The USS Kitty Hawk embarked on its final voyage to be broken down for scrap metal while veteran sailors wait for pieces of their beloved "Battle Cat" to begin showing up on EBay. The conventionally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk left Washington for a scrapyard in Texas on Saturday. The US Navy previously sold the Kitty Hawk to a shipbreaking company for just one cent. The ship participated ...

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 ...

The 47-year-old aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, the Navy's oldest and longest serving active warship, is heading to the Seattle region to end its operational life. "The Hawk," which served from the ...