Aircraft Carrier CVA / CV 64 – USS Constellation

ship images

USS Constellation (CV 64), now decommissioned – San Diego, California – September 2003

decommissioning ceremony – NAS North Island, California – August 7, 2003

decommissioning ceremony – NAS North Island, California – August 7, 2003

decommissioning ceremony – NAS North Island, California – August 7, 2003

NAS North Island, California – June 2003

final homecoming at NAS North Island, California – June 2, 2003

final homecoming at NAS North Island, California – June 2003

final homecoming at NAS North Island, California – June 2003

final homecoming at NAS North Island, California – June 2003

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii – May 2003

with CVW-2 embarked – Perth, Australia – April 2003

with CVW-2 embarked – April 2003

with CVW-2 embarked and USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) in the background – Arabian Gulf – April 2003

with CVW-2 embarked – Arabian Gulf – April 2003

Type, Class:

Aircraft Carrier; Kitty Hawk – class

Builder:

New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, New York, USA

STATUS:

Awarded: July 1, 1956

Laid down: September 14, 1957

Launched: October 8, 1960

Commissioned: October 27, 1961 (as CVA 64)

Redesignated to CV 64 on June 30, 1975

Decommissioned: August 6, 2003

Fate: hold in reserve at the Inactive Sips Maintenance Facility (ISMF) Bremerton, WA

will probably be scrapped at Brownsville, Texas

Homeport:

–

Namesake:

named in honor of the “new constellation of the 15 stars” on the original flag of the USA

Ship’s Motto:

–

Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

see: INFO > Kitty Hawk class Aircraft Carrier

History:

! for ship & namesake history go to the bottom of this page !

Major Deployments:

(away from homeport for more than 2 months)

March 1962 – May 1962 with Carrier Air Group 13 (CVG-13) – shakedown cruise / Atlantic Ocean

July 1962 – September 1962 with Carrier Air Group 5 (CVG-5) – Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean

February 1963 – September 1963 with Carrier Air Group 14 (CVG-14) – Pacific Ocean

May 1964 – February 1965 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) – Vietnam War

May 1966 – December 1966 with Carrier Air Wing 15 (CVW-15) – Vietnam War

April 1967 – December 1967 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) – Vietnam War

May 1968 – January 1969 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) – Vietnam War

August 1969 – May 1970 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) – Vietnam War

October 1971 – July 1972 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) – Vietnam War

January 1973 – October 1973 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) – Vietnam War

June 1974 – December 1974 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) – Vietnam War / Arabian Gulf

April 1977 – November 1977 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) – Pacific Ocean

September 1978 – May 1979 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) – Pacific Ocean / Indian Ocean

February 1980 – October 1980 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) – Pacific Ocean / Indian Ocean

October 1981 – May 1982 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) – Pacific Ocean / Indian Ocean

February 1985 – August 1985 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) – Pacific Ocean / Indian Ocean

September 1986 – October 1986 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) – Northern Pacific Ocean

April 1987 – October 1987 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) – Pacific Ocean / Indian Ocean / Arabian Gulf

December 1988 – June 1989 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) – Pacific Ocean / Indian Ocean

September 1989 – October 1989 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) – Northern Pacific Ocean

February 1990 – April 1990 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) – carrier transfer to East Coast (Norfolk)

May 1993 – July 1993 with Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) – carrier transfer to West Coast (San Diego)

May 1994 – June 1994 with Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) – Pacific Ocean (exercise RIMPAC 94)

November 1994 – May 1995 with Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) – Pacific Ocean / Indian Ocean / Gulf

April 1997 – October 1997 with Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) – Pacific Ocean / Indian Ocean / Gulf

June 1999 – December 1999 with Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) – Pacific Ocean / Gulf

March 2001 – September 2001 with Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) – Pacific Ocean / Gulf

November 2002 – June 2003 with Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) – Pacific Ocean / Gulf