The aircraft was escorted as a special types abnormal load on the M1.
Derbyshire Roads Police said:
‘Not something you see everyday.
‘Escorting this ‘abnormal load’ from the M1 J24 to Tatenhill Airfield.
‘Sure we will have some aviation aficionados who can tell us more about it.’
An old RAF Buccaneer (xx900)that’s been at Bruntingthorpe Museum, in service from 1976 until 1994 and only flew just over 3000 hours! Designed to hunt Russian ships and could carry nuclear weapons ✈️
— Andy (@AndyInYorks23) November 6, 2020
Wikipedia
The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN). Designed and initially produced by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, it was later officially known as the Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer when Blackburn became a part of the Hawker Siddeley Group, but this name is rarely used.
The Buccaneer was originally designed in response to the Soviet Union‘s Sverdlov-class cruiser construction programme. Instead of building a new fleet of its own, the Royal Navy could use the Buccaneer to attack these ships by approaching at low altitudes below the ship’s radar horizon. The Buccaneer could attack using a nuclear bomb, or conventional weapons. It was later intended to carry short-range anti-shipping missiles to improve its survivability against more modern ship-based anti-aircraft weapons.[1]
