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Sean Murphy

Scotland's beach airport runway named one of the most beautiful in the world

One of Scotland's most famous airport runways has just been named one of the world's most beautiful. The runway at Barra, which sees the plane land on a stunning beach, was hailed as a 'must-see'.

Engineering experts Artemis Airspace named six runways in their list and the beach runway on the Hebridean island was top of the bunch.

Found on the northern tip of the island, close to the southern coast of South Uist, the natural runway sees planes land on the wide shallow bay of Traigh Mhor.

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