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USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, was a United States Navy supercarrier. She was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was the first of the three Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers to be commissioned and the last to be decommissioned.
The Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers of the United States Navy were an incremental improvement on the Forrestal-class vessels. Three were built, all in the 1960s, Kitty Hawk (CV-63) (1961–2009), Constellation (CV-64) (1961–2003), and America (CV-66) (1965–1996), as well as the variant John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (1967–2007).
Class: Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier. Named for: Kitty Hawk. Complement: 5624 Officers and Enlisted. Displacement: 61351 tons. Length: 1 068.9 feet. Beam: 282 feet. Flank Speed: 33 knots.
On October 17, 1963 USS Kitty Hawk departed San Diego for the Far East and her second tour of duty with the Seventh Fleet. Enroute to the western Pacific, the aircraft carrier received her Operational Readiness Inspection in Hawaiian waters. While approaching Japan, she learned an assassin had shot President Kennedy.
USS KITTY HAWK was the lead ship of the Navy’s second class of "super carriers" and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. Initially commissioned as attack aircraft carrier CVA 63, she was redesignated as multi-purpose aircraft carrier CV 63 April 29, 1973.
But the glory days of the former USS Kitty Hawk are over, and the retired supercarrier is on its final, 16,000-mile journey from Washington state to Texas, where it will be cut up and sold...
22 Dec 1965: A "massive coordinated strike" by 110 aircraft from attack aircraft carriers Enterprise, Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga (CVA-14) against the Uong Bi plant "virtually" destroyed the...
In May 2022, the decommissioned supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) arrived in Brownsville, Texas for scrapping. The iconic vessel served the US Navy for nearly 50 years and cost the military a whopping $264 million ($2.5 billion today) to build in 1961.
USS Kitty Hawk is a conventionally powered aircraft carrier. Combined with the aircraft of Carrier Air Wing FIVE, it carries F-14, F/A-18, EA-6B, S-3 A/B, E-2CA aircraft and SH-60 helicopters, which give a multi-dimensional response to air, surface, and subsurface threats.
Above: The 60,000 ton, New York Ship built aircraft USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) pictured in the western Pacific Ocean in 2003. During her forty year career, Kitty Hawk operated off Vietnam, Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Home Ships Aircraft Carriers USS Kitty Hawk. The Navy’s Last Oil-Fired Aircraft Carrier