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ProgramsBlackshape Bk160 Gabriel

Aircraft program

Blackshape Bk160 Gabriel

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Low wing single piston trainer aircraft.

Lift type
Fixed wing
Assembly
Factory-built
Control
Piloted
Engine type
Piston
Application
Surveillance, Trainer

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure
Primary structure
Composite
Wing
Composite
Landing gear
Retractable tricycle
Ice protection
None
Pressurisation
Unpressurised
Systems & avionics
Flight controls
Mechanical
Avionics architecture
Standalone glass
Configuration & certification
Wing position
Low
Planform
Straight
Tail
Conventional
continued
Certification
Part 23
Minimum crew
1

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Composite wing (primary structure) Primary Composite fuselage (primary structure) Primary

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Type variants

VariantLaunch / first flightProduction endNotes
Blackshape Bk160 Gabriel2016 / 2016Production: 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 Bk160-2002016 / 2016Military variant.

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