Everyone knows that a good deal is hard to find. However, if that deal involves a government, all that seems to change. Take the curious case of two decommissioned aircraft carriers, the USS Kitty ...

The 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 ...

The USS Kitty Hawk will die the way she lived: coming apart at the seams. Despite speculation that the beloved “Battle Cat” might return to service, the first and last conventionally powered aircraft ...

ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK — If this country ever needed a crew of loyal sailors, ready and more than willing — if not all quite as able — to take up their posts again, the former crew members of the ...

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 ...

One of the United States’ last aircraft carriers powered by fossil fuels departed Washington state on Sunday, beginning its final journey before being scrapped. Aided by tugboats, the decommissioned ...

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 disposed of by ...

The HAWK is currently our oldest carrier, launched in May of 1960. Plans are to have her role as our only forward-deployed aircraft carrier taken over by USS George Washington, expected to sail into ...