CV-63 USS Kitty Hawk WESTERN PACIFIC CRUISE 1975

Namesake. Kitty Hawk, NC, where the Wright brothers made the first controlled powered airplane flight.
Awarded. 1 Oct 1955
Builder. New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, NJ
Laid down. 27 Dec 1956
Launched. 21 May 1960
Commissioned. 29 Apr 1961
Decommissioned. 12 May 2009
Reclassified. CV-63, 29 Apr 1973
Stricken . 20 Oct 2017
Homeport. Puget Sound, WA
Status. Undergoing scrapping
Class and type. Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:
61,351 long tons (62,335 t) standard
81,985 long tons (83,301 t) full load
Length. 1,068.9 ft (325.8 m) LOA
Beam:
282 ft (86 m) extreme
130 ft (40 m) waterline
Draft. 38 ft (12 m)
Propulsion. Westinghouse geared steam turbines, eight Foster Wheeler steam boilers, four shafts; 280,000 shp (210 MW)
Speed. 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement. 5,624 officers and men
Armament. RIM-7 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles, 2 RIM-116 RAM, 2 Phalanx CIWS Automated Anti-Missile/Aircraft Defenses
Aircraft carried. 85
Typical 2000 air wing (70 aircraft):
40 F/A 18E/F Super hornet fighter-bombers
4 EA-6B Prowler combat EW
4 E-2C Hawkeye AEW
5 SH-60F/HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopters
1 C-2A Greyhound carrier on-board delivery