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Navy/USMC

HII Finishes CVN-79 Flight Deck

Thursday, July 11th, 2019

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HII Finishes CVN-79 Flight Deck

The upper bow unit superlift is lowered into the dry dock on July 10 and placed on the future aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) in 2019. (Photo: Ashley Cowan/HII)

Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] finished installing the last piece of the future aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy’s (CVN-79) flight deck in another construction milestone, the company said Thursday. CVN-79 will be the second of the new Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers being built by HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. The company installed the upper bow section of the ship as one of the last superlifts placed on the ship. Superlifts are large steel structural units built by HII…

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