Short Type 827

Developed at the same time as the Short Type 166, the Short Seaplane, Admiralty Type 827 was a smaller plane using the 150hp Sunbeam Nubian vee-eight. Its sister type was the Short Type 830, the same airframe with the 135hp Salmson radial instead. They were built and used over most of the war, and over time the Type 827 came to outnumber the 830. Production deliveries began in 1915 and the plane flew all the way to the Armistice, carrying out patrols off England's coast as well as Africa, the Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia, and a few were converted to wheeled undercarriages for land use.

By November 1918 only two were still in service: one stored at Bogton and No.8649 at Port Said.