The former USS Kitty Hawk has arrived in Texas, five months after departing from Washington state. The hulk traveled from Washington state to Texas around the tip of South America. Kitty Hawk was the ...

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 the ...

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 Texas ...

TOKYO – The USS Kitty Hawk, the U.S. Navy’s oldest ship in full active service, embarked on its last major maneuvers Wednesday before being decommissioned next year. The 46-year-old vessel – the only ...

One of the United States’ last aircraft carriers powered by fossil fuels departed Washington state on Sunday, beginning its final journey before being scrapped. Aided by tugboats, the decommissioned ...

June 6-7, 1963: President John F. Kennedy makes overnight visit to Kitty Hawk, making the ship the “floating White House” for one night. 1963-1975: Kitty Hawk makes seven combat deployments to ...

The former USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) gets underway from its homeport at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan in 2004. US Navy Photo When James Melka first approached USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), he had no idea the size ...

BREMERTON — The hull of the former USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier will be scraped in a Puget Sound Naval Shipyard dry dock in the spring in preparation for its departure from Sinclair Inlet and ...

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 ...

A U.S. Navy F-14A Tomcat takes off for a mission over Iraq from the USS Kitty Hawk in northern Gulf waters, April 2003. The low price reflects a number of factors, including the need to tow the ships ...