An F-14A Tomcat aircraft clears the flight deck after being launched from the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67) during NATO Exercise DISPLAY DETERMINATION '86. An A-6E Intruder aircraft is being positioned on a catapult in the foreground
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Subject Operation/Series: DISPLAY DETERMINATION '86
Base: USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67)
Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Don Koralewski
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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