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USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, was a supercarrier of the United States Navy. She was the second naval ship to be named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was the first of three Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers to be commissioned and the last to be decommissioned.
Kitty Hawk was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, on 27 December 1956. The ship was launched on 21 May 1960, sponsored by Mrs. Camilla F. McElroy, wife of Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy. Kitty Hawk was launched by flooding her dry dock; conventional slide-down methods were ruled out due to her mass and the risk of the ship hitting the Philadelphia coast across the Delaware River.
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