US Navy (USN) Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class (AT2) Jeremy Snipes performs an operational check of instrumentation in a USN F/A-18C Hornet fighter aircraft, Fighter Attack Squadron 136 (VFA-136), Knighthawks, Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia (VA), in the hangar bay aboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75). The Norfolk, VA based aircraft carrier is on a scheduled deployment

Fighter planes and military aircrafts.

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.