A Naval Aviator waits to be launched from one of four steam powered catapults on the flight deck, in his F/A-18C Hornet aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

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A Naval Aviator waits to be launched from one of four steam powered catapults on the flight deck, in his F/A-18C Hornet aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

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The Arabian Gulf (Apr. 01, 2003) A Naval Aviator waits to be launched from one of four steam powered catapults on the flight deck, in his F/A-18C Hornet aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln and Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are currently conducting combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Jeanine Garcia. File# 030401-N-4336G-078

Carriers

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.