[1] In 1955, a prototype of a new utility aircraft, the IAR-817, was first flown at the URMV-3 works at Brașov.

It was a single-engine high-wing monoplane with a pod-and-boom type fuselage of welded steel tube construction and fabric-covered wooden wings.

[2] The aircraft was powered by a single 120 kW (160 hp) Walter Minor 6-III air-cooled six-cylinder inverted inline engine.

[3] An air-ambulance version of the IAR-817, the IAR-817S, entered production in 1957, with over 60 built.

[2] Data from Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905–1974[1]General characteristics Performance