The decommissioned US Navy (USN) Essex Class Aircraft Carrier USS ORISKANY (CVA 34) is towed from the Intracoastal Waterway to the Allegheny Pier at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Florida (FL)
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Base: Pensacola
State: Florida (FL)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: CIV Jeff Doty, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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