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 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 ...

Five months and 17,000 miles after departing Bremerton, Wash., the former USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) is expected to enter the jetties of the Brazos Santiago Pass off South Padre Island at 10:30 a.m. on ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) – A ceremony is being held at Isla Blanca for the arrival of the USS Kitty Hawk. The USS Kitty Hawk, which was decommissioned in 2009, has been making its way to the ...

Jan. 20—The former USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) aircraft carrier has finally begun the 17,000-mile journey from Bremerton, Wash., to the Port of Brownsville for recycling by International Shipbreaking Ltd.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It now appears that South Texas will serve as a sort of burial ground for a once-mighty U.S. Navy ship. The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk – named for the place in North Carolina ...

Aircraft carriers are extraordinary to behold. By their very nature, of course, they're designed to accommodate aircraft, and this demands ample space to take off and land safely too (including ...

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 ...

PORTAGE, MI — The Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum is now in posession of a 60,000-pound piece of history that for decades helped secure the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), while the carrier was in port.

Summary and Key Points: The 1980s were marked by tense Cold War incidents, including a near-nuclear collision in 1984 between the USS Kitty Hawk and a Soviet Victor-class submarine, Petropavlovsk, ...