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Jun 5, 2012, 7:13 am

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Originally Posted by cs57

The Airport with sand runways is Barra in Scotland. Flights are operated by Loganair (FlyBe) using Twin Otter aircraft. IIRC, flights to Glasgow and Benbecula are offered. There may have been an article in a recent aviation magazine like "Airports of the World" about flight operations at Barra.

cs57 is correct, and I'm embarrassed to say it didn't occur to me to do a FT forum search before posting the question, or I would have known the following:

Quote:

Originally Posted by WHBM

We actually did a FlyerTalk group trip to Barra on the Twin Otter in 2005, with the cream of the FT aviation nuts, trip report here

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-...sion-long.html

thanks WHBM for the details!

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