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Type: Aircraft carrier; Displacement: 13,850 tons; Aircraft: 16 AV-8B Harrierand Agusta helicopter; Armament: MBDA Otomat SSM, Albatros Mark II Aspide SAM, 3 × Oto Melara 40 mm/70 mm twin guns, 2 triple-tube torpedo launchers; Powerplant: 4 × General Electric/Avio LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 81,000 hp; Speed: 30 knots; Ships in class: 1
The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1]
On November 14, 1910, pilot Eugene Burton Ely took off in a Curtiss plane from the bow of Birmingham and later landed a Curtiss Model D on Pennsylvania on January 18, 1911. In fiscal year (FY) 1920, Congress approved a conversion of collier Jupiter into a ship designed for launching and recovering of airplanes at sea—the first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
A few aircraft carriers have been preserved as museum ships. They are: USS Yorktown (CV-10) in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; USS Intrepid (CV-11) in New York City; USS Hornet (CV-12) in Alameda, California; USS Lexington (CV-16) in Corpus Christi, Texas; USS Midway (CV-41) in San Diego, California; Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev in Tianjin, China
Naval Air Station North Island or NAS North Island (IATA: NZY, ICAO: KNZY, FAA LID: NZY), at the north end of the Coronado peninsula on San Diego Bay in San Diego, California, is part of the largest aerospace-industrial complex in the United States Navy – Naval Base Coronado (NBC), and the home port of several aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.
The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), replacing Enterprise (CVN-65), and later the Nimitz-class carriers.
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The carriers are listed in order of hull number. [1] [2] [3]Ships with hull numbers 35, 44, 46, and 50 through 58 were cancelled or never commissioned and are not shown.