Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility
A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), while others have been struck from the register.
Aircraft carriers stored at the NISMF in Bremerton, 2012. From left to right: Independence, Kitty Hawk, Constellation and Ranger.
Philadelphia NISMF in 1955
Philadelphia NISMF in 1995
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), Philadelphia, 2018
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), 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. Kitty Hawk was the first of the three Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers to be commissioned and the last to be decommissioned.
USS Kitty Hawk underway in the Pacific Ocean, May 2005
Kitty Hawk and the destroyer Turner Joy refuel from Kawishiwi in 1964
President Kennedy and Governor Brown of California review a fleet demonstration aboard Kitty Hawk on 6 June 1963
An A-6 Intruder from VA-75 traps aboard Kitty Hawk during her 1967-68 deployment to Vietnam