Short Type 827

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

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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,{{where|date=November 2013}} 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

;{{BEL}}

Belgian Air Force

;{{UK}}

Royal Naval Air Service

Specifications (Type 827)

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Notes

Bibliography

{{cite book

| last = Barnes C.H. & James D.N

| title =Shorts Aircraft since 1900

| publisher =Putnam

|year=1989

| location =London

|page=560

| isbn = 0-85177-819-4}}

{{cite magazine |last= Bruce|first=J.M |year= 1956|title= The Short Seaplanes: Historic Military Aircraft No 14: Part II|magazine=Flight |issue= 21 December 1956|pages=965–968|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1956/1956%20-%201804.html}}
{{cite magazine |last= Bruce|first=J.M |year= 1957 |title= The Short Seaplanes: Historic Military Aircraft No 14: Part IV|magazine=Flight |issue= 4 January 1957|pages=23–24|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1957/1957%20-%200023.html }}
{{cite journal |last1=Klaauw|first1=Bart van der|title=Unexpected Windfalls: Accidentally or Deliberately, More than 100 Aircraft 'arrived' in Dutch Territory During the Great War |journal=Air Enthusiast |date=March–April 1999 |issue=80 |pages=54–59 |issn=0143-5450}}