She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on October 20th, 2017, and will be dismantled. She was officially decommissioned on May 12th, 2009, after almost 49 years of service. Kitty Hawk then returned to the United States and had her decommissioning ceremony on January 31st, 2009. In October 2008, she was replaced in this role by George Washington. With the decommissioning of Independence on September 30th, 1998, Kitty Hawk became the United States warship with the second-longest active status, after the sailing ship USS Constitution (Enterprise passed her in 2012 these two aircraft carriers were two of the three carriers to fly the First Navy Jack).įor 10 years, Kitty Hawk was the forward-deployed carrier at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. The ship was commissioned on April 29th, 1961, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Captain William F. Kitty Hawk was launched by flooding her drydock the conventional slide down method was ruled out because of her mass and the risk that she might hit the Philadelphia shore on the far side of the Delaware River. McElroy, wife of Defense Secretary Neil H. The ship was launched on May 21st, 1960, sponsored by Mrs. Kitty Hawk was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, on December 27th, 1956. Kitty Hawk was both the first of the three Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers to be commissioned and last to be decommissioned. It was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, is a decommissioned United States Navy supercarrier.

'We are Legend Ready on Arrival The First, the Finest Eight Reactors, None Faster.' Forces of Valor FOV861012A US Navy USS Kitty Hawk Class Aircraft Carrier - USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), Exercise Cobra Gold, 2000 (1:700 Scale)

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