It has two-spar tapered wings with 6° of dihedral, electrically operated Fowler flaps and upturned Küchemann tips.

The straight tapered tailplane is set on top of the fuselage, the port elevator carrying a trim tab.

[2] The Bulgarian company ACS started producing the Skyleader 600 at the state owned TEREM-Letets aircraft factory in Sofia in July 2015 under a licence agreement.

[2] Airplanes Africa Limited a Czech manufacturer set up a plant in Tanzania to assemble the Skyleader 600.

The aircraft had been practicing slow flight and stalls and most likely entered a spin, from which the parachute was deployed.