For the next 12 years, it sat with other retired ships in Puget Sound, Wash. As is often the case, the men — and, starting in 1994, women — who served on the Kitty Hawk through the years came ...

YOKOSUKA, Japan – The oldest active ship in the U.S. Navy, the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, made its final departure from Japan on Wednesday to be decommissioned after nearly half a century ...

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

BREMERTON, Wash. — 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 ...

It was been in Bremerton's mothball fleet, formally known as the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, for 12 years. For the Kitty Hawk, there is some pressure because of what grows under the hull.

Now, the Kitty Hawk is in its twilight. Based in Yokosuka, Japan, the Navy’s oldest active ship is scheduled for decommissioning late next year. There will be a ceremony marking the end of its ...

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 ...

The two sailors on the USS Kitty Hawk are part of the deck department team, whose nearly 90 members help get fuel for the ship and its hungry crew. At least twice a week, the aircraft carrier ties ...

When the USS Kitty Hawk Veterans Association held a reunion in Nashville at the end of October, one thing was on everyone's mind: The ship was going to scrapped despite years of efforts and ...

Kitty Hawk finally retired in 2009. Needless to say, such carriers had advanced considerably over her lifetime. There were no others in use that were still oil-powered. This very special ship ...

But the finished product departed so heavily from the Kitty Hawk design that the vessel, the John F. Kennedy, was designated as the only ship of a distinct class.