No Cold War carriers have been preserved as museums, and it is disappointing that CV-63 or CV-67 couldn’t be ... being decommissioned—the former USS John F. Kennedy arrived at the Port of ...

His final assignment was aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, an aircraft carrier. However, a career in the Navy almost didn’t happen for Broussard. "The first time I took the test, I didn't pass it ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (Tribune News Service) — The crew of the USS Fort Worth gathered Monday to celebrate the milestone birthday of Elsie “Kitty” Rippin, a World War II Navy veteran ...

In 2021, the aircraft carriers USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) were sold for a symbolic penny to the Shipbreaking Limited facility in Brownsville, Texas, for scrapping.

After USS Kitty Hawk was retired in 2009, a veterans' association raised $5 million to see the warship preserved as a floating museum. However, the U.S. Navy deep-sixed the plan, ­and both CV-63 ...

Kennedy and USS Kitty Hawk. Peter Warren is a general assignment reporter for the Houston Chronicle's breaking news team. Before joining the Chronicle, Peter lived in Dallas, where he covered the ...

Kennedy in 2021 for $0.01. International Shipbreaking Limited recently dismantled another famous supercarrier, the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). A new USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), which launched in ...

Navy's last conventionally powered carrier Commissioned in September 1968, the Kennedy was the fourth and final vessel in the Kitty Hawk class ... on the USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) really ...

The U.S. Navy’s premier anti-submarine (ASW) and anti-surface (ASuW) helicopter, the MH-60R Seahawk, has shot down its first drone, marking a new milestone for the service. During an address on ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The decommissioned aircraft carrier, formerly named after President John F. Kennedy, has begun its journey as it heads south from the Philadelphia Navy Yard to the scrapyard ...

The former USS John F. Kennedy departed Philadelphia for ... "Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, CV 67 was the first Navy ship to be named John F. Kennedy and was the last conventionally powered ...

Secretary of Navy Carlos Del Toro salutes in the rain as he arrives for the USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) commissioning ceremony at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., in Pensacola ...