Short Type 827

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 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 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.

Variants

 * Type 827
 * Production aircraft with a Sunbeam Nubian engine, 108 built.


 * Type 830
 * Variant powered by a 135 hp (100 kW) Salmson 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.

Operators

 * Belgian Air Force
 * Royal Naval Air Service
 * Royal Naval Air Service
 * Royal Naval Air Service