The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk arrives in Puget Sound on Tuesday, September 2, 2008.




The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk arrives in Puget Sound on Tuesday, September 2, 2008.




The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk arrives in Puget Sound on Tuesday, September 2, 2008.




The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk arrives in Puget Sound on Tuesday, September 2, 2008.




The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk arrives in Puget Sound on Tuesday, September 2, 2008.




Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) man the rails as the aircraft carrier leaves San Diego, Aug. 28, 2008. (Navy photo)




Sailors man the rail of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, Aug. 22, 2008. (Navy photo)




An F/A-18F Super Hornet piloted by Lt. j.g. David Robinson and Lt. Cmdr. Jeremy Andrew, becomes the last aircraft launched from the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, Aug. 6, 2008. (Navy photo)








The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk receives fuel from the oiler USNS Guadalupe, June 26, 2008. (Navy photo)




An F-14 "Tomcat" launches past steaming catapults on the bow of the ship, Nov. 14, 2002.




USS Kitty Hawk steams at high speed, during her transit from San Diego, Calif. to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, July 13, 1998. (Navy photo)




A starboard bow view, taken at night, of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk moored at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, August 1, 1982. (Navy photo)




An air-to-air right side view of a Russian Tu-95 Tupolev bomber aircraft, center, and two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat aircraft, acting as chase planes above the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk on December 1, 1981.




The USS Kitty Hawk is seen underway on July 1, 1977. (Navy photo)




Two crewmen move Mk 82,500-pound bombs past two parked A6 Intruder aircraft during flight deck operations aboard the Kitty Hawk, January 1, 1979.