The former USS JFK (CV-67) is just off the coast of South Padre Island Sunday morning. The retired aircraft carrier is headed ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

It was also involved in operations during the First Gulf War in 1991 and supported air patrols after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Interestingly, the USS John F. Kennedy was the ...

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier departed the Navy's Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on Jan. 16 under tow to its final destination: International Shipbreaking ...

spokesman told The War Zone. It will transit south through the Atlantic Ocean, around the Florida peninsula, and then across the Gulf of Mexico. No date has been set for the ship’s dismantling. USS ...

During its years in service, the USS John F. Kennedy completed 18 deployments. As Cold War tensions rose in the ... was taken to the same facility on the Gulf Coast to be scrapped in 2022.

A composite image shows the decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, left, next to a photo illustration of the future Ford-class supercarrier bearing the same name.Joshua Karsten/US Navy ...