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This is a list of aviation-related events from 2000:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 April 1.4 May 1.5 July 1.6 August 1.7 November 2 First flights 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 July 3 Entered service

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 30 - Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• January 31 - An Alaska Airlines Flight 261,an McDonnell Douglas MD-83,Crashed into the Pacific Ocean north of Los Angeles, 20 miles west of Point Mugu Naval Air Station. 88 passengers and crew are killed.

[edit] February

• February 11 - JetBlue Airways commenced operations.

[edit] April

• April 19 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.

[edit] May

• May 15 - Helios Airways commenced airline operations.

[edit] July

• July 10 - EADS is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, Dornier, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA), and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA).
• July 25 - a Concorde of Air France (Air France Flight 4590) catches fire after takeoff, crashing and killing all 100 passengers, nine crew and four people on the ground, at Gonesse, France.

[edit] August

• August 31 - Virgin Blue began airline operations.

[edit] November

• November 3 - Last flight of an EC-135E Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft as a flight crew from the Air Force Flight Test Center delivered the last EC-135E, (serial number 60-374 - nicknamed "The Bird of Prey"), with full Prime Mission Electronic Equipment (PMEE), to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

[edit] First flights

[edit] January

• RQ-8A Fire Scout first autonomous flight

[edit] February

• February 29 - Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-35

[edit] March

• Adam M-309 CarbonAero

[edit] July

• July 18 - Dassault AVE-D Petit Duc stealth UAV

[edit] Entered service

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