| Short 827 and 830 | |
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| Short Type 827 (8237), at Lee-on-Solent, 1918, drastically altered with equal-span constant-chord three-bay wings | |
| 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 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,[1]) and also produced by different contractors around the United Kingdom, i.e. Brush Electrical (20), Parnall (20), Fairey (12) and Sunbeam (20).[2]
The Short Type 830 was a variant, powered by a 135 hp (101 kW) Salmson water-cooled radial engine.
Data from Orbis 1985[5]
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