The aircraft was given its name because the designer and his wife, Carla Nusbaum, could not decide on an appropriate name for the design.[3]
The John Doe features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cabin, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 30.61NaN1 span wing mounts flaps, leading edge slats, drooping ailerons, stall fences, winglets and has a wing area of 130.6square feet. It employs a NACA 4415 airfoil. The acceptable power range is 65to and the standard engines used are the 1250NaN0 Continental IO-240 and 1000NaN0 Continental O-200 powerplants.[2] [3] [4]
The aircraft has a typical empty weight of 878lb and a gross weight of 1400lb, giving a useful load of 522lb. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is 366lb.
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a 1250NaN0 engine is 1500NaN0 and the landing roll is 2500NaN0.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 400 hours.
By 1998 the company reported that one had been completed and was flying.
By December 2007 a total of three had been completed.[4]
In April 2015 one example was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although a total of three had been registered at one time.[5]
