Retired USS John F. Kennedy Aircraft Carrier Arrives in Brownsville for Final Dismantling The USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), the U.S. Navy’s last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, has embarked on its final journey to be dismantled. Commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007, the vessel was towed from the Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on January 16, 2025, en route to a scrapyard in Brownsville, Texas. Clip by SpacePadreIsle on X