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U.S. Navy Air Wing Sailors clean the canopy and cockpit of an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft on the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) during operations in the Indian Ocean on Aug. 23, 2006. The F/A-18F is an all-weather, carrier-based fighter/attack aircraft that provides Navy Carrier Strike Group with increased range, endurance and ordnance-carrying capabilities. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Joshua Wayne LeGrand) (Released)

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U.S. Navy Air Wing Sailors clean the canopy and cockpit of an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft on the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) during operations in the Indian Ocean on Aug. 23, 2006. The F/A-18F is an all-weather, carrier-based fighter/attack aircraft that provides Navy Carrier Strike Group with increased range, endurance and ordnance-carrying capabilities. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Joshua Wayne LeGrand) (Released)

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Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)

Scene Camera Operator: MCSN Joshua Wayne Legrand, USN

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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23/08/2006
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