The CFM Shadow is a British Microlight or Group A aircraft designed in the 1980s by David Cook who went on to run ‘Cook Flying Machines’ - where the aircraft was manufactured as a choice of a BMAA fully built machine or an LAA home build kit.

[3] The lightweight monocoque fuselage structure is the result of a groundbreakingly innovative use of Fibrelam (aircraft flooring boards made using honeycomb cardboard cells sandwiched vertically between two resin plates) and epoxy resin to form bonded joints along with a basic metal tubing structure where extra strength and harmonic tolerance is needed.

The CFM Shadow is a two-seat ultralight of pod and boom layout, either factory or home-built from kits.

It is a high wing aircraft, with a short fuselage constructed of Fibrelam with a fibreglass nose cone and plywood sides, seating two in tandem in an enclosed cockpit.

[2][3] The Shadow's slightly tapered wings, which have down-turned wingtips and leading edges which droop towards the tip, consist of plywood leading edge D-section boxes, built onto mixed plywood and aluminium web shear structures with styrofoam formers.

24 Streak Shadows were ordered by the Indian Air Force in the world's largest microlight contract; 18 of these had been delivered by June 2001.

[2] A Shadow flown by David Cook provided the "dragon's eye views" used in the UK feature film Dragonheart of 1996.

In 1987 Eve Jackson flew from the UK to Australia in a Shadow, a flight repeated the following year by Brian Milton.

Bella Aviation ceased trading after Shadows were grounded by the CAA, as a result of an issue with the original undercarriage.