Capt. Thom Burke, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), and Dave English, docked incremental availability superintendent, discuss upcoming maintenance schedules.
Summary
NAVAL BASE KITSAP-BREMERTON, Wash. (Jan. 10, 2012) Capt. Thom Burke, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), and Dave English, docked incremental availability superintendent, discuss upcoming maintenance schedules with Vice Adm. David H. Buss, commander of Naval Air Forces during a visit to the ship. Reagan is currently homeported in Bremerton, Wash., while undergoing a docked planned incremental availability maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Nolan Kahn) File# 130110-N-NK714-009
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.