Trumpeter 1/350 05620 USS Constellation CV-64

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USS Constellation, as Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier second ship, by Brooklyn shipyard construction, mining the traditional dynamic design, performance and the Kitty Hawk is basically the same, but also the United States Navy last retired traditional powered aircraft carrier.The ship in the 1964 war in Vietnam, the bombing of North Vietnam, army launched a full Vietnam War the first ship of war attack aircraft carrier.After many times in Iran and Iraq performing military tasks.USS Constellation in June 30, 1975 was refitted as a multi-purpose aircraft carrier.In 1990 July to March 3, 1993 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard overhaul in 1998, plans to replace deployed in the Japanese USS Independent, but found the state than the poor.Determine retired in 2003.