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This is a list of
aviation
-related events from
2003
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Events
The
Space Shuttle Columbia
disintegrates, killing all seven occupants.
Fina Air
begins services.
Boeing 727
mysteriously disappears in
Angola
, along with pilot
Ben Charles Padilla
.
United Transit 141
crashes in
Benin
, spreading rumors that it is the Boeing 727 that disappeared earlier during the year. On
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.
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First flights
March
March 7
-
HAL HJT-36
July
July 28
-
Adam A700 AdamJet
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Entered service