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Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. (Nov. 05, 2003) Sailors assigned to the "Saberhawks" of Light Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Forty-Seven (HSL-47) make their way across the flight line after returning home from an eight month deployment aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59). Princeton escorted USS Nimitz (CVN 68) while performing duties as Arabian Gulf Air Defense Commander and Tactical Data Coordinator in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Ramon Preciado. File# 031105-N-8029P-002
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.