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Aviation Boatswain�s Mate 2nd Class Rodney Larkins, from Sacramento, Calif., lands an Argentine SA-316 Alouette III helicopter containing Distinguished Visitors (DV) on the flight deck.
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South Pacific Ocean (Jun. 17, 2004) Aviation Boatswains Mate 2nd Class Rodney Larkins, from Sacramento, Calif., lands an Argentine SA-316 Alouette III helicopter containing Distinguished Visitors (DV) on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). The SA-316 Alouette is a light attack, transport, general-purpose military helicopter. It can carry a crew of six, and an armament that include a gun or cannon, missiles and torpedoes. Reagan is currently circumnavigating South America to her new homeport of San Diego, Calif. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate Airman Konstandinos Goumenidis File# 040617-N-8213G-048
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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