An 82,700-pound test sled nears the water after being launched from the No. 4 catapult on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) during a catapult load test. The LINCOLN is nearing completion at Newport News Shipbuilding

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An 82,700-pound test sled nears the water after being launched from the No. 4 catapult on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) during a catapult load test. The LINCOLN is nearing completion at Newport News Shipbuilding

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Newport News

State: Virginia (VA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Chris Oxley

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.