2003 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 2003:

Events

The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates, killing all seven occupants.
Fina Air begins services.
May 25 - Boeing 727 mysteriously disappears in Angola, along with pilot Ben Charles Padilla.
November 26, the last commercial Concorde flight.
September: Skip Holm, flying the modified P-51D 'Dago Red', sets a new closed-course piston-engine speed record of 507 mph at the Reno Air Races.
October: First totally autonomous flight across the Atlantic by a computer-controlled model aircraft.
December: The 100th birthday of aviation has begun.
October 24, the Concorde makes its last scheduled commercial flight.
December 17, on the anniversary of the Wright Flyer's achievement, SpaceShipOne is the first privately built, manned aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound,
December 25, United Transit 141 crashes in Benin, spreading rumors that it is the Boeing 727 that disappeared earlier during the year.

March

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