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  2. List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft tail codes - Wikipedia

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    CVBG-5, Battle Carrier Air Group 5 12 December 1946, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 165-46 Navy Air Reserve units at NAS Columbus: November 1946 The "C" code issued to this NAS was a controlled duplicate of the same code letter given to Carrier Air Group 5. Code changed to "7C" in 1956. CVG-6, Carrier Air Group 6Carrier Air Group 6: 1952

  4. Willis Carrier - Wikipedia

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    In 1908, the Carrier Air Conditioner Company of America was created as a subsidiary of the Buffalo Forge Company, with Willis Carrier as its vice president. [ 8 ] On December 3, 1911, Carrier presented what is perhaps the most significant document ever prepared on air conditioning – Rational Psychrometric Formulae – at the annual meeting of ...

  5. International Comfort Products - Wikipedia

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    ICP is a Carrier subsidiary. ICP makes oil and gas furnaces, heat pumps, and central air-conditioning systems for residential and commercial customers. [1] It manufacturers, markets, and sells residential heating and cooling systems under the Arcoaire, Comfortmaker, Day & Night, Heil, KeepRite, Lincoln, and Tempstar brands; its commercial units, with up to 25 tons of cooling capacity, are sold ...

  6. United States military aircraft serial numbers - Wikipedia

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    The serial would not be allowed to be less than four digits (for example B-45 serial number 47-007 was marked 7007), but there was no upper limit (for example YP-59A 42-108783 was marked as 2108783). When the original fiscal year of a serial became ten years earlier than the current fiscal year, the tail number was often prefixed with a zero ...

  7. Carrier Global - Wikipedia

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    In 2001, Carrier was the "world's largest manufacturer of air-conditioning, heating, and refrigerator equipment" with a "total employment of 42,600" and a revenue of $8.9 billion. Carrier announced that it would be closing its DeWitt, New York plant. This led to the layoff of 1,000 employees. [10]

  8. Timeline of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy

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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.

  9. List of aircraft carrier classes of the United States Navy

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    The worst losses occurred far at sea—out of the reach of land-based air forces—leading the Royal Navy to experiment with catapult-launching fighter aircraft from merchant ships, a somewhat successful approach. [39] However, the number of planes was still limited, so the United Kingdom appealed to the United States for help. [39]