What can TrackAD do for you?
You keep the AD status for every aircraft on your books, it works out what falls due and when, it watches the Federal Register every morning, and it prints the compliance record for the annual.
What it does
- Finds FAA directives that name your aircraft Airframe, engine, propeller — and the appliances too: magnetos, ELT, radios. You list what is fitted, it searches all of it.
- Works out what is due, and against the right clock Hours, calendar or cycles, whichever comes first. An engine AD counts engine time, not airframe time — on most light aircraft those are thousands of hours apart.
- Tells you what is new since the last annual New directives arrive daily, so one issued three weeks ago is already there.
- Fills the aircraft in from its N-number Make, model, serial, year and engine come straight from the FAA aircraft registry. All of it stays editable, and it flags where the registry disagrees with your record.
- Prints the 91.417 status record AD number, revision, method of compliance, when it was done and when the next action falls due — the columns the regulation asks for, in that order.
- Keeps every tail on one screen What is overdue, what is due soon, and what still needs a decision.
On file: 12,278 FAA directives, 1994 to today, refreshed every morning.*1*2
Against a paper AD subscription
| TrackAD | ADlog | |
|---|---|---|
| Airworthiness directives | Held in full, as the FAA wrote them | Yes |
| Updated | Daily | Yearly mailing |
| Airframe, engine, prop matching | Matched to FAA records | Researched by hand |
| Appliance matching | Matched to FAA records | Researched by hand |
| Recurring due dates computed | Yes | By hand |
| Per-clock arithmetic | Yes | By hand |
| N-number autofill | From the FAA registry | No |
| Whole fleet on one screen | Yes | One binder each |
| Printable 91.417 record | Yes | Binder pages |
| 337s, W&B, 8130 storage | Yes | Binder tabs |
| Documents filed against the aircraft | Yes | Loose in the binder |
What it costs
| Aircraft on your books | TrackAD | ADlog renewal |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $50 | ~$43 |
| 5 | $50 | ~$215 |
| 20 | $50 | ~$860 |
| 50 | $50 | ~$2,150 |
| Per year | $50 flat | ~$43 each |
$5 a month or $50 a year, up to 50 aircraft on either.*6 The saving is in the volume — this is built for shops and freelance IAs with a book of aircraft.
Start with one tail number.
No card, no call. Type an N-number and it fills itself in.
Free: search every airworthiness directive
The whole catalogue is open and needs no account — 12,278 directives back to 1994, with applicability, compliance and required actions separated out instead of run together in one wall of rule text.
Use it whether or not you ever sign up. It is the same catalogue TrackAD matches against your aircraft.