The Church Midwing was designed to be an affordable homebuilt aircraft.

The open cockpit midwing aircraft featured windows in the wings for visibility downward.

[2] Built to be a pylon racer, a Church Midwing placed third in the 1930 National Air Races.

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.

[3] 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.