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Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) Airman Michael Costales, from New York, and Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) 1st Class Brendan Fagan
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NAVAL BASE KITSAP-BREMERTON, Wash. (Apr. 27, 2012) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) Airman Michael Costales, from New York, and Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) 1st Class Brendan Fagan, from San Francisco, turn a hand crank to raise a steam-powered catapult chamber from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). The catapult is being refurbished to maintain operational effectiveness. Ronald Reagan is homeported in Bremerton, Wash., while undergoing a docked planned incremental availability maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas A. Groesch) File# 120427-N-DM338-434
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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