Carrier Kitty Hawk leaves active fleet

For the carrier Kitty Hawk, it’s finally the end of the line.

Forty-eight years and two weeks after the ship entered the fleet, the Navy’s last conventionally powered aircraft carrier officially left the active rolls Tuesday.

There were no bands playing in Bremerton, Wash., where the ship is now officially in mothballs. A formal decommissioning was held there Jan. 31.

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