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Potential travel disruption as Buccaneer jet is moved 200 miles to its new home

The Buccaneer is being prepared to be transported to the Scottish Deer Centre tomorrow. Picture by Sandy McCook.

The infamous Elgin landmark, the Buccaneer Jet is to be moved to its new home but moving such a massive object is no easy feat.

The jet has sat on the Bishopmill petrol station forecourt for almost 25 years and is now being transported to a new location at the Scottish Deer Centre.

Moving the jet was due to take place earlier but due to the increased police presence in Glasgow because of COP26, no police officers could be spared for the police escort.

The jet with its wings folded will be lifted onto a truck that is so big it spans two lanes of the road and requires lamposts to be taken down as it makes the 200 miles to Cupar.

Around 9.30 am on December 12, the jet and its transporter will navigate a specified route created in coordination with Bear Scotland.

Transporting the massive object is likely to take at least eight hours to arrive at the Deer Centre in the evening.

The route the jet will travel will take it west via the A96 Elgin to Inverness road travelling through Nairn and Forres before ending up in Inverness.

From there it will use the Raigmore Interchange to merge onto the A9 Inverness to Perth where it will travel over 108 miles down to Perth.

Once at Perth, the convoy will travel around the bypass where it will merge onto the M90 motorway where it will travel 24 miles down towards Dunfermline.

It will leave the M90 via Junction 3 and onto the A92 where it travel past kirkcaldy before the road makes a left turn northwards.

It will then travel through Glenrother and eventually turn onto the A91 on which the Deer Centre is located about 1.5 miles to the east.

The Buccaneer jet is being transported over 200 miles.

For part of the journey, a drone will be following closely to capture the jet on the move which will be used as an educational tool once the jet opens to the public at the park.

There have been some challenges already due to the jet’s wings having seized and requiring special assistance to prepare it for transport on Sunday.

David Hamilton, co-owner of the Scottish Deer Centre said about the move: “It was always the plan to fold up the wings but I just found out from the logistics guy that there has been a delay because they couldn’t get the wings folded up.

“The wings haven’t been moved since it was first moved to Elgin, so they have seized up a bit.

The team are working to unseize the wings that have been in place for almost 25 years.

“So we have an expert coming up to get them unseized and fold them up because we wouldn’t be able to move it with the wings down.”

“The team predicted that it wouldn’t be as simple as everything working and loading it onto the lorry so they scheduled the entire day for the lift.”

“The move has been pre-planned with Bear Scotland and is costing about as much as it did to buy the jet.”

To see the full route that the Buccaneer jet and its tranporter is due to take click here.