Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier

The Kitty Hawk class was a group of three supercarriers of the United States Navy built in the 1960s, Kitty Hawk (CV-63), Constellation (CV-64) and America (CV-66), as an incremental improvement on the Forrestal class. The ships are longer than the Forrestals and place their elevators differently, with two forward of the island, one aft and one on the port stern. Three yards built them: Kitty Hawk at New York Shipbuilding, Constellation at New York Naval Shipyard and America at Newport News Shipbuilding, which also built the modified John F. Kennedy that is usually counted as a class of its own. Kitty Hawk, the last of the class to leave active service, was decommissioned in 2009.