List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy

This list of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy (ten are active) includes all types in the main hull numbering sequence, consisting of those 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)). All units after CVA-58 are supercarriers. The USS Wolverine (IX-64) sometimes called the Seeandbee and the USS Sable (IX-81) also known as The Greater Buffalo are converted aircraft carriers and do not have the capabilities of other aircraft carriers so these two were used in the Great Lakes for training and were scrapped. Wolverine was scrapped in 1947 and Sable was scrapped in 1948.

For the smaller escort aircraft carriers (CVE), please see list of escort aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.

For grouping by class, please see list of aircraft carrier classes of the United States Navy.

For airship aircraft carriers, please see list of airships of the United States Navy.

List
(† = in active service)
 * a): converted for jets, hydraulic catapults, 1950–54
 * b): converted for jets, steam catapults, 1954–59
 * c): converted to angled deck, 1956–59
 * d): retasked to ASW (CVS), 1953–69
 * e): converted to amphibious assault ship, LPH, 1959
 * f): converted for training, CVT, 1969

Training ships


During World War II, the United States Navy purchased two Great Lakes side-wheel paddle steamers and converted them into freshwater aircraft carrier training ships. Both vessels were designated with the hull classification symbol IX (Unclassified Miscellaneous) and lacked hangar decks, elevators or armaments. The role of these ships was for the training of pilots for carrier take-offs and landings. Together the Sable and Wolverine trained 17,820 pilots in 116,000 carrier landings. Of these, 51,000 landings were on Sable.

Active
The active carriers of the US Navy

Active Nimitz-class carriers:


 * USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
 * USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
 * USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
 * USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
 * USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
 * USS George Washington (CVN-73)
 * USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
 * USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
 * USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
 * USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)

Under construction
Under-construction Gerald R. Ford–class aircraft carriers:


 * USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)
 * USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
 * USS Enterprise (CVN-80)

Aircraft-carrier museums

 * See: U.S. Navy Museum