A US Navy (USN) aviation support equipment technician 2nd class, (AS2) and an aviation support equipment technician airman (ASAN), Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Department, IM-4 Division, work on the engine of a gas powered forklift. On board the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Uss Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Christopher S. Borgren, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.