Patent ID: 8925862
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: B64C,B64D

Abstract:
1. An aircraft comprising a monument complex mounted in a rear area of a cabin of the aircraft, the monument complex comprising: two abutting lavatory modules mounted directly in front of a rear bulkhead of the aircraft, divided from each other by a dividing wall, each of the lavatory modules including a wash basin and an entrance region arranged in front of the wash basin with respect to a flight direction, the entrance region opposite a rear contour defined by both of the lavatory modules, the entrance region including a first sub-area and a second sub-area; a first door to the first sub-area of the monument complex; a second door to the second sub-area of the monument complex, the first door and the second door each directly coupled at an end to the dividing wall such that an angle between the first door and the second door is less than 180 degrees and at least one of the first door and the second door is positioned in front of the wash basin with respect to a flight direction; the rear contour of the lavatory modules having an outside edge directly facing the rear bulkhead arranged in the rear of the cabin, and the rear contour of the lavatory modules is a non-planar wall that is at least in part adapted to conform to a curved contour of the rear bulkhead, and the non-planar wall of the rear contour defines a space inside each of the lavatory modules; and wherein the wash basins are arranged at least in part in a space defined by the curved contour of the rear bulkhead and the space defined by the non-planar wall of the lavatory modules.