The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) gets underway from Yokosuka, Japan to conduct precision anchor checks during her post upkeep underway period in the western Pacific Ocean.

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The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) gets underway from Yokosuka, Japan to conduct precision anchor checks during her post upkeep underway period in the western Pacific Ocean.

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Yokosuka, Japan (May. 17, 2005) The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) gets underway from Yokosuka, Japan to conduct precision anchor checks during her post upkeep underway period in the western Pacific Ocean. Kitty Hawk is the U.S. Navy's oldest active aircraft carrier. Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class William H. Ramsey File# 050517-N-0120R-051

Carriers

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.