USS America CVA-66

Type:
Aircraft Carrier
Class:
Builder:
Newport News Shipbuilding
and Drydock Company
Newport News, Virginia
Hull Number:
CVA-66
CV-66 (June 30, 1975)
Ordered:
November 25, 1960
Commissioned:
January 23, 1965
Keel Laid:
January 9, 1961
Decommissioned:
August 9, 1996
Launched:
February 1, 1964
Stricken:


August 9, 1996
Fate:
Sunk as target May 14, 2005

Location: North Atlantic 265 miles SE of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
(33.09.09N - 71.39.07W)


Builder's Data
Page published Apr. 22, 2007