Summary and Key Points: The USS Kitty Hawk, commissioned in 1961 for $264 million ($2.5 billion today), was sold for just one cent for scrapping in 2022. The Kitty Hawk class, an incremental upgrade ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- Last week, a 60,000-pound anchor from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA/CV-63), made its way across the country to its new permanent home at the Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Center ...

The U.S. Navy is about to retire the USS Kitty Hawk, and Wilmington wants to bring the aircraft carrier home. The Kitty Hawk is the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier in service, commissioned in 1961 and ...

Aircraft carriers are extraordinary to behold. By their very nature, of course, they're designed to accommodate aircraft, and this demands ample space to take off and land safely too (including ...

Forty years ago on Thursday, a Soviet submarine collided with the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. The collision occurred as the sub was spying on US warships amid Cold War tensions. It was ...

A few years back, the decommissioned United States Navy supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) arrived in Brownsville, Texas for scrapping. The iconic warship, which served in the U.S. Navy for 50 years ...

Key Points and Summary - USS Constellation (CV-64), the second Kitty Hawk–class carrier, was a conventionally powered Cold War workhorse that bridged the era between Forrestal-class flattops and today ...

Aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, March 18, 2003: An F-14 Tomcat takes off from the USS Kitty Hawk as the sun sets over the Persian Gulf. Read an article on the Kitty Hawk’s 2003 deployments here.

USS Kitty Hawk, off the coast of Japan, Pacific Ocean, April 15, 2002: Petty Officer 2nd Class Jack Lazenby, an air traffic controller, updates flight information on a board in the USS Kitty Hawk’s ...