COMMON
C195
Cessna 195 Businessliner
The Businessliner
“Round engine, round curves, pure class.”
Cessna (Textron) · private
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Length
27 ft 4 in
Wingspan
36 ft 2 in
Max speed
130 kts
Range
650 nmi
Ceiling
18,000 ft
Engines
1x Jacobs R-755 radial (300 hp)
Crew
1
Max passengers
4
Typical config
1 pilot + 4 passengers
Built
1,180
The 195 was Cessna's post-war flagship: a polished aluminum beauty wrapped around a big Jacobs radial, with an art-deco cabin for five. It was the last radial-engined single Cessna ever built, and at fly-ins today it draws a crowd before the prop stops turning.
Fun fact
Its cantilever wing needs no struts — a trick Cessna wouldn't repeat on a high-wing single until the Cardinal, twenty years later.
How to spot one
Fat round cowling hiding a radial engine, gleaming polished metal, tailwheel, and a strutless high wing. Looks like it taxied out of 1948.
Crews call it
The One-Ninety-Five
Sounds like
A lumpy, charismatic radial idle that smooths into a vintage drone at cruise
One might be overhead right now.
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