[tanknetter]

The Kitty Hawk has a one way ticket to the scrap yard.

Nope. She'll either end up as a museum ship (Wilmington, NC has a group trying to get funding together to bring her there. Major issues exist with Wilmington not being big enough to handle a supercarrier), or get sunk like America was, and Forrestfire, Constellation and Independence are scheduled to be.

[PAR35]

You are correct - more likely to be sunk than actually recycled. The last few attempts to make museums out of large ships didn’t turn out too well, as I recall.