11 Aug-1 Nov 1961: Kitty Hawk sailed around Cape Horn to Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, Calif., calling en route at Port of Spain, Trinidad, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Valparaiso, Chile, and Callao, Peru. $27.50 USD Here you can download the USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) WestPac Cruise Book 1994 as a high resolution .pdf file. On 21 September 2007, Kitty Hawk pulled into Yokosuka, Japan, after a four-month summer deployment. 10-11 Mar 1967: Aircrew "hammered" a thermal power plant, ship repair facility and military buildings, Hon Gai, 25 miles east of Haiphong. 27 Aug 1985: Two Soviet Tu-16 Badgers flying out of Vietnam shadowed Kitty Hawk. 29 Nov 2001: EMFN Michael J. Jakes, Jr., Brooklyn, N.Y., sustained fatal head injuries in a fall from his rack. 48 Sep 1979: While steaming toward Subic Bay the ship encountered a transiting Soviet task group led by a Sverdlov-class cruiser. All returned to duty. DSRA, 19 May17 Oct 2003, Installations: Upgrading AIMD to operate F/A-18E/Fs. The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). 3 Sep 1994: A Seahawk, HS-4, impacted the water and sank in the East China Sea. 1521 Nov 1979: Kitty Hawk arrived at Subic Bay, preparing for a 28 November departure for NAS North Island. Decommissioned aircraft carrier of the US Navy, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1984, Department of the Navy investigative report by Captain Kenneth L. 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He is a brother! one of the disaffected men responded, Lets do it your way. Removals: Terrier SAM systems; ASCAC; and AN/SPS-30. 11 Oct 1979: A ships engineering casualty forced aircraft aloft to divert to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. America was outraged by the act, the government responding by sending Kitty Hawk to the region, which was underway on the 21st within 12 hours of receiving her orders. 7, starboard side in the hanger bay, while the ship was getting steam up for standing out from her anchorage off Masirah, 04480508. 1971 Kitty Hawk was alerted to operate in the eastern Med for possible retaliatory strikes against the Iraqis. Find Your Shipmates . 25 Nov 1987: Kitty Hawk entered Drydock No. 12-28 Apr 1967: Aircrew flew 819 combat missions supporting Rolling Thunder, 178 for Steel Tiger, 16 over South Vietnam, and 663 support missions. | 9 May 1972: Aircrew flew 17 diversionary sorties during the early morning hours supporting Operation Pocket Money, the mining of Haiphong harbor. Add yours! 10 Mar 1966: Aircrew flew close air support in support of the "beleaguered" Special Forces camp, A Shau, South Vietnam, which was under attack by the communists. 21 Dec 1961: The Navy and New York Shipbuilding Corp. reached a final contract price for the ship of approximately $178 million. My first and probably last carrier in my career. The number of strike sorties was severely restricted by higher authority, and on the 23rd, a no-bomb line was established on the 20th parallel. Kitty Hawk and her battle group combined with U.S. Air Force units and elements of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force to conduct AnnualEx 14G in the waters surrounding Japan. 9 Dec 1966: A C-2A, LCDR Jack M. Wilbern, Fleet Tactical Support Squadron (VR)-50, made the first Greyhound carrier onboard delivery (COD) in the combat zone on board Kitty Hawk, from NAS Cubi Point, Philippines, in the Gulf of Tonkin. LT Clayton R. Wylie, VA-115, accomplished the 1,000th arrested landing on board in Aircraft No. As a result, many of the aircraft were moved starboard to balance the ship until the fire was finally brought under control and two propulsion systems restored. Aircrew flew interdiction strikes against enemy lines of communication in Laos and South Vietnam. Following a "compulsory egress," Eakin escaped from his pursuers on the ground for about 35 minutes, long enough to enable a USAF Sikorsky HH-3C Jolly Green Giant CSAR helo to recover and transport him to Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, was a United States Navy supercarrier. KITTY HAWK (CV-63) Crew Roster. 19 Apr 1966: Aircraft hit the Cam Pha Port Facility, North Vietnam. 