T he news that the aircraft carriers USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy were each sold for one cent felt like an insult to many veterans and ship lovers. These were once flagships and icons of ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS Kitty Hawk, commissioned in 1961 for $264 million ($2.5 billion today), was sold for just one cent for scrapping in 2022. The Kitty Hawk class, an incremental upgrade ...

In January 2024, the USS Kitty Hawk, a 62,000-ton aircraft carrier, reached the end of her life. Once a home to 130,000 sailors over four decades, she now sat with her bow cut off, section by section ...

Remarks made by the U.S. Pacific commander last week jolted the Yokosuka community, homeport of USS Kitty Hawk. During a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, Adm. Thomas Fargo said the Kitty ...

PORTAGE, MI — The Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum is now in posession of a 60,000-pound piece of history that for decades helped secure the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), while the carrier was in port.

While attending a ceremony in Denver this month to be honored as the Navy’s top enlisted firefighter of the year, Petty Officer 1st Class Shane Krueger, an aviation boatswains mate (handling) ...