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The crash-and-salvage division aboard the conventionally-powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk's (CV 63) practice pilot-extraction procedures during a flight deck drill.
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Pacific Ocean (May. 22, 2006) The crash-and-salvage division aboard the conventionally-powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk's (CV 63) practice pilot-extraction procedures during a flight deck drill. The crash-and-salvage division serves as the ship's flight deck firefighting and rescue team. Currently conducting Sea Trials in the western Pacific Ocean, Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Stephen W. Rowe File# 060522-N-6106R-045
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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