She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 October 2017, and was designated for disposal by dismantling a few days later. She was officially decommissioned on after 48 years of service. Kitty Hawk returned to the United States and had her decommissioning ceremony on 31 January 2009. In October 2008, she was replaced in this role by George Washington. įor ten years, Kitty Hawk was the forward-deployed carrier at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. With the decommissioning of Independence on 30 September 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). The ship was commissioned 29 April 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, sponsored by Mrs. Kitty Hawk was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, on 27 December 1956. Kitty Hawk was the first of the three Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers to be commissioned and the last to be decommissioned. She 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, was a United States Navy supercarrier. 1 C-2A Greyhound carrier on-board delivery.

40 F/A 18E/F Super hornet fighter-bombers,.RIM-7 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles, 2 RIM-116 RAM, 2 Phalanx CIWS Automated Anti-Missile/Aircraft Defenses Westinghouse geared steam turbines, eight Foster Wheeler steam boilers, four shafts 280,000 shp (210 MW) USS Kitty Hawk underway in the Pacific Ocean, May 2005

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