
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 17, 1990                   TAG: 9003172400
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
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DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

CARRIER ENTERPRISE BACK FOR OVERHAUL

The Navy's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, arrived Friday at Norfolk Naval Base in preparation for a $1.8 billion overhaul of the 29-year-old ship.

More than 500 friends and relatives of the ship's crew lined the pier awaiting the arrival of the ship from a six-month, around-the-world deployment. For the last 23 years, the Enterprise has been homeported in Alameda, Calif.

With the overhaul, expected to take between three years and five years, the Enterprise will call Norfolk home. In November, it moves across the Hampton Roads harbor to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. for the overhaul.

A number of real estate sales people were on the dock talking with the families.

The median house price in Alameda was $274,500 in the last quarter of 1989. The median house price in southeastern Virginia is $96,074, according to the Newport News-Hampton Board of Realtors.

The overhaul and refueling of the ship's reactors is expected to add an additional 15 years to the ship's life. The Enterprise was built at Newport News Shipbuilding in 1961.

- Associated Press

by CNB