USS Enterprise: The Best U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Ever? You Decide. The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to bear the ...

The decommissioning of CVN-65 was not the end of USS Enterprise. CVN-80, the third Ford-class carrier, will bear the name Enterprise and carry on the legacy of these ships in the Navy. Naming this ...

Attempts to preserve more modern carriers like the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) have been hindered by immense financial and logistical challenges, including complex nuclear decommissioning processes.

Ford class (CVN 78) was ordered in 2008 and is slated to be delivered in 2016 as the force structure replacement for USS ENTERPRISE (EX-CVN 65) which inactivated in 2012.