USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), the final conventionally powered aircraft carrier constructed for the United States Navy, has begun its final journey toward dismantling after nearly four decades of service. Commissioned on September 7, 1968, and officially decommissioned on August 1, 2007, this Kitty Hawk-class carrier was built by Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. It measured 1,052 feet in length with a beam of 252 feet, a displacement of over 81,000 tons when fully loaded, and could carry mo

The USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), the U.S. Navy’s last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, has embarked on its final journey to be dismantled. Commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007, the vessel was towed from the Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on January 16, 2025, en route to a scrapyard in Brownsville, Texas. Efforts to preserve the carrier as a museum were unsuccessful, leading to its sale for dismantling. The USS John F. Kennedy was the last non-nuclear-powered c

USS John F. Kennedy 2004 Deployment Video

Port of Brownsville had a special delivery today, with the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) making its final journey to the port for scrapping 17 years after being decommissioned following 40 years of service. | NASASpaceflight.com