New inspection

Aircraft & owner

Enter the details once. This feeds directly into every report, invoice and logbook entry, so you never have to type the same tail number twice.

Registration

Aircraft photo

Powerplant & propeller

Times & meters

Appliance & component times

Inspection setup

Your shop

These three are how an owner reaches you. They are where his approvals are sent, and they are what he reads at the foot of his own page — so they go up with the job every time you publish.

Your signature

Draw it once with your finger and it is kept here, so you are not drawing it again on every job. It is never put on a document by itself — on each report you press Use my saved signature. It travels to your other devices with the rest of your settings.

Shop branding

Put your logo here once. It prints at the top of every work authorization and every invoice, on every aircraft, and it is the letterhead on the page the aircraft’s owner reads. Kept on this device.

The colors that mean something — airworthy, deferred, unairworthy — are fixed and are never branded, so a finding can never be dressed up as good news.

Customer

Contact, billing, scheduling and the paper trail. Keep a record of what was actually said, so there are no surprises when it is time to pay.

Contact

Billing

Blank means the same as the contact.

Notes about the customer

Scheduling

Correspondence

Owner requests, squawks & messages

Log each squawk while you still have him on the phone, or let him enter them himself from his own page. Every one has to be dispositioned before the report and the logbook entries will generate — so you never hear “hey, you forgot to look at my radio” when he picks the aircraft up.

Add a request

one per line

Pre-work walkaround

Do not buy his hangar rash. Tap a zone on the diagram and take the photograph to lock in the exact condition the aircraft arrived in. This is your condition-on-arrival record, and it is the cheapest insurance in the building.

no photos documented squawk unairworthy

Select a zone

Tap any part of the aircraft above to add photos and notes for that zone.

Data Plates & Identification

General / other photos

Inspection checklist

Which checklist

Squawks & discrepancies

Labor hours remaining

Corrected During The Inspection

Parts & consumables

Estimate summary

Recommended upgrades

Borescope survey

Totals

Work Authorization

Wording on the request

Request details

Everything below applies to the items only

Airworthiness items

Deferrable items

Upgrades — his answer

Approved — work to do

Declined — deferred to the owner

Estimate totals

Build and send

Build
Send whichever you built

Send the estimate straight to the owner by text or email — your own app opens with the request already written. For a long squawk list, send the PDF and let the message carry the summary; he reads the whole thing on his phone and tells you what to do and what to leave.

Record his approval

Build the request to preview it here.

Recurring inspections

Tracks your calendar and hour-based limits for you — due dates compute from the date or time complied. Verify each against the aircraft’s operating limitations, because an experimental in day VFR carries a lot less than an IFR machine.

AD & SB compliance

Compliance record

One line per directive or bulletin, the way the report prints it: whether it applies, and if it does, the date, the hours and when it is next due. Press a line to open it and write how it was satisfied. A search brings directives in here to be answered; it never answers them for you — applicability is yours to determine: on an amateur-built airframe the airframe ADs generally do not apply, but the ones against the installed engine, propeller, magnetos and appliances certainly do.

Search the directives

The list for this type

The compliance search

Sources reviewed

Manufacturer service information

Printed in the report as a link the owner can follow, so the service information is one tap away instead of a hunt. Paste the page for the airframe the kit is based on — a Harmon Rocket II takes the RV-4 page. Give it a Van’s page and every Van’s-numbered bulletin below turns into a link to its own document page as well; paste a link on a bulletin to override that.

Research trail

AD compliance report

A standalone record of the directive research — what is outstanding, what was complied with and how, and what was assessed and found not to apply. Hand it to the owner or file it with the aircraft records.

Annual Condition Report

Report options

Record signature

not signed

The first page of the report ends in a signoff block. Until it is signed it prints an empty line for a pen, which is a perfectly good way to do it. Sign here with your finger and your signature prints in that block instead, over your name and certificate number, with the day and the device it came from underneath. The AD compliance report takes the same one.

Nothing puts it there by itself — a saved signature still waits for you to press one of these, on this job. And it does not sign the logbook entries: those are the legal record and they are signed in the books.

Build the report to preview it here.

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Invoice

Rates & terms

Rate library

Set your flat charge and your hourly rate by aircraft class, so you never underbill for your time. The class is set on the Aircraft page; changing it updates the flat charge unless you have typed over it. These rates are shared across every inspection file on this device.

Labor

Parts

Receipts

Flagging overages

Stop eating the cost of expensive parts. A part that lands above your estimate by more than either of these is flagged, so you can get his approval before you are stuck with the difference.

Payments received

Other charges & payments

Aircraft photo for the invoice

Totals

Build the invoice to preview it here.

Logbook entries

Every entry

How the entries are written

On, the entries carry the heading, the times, your corrective actions, the AD line you chose above and the certification — nothing else. Off, the app also writes routine lines it works out from the checklist, such as servicing the air filter or running the engine. Those are claims about work in a record you sign, so they are off by default. You are the mechanic of record; you decide what goes over your signature.

Readings in the heading

Which times print at the top of each entry. A reading you have not filled in never prints, whether it is ticked or not.

Add a line of your own

For anything that did not come from a squawk. It goes into the book you choose, above the certification, and stays there.

Sticker output

The same mark as your letterhead, set faint so the writing still reads. It is part of the sticker, not a print background, so it comes out whatever the print dialog is set to.

Generate to preview the sticker text.

What's left

Everything still to do

How an inspection runs

Inspection files

Hangars have terrible wifi, so everything is stored on this device and keeps working at the far end of the ramp. Nothing here is on your other devices until you send it to your shop’s storage or export it — which is why the same aircraft can look different on the phone and on the computer.

Who has this inspection

A copy to fall back on

Backup status

Version

not checked

Access

who is signed in on this device

Your shop’s storage

not signed in

While you are signed in and have signal, pressing Save sends that aircraft to your shop’s own storage as well, photographs included. Only what changed goes — the photographs travel as their own files and are sent once, so the second save of an aeroplane moves a few seconds of text rather than every picture again. Saves made offline, or before this device was signed in, are on this device only — Send every aircraft catches those up. Nothing to set up and nothing to connect; it is part of the subscription.

Nothing comes down on its own. An inspection lives on the device that made it, and signing in on a second device does not fetch your work — a job is held by one device at a time on purpose. To pick one up here, use the list below.

Export this aircraft to a file writes the open aeroplane, photographs and all, to a file you can keep anywhere on any disk, with no account at all: that is the copy you own outright, and it imports on any device. The Files tab has the same thing for every aircraft at once, under More ways to export.

Aircraft not on this device

Reminders

Your settings on every device

Your shop details, logbook and checklist wording, note and part libraries, checklist templates, directive lists, rates and logo are kept on your shop’s own record, so they are the same wherever you work. This happens on its own — the buttons are for when you want it now.

Standard logbook wording

Checklist wording

If something looks wrong

File size

OCR engine

This device

Handing an inspection to another mechanic: press Send this inspection and pick AirDrop, Messages or Mail. Everything travels in that one file — aircraft, owner, checklist marks, squawks, photographs, estimates. He opens SquawkShop, goes to Files, presses Import, and picks up exactly where you left off. Import keeps whichever copy was edited most recently, so only one of you should be working on it at a time.

About SquawkShop

The built-in checklist bridges 14 CFR part 43 appendix D with the reality of maintaining everything from certified iron to RV-derived taildraggers — and you can load your own checklist for a type over the top of it. But remember what this is: a documentation aid, not an approved data source. You are the mechanic of record. The maintenance manual, the operating limitations, the manufacturers’ service information and your judgment govern the sign-off.

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