Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier

Kitty Hawk class

USS Kitty Hawk conducting sea trials in the Western Pacific Ocean, May 2006
Class overview
Name	Kitty Hawk class
Builders	New York Shipbuilding New York Navy Yard Newport News Shipbuilding
Operators	United States Navy
Preceded by	Forrestal class
Succeeded by	Enterprise class
Subclasses	John F. Kennedy class (variant)
In commission	21 April 1961 – 31 January 2009
Completed	3 plus 1 variant
Laid up	1
Scrapped	2 plus 1 scuttled
General characteristics
Type	Aircraft carrier
Displacement	60,933 long tons (61,911 t) light 81,780 long tons (83,090 t) full load
Length	1,069 ft (326 m) overall 990 ft (300 m) waterline
Beam	130 ft (40 m) waterline 282 ft (86 m) extreme
Draft	38 ft (12 m)
Installed power	280,000 shp (210 MW)
Propulsion	8 × steam boilers with Westinghouse geared steam turbines 4 × shafts
Speed	32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range	12,000 mi (19,000 km)
Complement	5,624
Armament	24 × Sea Sparrows and RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles 3–4 × Phalanx CIWSs
Aircraft carried	Up to 90 aircraft

The Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers of the United States Navy were an incremental improvement on the Forrestal-class vessels. Three were built, all in the 1960s, Kitty Hawk (CV-63) (1961–2009), Constellation (CV-64) (1961–2003), and America (CV-66) (1965–1996), as well as the variant John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (1967–2007). All are now decommissioned.