June 6-7, 1963: President John F. Kennedy makes overnight visit to Kitty Hawk, making the ship the “floating White House” for one night. 1963-1975: Kitty Hawk makes seven combat deployments to ...

From his home in Indiana, James Fulks has watched the journey of the USS Kitty Hawk as it spanned the hemisphere on its way to the scrapyard. The Navy veteran, a retired air traffic controller on the ...

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 ...

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 63) will be ...

Summary and Key Points: The 1980s were marked by tense Cold War incidents, including a near-nuclear collision in 1984 between the USS Kitty Hawk and a Soviet Victor-class submarine, Petropavlovsk, ...