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USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3), and also the US Navy's first turbo-electric-powered ship.
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]
Langley was named for Samuel Pierpont Langley, American scientist and aviation pioneer.She carried on the name and tradition of USS Langley (CV-1), the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, which had been sunk on 27 February 1942.
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.
English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1) underway off San Diego, California (USA), in 1928, with Vought VE-7 aircraft on her flight deck. The destroyer USS Somers (DD-301) is in the background.
USS North Carolina (ACR-12) USS Langley (CV 1) - compressed air USS Lexington (CV-2) - fly wheel HMS Courageous (50) - hydraulic: 1922 1927 1934: LCDR Henry Mustin made the first successful launch on 5 November 1915, Steam Catapult: 1950: HMS Perseus (R51) HMS Ark Royal (R09) USS Hancock (CV-19) USS Shangri-La (CVA-38) 1955
Trumpeter plastic models of ships are produced in 1:200, 1:350, 1:500 and 1:700 scale, although 1:350 and 1:700 are dominating. Trumpeter has a cooperation with Japanese ship model manufacturer Pit-Road for kits in 1:700 scale. These kits are usually available under the Pit-Road label in Japan and under the Trumpeter label in the rest of the world.
Squadrons were redesignated to conform with the hull number of the Aircraft Carrier to which they were assigned: [8] CV 2, CV 3, CV 4 and CV 5 (USS Yorktown (CV 5) was commissioned on 30 Sep 1937). USS Langley (CV 1) had ceased operating as an Aircraft Carrier by October 1936 and had been converted to a Seaplane Tender