USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)

GPTKB entity

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:ship
gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Meritorious_Unit_Commendation
gptkb:Battle_Efficiency_Award
gptkb:Navy_Unit_Commendation
gptkbp:badge Kitty Hawk insignia
gptkbp:builder gptkb:New_York_Shipbuilding_Corporation
gptkbp:callsign gptkb:Kitty_Hawk
gptkbp:class gptkb:Kitty_Hawk-class
gptkbp:commissioned 29 April 1961
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:crewComplement over 5,000
gptkbp:decommissioned 12 May 2009
gptkbp:displacement over 80,000 tons
gptkbp:homeport gptkb:Naval_Station_Yokosuka
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
gptkbp:hullNumber gptkb:CV-63
gptkbp:laidDown 27 December 1956
gptkbp:lastConventionalCarrier true
gptkbp:launched 21 May 1960
gptkbp:length 1,068 feet
gptkbp:locationScrapped gptkb:Brownsville,_Texas
gptkbp:motto A Tradition of Excellence
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Battle_of_Kitty_Hawk
gptkbp:nickname gptkb:Shitty_Kitty
gptkb:Battle_Cat
gptkbp:notableCommandingOfficer gptkb:Admiral_Robert_J._Kelly
gptkb:Admiral_James_D._Watkins
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Operation_Enduring_Freedom
gptkb:Operation_Iraqi_Freedom
gptkb:1969_race_riot
Vietnam War service
2008 final deployment
first forward-deployed carrier in Japan
gptkbp:operator gptkb:United_States_Navy
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
gptkbp:propulsion conventional steam turbines
gptkbp:scrapped 2022
gptkbp:sisterShip gptkb:USS_America_(CV-66)
gptkb:USS_Constellation_(CV-64)
gptkb:USS_John_F._Kennedy_(CV-67)
gptkbp:status decommissioned
gptkbp:successor gptkb:ship
gptkbp:website https://www.kittyhawk-vets.com/
gptkbp:women's_wing gptkb:Carrier_Air_Wing_5
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:USS_George_Washington_(CVN-73)
gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
gptkb:List_of_United_States_Navy_ships
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5