The relatively few flight tests undertaken in the UK have been done over the Machrihanish bay, flying from Campbeltown Airport.
Although still available to the Royal Air Force, the former airbase has been taken over by the especially-formed Machrihanish Airbase Community Company.
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The views and skies seen from the beach and Lossit Point to the west were a subject for the Scottish marine and landscape painter William McTaggart, who had a house in the village.