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 ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS Kitty Hawk, commissioned in 1961 for $264 million ($2.5 billion today), was sold for just one cent for scrapping in 2022. The Kitty Hawk class, an incremental upgrade ...

Key Points and Summary – USS Constellation (CV-64), the second Kitty Hawk–class carrier, was a conventionally powered Cold ...

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 ...

BREMERTON — The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation's last oil-fired aircraft carrier, departed Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a Texas ...

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 ...

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 ...