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Code Number:: MYNV09P06_08.1705
Title:: Flight Deck, Aircraft, fantail, USS Constellation CV-64, Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier; Builder: Brooklyn Navy Yard
Cost: US$264.5 million
Launched: 8 October 1960
Commissioned: 27 October 1961
Decommissioned: 6 August 2003
Struck: 2 December 2003
Nickname: Connie
Scrapping completed 10 May 2017
Displacement:
61,981 short tons (56,228 t) light
82,538 short tons (74,877 t) full load
20,557 short tons (18,649 t) dead
Length:
332 meters (1,088 feet) overall
300 m (990 feet) waterline
Beam:
86 meters (282 feet) extreme
40 meters (130 feet) waterline
Draft: 12 meters (39 feet)
Propulsion: 8x boilers, 4x steam turbine engines, totaling 280,000 shp (210 MW)
Speed: 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Personnel: 3,150 ? Air Wing 2,480
Armament:
2 Sea Sparrow missile launchers
3 20 mm Phalanx CIWS guns,
Formerly: Terrier surface-to-air missile systems.
Aircraft carried: 72 (approx)
Keywords:: McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet, Navy, Supersonic, Aviation, Aircraft, Plane, Airplane, Jet, Fighter, Twin Engine, F/A-18, Aircraft Carrier, Vessel, Ship, Hull, Warship, Flatop, USS Constellation, CV-64, supercarrier, Navy, Military, Armament, Killingry, Weaponry, warfare, Naval, Weapon, Maritime, History, Archives, Historic, Armed Force
Image by:: Wernher Krutein

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Code Number:: MYNV09P06_08.1705
Title:: Flight Deck, Aircraft, fantail, USS Constellation CV-64, Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier; Builder: Brooklyn Navy Yard
Cost: US$264.5 million
Launched: 8 October 1960
Commissioned: 27 October 1961
Decommissioned: 6 August 2003
Struck: 2 December 2003
Nickname: Connie
Scrapping completed 10 May 2017
Displacement:
61,981 short tons (56,228 t) light
82,538 short tons (74,877 t) full load
20,557 short tons (18,649 t) dead
Length:
332 meters (1,088 feet) overall
300 m (990 feet) waterline
Beam:
86 meters (282 feet) extreme
40 meters (130 feet) waterline
Draft: 12 meters (39 feet)
Propulsion: 8x boilers, 4x steam turbine engines, totaling 280,000 shp (210 MW)
Speed: 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Personnel: 3,150 ? Air Wing 2,480
Armament:
2 Sea Sparrow missile launchers
3 20 mm Phalanx CIWS guns,
Formerly: Terrier surface-to-air missile systems.
Aircraft carried: 72 (approx)
Keywords:: McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet, Navy, Supersonic, Aviation, Aircraft, Plane, Airplane, Jet, Fighter, Twin Engine, F/A-18, Aircraft Carrier, Vessel, Ship, Hull, Warship, Flatop, USS Constellation, CV-64, supercarrier, Navy, Military, Armament, Killingry, Weaponry, warfare, Naval, Weapon, Maritime, History, Archives, Historic, Armed Force
Image by:: Wernher Krutein
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