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This is a list of aircraft carriers which are currently in service, under maintenance or refit, in reserve, under construction, or being updated. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck, hangar and facilities for arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. [1]
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy , these ships are designated with hull classification symbols such as CV (Aircraft Carrier), CVA (Attack Aircraft Carrier), CVB (Large Aircraft Carrier), CVL (Light Aircraft Carrier), CVE (Escort Aircraft Carrier), CVS (Antisubmarine ...
La Fayette: light aircraft carrier in service from 1951 to 1963; Bois Belleau: light aircraft carrier in service from 1953 to 1960; Clemenceau class. Clemenceau: aircraft carrier in service from 1961 to 1997; Foch: aircraft carrier in service from 1963 to 2000. Refitted, sold to Brazil and renamed São Paulo. Scuttled in 2023
USS Nimitz, the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, known as 'supercarriers'. Nimitz class – 10 active Gerald R. Ford class – 1 active
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 435 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 90 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 70 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS Harry S. Truman, and USS Gerald R. Ford and dry cargo ship USNS William McLean sail in formation in the Atlantic Ocean.
The list of United States naval aircraft contains types currently used by the United States Navy.For a complete list of naval aircraft designated under pre-1962 United States Navy designation systems, see List of United States Navy aircraft designations (pre-1962); for aircraft without formal designations, see List of undesignated military aircraft of the United States.
The list of aircraft carriers by configuration contains active aircraft carriers organized by the specific configuration of aircraft carrier designs. This list excludes seaplane carriers or helicopter carriers .