![Happening now: The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation's last oil-fired aircraft carrier, is departing Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a Texas Happening now: The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation's last oil-fired aircraft carrier, is departing Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a Texas](https://i.redd.it/u46nlj8pgvb81.jpg)
Happening now: The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation's last oil-fired aircraft carrier, is departing Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a Texas
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![File:US Navy 051112-N-8591H-067 The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) underway in the Tsugaru Strait.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:US Navy 051112-N-8591H-067 The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) underway in the Tsugaru Strait.jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/US_Navy_051112-N-8591H-067_The_conventionally_powered_aircraft_carrier_USS_Kitty_Hawk_%28CV_63%29_underway_in_the_Tsugaru_Strait.jpg)