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Sale of Last Conventional Supercarriers Deals Final Blow To Museum Hopes - USNI News
Both the Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy, of the Kitty Hawk class, were the last remaining conventional diesel powered carriers produced for the US Navy. The Enterprise and her successors are all nuclear powered and there is considerable disassembly required to remove the nuclear reactors from the hulls, which makes them ill suited (and extremely expensive if undertaken) to turn them into museums, which is likely why there will never be one.
The Veterans group for those that served on the USS Kitty Hawk raised $5 million dollars to secure the vessel as the only Super Carrier museum but their efforts were thwarted by the Navy, who denied the alternation of the ship's fate from that other than scrap:
She was officially sent to be scrapped in 2022:
Kitty Hawk: US aircraft carrier, site of a 1972 race riot at sea, on way to scrapyard | CNN
Now, I at least understand why Enterprise was not a good candidate for a museum, with its 8 reactors making it a huge challenge to repurpose, but the Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy not being permitted, despite funds being raised, seems like a giant slap in the face of the men and women who served on, and then endeavoured to preserve these incredible feats of engineering that they became so close with.
@Astro14 any thoughts on this?
Sale of Last Conventional Supercarriers Deals Final Blow To Museum Hopes - USNI News
Both the Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy, of the Kitty Hawk class, were the last remaining conventional diesel powered carriers produced for the US Navy. The Enterprise and her successors are all nuclear powered and there is considerable disassembly required to remove the nuclear reactors from the hulls, which makes them ill suited (and extremely expensive if undertaken) to turn them into museums, which is likely why there will never be one.
The Veterans group for those that served on the USS Kitty Hawk raised $5 million dollars to secure the vessel as the only Super Carrier museum but their efforts were thwarted by the Navy, who denied the alternation of the ship's fate from that other than scrap:
The chances of the decommissioned aircraft carrier becoming a museum were already dashed in 2018, when Melka received a letter from the Navy saying that the ship was never destined to be a museum. It was always headed for the scrapyard.
She was officially sent to be scrapped in 2022:
Kitty Hawk: US aircraft carrier, site of a 1972 race riot at sea, on way to scrapyard | CNN
Now, I at least understand why Enterprise was not a good candidate for a museum, with its 8 reactors making it a huge challenge to repurpose, but the Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy not being permitted, despite funds being raised, seems like a giant slap in the face of the men and women who served on, and then endeavoured to preserve these incredible feats of engineering that they became so close with.
@Astro14 any thoughts on this?