From USS Nimitz to USS Ranger: Aircraft carriers homeported in Bremerton over the decades
With the arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan in Bremerton in 2024, the city now hosts two Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft ...
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The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk crossed to the Atlantic after a brief call at Punta Arenas
The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America. In her 16,000-mile ...
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The final voyage of the USS Kitty Hawk: America's flagship and key aircraft carrier in Vietnam was sold for less than a dollar
Aerial port stern view of the U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) as it prepares to commence cyclic flight operations off the coast of Australia on Aug. 18, 2006. Currently underway ...
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Carrier USS John F. Kennedy goes to the breakers
The USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy’s last non-nuclear powered aircraft carrier, is at Brownsville, Texas, to begin a two-year ...
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USS Constellation carrier towed to the scrapyard along the coast of South America
The USS Constellation (CV-64) was a Kitty Hawk class super-carrier and one of the fastest of the US Navy. She was nicknamed “Connie”. The United States aircraft carrier Constellation ...
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Kitty Hawk
The Kitty Hawk-class carriers are not particularly well remembered. Whereas the Ford, Nimitz, and Enterprise classes enjoy name recognition amongst the general public, the Kitty Hawk has mostly ...
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A U-2 Spy Plane On an Aircraft Carrier? The CIA Tried It Once
The Navy made significant modifications to the U-2 to enhance the high-flying aircraft’s ability to land aboard a carrier.