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The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) (GHWB) is dry-docked at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia

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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Mar. 19, 2019) The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) (GHWB) is dry-docked at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. GHWB is in Norfolk Naval Shipyard for its Docking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA). (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael Joseph Flesch) File# 190319-N-NV251-0004

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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1922
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PORTSMOUTH, Va.
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