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Sailors stand lookout watch aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) as the ship approaches the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195).
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 08, 2010) Sailors stand lookout watch aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) as the ship approaches the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195) before conducting carrier's first underway replenishment. Bush, the 10th and final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting a flight deck certification. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Micah P. Blechner) File# 100208-N-4408B-032
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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