A U.S. Navy F-14A Tomcat takes off for a mission over Iraq from the USS Kitty Hawk in northern Gulf waters ... Every Single Aircraft Carrier in the World Do Aircraft Carriers Still Rule 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 ...

The former aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk left Bremerton, Washington, Saturday and is now en-route to a Texas shipbreaker to be turned into scrap. The last oil-fired carrier, Kitty Hawk was ...

SAN DIEGO — The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk steamed into San Diego in the fall of 1961 with fanfare usually enjoyed by royalty, wrote the San Diego Union’s Lester Bell in a story announcing ...

One of the United States’ last aircraft carriers powered ... from Navy Region Northwest. Former Kitty Hawk crewmember Jim Jursinic, who served aboard the carrier between 1996 and 2000, said ...

The former Kitty Hawk sailors felt blindsided by the news. They had previously believed they would at least get a chance to save the aircraft carrier from the fate of being towed to the ...

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. Soon, all that will remain is a storied and sometimes ...

The Kitty Hawk, decommissioned in 2009, had been in the mothball fleet for more than 12 years. Though many former sailors had hoped it would become the sixth aircraft carrier in the nation to ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk steamed into San Diego in the fall of 1961 with fanfare usually enjoyed by royalty, wrote the San Diego Union’s Lester Bell in a story ...