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,[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.
Variants
Type 827
Production aircraft with a
Sunbeam Nubian engine, 108 built.
Type 830
Variant powered by a 135 hp (100 kW)
Salmson[3] 18 built.[1]
S.301
A batch of ten tractor seaplanes, officially listed as Type 830s,[where?] 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.[4]
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Further reading
Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 801.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). Orbis Publishing.