What is new: repair capabilities, one-file inventory feeds, RFQs near you, and the record in your spreadsheet

PartsAndPlanes is a marketplace and a public record for aircraft parts: every part number gets its own page with the alternates, the stock number it crosses to, the FAA directives that name it, what has been paid for it and when, and who has it for sale. About 76,000 people a week use it, nearly all arriving from a part-number search. Here is what changed in the last two weeks.

Repair and overhaul. A repair station can now upload the capability list it already keeps, the file it gives the FAA or ILS, in its own column layout, and its shop appears on the page of every part number on that list, and on the stock-number page, with what it does to the part, its turnaround and its certificate number, and a repair-quote button that reaches the shop directly. Each number also gets a public page of its own, partsandplanes.com/repair/<part number>, and partsandplanes.com/repair searches the lists by number, stock number or description. Parts and capabilities never mix: a capability has no quantity or price, sits in its own panel, and never appears as a part for sale. Listing is free, there is no cap, and we take no commission on the work. It lives under Seller Dashboard, Repair Capabilities.

Inventory that loads itself. If you run Quantum, Pentagon 2000, AvSight or Component Control, the export you already send ILS or PartsBase is the file we take: email it to your own feed address, or point the export at your feed URL, and it loads with the column mapping you approved once. A spreadsheet works the same way. The step-by-step, with a section per system, is at partsandplanes.com/integrations, and it is linked from the top menu now.

The record in your own spreadsheet. One Excel formula beside a column of part numbers fills in the stock number, who lists it, what has been paid and when, open solicitations and approved sources; no add-in, no key. Google Sheets users get the same from one IMPORTDATA line. Plain-language steps, for people who are not Excel people, at partsandplanes.com/excel.

RFQs near you. Two thirds of open DLA solicitations state a ship-to address, and now every one of them says where it ships and how far that is from your ZIP or your CAGE's registered address. partsandplanes.com/near-me lists them closest first with the nearest receiving points, every company page shows what ships near that company, and each S.C.O.U.T. row carries "ships N miles from you". Under FOB destination the closest seller pays the least freight; that is a fact about freight, and the page stops there.

Wanted. partsandplanes.com/wanted lists what buyers are looking for that nobody here sells: the part numbers people searched on Google this month that reached a record page and found no seller, the parts asked for through the site, and open DLA buys on stock numbers no seller carries. Updated hourly.

Lookups without a login. partsandplanes.com/nsn-lookup (part number to stock number and back), partsandplanes.com/cage-code-lookup (any CAGE, any company name) and partsandplanes.com/fsc-codes (every supply class, with open buys and aviation groups flagged).

S.C.O.U.T., the morning mail, now carries SAM.gov notices beside DIBBS solicitations, a Gates column (source approval, QPL, first article, JCP) read from the solicitation text, and the ship-to distance. Alerts can also post to Slack, Microsoft Teams or Discord; paste a channel's webhook under Business Settings and pick the events.

For a first quote, partsandplanes.com/first-quote walks a new seller through it in six steps with live starter solicitations: open to any source, no gates, small quantity, days left. And the State of DLA, a free monthly PDF of what the Defense Logistics Agency solicited, bought and paid across aviation and industrial classes, is on the research page; the first full-month edition lands October 1.

One more, in preview: S.C.O.U.T. for DIBBS, a browser extension that puts the record on DIBBS and SAM.gov pages themselves. Every solicitation and stock number on the page gets a badge with what DLA last paid, buys in 36 months and approved sources, and the page's own item gets a strip with the incumbent and its share, the gates, the ship-to distance and a link to the record. It is being tried by hand this week; write to [email protected] if you want to try it before it reaches the Chrome store.

As always: data, not advice. What was paid is a fact; what to charge is yours. Questions and requests, [email protected].