Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Francine Castellanos, from West Covina, Calif., directs an F/A-18E Super Hornet onto the catapult during flight operations.
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PHILIPPINE SEA (May. 27, 2012) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Francine Castellanos, from West Covina, Calif., directs an F/A-18E Super Hornet onto the catapult during flight operations aboard the forward deployed Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). George Washington departed Fleet Activities Yokosuka on May 26 to begin its 2012 patrol. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Paul Kelly) File# 120527-N-TX154-248
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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