title: Jurca Pee-40
text: # Jurca Pee-40
  
  The Jurca MJ-12 Pee-40 is a sport aircraft designed in France as a 3/4-scale replica of the Curtiss P-40 and marketed for homebuilding. It is one of many wooden homebuilt designs from Romanian born designer Marcel Jurca. Jurca was a Henschel Hs 129 pilot in World War II who started designing aircraft after building a Jodel The builder may also choose to build the fuselage structure from welded steel tube.
  
  ## Specifications (typical)
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: One pilot
  * Length: 7.62 m (25 ft 0 in)
  * Wingspan: 8.52 m (28 ft 0 in)
  * Wing area: 13.0 $m^2$ (140 sq ft)
  * Empty weight: 1,000 kg (2,200 lb)
  * Gross weight: 1,300 kg (2,860 lb)
  * Powerplant: 1 × various aviation or automotive engines , 150–300 kW (200–400 hp)
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 440 km/h (275 mph, 239 kn)
  * Range: 900 km (560 mi, 490 nmi)
  * Rate of climb: 10.2 m/s (2,000 ft/min)
  