An EA-18G Growler assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 130 passes over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69).
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NORFOLK, Va. (Sep. 23, 2015) An EA-18G Growler assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 130 passes over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Dwight D. Eisenhower is conducting regularly scheduled maintenance in its homeport of Norfolk, Va. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class J. E. Veal) File# 150923-N-JQ675-090
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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