A group based in Wilmington, North Carolina is lobbying to bring the ship to the city after decommissioning and her obligatory time as Ready Reserve Fleet asset in order to serve as a floating museum alongside the battleship North Carolina. The navy will maintain Kitty Hawk in reserve until 2015, when the Gerald R. Ford is commissioned.
In January 2013, a group from Pensacola, Florida, which had originally wanted to obtain Forrestal, shifted its efforts to Kitty Hawk, due to that ship's superior condition.
The current campaign to obtain an aircraft carrier as a Pensacola museum follows a controversial campaign in the early 1990s, when a volunteer effort tried to get the USS Lexington (CV-16). That movement did not succeed, and the Lexington now operates as a museum in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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| US Navy (USN) Quartermaster (QM) SEAMAN (SN) Apprentice, Adam Leib, stands on the aft flight deck of the USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), while conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea. A Military Sealift Command (MSC) HENRY J. KAISER CALSS: OILER (AO) can be seen underway in the background, 04/12/2001. Like it? See it framed! |
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| A straight down view of the flight deck of the USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), with a variety of its aircraft on the top deck, 04/03/2001. Like it? See it framed! |
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| The Royal Thai Naval vessel HTMS CHAKRI NARUEBET (CVH 911) operates along side the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), 04/03/2001. Like it? See it framed! |
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| The USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea. 04/03/2001. Like it? Buy it! |
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