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===''John F. Kennedy'' class=== {{USS|John F. Kennedy|CV-67|2}} was originally scheduled to be the fourth ''Kitty Hawk''-class carrier,<ref name="donation">{{cite press release |url=http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=49825 |title=Navy Announces Availability of ex-John F. Kennedy for Donation |publisher=US Navy |number=NNS091123-04 |author=Naval Sea Systems Command Office of Corporate Communications |date=23 November 2009 |access-date=4 May 2016 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629190149/http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=49825 |url-status=dead }}</ref> but because she received so many modifications under project SCB 127C,<ref name=Friedman/> she formed her own ship class<ref name="donation"/> and is often listed as a single-vessel class. ''Kennedy'' had similar design changes regarding the anchors to accommodate a sonar array, but the sonar was never installed. There was also a proposal to make her nuclear powered under competing project SCB 211A,<ref name=Friedman/> but since Congress would not authorize it, ''Kennedy'' was constructed as a conventionally powered carrier.<ref name=MNC/> Her smokestack is also different and tilts outboard to send stack gas away from the flight deck. The angled end of the [[Angled flight deck|waist]] is also different from the other ''Kitty Hawk''s, bearing a closer resemblance to that of the {{sclass|Nimitz|aircraft carrier|4}}. ''Kennedy'' is also {{convert|17|ft|m}} shorter in length than the other ''Kitty Hawk''-class carriers.
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