The dismantling of the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier in service with the US Navy, USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63).

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 fate of the former USS Kitty Hawk — a part of Bremerton's iconic waterfront of mothballed ships for more than eight years — has been determined. The Kitty Hawk (CV 63) will be disposed ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is the nation's last non-nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on duty. The ship has been based in Japan since 1998 and will be replaced there by the USS George Washington. While the Kitty Hawk is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...