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USS Ranger (CV-4) was an interwar United States Navy aircraft carrier, the only ship of its class. As a Treaty ship , Ranger was the first U.S. vessel to be designed and built from the keel up as a carrier.
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
Squadrons were redesignated to conform with the hull number of the Aircraft Carrier to which they were assigned: [19] 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 Ship Named Air Groups [h ...
Established as Ranger Air Group on 1 July 1938 (squadrons operating from USS Ranger (CV-4) had been informally called "Ranger Air Group" beginning 17 Aug 1934 but the air group was not established as a unit until 1 July 1938), redesignated CVG-4 (1st use of the designation) on 3 Aug 1943, redesignated CVAG-1 on 15 Nov 1946, redesignated CVG-1 ...
Notes: USS Essex (CV-9) July 1945 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) 8 January 1946, U.S. Navy Letter FF12-5 CVBG-3 12 December 1946, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 165-46 Navy Air Reserve units at NAS Jacksonville: November 1946 The "F" code issued to this NAS was a controlled duplicate of the same code letter given to CVBG-3. Code changed to "6F" in 1956.
With the commissioning of USS Ranger, the USN had 54,400 tons of carrier construction left under the Washington Treaty. Initially, the development plan for the class envisioned a 17,000-ton design that would allow the Navy to build three ships and stay within the 135,000-ton Washington Naval Treaty limit on aircraft carrier tonnage.
USS Ranger CV-61; USS Horne CG-30; USS Valley Forge CG-50; USS Princeton CG-59; USS Paul F. Foster DD-964; USS Harry W. Hill DD-986; USS Jarrett FFG-33; USS Francis Hammond FF-1067; USS Ranger had a very different air wing compared to most carriers in the Gulf War as it was in the 'Grumman Air Wing' format. This meant it didn't have the F/A-18 ...
USS Ranger (CV-4), an aircraft carrier operated by the United States Navy from 1934 until 1946, after which she was sold for scrap Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination.