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Including the 83 airplanes delivered to the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army, a total of 1,183 Model 190/195, 195A/195B were built beginning in 1947 and ending in 1954. Of these, the Model 195, 195A/195B accounted for 866 sales compared with only 233 for the Model 190. As of 2018, it is estimated that about 500 of the venerable Cessna monoplanes remain worldwide, with the majority registered to owners in the United States.
General specifications for the Cessna Model 190/195:
= Wingspan: 36 feet, 2 inches
= Wing area: 218 square feet
= Airfoil: NACA 2412 (modified)
= Length: 27 feet, 2 inches (Model 190); 27 feet, 4 inches (Model 195)
= Height: 7 feet, 2 inches
= Gross weight: 3,350 pounds
= Payload: 633 pounds (with 80 gallons of fuel)
= Cruising speed: 150 mph (Model 190); 159 mph (Model 195)
= Range: 700-725 statute miles
= Production era: 1947-1954
= Engine: Jacobs radial, 245 horsepower (Model 195A)
= Price: $13,250 (Model 190); $14,950 (Model 195) For more information about the Model 195, go
to www.TheCessna195Club.org. KA Notes:
1 Famed designer and air racing pilot Sylvester “Steve” Wittman pio- neered the use of chrome-vanadium spring steel landing gear on his experimental monoplanes of the 1940s. During an interview with Dwane Wallace in 1984, he told the author that Wittman sold the manufacturing rights for the gear design to Cessna, which also bought rights to Witt- man’s four-place WD “Big X” monoplane that was under negotiations
to be built by Fairchild Aircraft, Inc. Cessna’s acquisition of the “Big X” eliminated any potential competition the airplane may have offered against the Model 190/195 then entering production.
Ed Phillips, now retired and living in the South, has researched and written eight books on the unique and rich aviation history that belongs to Wichita, Kan. His writings have focused on the evolution of the airplanes, companies and people that have made Wichita the “Air Capital of the World” for more than 80 years.
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