The World's Largest Public Domain Media Search Engine
An F-14A Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron Fourteen (VF-14), its afterburners aglow, roars down the track of catapult one on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) during carrier qualifications off the Virginia Capes

Similar

An F-14A Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron Fourteen (VF-14), its afterburners aglow, roars down the track of catapult one on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) during carrier qualifications off the Virginia Capes

description

Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Mark Gonzalez

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.

date_range

Date

15/12/1993
create

Source

The U.S. National Archives
copyright

Copyright info

No known copyright restrictions

Explore more

tomcat
tomcat