title: Jurca 1-Nine-0
text: # Jurca 1-Nine-0
  
  The Jurca MJ-8 1-Nine-0 is a sport aircraft designed in France in the mid 1970s as a replica of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 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. Plans for two versions were produced, the MJ-8, at 3/4 scale, and the MJ-80, at full-scale. Construction throughout is of wood, and the builder may choose to complete the aircraft with either a single seat or two seats in tandem. The plans were marketed by Falconar and later Jurca Plans West.
  
  At least two MJ-8s have flown: one powered by a Lycoming IO-540 in the USA and one powered by a Russian M14P radial built in Switzerland but now in New Zealand.
  
  As of July 2017 one MJ-80 is known to have flown, a Pratt & Whitney R-1830-powered example in Germany.
  
  ## Variants
  
  * MJ-8 - 3/4 scale version
     * MJ-80 - full-scale version. Powered with a 310 hp Continental GIO-470 or equivalent.
  
  ## Specifications (typical MJ-8)
  
  Data from Air Trails
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: One pilot
  * Length: 6.63 m (21 ft 9 in)
  * Wingspan: 7.87 m (25 ft 10 in)
  * Wing area: 10.2 $m^2$ (110 sq ft)
  * Empty weight: 400 kg (880 lb)
  * Gross weight: 626 kg (1,380 lb)
  * Powerplant: 1 × various radial or horizontally-opposed engines , 120 kW (160 hp)
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 260 km/h (160 mph, 140 kn)
  * Rate of climb: 8.4 m/s (1,650 ft/min)
  