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  2. List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    8 years, 281 days Scrapped in 1960 [20] CV-7 Wasp: Wasp (lead ship) 25 April 1940 15 September 1942 2 years, 143 days Sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 [21] CV-8 Hornet: Yorktown: 20 October 1941 27 October 1942 1 year, 7 days Sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in 1942 [22] [23] CV-9 Essex: Essex (lead ship) 31 December ...

  3. List of aircraft carrier classes of the United States Navy

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    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.

  4. File:World Navy Aircraft carries chart.svg - Wikipedia

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    numbers per source: 13:43, 1 February 2017: 975 × 1,000 (7.05 MB) Rob984: Corrected America-class aircraft capacity: 13:23, 1 February 2017: 975 × 1,000 (7.05 MB) Rob984: The figures provided are metric tons, not short tons, so designation "tonnes" should be used, per MOS:UNITS.

  5. United States military aircraft serial numbers - Wikipedia

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    The serial would not be allowed to be less than four digits (for example B-45 serial number 47-007 was marked 7007), but there was no upper limit (for example YP-59A 42-108783 was marked as 2108783). When the original fiscal year of a serial became ten years earlier than the current fiscal year, the tail number was often prefixed with a zero ...

  6. U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft tail codes - Wikipedia

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    CVG-9, Carrier Air Group 9: 4 August 1948, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 69-48 Navy Air Reserve units at NAS Dallas: November 1946 The "D" code issued to this NAS was a controlled duplicate of the same code letter given to CVG-9. Code changed to "7D" in 1956. CVG-12, Carrier Air Group 12: July 1953 Tail code changed to "NJ" in November 1956.

  7. List of aircraft carriers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. USS Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia

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    USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered supercarrier in the service of the United States Navy.The ninth ship of her class, [6] she is named in honor of Ronald Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

  9. USS Shangri-La - Wikipedia

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    USS Shangri-La (CV/CVA/CVS-38) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.. Commissioned in 1944 and named after the mythical paradise of the same name, Shangri-La participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II, earning two battle stars.