An F/A-18 Super Hornet flies over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).
Summary
PACIFIC OCEAN (Jun. 23, 2014) An F/A-18 Super Hornet flies over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is en route to Hawaii for Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in the biennial RIMPAC exercise from June 26 to Aug. 1. RIMPAC will take place in and around the Hawaiian Islands. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Joseph Pfaff) File# 140623-N-UN830-125
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.