Aircraft maintainers prepare an F/A-18C Hornet for a low-power engine turn in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).
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Pacific Ocean (Dec. 10, 2005) Aircraft maintainers assigned to the "Stingers" of Strike Fighter Squadron One One Three (VFA-113), prepare an F/A-18C Hornet for a low-power engine turn in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Reagan and embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are currently underway in the Pacific Ocean conducting Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Aaron Burden File# 051210-N-7130B-198
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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