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Meanwhile, commercial sales of the Model 195 remained strong during the early 1950s, Cessna engineers upgraded the airplane by doubling the chord of the flaps, redesigning the cabin interior, adding a spinner to the propeller, changing the shape of the elevators slightly, and changing the engine to a Jacobs powerplant rated at 245 horsepower. These changes led to the new designation “Model 195A,” and the popular Businessliner – as Cessna named it, was approved by amendment to its original Type Certificate in June 1950.
Sales continued to be strong with 190 units delivered in 1950, but then declined to only 96 in 1951. In an effort to boost sales, horsepower was increased to 275 for the 1952 model year and the designation was changed to Model 195B. The more powerful Model 195A and Model 195B outsold the Model 190 that was terminated in 1953 because of lackluster sales. Customers preferred the more powerful Cessna, but the Model 195B also disappeared from the factory production lines in 1954 after two years of slowly declining sales. By that time the advent of a new family of Cessna monoplanes powered by opposed piston engines had become the way of the
A factory-fresh Cessna Businessliner was photographed outside the factory in the early 1950s. The Model 190 was built in far fewer numbers than its stablemate, the Model 195, but both airplanes proved to be popular with private, sportsman and business pilots throughout the early to mid-1950s. (Textron Aviation)
future for the company. The Model 190 and Model 195 hold the distinction of being the only postwar Cessna designs to be powered by a radial engine.
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