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I split my rear seats and used the Columbia
as my model. To support the seat backs, I put a 1x1" aluminum bar across the back. To hold it in place, I made some
U shaped channel out of carbon, shaped the ends and bonded them into position on
the sides of the fuselage. Then I added several BID of
reinforcement. The bar lays in the channel at the ends and is held in
place with spring loaded push pins.
The seat backs have spring loaded
latches that snap onto the fixed sides of the back seat. I can
lower one seatback or the other, or lower them both and remove the bar for
unrestricted access to the baggage area. Though I haven't needed to
fly with one seat down, I did use the flexibility afforded just this weekend
when we lowered one seatback to load my son's snowboard into the baggage
area. It was too big for the baggage door and wouldn't fit over the top of
the back seat.
I don't have any good digital photos
of the installation, but can take some if you need them.
Skip Slater
N540ES
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