Kitty Hawk was 1,047 feet long with a top speed of 30 knots. She had a crew of 4,582, was equipped with four C-13 Mod 0 steam catapults, and could carry between 80 and 90 aircraft. Throughout her ...

Commissioned in 1961, the carrier was one of three Kitty Hawk-class carriers to serve in the Navy. The others were the USS America and USS Constellation, which went out of service in 1996 and 2003 ...

BREMERTON — The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation's last oil-fired aircraft carrier, departed Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a ...

From his home in Indiana, James Fulks has watched the journey of the USS Kitty Hawk as it spanned the hemisphere on its way to the scrapyard. The Navy veteran, a retired air traffic controller on ...

BREMERTON — The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation's last oil-fired aircraft carrier, departed Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a ...

The Kitty Hawk (CV 63) will be disposed of by dismantling, according to Naval Sea Systems Command spokeswoman Colleen O'Rourke. O'Rourke cited an annual report to Congress that outlines the Navy's ...

BREMERTON, Wash. — The Navy has sold the former USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy to a Texas shipbreaking company to scrap the aging, defunct aircraft carriers, according to Naval Sea ...

“I spent 1988-90 assigned to the USS Kitty Hawk while she was undergoing restoration in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard,” one Twitter user wrote. “Even then you could feel the history.

Then-Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter sent a letter to Congress in 2008 expressing his intent to hold the Kitty Hawk in reserve status until the USS Gerald R. Ford's commissioning, O'Rourke said.

The USS Kitty Hawk will die the way she lived: coming apart at the seams. Despite speculation that the beloved “Battle Cat” might return to service, the first and last conventionally powered ...

The USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) prepares to anchor in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor on April 28, 2008. This was the ship's last overseas port visit before being relieved by USS George Washington (CVN 73 ...

A plane director on the USS Kitty Hawk’s flight deck directs an F-14 Tomcat from VF-154 shortly after the aircraft landed Monday, April 15, 2002.