Short Admiralty Type 827

Short 827 and 830
Short Type 827 (8237), at Lee-on-Solent, 1918
Role	Reconnaissance
National origin	United Kingdom
Manufacturer	Short Brothers
First flight	1914
Primary user	Royal Naval Air Service
Number built	108 (Type 827) 18 (Type 830)

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

The Short Type 827 was a two-bay biplane with unswept equal 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,) and also produced by different contractors around the United Kingdom, i.e. Brush Electrical (20), Parnall (20), Fairey (12) and Sunbeam (20).

The Short Type 830 was a variant powered by a 135 hp (101 kW) Salmson water-cooled radial engine.

Data from Orbis 1985

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