Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

While not the first aircraft carrier in the world, the USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) has the distinction of being the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier. Converted in 1920 from the ...

The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, leaders of the United States Navy, such as Admiral Marc Mitscher, dreamed up a new ...

The USS John F. Kennedy is traveling from Philadelphia to Brownsville for dismantling. The ship made multiple tours of the ...

The ex-USS John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, will travel down the Delaware Bay Thursday on its ...

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

The remains of the Navy’s last conventionally-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is on its way from the Navy’s ...

Kennedy aircraft ... carrier was deployed to support Operations Anaconda and Enduring Freedom in 2002, and then Operation Iraqi Freedom in July 2004. Weather conditions have delayed the SS United ...

Kennedy, commissioned in 1968, was the first to be named for the 35th President of the United States and the last "conventionally powered" aircraft carrier built by the Navy, a Naval Sea Systems ...