Description:
Kitty Hawk are a class of conventionally powered aircraft carriers built for the US Navy between the late 1950s and the early 1960s. The class comprises three aircraft carriers designed to conduct inland attack missions through its embarked aircraft wing, to support US military forces deployments around the globe and amphibious landings. Currently, USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) is the only surviving ship of this class being homeported at Yokosuka, Japan. In late October 2005, the US Navy announced that the USS Kitty Hawk was going to be decommissioned and replaced by a Nimitz-class ship as the forward-deployed carrier in 2008.
Specifications Accommodation: Crew 5,630
Dimensions: Height 39 m, Length 324 m, Width 77 m
Weights: Max Weight 82,097 t
Performance: Service Life 50 yr, Top Speed 15 mps (30 kt)
Power: Power 280,000 shp
Other: Number of Engines 4
Operators
United States of America / 3
Ships
CV 63 USS Kitty Hawk
Commissioning: 1961
CV 64 USS Constellation
Commissioning: 1961
CV 66 USS America
Commissioning: 1965
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Notes (*) lead contractor
IOC: Initial Operating Capability
FOC: Full Operating Capability
CEP: Circular Error Probable
Comm: Commissioning Date
Meters (m) Kilometers (km) Nautic Miles (nm) Inch (in) Yard (yd) Foot (ft) Millimeter (mm)
Pound (lb) Kilogram (kg) kN (KiloNewton) Ton (t)
Meters per Second (mps) Kilometers per Hour (kph) Knot (kt) Miles per Hour (mph)
Liter (l) Galon (gl)
Year (yr) Minutes (min) Second (sec)
Shaft-Horse-Power (shp)
United States of America / 3 
