U.S. Navy Aviation Structural Mechanic AIRMAN Apprentice John Scott unload bags of mail from an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 on the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) during a vertical replenishment operation in the Indian Ocean on Aug. 26, 2006. The Seahawk is a twin-engine helicopter used for anti-submarine warfare, search and rescue, drug interdiction, anti-ship warfare, cargo lift and special operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Joshua Wayne LeGrand) (Released)

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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