Quartermaster 2nd Class Brittany Adair, left, plots a course as the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) a
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BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 09, 2010) Quartermaster 2nd Class Brittany Adair, left, plots a course as the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) approaches the pier of its new homeport of Bremerton, Wash. Nimitz is scheduled for a docking planned incremental availability in Bremerton. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nichelle Noelle Whitfield) File# 101209-N-7939W-009
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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