The phrase "aft compartment" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts related to vehicles, particularly in aviation or maritime settings, to refer to the rear storage area or section of a craft.
Example: "The maintenance crew accessed the aft compartment to check the fuel lines."
Alternatives: "rear compartment" or "stern compartment".
Commander Aryapov, whose remains were recovered and buried in Ulyanovsk, was one of at least 23 crew members who weathered the initial blasts and survived for at least an additional nine hours in the aft compartment.
Fif teen minutes after the takeoff from Zurich, the co‐pilot had re ported' an apparent explosion in the aft compartment, where bag gage, mail and freight were stored.
Let's say you want to bring a load of plants home from the garden center: They likely won't fit in the aft compartment, and yet, if it's just you and your spouse, the most obvious place for the flora will be the big chunk of floor space behind the front seats, ahead of the third row.
The Almirante Lynch was slightly damaged in the battle, suffering hits to her steam-pipe and flooding in her aft compartment, but besides that, the two torpedo boats were undamaged.
At dusk, with his gear stowed in fore and aft compartments and an axe and a spare paddle lashed to his forward deck, Hadwin paddled out of Prince Rupert Harbour and directly into a storm.
In the case of a Virgin Atlantic A330-300 crash at London, Gatwick on 16 April 2012, despite a warning of smoke in the aft cargo compartment which led to the evacuation and the risk of fire imminent, passengers stopped to collect their bags from overhead bins.
Queenie contained a special telecommunications section, forward and aft passenger compartments (a total of 40 passengers could be accommodated), a conference area, and a stateroom.
The outer ends of the fore and aft machinery compartments was protected by a 105 mm transverse bulkhead.
There are gear racks fore and aft, and storage compartments on both sides of the fuel tank.
In a feat of packaging, given the 911's rear-engine layout and comically small rear seats, the roof is stored just aft of the passenger compartment.
The boilers were distributed between four boiler compartments, but all four turbines were in a single compartment, well aft.
