Aviation Electronics Technician 3rd Class Gabrielle Hickman, a troubleshooter with Fighter Squadron 101 (VF-101), gives the thumbs-up signal after checking an aircraft during launch operations aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73)
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Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73)
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 John K. Sokolowski
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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