An F-14B Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron 143 (VF-143) in-flight over the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) during the ship's shakedown cruise near Puerto Rico
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Base: USS George Washington @@(Cvn 73)
Country: Caribbean Sea
Scene Camera Operator: LTJG Stephen P. Davis
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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