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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]
Beginning with the Forrestal class, (CV-59 to present) all carriers commissioned into service are classified as supercarriers. The U.S. Navy has also used escort aircraft carriers (CVE, previously AVG and ACV) and airship aircraft carriers (ZRS).
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
The service has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Generally, they are getting ready to deploy, are deployed or have come off deployment and have gone in for maintenance and repairs.
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.
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
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.
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