Barra Airport (1)......... in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, and it's unusual because it's on a beach. The runway is made of sand. The airport (2)........ in 1936 and it (3).......... by small planes. A conventional runway (4) because light planes can take off and land easily on sand. It does get quite windy on Barra, however. Once, the weather was so bad that the luggage area (5).......... and all of the suitcases (6)............ across the beach.