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Aircraft Carrier Two F/A-18 Hornets refuel
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Western Pacific Ocean (Oct. 05, 2003) An F/A-18 Super Hornet assigned to the Top Hatters of Strike Fighter Squadron Fourteen (VFA-14) refuels an F/A-18 Hornet from a sister squadron while flying by USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are on deployment in the Western Pacific. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Maebel Tinoko. File# 031005-N-2143T-002
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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