The former U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) gets towed to her final resting place, the RGV shipbreaking facility in Brownsville, Texas, on January 15, 2022. Film Credits: U.S. Navy ...

Hal Cleveland of Burleson has vivid memories of the night he lost six shipmates in a fire on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in December of 1973. Bradley Curby Courtesy As the great Marty Robbins once sang, ...

The decommissioned aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy started its final voyage this week with an end destination set for Brownsville, Texas. The ship had been out of service since 2007 and spent the ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

The Kitty Hawk carriers were designed as an incremental improvement over the preceding Forrestral-class carriers. The Forrestal-class was comprised of four boats: Forrestral (CV-59); Saratoga (CV-60); ...

Aircraft carriers are extraordinary to behold. By their very nature, of course, they're designed to accommodate aircraft, and this demands ample space to take off and land safely too (including ...

This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, April 19, 2002. It is republished unedited in its original form. ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK — Even though it’s not headed ...

A U.S. Navy F-14A Tomcat takes off for a mission over Iraq from the USS Kitty Hawk in northern Gulf waters, April 2003. The low price reflects a number of factors, including the need to tow the ships ...