PORTAGE, MI — The Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum is now in posession of a 60,000-pound piece of history that for decades helped secure the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), while the carrier was in port.

The Kitty Hawk carriers were designed as an incremental improvement over the preceding Forrestral-class carriers. The Forrestal-class was comprised of four boats: Forrestral (CV-59); Saratoga (CV-60); ...

USS Kitty Hawk, off the coast of Japan, Pacific Ocean, April 15, 2002: Petty Officer 2nd Class Jack Lazenby, an air traffic controller, updates flight information on a board in the USS Kitty Hawk’s ...

What You Need to Know: The USS America (CVA/CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was sunk in 2005 after weeks of controlled explosions as part of a live-fire test to study how a large warship ...

Aircraft carriers are extraordinary to behold. By their very nature, of course, they're designed to accommodate aircraft, and this demands ample space to take off and land safely too (including ...

Somewhere off the coast of Vietnam, April, 1966: A member of the USS Kitty Hawk’s ordnance crew moves bombs to planeside off the coast of Vietnam in April, 1966. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ ...