Military experts say a tight naval blockade off Cuban ports and at the approaches to Cuban waters would require two naval task forces, each built around an aircraft carrier with a complement of about 100 planes and several destroyers.

* 1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

* 1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding.

* Italian aircraft carrier Aquila, a World War II Italian aircraft carrier

The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

One of the recent attractions is the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, a museum ship now moored at the former Naval Air Station as the USS Hornet Museum.

The HARM missile was approved for full production in March 1983, and then deployed in late 1985 with VA-72 and VA-46 aboard the aircraft carrier USS America.

The Navy would require a long-range, long-endurance interceptor aircraft to defend carrier battle groups against this threat.

Until the 1980s, the flagship of the ocean-going navy was the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais ( the ex-British HMS Vengeance ), which has been in service since 1945.

While the Minas Gerais was not considered likely to be replaced until the next century, it was nonetheless decommissioned in 2001 following the purchase of the French aircraft carrier Foch.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

Once aboard the aircraft carrier the group formed the core of VF-191 ( Satan's Kittens ).

In 1998, CDR Patrick Driscoll made the first " Blue Jet " landing on a " haze gray and underway " aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman ( CVN-75 ).

* A photographic record of aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable, 1944 – 45, including Operation Iceberg, the attack on the Sakashimas

Pointing to the overwhelming dominance of the aircraft carrier in the Pacific Theater, they asked the United States Congress to fund a large fleet of " supercarriers " and their supporting battle groups, beginning with the USS United States ( CVA-58 ).

During the Cold War, the ČSLA was equipped primarily with Soviet arms, although certain arms like the OT-64 SKOT armored personnel carrier, the L-29 Delfín and L-39 Albatros aircraft, the P-27 Pancéřovka antitank rocket launcher, the Sa vz.

Aer Lingus, Ireland's national flag carrier has named one of its Airbus A330 aircraft in commemoration of the saint ( reg: EI-DUO ).

In 1985, the new port facilities were completed, and the USS Saratoga ( CV-60 ) was the first aircraft carrier to tie up.

File: US Navy 090612-N-3659B-122 Members of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit ( EODMU ) 11, Platoon 0-2, take their positions on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan ( CVN 76 ) during a fast-roping exercise. jpg | US Navy EOD M45 gas mask system.

Hence, CV-1 was the aircraft carrier USS Langley and BB-1 was the battleship USS Indiana.

* 1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz ( CVN-68 ), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.

Three nuclear powered American warships, ( top to bottom ) nuclear cruisers USS Bainbridge ( CGN-25 ) | USS Bainbridge and USS Long Beach ( CGN-9 ) | USS Long Beach with USS Enterprise ( CVN-65 ) | USS Enterprise the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier in 1964.

U. S. naval forces, including the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, were positioned off the coast of Somalia to provide support and to prevent any al-Qaeda forces escaping by sea.

The shipyard also contains a portion of the United States Navy reserve fleet, a large collection of inactive U. S. Navy vessels, including four aircraft carriers ; the USS Independence, the USS Constellation, the USS Ranger and the USS Kitty Hawk.

At one time there was even a group on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, known as the " Shire of Curragh Mor " ( anglicized Irish for " Big Boat "), and the shire's arms played on the Nimitz's ship's badge.

He plans for Filitov and Gerasimov to be exfiltrated on the American delegation's aircraft, while Gerasimov's family is extracted from Estonia by John Clark onto the submarine USS Dallas.

Experience with the USS Nautilus led to the parallel development of further () submarines, powered by single reactors, and an aircraft carrier,, powered by eight A2W reactor units in 1960.

* 1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.

* December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.

* October 12 – En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial riot involving more than 200 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk ; nearly 50 sailors are injured.

* The, was a Kitty Hawk-class steam turbine propelled aircraft carrier which served from 1961 to 2003.

The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk ( CV 63 ) at Naval Station Pearl Harbor.

The takeoff sequences for the Doolittle Raid were filmed on the USS Constellation ( CV-64 ) | USS Constellation, a Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier | Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier

* was the lead ship of the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers, and was in commission between 1961 and 2009

In 1997, AIA merged with Kitty Hawk Inc. and Conrad Kalitta resigned to start Kalitta Leasing for buying, selling and leasing large aircraft.

On the night of December 26, 1944, flying through intense anti-aircraft fire, Frederick's aircraft, the Sticky Kitty, was credited with sinking a lead Japanese Cruiser.

* The hull number of the U. S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk ( CV-63 )

In addition, construction work was commenced on the two somewhat-improved supercarriers of the Kitty Hawk class aircraft carriers, and the design work was begun on the world's first two nuclear powered surface warships, the guided-missile cruiser and the supercarrier, which entered service in 1960-61.

While serving as an exchange officer flying A-6E aircraft with the U. S. Navy at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Seattle, and aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, Kregel made 66 carrier landings during a cruise of the Western Pacific.

He also fought in the Vietnam War, serving in 1966 as commander of the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS Constellation.

An HH-60H Seahawk helicopter discharges countermeasure flares alongside the conventionally-powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk ( CV-63 ) | USS Kitty Hawk

This was just eight years after Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first manned aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.