2003 in aviation

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

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1 Events 2 First flights 3 Entered service

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.
• October: First totally autonomous flight across the Atlantic by a computer-controlled model aircraft.

Entered service