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A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft assigned to the Bounty Hunters of Strike Fighter Squadron 2 (VFA-2) launches during foul weather flight operations aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The LINCOLN and Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) are currently underway in the Western Pacific Ocean conducting a scheduled deployment

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A US Navy (USN) F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft assigned to the Bounty Hunters of Strike Fighter Squadron 2 (VFA-2) launches during foul weather flight operations aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The LINCOLN and Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) are currently underway in the Western Pacific Ocean conducting a scheduled deployment

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Base: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN James R. Evans, USN

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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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30/03/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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