.

Clicking an aircraft opens its detail page, organized into tabs: Overview, Maintenance, Logbook, Engine Health, Trends, Pre-Visit Summary, and Submit Work.

A read-only co-steward view

The core principle: your provider view is a read-only window into the owner's record. The owner is the records custodian; you see the same source of truth they do, but nothing you do in the fleet view writes to their record directly. (Work you submit goes through owner review — see Submitting work for owner approval.)

What you can see on a linked aircraft:

  • Maintenance history and the service schedule
  • AD compliance records and outstanding squawks
  • Current hours — tach and Hobbs, each clearly labeled
  • Installed equipment
  • Oil-analysis and compression history
  • The owner's contact info

What you can't see — the owner's private data:

  • Costs and billing
  • Insurance and registration expiry

The records-status banner

When an aircraft's records show overdue regulatory items, a records-status banner says so. The wording matters: the banner reports what the records show. It does not certify anything, and it does not ground the airplane — verify against the aircraft logbooks before any return-to-service decision. TachMinder surfaces the state of the record; airworthiness calls remain yours and the owner's.

The Pre-Visit Summary tab

Before a shop visit, the owner can generate an AI briefing of their aircraft's status. The Pre-Visit Summary tab shows you that briefing — the owner generates it, you read it. It's a head start on what's coming into the shop, not a work order.

Proposing service-interval changes

On the Maintenance tab you can propose changes to discretionary service intervals — for example, suggesting a different oil-change interval based on what you're seeing. The owner accepts or declines each proposal; the schedule stays owner-canonical. See Service schedule for how shared intervals work.

Conversations with the owner

You can start a conversation about any fleet aircraft directly from the Fleet view, optionally anchored to a specific maintenance item, squawk, or AD — so the discussion carries its context with it. The recipient is the aircraft's owner. Your inbox lives in the Service section, with Open and Resolved threads. Messages are attributed to their author and are not signoffs — a conversation never substitutes for a logbook entry.

TachMinder is an informational tool only. It is not a substitute for a certified A&P mechanic or IA. Only certificated mechanics and appropriately rated repair stations can approve return-to-service. Always verify Airworthiness Directive data with the FAA AD database (drs.faa.gov). TachMinder does not certify airworthiness.

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