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In early 2017, it was announced that steel from CVN-65 will be recycled and used to construct CVN-80. [97] Over 35,000 pounds of steel has been removed from CVN-65 and repurposed into CVN-80. [98] The crew of the ship's final deployment built a time capsule constructed from her steel and wood to preserve the carrier's history for CVN-80. [99]
After a short turnaround at home at NAS Whidbey Island, the squadron deployed for the final voyage of USS Enterprise (CVN-65). The deployment was dominated by providing direct support for combat operations in Operation Enduring Freedom, where the squadron amassed 165 combat sorties and 1040 combat hours.
2012 deployment. With the decommissioning of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) on 1 December 2012, Carrier Air Wing One was reassigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), which was undergoing its mid-life Refueling and Complex Overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding. [13] [14] 2015 deployment
Seven of the US Navy's 11 nuclear aircraft carriers are at sea simultaneously for the first time in a very long time.
Later in the Cold War, supercarrier construction began with the Forrestal class, [6] followed by the Kitty Hawk class; Enterprise (CVN-65), the first nuclear-powered carrier; and John F. Kennedy (CV-67), the last conventionally powered carrier.
CVW-9 made seven subsequent Vietnam deployments aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS America (CVA-66) and USS Constellation (CV-64). Later, the Air Wing made peacetime cruises to the Western Pacific aboard USS Constellation , USS Ranger and USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) between June 1974 and June 1987.
The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), replacing Enterprise (CVN-65), and later the Nimitz-class carriers.
The nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) cruises in the clear blue water of the Gulf of Tonkin off the shores of Vietnam on 28 May 1968. Enterprise , with assigned Attack Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9), was deployed to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 26 October 1965 to 21 June 1966.