Summary: The Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers, consisting of Kitty Hawk, Constellation, and America, marked a notable evolution in naval aviation from the earlier Forrestal-class. Designed as a ...

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 ...

The Kitty Hawk was the fleet's only permanently forward-deployed carrier in Yokosuka, Japan, from 1998 to 2008. The Kitty Hawk was the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier in active ...

In March 1984, the Soviet Victor I-class nuclear-powered attack submarine K-314 collided with the US aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Sea of Japan during a tense period of Cold War “cat and ...

Generations of sailors served on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk during its decades of service, and for many the giant ship's demise hits hard.

What You Need to Know: The USS America (CVA/CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was sunk in 2005 after weeks of controlled explosions as part of a live-fire test to study how a large ...

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 ...

The aircraft carrier is the last of the Kitty Hawk-class carriers, as the other two ships in the three-ship class were either scrapped or scuttled.

Kitty Hawk was the last US aircraft carrier fueled by oil, a relic of an era before the arrival of nuclear-powered Nimitz-class ships.

The Kitty Hawk was not only the last commissioned US Navy conventionally powered aircraft carrier, but it was also the last ship in its class to be decommissioned.