hat shelf

[taylorukuk]

Does anyone have an idea of what the factory fitted BC12s had behind the canvas baggage compartment?

I have made a new wooden frame for the canvas sling and am now thinking of a ply "back" to this blanking out the rear inner fuselage....

[3Dreaming]

I think it depends on whether it had aircraft fabric covered interior or a cloth headliner. The fabric covered airplanes may not have had a hat shelf where those with a cloth headliner probably did.

[Hank Jarrett]

My 41 and 45 had auto hat shelf faux leather cardboard.

Hank

[taylorukuk]

Thanks for the responses

Ian

[Scott]

I looked and looked.for info on 46 hat shelf configuration and basically struck out. I ended up piecing together a configuration based on the tabs I found in the fuselage, the D windows, and theheadliner bows that I had believed to be original.

My end result is not unlike Hank's 41 except i made the hat shelf from 2024T3 025".

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[Hank Jarrett]

That looks a lot nicer than a lot of original ones! This is the frame and shelf in my 41