List of aircraft carriers by configuration

The list of aircraft carriers by configuration contains aircraft carriers organized by the specific configuration of aircraft carrier designs.

Carrier configurations
There are three main configurations of aircraft carrier in service in the worlds navies:
 * Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR)
 * Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (STOBAR)
 * Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL)

Navies with CATOBAR carriers

 * US Navy
 * Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
 * 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)
 * French Navy
 * FS Charles de Gaulle
 * Brazilian Navy
 * Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier
 * NAeL São Paulo

Navies with STOBAR carriers

 * Russian Navy
 * Kuznetsov class
 * Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov
 * Chinese Navy
 * Kuznetsov class
 * Liaoning

Navies with STOVL carriers

 * Royal Navy
 * Invincible class
 * HMS Illustrious
 * Italian Navy
 * Cavour
 * Giuseppe Garibaldi
 * Spanish Navy
 * SNS Juan Carlos I
 * Indian Navy
 * Centaur class
 * INS Viraat
 * Thai Navy
 * HTMS Chakri Naruebet
 * United States Navy
 * Tarawa class
 * Wasp class
 * America class