The Short Type 827 was a 1910s British two-seat reconnaissance floatplane. It was also known as the Short Admiralty Type 827.
Design and development The Short Type 827 was a two-bay biplane with unswept unequal-span wings, a slightly smaller development of the Short Type 166. It had a box-section fuselage mounted on the lower wing. It had twin floats under the forward fuselage, plus small floats fitted at the wingtips and tail. It was powered by a nose-mounted 155 hp (116 kW) Sunbeam Nubian engine, with a two-bladed tractor propeller. The crew of two sat in open cockpits in tandem.
The aircraft was built by Short Brothers (36 aircraft,Barnes & James, p. 527) and also produced by different contractors around the United Kingdom, i.e. Brush Electrical (20), Parnall (20), Fairey (12) and Sunbeam (20).Barnes & James, p. 541
The Short Type 830 was a variant, powered by a 135 hp (101 kW) Salmson water-cooled radial engine.
Variants Type 827 Production aircraft with a Sunbeam Nubian engine, 108 built. Type 830 Variant powered by a 135 hp (100 kW) SalmsonBarnes & James, p.97 18 built. S.301 A batch of ten tractor seaplanes, officially listed as Type 830s, with a 140 hp (104 kW) Salmson-Canton-Unné engine, are sometimes described as Short S.301s after the sequence/construction number of the first aircraft. It was a hybrid design, with the wings and fuselage of the Short Type 166, and the straight-edged ailerons and forward observer's position of the Type 830.Barnes & James, p.108
Operators
Belgian Air Force
Royal Naval Air Service
Specifications (Type 827)
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Bibliography
Further reading
External links
Short 827 – British Aircraft Directory