2122 Jan 1980: Kitty Hawk experienced provocative maneuvers close aboard by Soviet AGI No. [42][43] Kitty Hawk, the USN's last diesel-fueled aircraft carrier, was finally decommissioned on 12 May 2009. While orbiting Battle Cry 314 to protect Abbott after his crash, Battle Cry 303, another A-4C (BuNo 149495), LT(JG) Harry G. Welch, VA-113, was hit by probable 37 mm AAA. CDR James was taken by the enemy and did not return to the U.S. until 14 Mar 1973. CVW-5 pilots flew more than 8,800 sorties in 116 days, including 1,300 combat sorties, dropping more than 20tons of ordnance. | 18 Sep 1994: Kitty Hawk conducted the first test of the Threat Ballistic Missile Defense (TBMD) system on board a Pacific Fleet carrier. [15] Later, the FBI arrested seven suspects involved in this smuggling scheme,[16] an event related to what was later known as the Iran-Contra scandal. "Almost immediately," an observer later reported, "Flint River was engulfed in flames and pitched up." 2123 Apr 1981: Soviet Tu-95 Bears reconnoitered the ship, once on each date, the second incident while the ship conducted an air defense exercise with Ranger (CV-61) near Wake Island, as the latter returned from a WestPac tour. 614 and Seasnake No. CVW-15 flew an air power demonstration. 21 Jan 1967: Montana 415, an A-4C (BuNo 145144), LT(JG) Jerry F. Hogan, VA-112, was lost during an armed reconnaissance mission over the Song Yen River, North Vietnam, 1937'N, 10548'E. 408, an F-4B. | But the use of the name "Battle Cat" has been enthusiastically embraced by the crew.". On 15 January 2022 Kitty Hawk left Puget Sound Naval Shipyard under tow en route to Brownsville, Texas, for scrapping, arriving there on 31 May 2022.[6]. After cruising the South China Sea and ranging to the Philippines in readiness operations with the 7th Fleet, she returned to San Diego on 20 July 1964. Several days later Lightning 611 participated in a SAR of a downed Tomcat crew, together with HSL-51. However, after enduring 86 brutal days of captivity (including being caged on display), he escaped. HullNumber.com's mission is to provide a means for shipmates to keep in touch with one another. "Force protection," one observer wrote, "instantly became a buzz phrase around the ship." 19 Jul-7 Sep 2004: Summer Pulse 04, an exercise designed to test the Fleet Response Plan (FRP) of the Navy's Sea Power 21 strategy, took place. The collision occurred at 2207, about 150 miles east of Pohang, South Korea, in the Sea of Japan, near 373N, 13154E. 5, Philadelphia, beginning the heavy work phase of her $832 million Service Life Extension Program (SLEP). 8 Nov 1975: Aircraft No. Kitty Hawk arrived at her new operating location of U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, on 11 August 1998. 204, an F-14A (BuNo 160674), LCDR Daniel R. McCort, and LT David L. Pittman, VF-111, crashed into the sea while landing, two miles astern of the ship, 20128N, 602E. She steamed into Valparaso, Chile, on 13 October and then sailed two days later for Peru, arriving in Callao on 20 October where she entertained the President of Peru. 23 Feb-6 Mar 2000: The ship conducted sea trials, carrier qualifications and training in the Philippine Sea, following an SRA. Approved in concept on 13 March 1976, SLEP added an additional 15 years to the expected [average] 30 years of operational service for Forrestal and Kitty Hawk-class carriers. Approximately 1,400 sailors in total transitioned through the det. Setting the "low visibility watch" shortly after 1230, Kitty Hawk shut down flight operations for four hours during scheduled launch cycles, canceling six tactical aircraft launches and rescheduling two others. This refit is "smaller than the one the ship completed [in 2006]",[29] which took six months. Both men were captured, only returning home on 28 March 1973. As she is too big to transit the Panama Canal, she went instead by way of the Straits of Magellan. | Focusing upon interdiction of communist lines of communication, aircrew were assigned boxes designating targets. A night strike by A-6As from VA-85 on the 18th blasted the combine with 1,000-pound bombs. 27 Dec 1967: Linfield 205, an F-4B (BuNo 153005), LCDR Leonard M. Lee, and LT(JG) Roger B. Innes, VF-114, was lost (to unknown causes) during an armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam, in the vicinity of 196'N, 10544'E. Naval Base at Subic Bay in the Philippines for repairs. 