Short Type 827 Explained

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.

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.^[4]

Operators

• Belgian Air Force

• Royal Naval Air Service

Bibliography

• Book: Barnes C.H. & James D.N . Shorts Aircraft since 1900 . Putnam. 1989 . London . 560 . 0-85177-819-4.
• Bruce. J.M . 1956. The Short Seaplanes: Historic Military Aircraft No 14: Part II. . 21 December 1956. 965–968.
• Bruce. J.M . 1957 . The Short Seaplanes: Historic Military Aircraft No 14: Part IV. . 4 January 1957. 23–24.
• Klaauw. Bart van der. Unexpected Windfalls: Accidentally or Deliberately, More than 100 Aircraft 'arrived' in Dutch Territory During the Great War . Air Enthusiast . March–April 1999 . 80 . 54–59 . 0143-5450.

Further reading

• Book: Taylor, Michael J. H. . Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation . 1989 . Studio Editions . London . 801 .
• Book: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). Orbis Publishing.

External links

• Short 827 – British Aircraft Directory

Notes and References

1. Barnes & James, p. 527
2. Barnes & James, p. 541
3. Barnes & James, p.97
4. Barnes & James, p.108

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