2003 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 2003:
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Events
February
- February 1 - The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates, killing all seven occupants.
- February 5 - 9 - Aero-India show is held at Bangalore
- Fina Air begins services.
May
- May 25 - Boeing 727 mysteriously disappears in Angola, along with pilot Ben Charles Padilla.
August
- August 11, The Spirit of Butts Farm becomes the first flight across the Atlantic by a computer-controlled model aircraft.
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
- October 15 - Yang Liwei becomes the People's Republic of China's first man in space.
- October 24, the Concorde makes its last scheduled commercial flight.
November
- November 26, the last "retirement" Concorde flight.
December
- 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.
- December: The 100th birthday of aviation has begun.
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