Before the Navy issued a purchase order to acquire the C-2A, it was decided to try an aircraft carrier arrested landing and catapult launch of a KC-130F. The test would use the USS Forrestal aircraft ...

Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, USS America, and the Kennedy, the vessels were the last group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the ...

Secretary of Navy Carlos Del Toro salutes in the rain as he arrives for the USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) commissioning ceremony at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., in Pensacola ...

The retired USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier will embark on its final voyage Thursday morning after spending nearly two decades docked in Philadelphia. The retired Navy carrier is set to ...

The former USS John F. Kennedy departed Philadelphia for its final voyage before being dismantled in Texas. After a weather-related delay, the aircraft carrier left the U.S. Navy’s Inactive ...

He served as a flight surgeon on the USS Forrestal and USS Saratoga carriers during deployment in Vietnam and the Mediterranean. Then, he was an internist at the US Embassy in London. Subsequent ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The decommissioned aircraft carrier, formerly named after President John F. Kennedy, has begun its journey as it heads south from the Philadelphia Navy Yard to the scrapyard ...

BATH, Maine (Dec. 9, 2018) Following a multi-day process that includes moving the ship from the land level facility to the dry dock, the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002) is made ready before ...

South Philadelphia is slated to be down one very large ship starting Thursday morning. No, not that one. The decommissioned aircraft carrier formerly known as the USS John F. Kennedy is scheduled to ...