A view of the front underside of an F-14 Tomcat aircraft with a shark's teeth paint scheme to symbolize Carrier Air Wing 15 (CVW-15), based aboard the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63). The F-14 is being used during Exercise Gallant Eagle '82
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Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '82
Base: Naval Air Station, Miramar
State: California (CA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Bob Marshall
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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