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Chart comparing a selection of aircraft carriers (sorted by length) ... that had a length of 800 feet ... the creation or conversion of highly unconventional aircraft ...
Length overall DWT GT/GRT In service Status Notes Image Ref Pioneering Spirit: Crane vessel: 382 m (1,253 ft) 499,125 DWT: 403,342 GT: 2015– In service Pioneering Spirit is the largest twin-hulled vessel ever built as well as, at 124 metres (407 ft), the widest ship in the world. Photo is prior to renaming of vessel. [70] [71] Q-Max (14 ships ...
An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft, that serves as a seagoing airbase. Included in this list are ships which meet the above definition and had an official name ( italicized ) or designation (non-italicized), regardless of whether they were or ...
Length Displacement Status Operator USS ... Aircraft carrier: 239.80 m (786 ft 9 in) 27,859: 2 sunk, 1 scrapped 1948. Converted from 3 battlecruisers
The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1]
On November 14, 1910, pilot Eugene Burton Ely took off in a Curtiss plane from the bow of Birmingham and later landed a Curtiss Model D on Pennsylvania on January 18, 1911. In fiscal year (FY) 1920, Congress approved a conversion of collier Jupiter into a ship designed for launching and recovering of airplanes at sea—the first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers have a length of 1,092 ft (333 m) overall and 1,040 ft (317 m) at the waterline, with a beam of 252 ft (77 m) overall and 134 ft (41 m) at the waterline; the individual ships have slight variations in their dimensions.
Nuclear-powered, 1,120 feet (340 m) wing span, airborne aircraft carrier: Boeing RC-1: 1970s: 1584.57 tons "flying pipeline", proposed before the 1973 oil crisis: Conroy Virtus: 1974: 379.90 tons 140 m wingspan, to carry Space Shuttle parts Beriev Be-2500: 1980s: 2460.57 tons Super heavy amphibious transport aircraft Beriev Be-5000 1980s: 4921. ...