The Short Type 827 was a 1910s British two-seat reconnaissance floatplane.

It was powered by a nose-mounted 155 hp (116 kW) Sunbeam Nubian engine, with a two-bladed tractor propeller.

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.

Data from Orbis 1985[5]General characteristics Performance Armament Related development