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 ...

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 ...

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

Navy Times reports that Kitty Hawk was the first carrier of its class, launched in 1961 with a heap of improvements over its WWII-era predecessors. It completed six tours in Vietnam and was the ...

The dimensions are roughly the same as the U.S. Navy’s Kitty Hawk-class carriers, although the new ship is longer that China’s two preceding carriers, the Liaoning and the Shandong ...

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.

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.

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard. The decommissioned vessel was the last conventionally powered flattop built by the US Navy. The Kennedy namesake ...