IAR-827 explained

The IAR-827 was an agricultural aircraft built in Romania in the 1970s and 1980s. The penultimate member of the family of designs that began with the IAR-821, it was, like the others, a conventional low-wing monoplane with fixed, tailwheel undercarriage, and shared the all-metal construction of the IAR-826. The prototype flew in 1976, powered by a Lycoming IO-720 engine, but the production examples that followed all had the PZL-3S.

In 1981, the IAR-827 prototype was re-engined with a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprop and redesignated first as the IAR-827TP and later as the IAR-828. Plans to produce the aircraft either with the Pratt & Whitney Canada engine or a Walter 601 never materialised.

Variants

• IAR-827 - prototype with Lycoming IO-720 engine
• IAR-827A - production version with PZL-3S engine
• IAR-827TP, later IAR-828 - turboprop version with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-15AG

References

• Book: Taylor. John W. R.. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1982–83. 1982. Jane's Yearbooks. London. 0-7106-0748-2.
• Book: Taylor, Michael J. H. . Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation . 1989 . Studio Editions . London . 527 .
• Book: Simpson, R. W. . Airlife's General Aviation . 1995 . Airlife Publishing . Shrewsbury . 341 .
• Vlad. Danut. Out of the Ashes: The Romanian Aircraft Industry Since 1945. Air Enthusiast. March–April 1997. 74. 9–19.
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