The Short Type 827 was a 1910s British two-seat reconnaissance floatplane. It was also known as the Short Admiralty Type 827. Mesopotamian half flight

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.

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Variants

;Type 827 :Production aircraft with a Sunbeam Nubian engine, 108 built. ;Type 830 :Variant powered by a 135 hp (100 kW)

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

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Specifications (Type 827)

Notes

Bibliography

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External links

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– British Aircraft Directory {{Admiralty aircraft type numbers 1910s British military reconnaissance aircraft Biplanes Type 827 Floatplanes Single-engined tractor aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1914