The logbook was always yours.
It still is.
Aero Logworks is a digital maintenance logbook for owners and the mechanics who work on their airplanes — signed records you can prove, and can take with you anytime.
no contracts, no funny business — just a rate card and a 90-day trial
Entry 0483 — 100-hour inspection
- Aircraft
- N1234S · Cessna 172M
- Signed by
- R. Alvarez, A&P/IA 3417609
- Signed
- Sep 16, 2026, 9:14 AM
- Record hash
- 8f3a1c…e02e
Signed records you can prove
Every signature carries the signer's name and certificate, bound to the exact version they reviewed. Any later change is detectable.
Export anytime
The complete record as PDF, CSV, or a JSON package, whenever you want it — paying or not.
Verify by QR, no account
Paste a label in the paper book. Anyone who scans it sees whether the record still matches what was signed.
Three people keep this book honest.
The owner who pays for it, the mechanic who signs in it, and whoever checks it later. Each gets what they need, and nobody gets locked out.
The owner
One place for the airplane's whole history: what's due, what's done, who signed it. Update the hours in one field and everything recalculates.
For ownersThe mechanic
Free accounts, templates for routine work, 43.9 and 43.11 fields prompted instead of remembered, and a signature that means something.
For A&Ps and IAsThe inspector or buyer
Scan a label, see the entry, the signer and the certificate, and whether the record matches what was signed. No login.
For inspectors & buyersYou own your logbooks.
Every entry, every inspection, every hour you've ever logged — it's yours, not ours. Export the complete record whenever you want it. No approval, no waiting period, no fee to get your own data back.
If you sell the airplane, the records and their signatures go with it. If you leave Aero Logworks, everything goes with you. We built the export before we built almost anything else, because a logbook that won't let go isn't a logbook — it's a lease.
Records are retained for the life of the aircraft, not the life of your subscription.
- Export complete records as PDF, CSV, or a JSON package, any time, as often as you like.
- Cancel your plan and your records stay exportable — cancellation never locks the archive.
- One annual fee, no contract term, and nothing that requires you to keep paying to keep reading.
What's in the book
Everything a paper logbook did, and the parts paper could never do — laid out the way a logbook should read, top to bottom.
How a signature gets made
Four steps between "draft" and "signed", following the electronic-signature practices in FAA Advisory Circular 120-78B.
Review the exact version
The signer reads exactly the text they're about to sign — not a summary, not what it said five minutes ago.
Re-authenticate
They prove it's them again at the moment of signing. An open session isn't enough.
Sign
Their name and certificate number are frozen into the signature on that exact version.
Seal
The entry is hashed and becomes append-only. A later change would be detectable, and corrections are new linked versions.
Anyone can verify a record. No account needed.
Every signed entry can carry a printed label with a QR code — pasted into the paper logbook, or kept with the aircraft's records. Scanning it opens a public page: the entry, its signer, their certificate number and the signing time, checked against the stored hash.
An inspector on the ramp, a buyer at a prebuy, or a mechanic seeing the airplane for the first time can confirm the record matches what was signed — without logging into anything. What a scan shows
Scan to verify at aerologworks.com/verify
Rate card
Posted plainly, like it's taped to the shop counter.
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Questions owners actually ask
Who owns my data?
You do. Every record belongs to the aircraft's owner. You can export the complete logbook at any time, and nothing about your account status changes that.
What happens if I cancel?
Your subscription stops and no new entries can be added, but your existing records stay exportable. We don't hold your logbook hostage to get you to resubscribe.
Is this FAA-acceptable?
There is no FAA approval for logbook software, and we don't claim one. Signing follows the electronic-signature practices in AC 120-78B, and entries prompt for the content 14 CFR 43.9 and 43.11 require. Whether a record is acceptable rests with the operator and the mechanic, exactly as it does on paper.
What does my mechanic pay?
Nothing. Mechanic accounts are free, and so are apprentice accounts. The owner's annual fee covers the aircraft, not each person working on it.
What about my existing paper logbooks?
Keep them — they remain the record of everything already flown. New entries live in Aero Logworks going forward, and printed labels with QR codes tie the two together.
Start the next entry in the book.
Ninety days free for owners. Free for the mechanics and apprentices you invite. Your records, exportable, always.