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Pacific Ocean (Mar. 30, 2008) An F/A -18E Super Hornet assigned to the "Kestrels" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 137 performs a high-speed maneuver during an air power demonstration for the crew of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln, embarked CVW-2, and the rest of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 9 are on a seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Brandon C. Wilson File# 080330-N-1745W-056
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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