Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) perform maintenance on a catapult piston. Ronald Reagan is moored pier side at homeport in San Diego.
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SAN DIEGO (Nov. 16, 2010) Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) perform maintenance on a catapult piston. Ronald Reagan is moored pier side at homeport in San Diego. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Benjamin C. Jernigan) File# 101116-N-7605J-276
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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