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List of aircraft carriers

List of aircraft carriers
 
Individual aircraft carriers, by country of operation:

  • Brazil (active)
    • Minas Gerais[?], purchased from UK in 1956, formerly HMS Vengeance, decommissioned 2001.
    • São Paulo[?] - purchased from France in 2001, formerly Foch.

Only Hosho, Junyo, Kumano Maru, and Ryuho survived the war and these were scrapped by 1948.

  • Soviet Union (retired)
    • Varyag - later owned by Ukraine and sold to China.

See list of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy for all US carriers past and present.



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