Cessna 195
The Cessna 190 and 195 are single-engine light aircraft, powered by a radial engine and were produced 1947-1954. The Cessna 195 was also referred to as Business Liner, but would have been higher, the criteria for a business aircraft also at that time. The model 195 was also used by the United States Air Force, the Air National Guard and the United States Army as a Light transport and multi-purpose aircraft under the designation LC -126.
History
The Cessna 190 and Cessna 195 were the only post-war aircraft were powered by a radial engine. The first prototype flew on 7 December 1944, the series began production then 1947.
Construction
The 195 was the first aircraft from Cessna, which was constructed entirely of aluminum, cantilevered wings possessed, like the Cessna 165 from the pre-war period, from which it was developed. The wing plan differs from that of the later Cessna light aircraft from the fact that he had a constant decrease of the wing depth from the wing root to tip and the surfaces had no dihedral. The profile used was a NACA 2412, which was also used in the Cessna 150, 172 and 182.
The trunk is large in comparison with other Cessna models because the radial engine had to be accommodated with a diameter of 1.07 m at the fuselage nose. The crew and the passengers seated on individual seats in the first row and up to three passengers on the rear bench.
The 190/195 has a simple leaf -spring suspension. Many were equipped with a pivoting chassis for crosswind landings, which allows a Luvwinkel of up to 15 degrees. Although the crosswind landing gear simplified the landings, in return, however, the handling deteriorated on the ground.
195 is equipped with a retractable tread, which extends, when the car door is opened. On some machines this stage, however, was fixed.
Since the aircraft was expensive for private use in the procurement and operation, Cessna tried a predominantly marketed as business aircraft under the name Businessliner achieve. The engines of the 190 and 195 obtained with their oil consumption a certain celebrity. The oil tank had a capacity of 5 gal ( 18.9 l), with a minimum oil level of 2 gal ( 7.6 L ) during the flight. The typical oil consumption with steel cylinder liners was 2 quarts per hour ( 1.9 l / h).
A proprietary version of a float plane was equipped with a triple -tail, to increase the lateral stability in flight. The tail resembled so the Lockheed Constellation.
Variants
The models 190 and 195 differed in the installed engines:
LC -126
The LC -126 was the military version of the 300 -horsepower model 195 and could be equipped with a skid landing gear for landing on snow or floats for water landings. Such seaplanes had a top speed of 241 km / h travel speed was 209 km / h; while they could fly far up to 956 km. 83 LC -126 were delivered: to the U.S. Air Force 15, the National Guard was 5 and the U.S. Army received 63 machines. Upon their retirement from active service in the majority of LC -126 was downgraded by means of a Cessna kit in civilian machines and sold to private interests.
Production
Including the LC -126 total 1180 pieces of the models were made 190 and 195. Many machines are still in use. In the U.S., the following numbers were still registered in August 2008:
With the introduction of the 1947 model 190 for 12,750 U.S. dollars was sold. At the end of production you had to pay for the 195B 24,700 U.S. dollars. As a comparative figure of this period, the price of 3495 U.S. dollars for the two-seater Cessna 140 may serve.
Military user
- Air National Guard
- United States Army
- United States Air Force