title: Church Midwing JC-1
text: # Church Midwing JC-1
  
  The Church Midwing JC-1, a.k.a. Church Mid-Wing Sport, is a midwing racing aircraft designed by James Church using the fuselage of a Heath aircraft.
  
  ## Design and development
  
  The Church Midwing was designed to be an affordable homebuilt aircraft. Church marketed kits for $190.
  
  The open cockpit midwing aircraft featured windows in the wings for visibility downward.
  
  ## Operational history
  
  Built to be a pylon racer, a Church Midwing placed third in the 1930 National Air Races. The Church used many parts from the Heath Parasol design. In 1931 the prototype was modified with an installation of a 38 hp inline air-cooled Church designed engine and a cowling modification to accommodate the cylinders protruding upward in the pilot's line of sight. A 1931 advertisement placed by Heath in Popular Mechanics extolled the virtues of its first-place finish with its parasol configuration, compared to the Church's midwing planform.
  
  ## Variants
  
  ### RW4 RagWing Midwing Sport Replica
  
      An ultralight replica of the JC-1, produced by RagWing Aircraft Designs.
  
  ### Church Racer
  
      Essentially a Midwing fitted with a model J-3 46hp Church Marathon engine.
  
  ## Aircraft on Display
  
  * EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin - 1 A Basket case 5 year restoration completed in 1971 by Gene Chase, outfitted with a Heath-Henderson B-4 engine.
  
  ## Specifications (Church Midwing JC-1)
  
  Data from EAA
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Length: 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m)
  * Wingspan: 26 ft 8 in (8.13 m)
  * Wing area: 110 sq ft (10 $m^2)$
  * Empty weight: 367 lb (166 kg)
  * Gross weight: 584 lb (265 kg)
  * Fuel capacity: 4.5 Gal (17 litres)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Heath-Henderson B-4 Inline 4 cylnder, 27 hp (20 kW)
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 78 kn (90 mph, 140 km/h)
  * Cruise speed: 61 kn (70 mph, 110 km/h)
  * Stall speed: 24 kn (28 mph, 45 km/h)
  