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Blackshape Bk160 Gabriel

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Low wing single piston trainer aircraft.

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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

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

Technical reference compiled with AI research; a value appears only where two independent research passes and a web fact-check agree. Gaps are deliberate.

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Production end	Notes
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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