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 ...

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 ...

What You Need to Know: Despite the allure of preserving historic aircraft carriers as museum ships, the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) were sold for just one cent each to a ...

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 ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

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 ...

Seventeen days after leaving the Philadelphia Naval Yard, the former USS JFK (CV-67) arrived in the Valley Sunday morning.

A former U.S. Navy supercarrier and the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier in existence ... another famous supercarrier, the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). A new USS John F.

The decommissioned aircraft carrier USS John F ... a contract to dismantle both the USS John F. Kennedy and USS Kitty Hawk. Peter Warren is a general assignment reporter for the Houston ...

Kennedy was considered a supercarrier because of its higher aircraft capacity than most other ships, and it was built as a variant of the Kitty Hawk class of carriers made in the 1960s.