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The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) prepares to moor at Naval Air Station North Island
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SAN DIEGO (Aug. 07, 2008) The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) prepares to moor at Naval Air Station North Island to conduct a transfer of personnel and equipment with the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). The 46- year-old carrier is the oldest active-duty warship in the Navy and will be replaced this summer by George Washington as the Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alexia M. Riveracorrea File# 080807-N-7029R-021
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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