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, 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

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. 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. Plans to produce the aircraft either with the Pratt & Whitney Canada engine or a

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never materialised.

Variants

* IAR-827 - prototype with Lycoming IO-720 engine * IAR-827A - production version with

engine * IAR-827TP, later IAR-828 - turboprop version with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-15AG

Specifications (IAR-827A)

References

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{{IAR aircraft 1970s Romanian agricultural aircraft 827 Aircraft first flown in 1976