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Schoech as Commander, Seventh Fleet.ģ-: High-ranking guests from nine Asian nations plus the United Kingdom, France, Australia, and New Zealand observed a Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) weapons demonstration from the ship. : Kitty Hawk became Seventh Fleet flagship for the day while hosting the change of command as VADM Thomas H. During this WestPac deployment the ship made her first visit to Fleet Activities (FA), Yokosuka, Japan.
: Kitty Hawk relieved carrier Midway (CVA-41) in the Seventh Fleet's area of responsibility (AOR). This figure reflected the "final settlement of all claims and counterclaims pertaining to Kitty Hawk," including allegations of cost overruns, delays, and purportedly inferior workmanship performed by that company. reached a final contract price for the ship of approximately $178 million. : The Navy and New York Shipbuilding Corp. May 1962: The ship entered San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, Hunters Point, Calif., for post shakedown cruise repairs. Wilson (DDG-7), guided missile frigate Preble (DLG-15), and submarine Blueback (SS-581), in the Southern California Operations Area. Anderson, CNO, and an entourage of senior officials viewed anti-submarine warfare demonstrations by a task force comprising guided missile light cruiser Topeka (CLG-8), guided missile destroyer Henry B. As the carrier entered a 42-foot deep channel in San Diego harbor newly dredged to accommodate her, a swing band on board a nearby ship broke into its rendition of "California Here I Come." The ship "rounded the Horn," being assigned to the Pacific Fleet (8 October). Kitty Hawk crossed the equator for the first time (22 September). 507, a Douglas A-1H Skyraider (BuNo 139769, 11 September).
Wylie, VA-115, accomplished the 1,000 th arrested landing on board in Aircraft No. : Kitty Hawk conducted her initial underway replenishment, with oiler Neosho (AO-143).ġ1 Aug-: Kitty Hawk sailed around Cape Horn to Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, Calif., calling en route at Port of Spain, Trinidad, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Valparaiso, Chile, and Callao, Peru. Huntington (DD-781) became the first destroyer to come alongside Kitty Hawk, completing a highline transfer.
Peck, completed the first launch and recovery at 1144.
For simplicity, all aircraft references hereinafter employ that system), CDR J.M. : A Grumman C-1A Trader (designated a TF-1, however, on 18 September 1962, when the Department of Defense issued a joint regulation establishing a uniform system of designating military aircraft. Connally, Jr., admitted: "A large number of discrepancies and deficiencies have shown up in the Kitty Hawk." Adding that all new ships can expect defects, Connally nonetheless indicated that further investigation was required.ġ5 Jul-Aug 1961: Completing her fitting out availability, Kitty Hawk sailed, with CVW-11 embarked, from Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for training off the east coast, completing her shakedown cruise off Naval Station (NS) Guantnamo Bay, Cuba. : Responding to ongoing media allegations of construction problems associated with purportedly inferior workmanship performed by New York Shipbuilding Corp., Secretary of the Navy John B. Burke, CNO, hailed Kitty Hawk as the "forerunner of a new and greatly improved line of carriers." : During her commissioning, ADM Arleigh A. McElroy, wife of Secretary of Defense Neil H. The first Kitty Hawk (ex- Seatrain New York), an aircraft transport (APV-1) (later aircraft supply ship AKV-1) (1941-1946), operated in the Pacific theater during World War II, playing a key logistics role in the timely buildup of defenses at Midway and Guadalcanal in 1942.īuilt by: New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J. Named for: Kitty Hawk, N.C., and for Kill Devil Hill, the site approximately four miles south of the village of Kitty Hawk, where Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine on 17 December 1903.
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