US Navy (USN) Sailors assigned to the Air Department aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76), approach a static training aircraft on the flight deck, during extensive aircraft firefighting drills while underway in the Pacific Ocean
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Aaron Burden, 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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Date
07/11/2004
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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