Scale: 1/700
Height: 7.25 "
Model length: 18.25"
Base length: 20"
Code: SP700CV64

NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER: a precise 1/700 scale model of "America's Flagship", the USS Constellation (CV-64) in HANDCARVED MAHOGANY WOOD, with handcast resin and handmade metal details. This highly collectible full-hull (not waterline) display wood model ship has an approximate retail value of $800, but we are making it available FACTORY DIRECT for a whole lot less! 20-inch base makes it very handy and easy to display. Amazing details include several handcast 1/700 scale US Navy modern aircraft miniatures for you to position according to your pleasure. This beautiful 18-inch model of the "Connie" depicts her final configuration before decommissioning.

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USS Constellation (CV-64), a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the "new constellation of stars" on the flag of the United States.The contract to build Constellation was awarded to the New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, New York, on 1 July 1956, and her keel was laid down 14 September 1957 at the New York Navy Yard. She was launched 8 October 1960, sponsored by Mary Herter (wife of Secretary of State Christian Herter.) Constellation was delivered to the Navy 1 October 1961, and commissioned 27 October 1961, with Captain T. J. Walker in command. At that time, she had cost about US$400 million. Constellation was the last U.S. aircraft carrier (as of 2006) to be built at a yard other than Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company.

During the 1981 workup cycle President Ronald Reagan visited Constellation on 20 August, and proclaimed the carrier "America's Flagship" while presenting the crew a presidential flag and announcing to the crew: "Let friend and foe alike know that America has the muscle to back up its words with ships like these and men like you are that muscle."

After 41 years of commissioned service, with tours of duty in the Tonkin Gulf off Vietnam; in the Korean Peninsula; and in the Persian Gulf, the USS Constellation was decommissioned at the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego on 7 August 2003. The carrier was towed, beginning 12 September 2003, to the ghost fleet at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, Washington.

Connie has been replaced by Ronnie, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76).