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The Short Type 827 was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 two-seat reconnaissance floatplane built for the Admiralty
Admiralty

The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put "in commission", and was exercised by a Board of Admiralty....
 by Short Brothers
Short Brothers

Short Brothers plc is a United Kingdom aerospace company, usually referred to simply as Shorts, that is now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
. It was also known as the Short Admiralty Type 827

Type 827 was a slightly smaller development of the earlier Short Type 166
Short Type 166

The Short Type 166 was a United Kingdom two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying Short Folder seaplane designed by Short Brothers....
 a two-bay biplane with unswept equal span wings. It had a box section fuselage mounted on the lower wing. The 827 had twin floats under the forward fuselage and small floats fitted at the wingtips and tail.






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The Short Type 827 was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 two-seat reconnaissance floatplane built for the Admiralty
Admiralty

The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put "in commission", and was exercised by a Board of Admiralty....
 by Short Brothers
Short Brothers

Short Brothers plc is a United Kingdom aerospace company, usually referred to simply as Shorts, that is now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
. It was also known as the Short Admiralty Type 827

Design and development

The Type 827 was a slightly smaller development of the earlier Short Type 166
Short Type 166

The Short Type 166 was a United Kingdom two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying Short Folder seaplane designed by Short Brothers....
 a two-bay biplane with unswept equal span wings. It had a box section fuselage mounted on the lower wing. The 827 had twin floats under the forward fuselage and small floats fitted at the wingtips and tail. 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 not only built by Shorts (36 aircraft) but also produced by different contractors around the United Kingdom, i.e. Brush Electrical
Brush Electrical Machines

Brush Electrical Machines is a manufacturer of large generators for gas turbine and steam turbine drive applications, based at Loughborough in Leicestershire, United Kingdom....
 (20), Parnall
Parnall

Parnall was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland aircraft manufacturer....
 (20), Fairey (12) and Sunbeam
Sunbeam Car Company

Sunbeam was a marque registered by John Marston Co. Ltd of Wolverhampton, England, in 1888. The company first made bicycles, then motorcycles and cars from the late 19th century to circa 1936, and applied the marque to all three forms of transportation....
 (20).

A variant powered by 135 hp (101 kW) Salmson water-cooled radial engine
Radial engine

The radial engine is a reciprocating engine internal combustion engine engine configuration in which the cylinder s point outward from a central crankshaft like the spokes on a wheel....
 was produced and designated the Short Type 830.

Variants

Type 827
Production aircraft with a Sunbeam Nubian engine, 108 built.
Type 830
Variant powered by a 200 hp (150 kW) Salmson
Salmson

Salmson is a French engineering company, initially in the automobile and aeroplane manufacturing area,turning to pump manufacturing in the 1960s....
 or 140 hp (104 kW) Canton-Unné radial engine, 28 built.


Operators

  • Royal Naval Air Service
    Royal Naval Air Service

    The Royal Naval Air Service or RNAS was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of World War I, when it merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a new service , the Royal Air Force....


Specifications (Type 827)


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