page_title: Short Empire
section_title: List of aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: Short Empire / List of aircraft
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: hydravion quadirmoteur "Cambria" amerri sur un cours d'eau canadien.English: We see the seaplane "Cambria" landed on a river. We note that the device has four engines
context_page_description: The Short Empire was a medium-range four-engined monoplane flying boat, designed and developed by Short Brothers during the 1930s to meet the requirements of the growing commercial airline sector, with a particular emphasis upon its usefulness upon the then-core routes that served the United Kingdom. It was developed and manufactured in parallel with the Short Sunderland maritime patrol bomber, which went on to serve in the Second World War; a further derivative that was later developed was the piggy-back Short Mayo Composite.
  The development of the Short Empire had been heavily influenced by its primary customer, Imperial Airways, who had originally developed the requirements to which it was initially ordered and designed from. Imperial Airways, and its successor, the British Overseas Airways Corporation, along with Qantas and TEAL, operated the type in commercial service.
caption: An Empire, G-ADUV, idling in the water
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