A US Navy (USN) F/A-18C Hornet, Strike Fighter Squadron 113 (VFA-113 Stingers), Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW 14), catapults off the flight deck of the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74), while currently participating in a scheduled deployment in the Western Pacific Ocean

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.