USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
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USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)

Historic carrier · 85 aircraft

USS Kitty Hawk, formerly CVA-63, was a United States Navy supercarrier. She was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. The lead ship of her class, Kitty Hawk was the first of the three Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers to be commissioned and the last to be decommissioned.

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Air wing
  • 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 Seahawk/HH-60H Pave Hawk helicopters
  • 1 C-2A Greyhound carrier on-board delivery }}
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