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Avro RJ85 E2351 at the City of Norwich Aviation Museum

Name: Avro RJ85 E2351 at the City of Norwich Aviation Museum
Address: City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich, NR103JF, GB
Telephone: +441603893080
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Avro RJ85 E2351 at the City of Norwich Aviation Museum

Former Mesaba & CityJet Avro RJ85, preserved at the City of Norwich Aviation Museum since 2020. www.cnam.org.uk

Built as a British Aerospace Avro RJ85, Serial number E2351 left BAE Woodford in May 1999 under the test registration G-6-351. E2351 joined the Mesaba airlines fleet a week later and was registered as N526XJ before being withdrawn from use. Sitting in storage, E2351 was purchased from Mesaba Airlines in 2007 by CityJet and registered on the Irish Aviation Register as EI-RJN. October 2018 saw RJN'

being wet leased and became the standby aircraft for Aer Lingus before being withdrawn from use and stored at Norwich International Airport in February 2019. In April 2020, the aircraft was offered to the City Of Norwich Aviation museum for preservation. E2351 is currently the only complete airframe of this type in a UK Museum. The aircraft was delivered to the museum overnight on the 30/31st October 2020 in what was thought to be the only operation of its type performed on this type of airframe. This page shares images of E2351's flying career along with updates from the museums team of dedicated volunteers; working to keep the aircraft in a semi-live condition for our visitors to enjoy.

27/01/2026

A quick job completed last weekend was a relubricating of the aft passenger door. The open hold latch had become rather stiff, meaning the door wouldn't lock. A combination of seized actuators and pulleys was found to be the culprit. This job was certainly needed as the last time it would have been done was in service, some seven years ago now.

18/01/2026

Back in November, we hosted the Air UK Reunion at CNAM. It was great to hear the stories from ex 146 crews. Whilst E2351 of course was not an Air UK airframe, she still evoked memories for all who came on board.

All photos reposted with permission from the Air UK Reunion - https://www.airukreunion.co.uk/2025-visit-to-norwich-aviation-museum/

06/01/2026

Happy New Year to you all! We're now back after a well-deserved break over the festive period. Apologies too for the lack of posts, we've still been at work taking care of her and will share some more of this soon.

As we returned this evening, there was still some snow on the ground to greet us. Thanks to Alex Payton from our team for taking this striking shot of RJN!

01/11/2025

The history of E2351 is now on display at the Northwest Airlines History Center . Thank you to Jake for sending these through!

25/10/2025

It was great to host Jake from the Northwest Airlines History Center on board today, having travelled all the way from Minnesota!

EI-RJN of course started life as N526XJ in 1999 flying for Mesaba Airlines, on behalf of Northwest Jet Airlink until 2006. She was configured with a 69 seat layout including First Class!

If you'd like to learn more, check out their website at https://northwestairlineshistory.org/

N526XJ Photo Credit: Aero Icarus (Flickr)
Mag Prints Credit: Northwest Airlines History Centre

19/10/2025

After a big push over the weekend we have completed regreasing the left hand wing. Some of the rollers were incredibly dry on track no. 4 so it certainly needed it! Next step, reactivating hydraulics.

10/10/2025

Always enjoyable to come and work on RJN during twilight hours!

We are always looking for more active volunteers to join our RJ Team. If you've got a spare weekend or Tuesday evening and can make it to Norwich, please PM us!

27/09/2025

Right wing flap mechanism now fully lubricated. The final points were on the No.1 track and 2x screwjacks. No.1 track required removal of the seal, which proved to be troublesome with rounded tri-wing screws! Next up will be the left wing, prior to reactivating hyds.

20/09/2025

Very productive Friday making a start on lubrication of the RH wing flap components. It was the first time doing this on the RJ so it did take a while to find all the l**e points. Trying to grease the ballnut without the boat fairing off is also great fun! (unfortunately we do not have the sliding hammer tool required)

Still quite a bit more to do, including the screwjacks, flap tab hinges and No. 1 track slipper plate pads which will require removal of panels. With rusted in tri-wing screws attaching many of them, I'd imagine most will have to be drilled out.

12/09/2025

I'm back! Been a busy few months but work returns on RJN. Spent this afternoon scrubbing the spoilers and flaps clean prior to them being retracted. Next step is regreasing the whole mechanism.

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City Of Norwich Aviation Museum
Norwich
NR103JF

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Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm
Sunday	10:30am - 4pm

Telephone

+441603893080

Website

http://www.cnam.org.uk/

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