diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b669695..41fc2b8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## v0.55.0 — 2026-09-22 15:38
 - **Favicon (ISS-122).** The app shipped with no favicon at all (`app/layout.tsx` set only title/description; no `app/icon.svg`, no `public/favicon.ico`). New hand-written single-file `app/icon.svg` — a bold white top-down airplane silhouette (fuselage + swept wings + tail, one straight-line path) on a pastel blue (#93c5fd) rounded square, 64×64 viewBox. Next App Router's file convention auto-serves it at `/icon.svg` and injects `<link rel="icon">` into the head; no layout/metadata changes needed.
 - **Tests.** E2E +1 in `e2e/panes.spec.ts`: page load asserts exactly one `head link[rel~="icon"]` pointing at `/icon.svg`, and a direct `GET /icon.svg` returns 200 with content-type `image/svg+xml`. No unit test — static asset.
+- **E2E hardening (CI run #167).** Two e2e-only fixes: the favicon assertion now tolerates the content-hash query string Next App Router production builds append to the auto-injected icon `<link href>` (`/icon.svg?icon.<hash>.svg` — matched with `/^\/icon\.svg/`, canonical `GET /icon.svg` check unchanged), and `e2e/hover.spec.ts`'s local `flyHomeViaApi` self-heal is replaced by the established `e2e/panes.spec.ts` pattern (set-health repair-gate reset + re-read state AFTER an in-flight leg lands) — the old version checked `locationIcao` against the stale pre-landing snapshot, so a retry after a mid-flight interruption left plane-starter grounded at the destination and its package load 409'd ("plane not at the origin").
 
 ## v0.54.0 — 2026-09-22 15:20
 - **Long priority jobs are now always finishable (ISS-119).** `generatePackage` in `lib/game/seed.ts` drew a flat 6–72 h expiry window (priority ×0.5 → 3–36 h) independent of leg distance, so some jobs' deadlines were shorter than the flight itself and could never be completed (legs go up to MAX_JOB_LEG_KM = 9000 km; the fastest catalog plane is ~920 km/h ≈ 10 h for a max leg). The drawn window is now clamped UP after special scaling: deadline ≥ now + `travelDurationMs(legKm, FASTEST_CATALOG_SPEED_KMH)` + `EXPIRY_BUFFER_MS` (flat 1 h), reusing the existing `travelDurationMs` from `lib/sim/movement.ts`. New constant `FASTEST_CATALOG_SPEED_KMH` in `lib/game/catalog.ts` — data-driven max of `PLANE_TYPES` speeds, so a job must be finishable with the best available aircraft (NOT the starter's 510 km/h, which would wreck long-job economics); adding a faster plane tightens the floor automatically. `EXPIRY_BUFFER_MS` lives next to the deadline tunables in seed.ts. The window is a single uniform draw, so clamping up covers both requirements: short legs (drawn × scale already above the floor) are byte-identical to before, and when the raw draw falls below the floor the deadline lands exactly on it — which stays ≤ the scaled ceiling for any pair of airports on Earth (max leg ~20000 km → floor ≈ 22.8 h < the 36 h priority ceiling), so no separate ceiling raise is needed. Forced `deadlineOffsetMs` skips the floor, same as it skips special scaling (the e2e expiry hook keeps working).
diff --git a/e2e/hover.spec.ts b/e2e/hover.spec.ts
index 64c8d85..bbfb94a 100644
--- a/e2e/hover.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/hover.spec.ts
@@ -84,33 +84,30 @@ async function setFuelFull(page: Page, planeId: string): Promise<void> {
   expect((await page.request.post('/api/test/set-fuel', { data: { planeId, fuel: p.maxFuel } })).status()).toBe(200);
 }
 
-// Self-heal: let any in-flight leg finish, then reposition plane-starter home via the API.
+// Self-heal (same pattern as e2e/panes.spec.ts): restore full health / clear any repair gate from an
+// interrupted run, let any in-flight leg finish, then reposition plane-starter home via the API.
 async function flyHomeViaApi(page: Page): Promise<void> {
-  const s0 = await getState(page);
-  const starter = s0.planes.find((p) => p.id === 'plane-starter')!;
+  // v0.39.0 (ISS-069): wear accumulates across the shared CI DB — restore full health and clear any
+  // active repair gate from an interrupted run before acting on the starter.
+  expect((await page.request.post('/api/test/set-health', { data: { planeId: 'plane-starter', health: 100, repairUntilMs: 0 } })).status()).toBe(200);
+  let s = await getState(page); // ticks — a shortened gate flips the plane back to available here
+  let starter = s.planes.find((p) => p.id === 'plane-starter')!;
   if (starter.status === 'flying' || starter.locationIcao !== HUB) {
     // Fast-forward any leftover leg / repositioning flight (~20 s real time worst case at 1000×).
     await setScale(page, SCALE);
   }
   if (starter.status === 'flying') {
-    await expect
-      .poll(async () => (await getState(page)).planes.find((p) => p.id === 'plane-starter')?.status === 'available', {
-        timeout: 240_000,
-        message: 'waiting for an in-flight plane-starter to land',
-      })
-      .toBe(true);
+    // While flying, locationIcao stays at the DEPARTURE airport — re-read state after landing.
+    await expect.poll(async () => ((await getState(page)).planes.find((p) => p.id === 'plane-starter')?.status ?? ''), { timeout: 240_000 }).toBe('available');
+    s = await getState(page);
+    starter = s.planes.find((p) => p.id === 'plane-starter')!;
   }
   if (starter.locationIcao !== HUB) {
     // Make sure the world rate is back at SCALE so the return leg fast-forwards.
     await setScale(page, SCALE);
     const res = await page.request.post('/api/planes/plane-starter/fly', { data: { destIcao: HUB } });
     expect(res.status()).toBe(200); // repositioning needs no package (v0.12.0 manual flight)
-    await expect
-      .poll(async () => (await getState(page)).planes.find((p) => p.id === 'plane-starter')?.locationIcao === HUB, {
-        timeout: 240_000,
-        message: 'waiting for plane-starter to land back at the hub',
-      })
-      .toBe(true);
+    await expect.poll(async () => ((await getState(page)).planes.find((p) => p.id === 'plane-starter')?.locationIcao ?? ''), { timeout: 240_000 }).toBe(HUB);
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/e2e/panes.spec.ts b/e2e/panes.spec.ts
index 6e82f92..ca21d26 100644
--- a/e2e/panes.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/panes.spec.ts
@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ test('favicon ships as /icon.svg (ISS-122)', async ({ page }) => {
   // App Router file convention: app/icon.svg is auto-served and injected into the head.
   const link = page.locator('head link[rel~="icon"]');
   await expect(link).toHaveCount(1);
-  expect(await link.getAttribute('href')).toBe('/icon.svg');
+  // Production builds append a content-hash query string to the auto-injected icon href.
+  expect(await link.getAttribute('href')).toMatch(/^\/icon\.svg/);
 
   const res = await page.request.get('/icon.svg');
   expect(res.status()).toBe(200);