- Plastic model kit, assembly & paint required
- 637 Pieces; 32 sprues, hulls & decks (aircraft: F6F, TBF, SB2C, SBD)
- Approximate dimensions: 13.29” L x 2.49” W
- Box dimensions: 16.6” L x 5.6” W x 2.3” H
- Recommend for 12 years and above.
USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of the 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during World War II. Initially intended to be named Bonhomme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while still under construction, in honor of the Yorktown-class carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5), which was sunk at the Battle of Midway. She is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to carry the name, with previous vessels named after the 1781 Battle of Yorktown. Commissioned in April 1943, Yorktown participated in multiple Pacific Theater campaigns, earning 11 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation.
Decommissioned shortly after World War II, Yorktown was modernized and recommissioned as an attack carrier (CVA) in February 1953, serving notably during the Korean War. Further modernized with a canted deck, she became an anti-submarine carrier (CVS) and served extensively in the Pacific, including during the Vietnam War, where she earned five battle stars. The carrier also served as the recovery ship for the December 1968 Apollo 8 space mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon, and was featured in the 1970 film "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and the 1984 science fiction film "The Philadelphia Experiment."
Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 and became a museum ship in 1975 at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, where she was designated a National Historic Landmark.
