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 ...

This story has been updated to include a statement from HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding. The next Ford-class aircraft carrier is facing a two-year delay that will leave the Navy with ten carriers for ...

Caroline Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy’s daughter, former ambassador to Japan, and sponsor of the Ford-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), christens the ship on Dec. 7, 2019.

BREMERTON — 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 Command.

Caroline Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy's daughter and sponsor of his namesake ship, will smash a bottle of American sparkling wine across the ship's hull.

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The USS John F Kennedy is a nuclear-powered ship and is expected to enter service in the US Navy in 2020. On May 29, 2019, the aircraft carrier's 588 metric ton island was landed.

Retired aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy CBS Philadelphia Before it was decommissioned in 2007, the USS JFK spent nearly four decades conducting Naval missions and was deployed around the ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.