Meet Cessna 140
Aeroplane Heaven’s Cessna 140 is a single-piston, high-wing taildragger with fixed landing gear. The rendition documents a four-position flap lever and an elevator trim tab on the starboard side.
History & design
A small Cessna from the post-war flying boom
Cessna built the two-seat 140 during the post-war expansion of personal flying, from 1946 to 1951. Its conventional landing gear and simple cabin made it a familiar route into aircraft ownership and tailwheel training. It belongs to the period before tricycle landing gear became dominant in the light-aircraft market.
In the Smithsonian's account, pilot Ken Morris recalls first soloing in a Cessna 140 at sixteen and retaining the aircraft. His story places the type in everyday training and ownership, rather than treating it only as a preserved antique.
National Air and Space Museum · Tales of the Taildraggers ↗Systems & details
A compact taildragger cockpit
The developer’s manual identifies the elevator trim tab and four flap-lever positions. These are distinct controls: trim adjusts the force needed to hold pitch, while flap extension changes the wing’s lift and drag. The digital autopilot included in this rendition is part of Aeroplane Heaven’s equipment fit and does not date the original airframe design.
In your simulator
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Manuals & resources
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Manual
Cessna 140 MSFS Manual — Aeroplane Heavenwww.aeroplaneheaven.com · Aeroplane Heaven Cessna 140 manual pp. 2–3.Aircraft background
Cessna 140 — product pagewww.aeroplaneheaven.com · Aircraft identity, history and configuration.Aircraft documentation
Tales of the TaildraggersNational Air and Space Museum · Smithsonian Air & Space Quarterly, Summer 2023; post-war taildragger context and owner recollections.Built-in force-feedback profiles
Read the documentary basis, editable starting settings and remaining questions for the aircraft you fly. Each explanation refers to the exact profile revision shown.
Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 2 profile choices
Aeroplane Heaven Cessna 140
Aeroplane Heaven · Free and Pro · Revision 3 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020
Aeroplane Heaven’s Cessna 140 is a single-piston, high-wing taildragger with fixed landing gear.
Cessna 140
Free and Pro · Revision 1 · Partial review
MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024 · X-Plane 12
Aeroplane Heaven’s Cessna 140 is a single-piston, high-wing taildragger with fixed landing gear.
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