Friends and family take pictures and video from the fantail of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as an F/A-18C Hornet as it lines up to land.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 23, 2007) Friends and family take pictures and video from the fantail of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as an F/A-18C Hornet as it lines up to land. Stennis is on her first leg of hosting friends and family on a Tiger Cruise. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joseph R. Vincent File# 070823-N-3284V-033
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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