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13 gru 2018 · 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 the...
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.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) – amerykański lotniskowiec z napędem konwencjonalnym, pierwszy okręt typu Kitty Hawk. Okręt wszedł do służby w 1961. Jest to drugi okręt w historii US Navy noszący nazwę Kitty Hawk, miejsca pierwszego lotu braci Wright.
The Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers of the United States Navy were an incremental improvement on the Forrestal-class vessels. Three were built, all in the 1960s, Kitty Hawk (CV-63) (1961–2009), Constellation (CV-64) (1961–2003), and America (CV-66) (1965–1996), as well as the variant John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (1967–2007).
USS KITTY HAWK CV 63 U.S. Carriers | Decommissioned | Links | Info | Deployments | History . Date. Squadrons. Battle Group. Area of operations. Operations/ Exercises. Ports of call. August 11, 1961 - November 1, 1961. VF-111 VA-112 VA-113 VA-115 VAH-13 VFP-63 Det.C VAW-11 Det.C HU-1 Det.C .
Deployments of USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) Note: During deployments a VRC (Fleet Tactical Support Squadron) detachment provides carrier-on-board delivery and is embarked aboard the carrier but is no real part of the Air Wing. Currently, these planes are from VRC-30 (west coast) or VRC-40 (east coast). These detachments are not listed below.
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.
