View of a US Navy (USN) F-18C Hornet fighter aircraft, Strike Fighter Squadron 15 (VFA-15), Valions, Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia (VA), as it makes its final approach to the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75) carrier deck. The TRUMAN is currently undergoing carrier qualifications and flight deck certification off the Atlantic coast

Fighter planes and military aircrafts.

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.