Why sell billion-dollar carriers for a penny? Because scrapping them costs a fortune. -Decommissioned supercarriers like USS ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- Last week, a 60,000-pound anchor from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA/CV-63), made its way across the country to its new permanent home at the Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Center ...

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.

The former USS Kitty Hawk has arrived in Texas, five months after departing from Washington state. The hulk traveled from Washington state to Texas around the tip of South America. Kitty Hawk was the ...

The U.S. Navy is about to retire the USS Kitty Hawk, and Wilmington wants to bring the aircraft carrier home. The Kitty Hawk is the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier in service, commissioned in 1961 and ...

Navy Lt. Matthew J. Brickhaus, son of Lolamae Brickhaus of Sedgewickville, Mo., and his fellow shipmates recently completed a series of sea trials while assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk ...

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, ...