Editing Barra (section)

===Air===
[[File:Barra airport1.jpg|thumb|[[de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter|Twin Otter]] at Barra airport]]

[[Barra Airport (Scotland)|Barra's airport]], near [[Northbay]], uses the {{convert|2|mi|km|0|adj=mid|-long}} cockle shell beach of [[Traigh Mhor]], (Scottish Gaelic: {{lang|gd|An Tràigh Mhòr}} "The Great Beach") as a runway. Planes can land and take off only at low tide, so the timetable varies. Voted the world's most scenic landing location using a scheduled flight,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16314441 |title=Barra airport is world's most scenic |publisher=[[BBC News]] }}</ref> Barra's airport is claimed to be the only airport in the world to have regular scheduled flights landing on a beach.<ref name="airport">{{cite web |url=http://www.hial.co.uk/barra-airport.html |title=Barra Airport |publisher=Highlands and Islands Airports Limited |access-date=6 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322030628/http://hial.co.uk/barra-airport.html |archive-date=22 March 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>