USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
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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
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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Kitty Hawk is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, on Bodie Island, part of what is known as the state's Outer Banks. The population was 3,708 at the 2020 census. It was established in the early 18th century as Chickahawk.
Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk