US Navy (USN) Kitty Hawk and John F Kennedy Class Aircraft Carrier USS JOHN F KENNEDY (CV 67) flight deck personnel push back an F/A-18B Hornet, Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81 Sunliners), Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW 17), to its parking spot on the KENNEDYs flight deck, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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.