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 ...

A U.S. Navy F-14A Tomcat takes off for a mission over Iraq from the USS Kitty Hawk in northern Gulf waters, April 2003. The low price reflects a number of factors, including the need to tow the ships ...

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 ...

From his home in Indiana, James Fulks has watched the journey of the USS Kitty Hawk as it spanned the hemisphere on its way to the scrapyard. The Navy veteran, a retired air traffic controller on the ...

The former aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk left Bremerton, Washington, Saturday and is now en-route to a Texas shipbreaker to be turned into scrap. The last oil-fired carrier, Kitty Hawk was ...

The U.S. Navy is about to retire the USS Kitty Hawk, and Wilmington wants to bring the aircraft carrier home. The Kitty Hawk is the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier in service, commissioned in 1961 and ...

TOKYO – The USS Kitty Hawk, the U.S. Navy’s oldest ship in full active service, embarked on its last major maneuvers Wednesday before being decommissioned next year. The 46-year-old vessel – the only ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- Last week, a 60,000-pound anchor from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA/CV-63), made its way across the country to its new permanent home at the Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Center ...

The 47-year-old aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, the Navy's oldest and longest serving active warship, is heading to the Seattle region to end its operational life. "The Hawk," which served from the ...

BREMERTON, Wash. — The Navy has sold the former USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy to a Texas shipbreaking company to scrap the aging, defunct aircraft carriers, according to Naval Sea Systems ...

(Tribune News Service) — To bring a supercarrier like the former USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) in through the jetties of the Brazos Santiago Pass, everything has to be just right, and getting everything just ...

The former USS Kitty Hawk has arrived in Texas, five months after departing from Washington state. The hulk traveled from Washington state to Texas around the tip of South America. Kitty Hawk was the ...