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E-2C Hawkeye launches from CVN 73 flight deck
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At sea aboard USS George Washington Flight deck personnel launch an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the Bluetails of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One Two One (VAW-121), from one of four steam powered catapult systems aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier. VAW-121 is embarked aboard George Washington while conducting carrier qualifications (CQ). U. S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Summer M. Anderson. File# 020129-N-3653A-002
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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