Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier

	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
Lost	1 scuttled
Scrapped	3
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).

The lead ship of the class, Kitty Hawk, was decommissioned in 2009, the last of the class to leave active service.