USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)

First steel for the Kitty Hawk was laid down on December 27, 1956 at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yard in Camden, New Jersey. She was launched by flooding the drydock she was constructed in on May 21, 1960 and commissioned on April 29,1961. She was decommissioned on May 12, 2009 after more than 48 years of service. Kitty Hawk was towed from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on January 15, 2022 and arrived in Brownsville, Texas on May 31, 2022 for scrapping. The image of Kitty Hawk above is from Seaforces.org and the line drawing of the Kitty Hawk below is credited to Dr. Dan Saranga.