USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
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!John F. Kennedy being constructed in September 2018
USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy. She was launched on October 29, 2019, and christened on December 7, 2019. She is currently scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in March 2027.
Naming
On December 7, 2007, the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Arizona congressman Harry Mitchell proposed naming this ship Arizona. In 2009, Arizona congressman John Shadegg proposed naming either CVN-79 or the subsequent CVN-80 as Barry M. Goldwater, after the late U.S. senator, also from Arizona. On May 29, 2011, the Department of Defense announced that the ship would be named for John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, who served in the Navy during World War II. She is the third navy ship named after members of the Kennedy family, and the second aircraft carrier named John F. Kennedy, succeeding USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)), which was active from 1968 to 2007.
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