2004 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 2004:
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[edit] Events
[edit] January
- 2 - Several British Airways flights from London Heathrow Airport to Washington D.C. and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are cancelled due to security fears.
- 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
- 13 - An Uzbekistan Airways plane crashes in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, killing all 37 aboard.
[edit] February
- February 12 - United Airlines created another airline, this time called Ted (airline).
[edit] March
- March 27 - NASA's X-43 pilotless plane breaks world speed record for an atmospheric engine by briefly flying at 7,700 kilometers (4,780 miles) per hour (seven times the speed of sound)
[edit] April
- April 4 - Alaska Airlines discontinues service between San Francisco and Tucson.
[edit] May
- May 5 - Air France and Netherlands-based KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) merge, the two airlines are now known as Air France-KLM.
- 9 - Southwest Airlines begins service to Philadelphia International Airport.
- 12 - The last F-4 Phantom fighters are withdrawn from service with the Israeli Air Force.
- 23 - Frontier Airlines begins service to Philadelphia, Billings, Montana and Spokane, Washington.
- 27 - Delta Air Lines begins service between Cincinnati and New Haven.
[edit] June
- 1 - America West Airlines starts service between Phoenix and Anchorage.
- 6 - Alaska Airlines starts service between Denver and Anchorage and discontinues service between San Jose and Tucson.
- 20 - Frontier Airlines begins service to Nashville, Tennessee.
- 21 - SpaceShipOne is the first non-government built spacecraft to transport a person into space and return safely to earth.
[edit] July
- 14-20 - the 14th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Herning, Denmark. Individual winners: 1. Jiří Filip & Michal Filip (Czech), 2. František Cihlář & Milos Fiala (Czech), 3. Krzysztof Wieczorek & Krzysztof Skrętowicz (Poland); team winners: 1. Czech Republic, 2. Poland, 3. France.
- 19-24 - the 16th FAI World Precision Flying Championship in Herning, Denmark. Individual winners: Krzysztof Wieczorek (Poland) - 3Xtrim, 2. Petr Opat (Czech) - Cessna 152, 3. Wacław Wieczorek (Poland) - PZL Wilga 2000; team winners: 1. Poland, 2. Czech Republic, 3. France.
[edit] August
- 24 - Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303 and Siberia Airlines Flight 1047 explode south of Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow. The Russian government declares the explosions to have been caused by Chechen terrorists
[edit] October
- 4 - SpaceShipOne successfully makes her 3rd flight into space and proves to be a plausible option for space tourism, thus winning the Ansari X-Prize
[edit] November
- November 1 - Pan American Airways, or Pan Am III, turned down operations once again, but gave operations to Boston-Maine Airways.
- November 16 - NASA's X-43 reaches a record speed of Mach 9.8 (7,546 mph, 12,144 km/h)
[edit] December
- December 9 - The U.S. Army issues a request for proposals (RFP) for the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH).
- December 10 - Two CT-114 Tutors from Canada's Snowbirds aerobatic team collide while training near Mossbank, Saskatchewan. Captain Miles Selby is killed and Captain Chuck Mallet is injured.
- December 10 - The United States Federal Aviation Administration issues an Emergency Airworthiness Directive effectively grounding the entire U.S. fleet of Beechcraft T-34 Mentor aircraft. The AD is in response to fatal in-flight structural failure accidents during simulated aerial combat flights.
[edit] First flights
[edit] March
[edit] May
[edit] June
- June 18 - Airblue flies its first flight, a private airline in Pakistan
- June 21 - First sub-orbital flight of SpaceShipOne
[edit] July
[edit] Entered service
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