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USS George Washington (CVN-73) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the sixth carrier in the Nimitz class and the fourth US Navy ship with that name, after George Washington, Founding Father, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States.
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]
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 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
Russian Navy: 1 [17] 0 0 0 2 0 1 South Korea Republic of Korea Navy: 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 [18] [19] Spain Spanish Navy: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thailand Royal Thai Navy: 1 [20] 0 0 0 0 0 0 Turkey Turkish Naval Forces: 1 0 0 0 1 [21] 0 1 [21] United Kingdom Royal Navy: 2 [22] [23] [24] 0 0 0 0 [25] 0 0 United States United States Navy: 20 0 1 0 3 [26] 2 12
In August 1998, Kitty Hawk relieved Independence as the 7th Fleet forward-based carrier. On 1 December 2005, the U.S. Navy announced that in 2008 Kitty Hawk would be replaced by the nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier George Washington. A U.S. Navy spokesman said the decision was a mutual agreement between the United States and Japan.
Interior Communications Electrician Fireman Michael Colonna, left, from Sterling Heights, Mich., and Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Anthony King, from Nacogdoches, Texas, checks for voltage on an aircraft carrier elevator bell buzzer circuit during a dock trial aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).
The carrier, equipped with F-35 fighter jets, added to the U.S. ships already in the region, including the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, which arrived in mid-July.
The flight deck of USS Abraham Lincoln F-14D Tomcat launches from the flight deck of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Modern United States Navy aircraft carrier air operations include the operation of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft on and around an aircraft carrier for performance of combat or noncombat missions.