Didn't flip it over last night because I wanted to look at the gear weldment fit. An initial test showed it to be off far enough from going into the hole in the 972 skin that I thought some creative dremelling would be needed on the 972 cutout. A review of builders pages didn't reveal any difficulty on anyone else's part.
But then I discovered why the 982B cover support brackets are installed with screws (I was wondering about that back when they were first installed). After removing the brackets, the gear weldments slid almost completely in (with a little finagling around a nutplate). Discovered I had the same problem reported by almost everyone with the bottom inside weldment flange not fitting between the 972B stiffener and the spar.
So I am satisfied that the weldments will fit with no cutting of the 972 skin. In other words, the hatched cutout on drawing 34A worked perfectly for me.
Katrin arrived and we flipped the fuselage over. This would be easier or safer with 3 people, but we managed. Set in the seat skins and Katrin was officially the first person to sit in N207LT!
Then spent a few minutes getting it leveled out for installing the aft deck. Looks like it's going to work perfectly, with just centering the 714 deck all that's needed to bring all the levels to 0.0!
