What a GA shop needs from a records tool
Before an annual or a pre-buy, someone at the shop reads the aircraft’s paper history and finds the entry behind each status. The tools on this page each cover some part of that work. Cloudline Logbook is built for the reading itself.
Reads the paper
Send scans or phone photos of the logbooks. Atlas reads every page, and entries, parts, hours, inspections, and AD items come back linked to the page they came from.
Returns a Status Determination
A cited report the A&P can check against the entries. Missing or unreadable history is flagged, and the airworthiness determination stays with the A&P.
Priced one-time, per aircraft
The first aircraft is free. After that, $250 to $600 by engine count and age. No subscription to get the report, and the Living Logbook comes with it.
Good for an owner's own backup and search
BetterPlane, TachTime, and AirLogbooks are examples. An owner photographs the books, keeps a copy, and can search it. For an owner who wants their own records backed up and easy to find, that is the right kind of tool.
The owner's own books
- A backup of the owner's logbooks
- Search across the owner's own pages
- Set up and used by the owner
Built for the shop
The shop gets a cited Status Determination, with missing history flagged, that the A&P can check against the page. It is priced one-time per tail, and the first aircraft is free. Phone photos of the books are a fine way to send them in.
Digitize aircraft logbooks →Built for fleets and bizav records departments
Bluetail is an example. A platform like this serves a flight department with a fleet and a records staff, and it is sized for that operation.
Fleet records at department scale
- Records for a fleet of aircraft
- Built around a records department
- Sized for business aviation
Sized for GA shops and single tails
Send the logbooks for one aircraft and pay once for that aircraft. One tail is enough to start, and the first one is free. A pre-buy on a single aircraft is a typical first job.
See the pre-buy review →Work orders, inventory, and scheduling
Corridor, CAMP, and Veryon are examples. They run the shop: work orders, parts inventory, and scheduling. A shop that runs on one of them keeps running on it. Cloudline does not replace them. It reads the aircraft’s paper logbooks and returns a cited record the shop can use beside them.
Running the shop
- Work orders
- Parts inventory
- Scheduling
Reading the paper history
The Status Determination comes from the aircraft's logbooks: entries, parts, hours, inspections, and AD items, each cited to its page. The shop keeps its ERP and gets a cited read of the paper to go with it.
See AD compliance from the logbooks →Club and owner squawk management is a separate job
Squawkd is an example, built around club and owner squawk management. Intake is its own job, and Cloudline has a separate product for it.
Club and owner squawk management
- Collects and tracks squawks for a club or an owner
- Managed from the club or owner side
Free QR squawk intake that feeds the shop
A pilot scans a QR placard on the aircraft, describes the problem, and the shop gets a structured squawk with photos. Relay is free for the shop and for pilots, with no app to install.
See Relay →The same five questions for each kind of tool
The Cloudline column states what the product does today. The other columns describe each category in general, not any one product. Squawk intake is a different job and is left out of the table.
| Question | Cloudline Logbook | Owner logbook apps | Bizav records platforms | Shop ERP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reads paper logbooks into cited records | Yes. Atlas reads every page. Entries, parts, hours, inspections, and AD items link to the page they came from. | Backs up and searches the owner's own books. | Manages records for a fleet. | Runs work orders, inventory, and scheduling. |
| Status Determination for the A&P | Yes. A cited report the A&P checks line by line. Missing or unreadable history is flagged. The airworthiness determination stays with the A&P. | Built for the owner's own reference. | Built for the records department. | Built around the work order. |
| Pricing model | One-time per aircraft. First aircraft free, then $250 to $600 by engine count and age. No subscription for the report. Living Logbook access terms are on the Logbook page. | Owner pricing. Check each app. | Fleet and operator pricing. | Shop-wide system pricing. |
| Built for | The GA shop. One tail at a time, with the Living Logbook included. | The owner. | Fleets and bizav records departments. | The shop's operations. |
| Replaces a shop ERP? | No. It reads the paper logbooks. The ERP keeps running the shop. | No. | No. | It is the ERP. |
Category columns describe the kind of tool, not a specific product. Check each vendor for current features and pricing.
The airworthiness determination stays with your A&P. Cloudline reports what the records show. The Status Determination is not an airworthiness approval or a maintenance sign-off.
One read of the books covers every job above. Digitization, the pre-buy records review, and AD status come out of the same Status Determination. See Logbook → Digitize aircraft logbooks → See the pre-buy review → See AD compliance →
What shops ask when they compare
Is Cloudline a shop ERP?
No. Corridor, CAMP, and Veryon run work orders, inventory, and scheduling. Cloudline Logbook reads the aircraft's paper logbooks and returns a cited Status Determination. It runs alongside whatever system the shop uses and does not replace it.
Does Cloudline decide airworthiness?
No. The A&P does. The Status Determination reports what the records show and cites the entry behind each item. It is not an airworthiness approval or a maintenance sign-off.
Is it a subscription?
No. The Status Determination is a one-time price per aircraft: $250 for a single-engine aircraft built in 2000 or later, $400 for a pre-2000 single or a 2000-or-later twin, and $600 for a pre-2000 twin. The first aircraft is free, and no subscription is needed to get the report. The Living Logbook that comes with it stays active free while the shop digitizes four or more aircraft in any rolling 12 months. Below that, keeping an aircraft active is $99 a year, and nothing you have digitized is ever deleted. See Logbook pricing →
Can we try it?
Yes. The first aircraft is free. Use the “Run your first aircraft free” button, tell us about the shop and the aircraft, and send that aircraft's logbooks. The cited Status Determination comes back at no charge.
Send one aircraft’s books and compare for yourself.
You get the cited Status Determination and the Living Logbook. The first aircraft is free.
Every line cited to an entry · one-time per aircraft · no subscription for the report