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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The decommissioned USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier entered the Brazos Santiago Pass jetties around noon on Sunday, passing by the Cameron County Amphitheater and Event Center at Isla ...

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.

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.

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier departed the Navy's Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on Jan. 16 under tow to its final destination: International Shipbreaking ...