The invention belongs to the field of airplane aeroelasticity tests, and relates to an airplane ground test scope, in particular to an automatic amplitude modulation frequency scanning method for an airplane servo elasticity frequency response test. Control plane overloads are fed back to automatically adjust a frequency scanning amplitude value, on the premise that safety of a control pane structure is guaranteed, control plane deflection exciting force of all frequency scanning points is kept maximum so that sufficiently large airplane structure response can be excited, the signal to noise ratio of a response signal of an airplane-flight control combined circuit is improved, test errors are reduced, and reliability of a test result is improved. Meanwhile, the adjusting process of an excitation signal amplitude value is controlled through construction of a hyperbolic tangent-exponent function, violent response of a control plane caused by sudden changes of the excitation signal amplitude value is prevented from happening in the process of frequency scanning, and safety of the control plane structure is ensured. In addition, the advantages of a real-time simulation system of a computer are brought into full play, in the process of the test, people only need to slightly click a mouse, so that parameters such as control limit overloads and excitation signal cycles can be adjusted, and the automatic amplitude modulation frequency scanning method is high in practicability.