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An aircraft director taxis an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the Liberty Bells of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 115 aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63).
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 11, 2007) An aircraft director taxis an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the Liberty Bells of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 115 aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). The Kitty Hawk, John C. Stennis and Nimitz Carrier Strike Groups are participating in Valiant Shield 2007, the largest joint exercise in the Pacific this year. Held in the Guam operating area, the exercise includes 30 ships, more than 280 aircraft and more than 20,000 service members from the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kyle D. Gahlau File# 070811-N-7883G-030
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.
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