IAR -827

what is it?

The IAR-827 was an agricultural aircraft built in Romania in the 1970s and 1980s. The penultimate member of the family of designs that began with the IAR-821, it was, like the others, a conventional low-wing monoplane with fixed, tailwheel undercarriage, and shared the all-metal construction of the IAR-826. The prototype flew in 1976, powered by a Lycoming IO-720 engine, but the production examples that followed all had the PZL-3S. In 1981, the IAR-827 prototype was re-engined with a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprop and redesignated first as the IAR-827TP and later as the IAR-828.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 210 km/htop speed
• range 350 kmwithout refuelling
• size 2,800 kgmax take-off weight
• built 17made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 50 years ago, in 1976.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 14 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1976-07-22

number built

17

role

agricultural aircraft

origin

🇷🇴 Romania

makers

Industria Aeronautică Română

engines

1× PZL-3S

crew

1

length

8.8 m

wingspan

14 m

height

2.6 m

max take-off weight

2,800 kg

top speed

210 km/h

cruise speed

135 km/h

range

350 km

ceiling

3,500 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.