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 ...

For the next 12 years, it would sit 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

With the scrapping of those ships, it is unlikely that the country ... The United States Navy made virtually nothing from selling the USS Kitty Hawk, and it likely cost millions to ready the ...

When the Kitty Hawk-class carrier was decommissioned almost one decade earlier, the Navy decided to conduct a study involving how a colossal ship would respond to explosions on board instead of ...