AIRCRAFT PROGRAM
| Lift type | Fixed wing | ||
| Construction type | Factory-built | ||
| Control type | Piloted | ||
| Engine type | Piston | ||
| Application | Surveillance, Trainer | ||
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Low wing single piston trainer aircraft.
| Variant | Launch/First flight | Production end | |
| Blackshape Bk160 Gabriel | 2016 / 2016 | Production: 1 (2019) Zelf Vliegen Flight Academy in the Netherlands, the documented launch customer, received the first of two ordered Gabriel BK160 trainers in December 2019 for use in the Transavia Airline Pilot Programme; this is the sole sourced delivery event in 201 [medium]. CS-VLA variant, derived from Blackshape Prime series. Includes variant designed for flight training: Bk160-TR, and ISR variant: Bk160-ISP (Intelligence Surveillance Platform). | |
| Blackshape Bk160-200 | 2016 / 2016 | Military variant. |
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