The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America. In her 16,000-mile ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

What You Need to Know: The USS America (CVA/CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was sunk in 2005 after weeks of controlled explosions as part of a live-fire test to study how a large ...

On Thursday, January 16, the American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) began its final journey.

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier departed the Navy's Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility ...

The aircraft carrier, which has been docked in South Philadelphia since 2008, will make its exit through the Delaware River.

On a cold, dreary Thursday in Philadelphia, a smattering of people came to the waterfront to see the former Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy (CV-67) begin its final journey.

The decommissioned aircraft carrier USS John F ... a contract to dismantle both the USS John F. Kennedy and USS Kitty Hawk. Peter Warren is a general assignment reporter for the Houston Chronicle.

Instead of preservation as a museum ship—which might allow certain foreign visitors to learn too much about existing aircraft carriers ... The retired Kitty Hawk variant supercarrier was ...

Navy's last conventionally powered carrier Commissioned in September 1968, the Kennedy was the fourth and final vessel in the Kitty Hawk class, initially designated as an attack aircraft carrier.