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060809-N-3946H-090 (Aug. 9, 2006)Onboard the US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), Aviation Structural Mechanic AIRMAN (AMAN) Charles Moran replaces the bearing race on a wheel mount, inside the ground support equipment shop. The KITTY HAWK is currently underway in the South China Sea, in the 7th Fleet's area of responsibility, demonstrating power projection and sea control as the US Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Patrick L. Heil (RELEASED)
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Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Scene Camera Operator: MCSN Patrick L. Heil, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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09/08/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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