USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), the final conventionally powered aircraft carrier constructed for the United States Navy, has begun its final journey toward dismantling after nearly four decades of service. Commissioned on September 7, 1968, and officially decommissioned on August 1, 2007, this Kitty Hawk-class carrier was built by Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. It measured 1,052 feet in length with a beam of 252 feet, a displacement of over 81,000 tons when fully loaded, and could carry mo

USS John F. Kennedy CVA67 Flight Deck Operations