2829 Jun 1973: Kitty Hawk conducted sea trials off San Francisco. The ship was launched on 21 May 1960, sponsored by Mrs. Camilla F. McElroy, wife of Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy. Nearly 50 sailors were injured in this widely publicized incident. [36][41] After the turnover, Kitty Hawk arrived at Bremerton, Washington in September and was informally retired on 31 January 2009. Linfield 412, however, an F-4B (BuNo 152220), CDR Carl B. Austin, and LT(JG) Jacob D. Logan, VF-114, did not return, probably "due to collision with ground during penetration of undercast," while on a flak suppression run over North Vietnam, 1757'N, 10631'E. 31 Aug10 Sep 1992: Kitty Hawk participated in FleetEx 92-2A, in The Southern California Operations Area. Kitty Hawk was launched by flooding her drydock; the conventional slide-down method was ruled out because of her mass and the risk that she might hit the Philadelphia shore on the far side of the Delaware River. On 25 June 1966, Kitty Hawk hosted the world premier of the movie within Hanger Bay No. 1 Main Machinery Room, at approximately 1800. [37], On 1 December 2005, the United States Navy announced that George Washington would replace Kitty Hawk in 2008 as the forward-deployed carrier in Japan and it would also assume host carrier duties for forward-deployed Carrier Air Wing 5. The article claimed he muttered "fucking vaccine" right before. 27 Oct 1990: The ship conducted her first catapult dead load certification test since SLEP began. During this WestPac deployment aircrew dropped 26,376,608 tons of ordnance on the enemy. At the same time Kitty Hawk maintained her catapults and arresting gear at 100 percent availability. With the decommissioning of Independence on 30 September 1998, Kitty Hawk became the second-oldest active warship in the US Navy and was authorized to fly the First Navy Jack. 11 Mar 1979: During the midwatch, AA John Scott, V-3 Division, fell overboard, being rescued by an HS-8 Sea King: LTs Robert J. Vernon and David A. Dahmen, AW2 Phil Guinn, and AW3 Ken Fletcher. 1:800 scale CV-63 USS Kitty Hawk plastic model ship kit Academy | No.1444 603550014444 | eBay 2005 now. | Almost immediately, NL 521 settled off the bow, due probably to low airspeed resulting from catapult errors (129 knots was the required airspeed; the KA-6D had attained only 92). 1985 Veering to the port side, probably due to a damp deck from a "light rain" 10 minutes before, the Greyhound struck the Fresnel Lens, crashing into the sea, killing LCDR Thompson, LT Cooley, and AO3 Reedy. 14 Mar 1966: SAR helo crews conducted the "daring rescue" of two USAF aircrewmen after their aircraft was shot down, both being extricated from their predicament within range of enemy shore batteries. 1418 Jan 1979: Kitty Hawk conducted shipboard trials for A-4Ms and F-4Ss. my email is m103324@usna.edu 29 Apr 1973: Returning to afloat status from ESRA Kitty Hawk inaugurated her new role as CV (on 1 July 1975, the Navy replaced the aircraft carrier designation CVA with CV for all such ships still so designated, to improve the accuracy of ship designations reflecting their roles in modern warfare. CVW-9 crews logged more than 18,000 flight hours and 7,300 arrested landings while Kitty Hawk maintained her catapults and arresting gear at 100 percent availability. Diverting from their original rendezvous point, about 20 nautical miles north of Hon Me Island, due to weather, the flight (including Black Lion 106, their F-4B, VF-213, escort) began an alternative mission paralleling the coast on a northerly heading, when Black Lion 106 witnessed a burst of enemy fire at Flint River 605. 24 Mar 1984: While transiting the Yellow Sea, ADAA Tracy Miller, VA-146, was blown overboard by jet blast, near 34328N, 124471E, at 1017. LT(JG) Eames was not recovered. 813 Apr 1987: During Kitty Hawks visit to Karachi, Pakistan, GEN Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, toured the ship, on the 13th. For simplicity, all aircraft references hereinafter employ that system), CDR J.M. 825 Mar 1972: The ship completed her first line period of the cruise, all sorties being flown under strict control by forward air controllers (FACs). 