Note: This is a sub-section of Short Brothers .
The Short Type 827 was a 1910s two-seat reconnaissance floatplane. It was also known as the Short Admiralty Type 827.
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).
The Short Type 830 was a variant powered by a 135 hp (101 kW) Salmson water-cooled radial engine.
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