An unidentified US Navy (USN) Plane Director observes the landing of a USN S-3B Viking aircraft from Sea Control Squadron Two One (VS-21), aboard the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK, while the ship is underway in the Western Pacific Ocean during a routine deployment
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Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 William R. Goodwin, 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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