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List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy

Ships of the United States Navy
Ships in current service
Current ships
Ships grouped alphabetically
A–B C D–F G–H I–K L M N–O P Q–R S T–V W–Z
Ships grouped by type
Aircraft carriers Airships Amphibious warfare ships Auxiliaries Battlecruisers Battleships Cruisers Destroyers Destroyer escorts Destroyer leaders Escort carriers Frigates Hospital ships Littoral combat ships Mine warfare vessels Monitors Oilers Patrol vessels Registered civilian vessels Sailing frigates Steam frigates Steam gunboats Ships of the line Sloops of war Submarines Torpedo boats Torpedo retrievers Unclassified miscellaneous Yard and district craft
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This list of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy includes all types in the main hull numbering sequence, consisting of those 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)). All units after CVA-58 are supercarriers. The USS Wolverine (IX-64) sometimes called the Seeandbee and the USS Sable (IX-81) also known as The Greater Buffalo are converted aircraft carriers and do not have the capabilities of other aircraft carriers so these two were used in The Great Lakes for training and were scrapped. The Wolverine was scrapped in 1947 and The Sable was scrapped in 1948.

For the smaller escort aircraft carriers (CVE), please see list of escort aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.

For grouping by class, please see list of aircraft carrier classes of the United States Navy.

For airship aircraft carriers, please see list of airships of the United States Navy.

This transport-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.

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^{a): converted for jets, hydraulic catapults, 1950-54}

^{b): converted for jets, steam catapults, 1954-59}

^{c): converted to angled deck, 1956-59}

^{d): retasked to ASW (CVS), 1953-69}

^{e): converted to amphibious assault ship, LPH, 1959}

^{f): converted for training, CVT, 1969}

Training ships

During World War II, the United States Navy purchased two Great Lakes side-wheel paddle steamers and converted them into freshwater aircraft carrier training ships. Both vessels were designated with the hull classification symbol IX and lacked hangar decks, elevatorsorarmaments. The role of these ships was for the training of pilots for carrier take-offs and landings.^[3] Together the Sable and Wolverine trained 17,820 pilots in 116,000 carrier landings. Of these, 51,000 landings were on Sable alone.^[4]

Active

The active carriers of the US Navy

Active Enterprise-class carriers:

• Enterprise (CVN-65)

Active Nimitz-class carriers:

• Nimitz (CVN-68)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
• Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
• Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
• Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
• George Washington (CVN-73)
• John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
• Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
• Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
• George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)

Under construction

Under-construction Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers:

• Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)
• John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
• Enterprise (CVN-80)

Aircraft-carrier museums

See: U.S. Navy Museum#Aircraft-carrier museums

See also

• List of aircraft carrier classes of the United States Navy
• List of aircraft carriers
• List of aircraft carriers by country
• Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility

References

External links

• MaritimeQuest US Aircraft Carrier Index
• The Lost American Aircraftcarriers