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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. In 2021, Kitty Hawk was sold to a scrap company for just one cent. While the cost of such an iconic vessel is contested, her nearly five.
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Check out our USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Crew List and reconnect with old shipmates. Table of Contents: Introduction Chain of Command and Staff The Cruise and Ports of Call Ship's Company AIMD Air Department CRMD Communications Department Dental Department Deck Department Engineering Department Executive Department Marine Detachment Medical Department
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The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website.
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- formerly CVA 63 - - decommissioned - 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.
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USS Kitty Hawk was staffed with up to 5,624 officers and enlisted personnel. The vessel displaced at 62,335 tons on a standard load and upwards of 83,301 tons on a full load. Her running length from bow to stern was 1,068 feet with a beam reaching 282 feet. Her draught was listed at 40 feet. Power was supplied by Westinghouse geared steam.
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USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) Named for: Kitty Hawk, N.C., and for Kill Devil Hill, the site approximately four miles south of the village of Kitty Hawk, where Orville and Wilbur Wright made.
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Beam: 282 feet Flank Speed: 33 knots USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63) The second Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) was laid down by the New York Ship Building Corp. Camden N.J. 27 December 1956; and launched 21 May 1960 sponsored by Mrs. Neil H. McElroy; and commissioned 21 April 1961 at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Captain William F. Bringle in command.
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The second Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) was laid down by the New York Ship Building Corp., Camden, N.J., 27 December 1956; and launched 21 May 1960, sponsoredby Mrs, Neil H. McElroy, and commissioned 21 April 1961 at PhiladelphiaNaval Shipyard, Captain William F. Bringle in command. Following shakedown in the Western Atlantic, Kitty Hawk departed.
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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.
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USS Kitty Hawk , 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.
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The USS Kitty Hawk Veterans Association is a non-profit organization open to all officers, crew, ships company, carrier air group, marine detachments or family members of anyone who served aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. Our mission is to ensure that the "Hawk" receives her proper place in Naval History and to preserve the friendships formed while.
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Ex- Kitty Hawk departed Bremerton, WA, 15 January 2022, for a journey around South America to a scrapyard in Brownsville, Texas, where it arrived on 31 May. Read the USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63 / CV-63) DANFS History Last update: 24 December 2023
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Following shakedown in the western Atlantic, the aircraft carrier departed Norfolk August 11, 1961. After a brief stop at Rio de Janeiro, where she embarked the Secretary of the Brazilian Navy for a demonstration of exercise at sea with five Brazilian destroyers, the attack carrier rounded Cape Horn Oct. 1.
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USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) departed to Yokosuka, Japan, on 15 July 1998 where it replaced USS Independence (CV 62) as part of a planned rotation of forward-deployed naval forces. USS Kitty Hawk arrived in Yokosuka in August 1998.
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USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) is an aircraft carrier with an operational mission of power projection and control of the sea-lanes in support of U.S. national Policy. The ship is permanently.
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The second Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) was laid down by the New York Ship Building Corp., Camden, N.J., 27 December 1956; and launched 21 May 1960, sponsored by Mrs. Neil H. McElroy; and commissioned 29 April 1961 at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard , Capt. William F. Bringle in command.