20 Apr 1969: The largest one-day expenditure of ordnance during the cruise occurred when aircraft dropped 215 tons on the communists. 0 users currently logged in and 72 visitors active. This led to the US Navy retaining Kitty Hawk in Hawaii to take part in the RIMPAC 2008 exercises in June and July. In October 2001, Kitty Hawk deployed to the North Arabian Sea for the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom. 1213 Mar 1977: Kitty Hawk completed dock trials and a fast cruise. 17 Nov 1967: Two F-4s intercepted two Soviet Tu-95s inbound, at 75 nautical miles, at an altitude of 20,000 feet, 3130'N, 16637'E. 22 Aug 1996: ADM Jay L. Johnson, CNO, visited the ship, NAS North Island. [53], On 9 March 2021, Kitty Hawk arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to be put in dry dock and have the hull scraped of marine life before being towed to her final destination. 6 May 1972: Two F-4Js from VF-114, one flown by LT Robert G. Hughes, and LT(JG) Adolph J. Cruz, and the other Phantom II operated by LCDR Kenneth W. Pettigrew, and LT(JG) Michael J. McCabe, shot down a pair of North Vietnamese MiG-21 Fishbeds with AIM-9 Sidewinders. 18-26 Mar 1967: CVW-11 blasted the iron and steel complex at Thai Nguyen, 35 miles north of Hanoi. Major Deployments Away From Home Port For More Than 2 Months. 3-4 Apr 2003: Aircrew struck Iraqi fighters, vehicles, artillery, bunkers, and a probable SAM site defending Saddam International Airport, Baghdad, and a nearby military complex, with 69 bombs. 14 Apr 1972: Linfield 203, an F-4J (BuNo 157252), LT Joseph G. Greenleaf, and LT Clemie McKinney, VF-114, the number two aircraft on a three-plane strike against a communist POL target, was shot down by 23 or 37 mm AAA, west of Quang Tri, South Vietnam, at 1530, near 1648N, 10654E. Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) refueling McKean (DD-784) and Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748). SEMPER FORTIS EVERYONE!!! Both men, captured, did not return home until 4 April 1973. Returning to the ship streaming fuel and with "hung" [unexpended] ordnance, both men ejected near Kitty Hawk and were recovered by her planeguard UH-2A. In May 1979, the ship teamed up with Carrier Air Wing 15 (CVW-15)[12] for another Western Pacific deployment. 9 Jan 1969: The Presidential Unit Citation, covering 23 Dec 19671 Jun 1968, was awarded to the ship and CVW-11 for their exceptional performance during the fierce fighting of the enemys Tet Offensive, in part noting that they succeeded in inflicting extensive damage and destruction to sites and installations vital to the enemys operations. ADM Hyland noted during the award ceremony: The ship is recognized in professional circles as having been on Yankee Station during the toughest part of the war and against the most heavily defended area in the world. Kitty Hawk launched 185 major strikes, 150 of them against northern North Vietnam, hitting the Hanoi and Haiphong areas 65 times. 27 Jan-2 Feb 1963: During Picture Window III, a multi threat exercise off northern Japan, the ship experienced her first overflights by Soviet bombers. 13 Mar4 Apr 1969: The ship made her second line period of this deployment. HullNumber.com does not share your information. Also on that day, Buckeye 512, an A-6A (BuNo 152589), LT(JG) Lewis I. Williams, Jr., and LT(JG) Michael D. Christian, VA-85, was shot down by AAA over North Vietnam, 21-24N, 106-19E. Kitty Hawk had a cameo appearance in the 1980 movie The Final Countdown, standing in for Nimitz. On 12 October 1972 during the Vietnam War, Kitty Hawk was en route to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin when a race riot involving more than 200 sailors broke out. U.S.S. Another Sea King, LCDR James B. Chester, LCDR Lynn H. Nelsen, AW3 Don S. Spaulding, and AWAN Bauer, rescued the men. Area of operations. 1998 2003 15 Oct 1973: A congressional delegation arrived on board to survey Naval Aviators relative to restructuring flight pay fleet wide. Glenn was captured and did not return home until 4 April 1973. 1983 19-20 Feb 1994: A motion picture crew embarked to shoot a portion of the movie Clear and Present Danger. 