A US Navy (USN) F-14D Tomcat aircraft assigned to the "Tomcatters" of Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31) sits with its cockpit canopy raised, on the flight deck of USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71), while the ship is underway in the Atlantic Ocean, conducting sustainment exercises as part of the fleet response plan. The setting sun silhouettes the image
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Base: USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)
Scene Camera Operator: MC3 (Aw) Randall Damm, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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