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Lt. Kenneth Wilson gives the signal to launch a T-2C Buckeye assigned to Fixed Wing Training Squadron Nine (VT-9) from the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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Atlantic Ocean (Jul. 20, 2003) Lt. Kenneth Wilson gives the signal to launch a T-2C Buckeye assigned to Fixed Wing Training Squadron Nine (VT-9) off of the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). This is the last time that the T-2C Buckeye will be used to train student pilots aboard aircraft carriers. Truman is conducting Carrier Qualifications (CQ) and an ammo off load, on the Eastern seaboard of the United States. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Danny Ewing Jr. File# 030716-N-4953E-047
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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