19-20 Oct 2001: Operating primarily from Kitty Hawk, TF Sword raided the compound of Mullah Omar, a key Taliban leader, near Kandahar, and an airstrip near Bibi Tera, approximately 80 miles southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. 1963 31 Dec 1967: Flying Ace 501, an A-6A (BuNo 152917), LCDR John D. Peace, and LT Gordon S. Perisho, VA-75, was lost (to unknown causes) during a strike against a cave storage complex near Vinh, 1842'N, 10537'E. | On 11 September 2002, all US Navy ships were ordered to fly the First Navy Jack. [8] After a deployment from November 1968 to June 1969, Kitty Hawk returned to San Diego for a month and then went to Puget Sound shipyard in September 1969 for dry dock. [38], In March 2007, the Navy announced that Captain Todd Zecchin, the captain responsible during the decommissioning of John F. Kennedy, had been tasked with overseeing the decommissioning of Kitty Hawk. The carrier made a rare visit to Hobart, Tasmania as well as being only the second carrier to ever stop in Manama, Bahrain. During that deployment, Kitty Hawk also offered contingency support off the coast of Korea following the assassination of Republic of Korea President Park Chung Hee. Both men were rescued by USAF CSAR helos and flown to Vinh Long Airfield, and thence on to the 3rd Field Hospital. On 16 January 1968 year, a C-1A Trader swerved off the wet deck. Kitty Hawk moved into dry dock on 14 January 1973, and work began to convert the ship from an attack (CVA) to a multi-mission carrier (CV). | In 2005 Kitty Hawk participated in the inaugural edititon of Exercise Talisman Saber. IM LOOKING FOR DAVID STEPHEN LARKIN. Ship name number: II. 7-13 Aug 2005: Together with amphibious assault ship Boxer (LHD-4), Destroyer Squadron 15, the 1st Marine Air Wing (the latter including McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier IIs) and the USAF, Kitty Hawk participated in Joint Air and Sea Exercise 2005 off Okinawa and Guam. Both Phantom IIs scrambled during the early morning hours in response to unidentified aircraft on radar screens, tracking the Colts to a position 25 miles east-northeast of Thanh Hoa, North Vietnam, where the F-4Bs downed them. 28 Feb 1991: Due to the demands of the SLEP, program completion was extended to 31 May. Im here following in his steps. Because two and then three of the ship's four propulsion systems had to be shut down during the fire, Kitty Hawk began to list about 7 degrees portside. Within 12 hours the carrier had 18 combat ready aircraft available for Operation Southern Watch (OSW). 10 Jun 1975: While steaming northwest of Wake Island, the ship experienced a major engineering casualty, at about midnight. The ship then fell under the command of Commander, TF 41. Kitty Hawk was overhauled in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, then trained along the western seaboard. 9 Sep 1995: Kitty Hawk hosted the WWII memorial ceremony for the veterans of carrier Bunker Hill (CV-17), followed by the crew's reunion for escort carrier Chenango (AO-31/ACV/CVHE-28), on the 12th, together with a visit by Saudi Prince Abdul Kassir. 4 Sep 1990: Secretary of the Navy announced that Kitty Hawks new home port would be NAS North Island, promulgated by CNO on 4 March 1991 and effective 28 August. Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), Constellation and Kitty Hawk carrier strike groups steamed in the Arabian Gulf, while Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) and Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) operated in the Med. 20 Jul 1994: The ship began operating with Japanese forces, followed by South Korean, the latter on the 24th. China then reversed its position based on humanitarian grounds but by that time, Kitty Hawk was too far away to dock in time for the holiday. 23 Sep 2005-31 Jan 2006: The ship completed an SRA at Ship Repair Facility (SRF), Yokosuka. The Understanding Personal Worth and Racial Dignity (UPWARD) program soon followed, establishing a medium for addressing racial concerns on board. In and 72 visitors active up with carrier Air Wing 15 ( CVW-15 ) [ 12 ] for another Pacific. Nearly 50 sailors were injured in this widely publicized incident off the wet deck cruise occurred when aircraft dropped tons. ; right before, CNO, visited the ship experienced a major engineering casualty, at about.! 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