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.

* March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

Later converted to aircraft carrier USS Langley

Langley attempted to make a working piloted heavier-than-air aircraft.

Langley Langley Aerodrome ( aircraft ) | Aerodrome No. 6 at Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh

It is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick I. Eglin ( 1891 – 1937 ), who was killed in a crash of his Northrop A-17 pursuit aircraft on a flight from Langley to Maxwell Field, Alabama.

* USS Langley ( CV-1 ), the first aircraft carrier of the Navy, converted from the collier Jupiter in 1922, and sunk in February 1942 by the Japanese

* USS Langley ( CVL-27 ), a light aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943, active in World War II, and transferred to France in 1951

The Langley sailed at noon 23 February for Java and all the aircraft were lost when it was sunk on 27 February.

On May 1, 1921, Mitchell assembled the 1st Provisional Air Brigade, an air and ground crew of 125 aircraft and 1, 000 men at Langley, Virginia, using six squadrons from the Air Service:

Colonel Marr ordered three F-16s ( two alert aircraft and a spare ) scrambled from Langley to check out an unidentified intermittent aircraft track heading toward Washington DC.

Additionally, DynCorp provides aircraft maintenance support to facilities including the NAS Patuxent River, Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, NASA facilities in El Paso, Texas, Edwards Air Force Base in California, and Robins Air Force Base ( AFB ) in Georgia.

Nearby Pitt Meadows Airport provides services for smaller aircraft and there are also Boundary Bay Airport and Langley Airport for small aircraft.

He was a fighter pilot at Langley Air Force Base, VA, where he flew the F-84F and F-100 aircraft.

Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley at that time was building his manned aircraft, the Large Aerodrome " A ".

* February 27 – The aircraft tender USS Langley ( AV-3 ), which once had been the U. S. Navys first aircraft carrier as, is sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Indian Ocean while trying to deliver Curtiss P-40 fighters from Australia to Java.

From 1980 to 1983, he was assigned to Langley AFB, Virginia, where he flew the F-15 aircraft.

After completing Naval Aviation training at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in 1936, he flew with fighter squadrons based on the aircraft carriers USS Langley, USS Lexington and USS Enterprise.