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List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy

This list of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy includes all types in the main hull numbering sequence, consisting of hull classification symbols CV, CVA, CVB, CVL, and CVN.

By hull number

(CV-1) Langley
(CV-2) Lexington
(CV-3) Saratoga
(CV-4) Ranger
(CV-5) Yorktown
(CV-6) Enterprise
(CV-7) Wasp
(CV-8) Hornet
(CV-9) Essex
(CV-10) Yorktown
(CV-11) Intrepid
(CV-12) Hornet
(CV-13) Franklin[?]
(CV-14) Ticonderoga[?]
(CV-15) Randolph[?]
(CV-16) Lexington
(CV-17) Bunker Hill[?]
(CV-18) Wasp[?]
(CV-19) Hancock[?]
(CV-20) Bennington
(CV-21) Boxer
(CVL-22) Independence
(CVL-23) Princeton
(CVL-24) Belleau Wood[?]
(CVL-25) Cowpens[?]
(CVL-26) Monterey[?]
(CVL-27) Langley
(CVL-28) Cabot[?]
(CVL-29) Bataan[?]
(CVL-30) San Jacinto[?]
(CV-31) Bonhomme Richard[?]
(CV-32) Leyte
(CV-33) Kearsarge[?]
(CV-34) Oriskany
(CV-35) Reprisal[?]
(CV-36) Antietam[?]
(CV-37) Princeton
(CV-38) Shangri-la
(CV-39) Lake Champlain[?]
(CV-40) Tarawa
(CVB-41) Midway[?]
(CVB-42) Franklin D. Roosevelt[?]
(CVB-43) Coral Sea[?]
CVB-44 cancelled
(CV-45) Valley Forge[?]
(CV-46) Iwo Jima[?]
(CV-47) Philippine Sea[?]
(CVL-48) Saipan[?]
(CVL-49) Wright[?]
CV-50 to CV-57 cancelled
(CVA-58) United States
(CVA-59) Forrestal
(CVA-60) Saratoga[?]
(CVA 61) Ranger[?]
(CV-62) Independence[?]
(CV-63) Kitty Hawk
(CV-64) Constellation
(CVN-65) Enterprise
(CVA-66) America[?]
(CV-67) John F. Kennedy
(CVN-68) Nimitz
(CVN-69) Dwight D. Eisenhower
(CVN-70) Carl Vinson
(CVN-71) Theodore Roosevelt
(CVN-72) Abraham Lincoln
(CVN-73) George Washington
(CVN-74) John C. Stennis
(CVN-75) Harry S Truman[?]
(CVN-76) Ronald Reagan

By name

Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
America (CVA-66)[?]
Antietam (CV-36)[?]
Bataan (CVL-29)[?]
Belleau Wood (CVL-24)[?]
Bennington (CV-20)
Bonhomme Richard (CV-31)[?]
Boxer (CV-21)
Bunker Hill (CV-17)[?]
Cabot (CVL-28)[?]
Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
Constellation (CV-64)
Coral Sea (CVB-43)[?]
Cowpens (CVL-25)[?]
Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
Enterprise (CV-6)
Enterprise (CVN-65)
Essex (CV-9)
Forrestal (CVA-59)
Franklin (CV-13)[?]
Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42)[?]
George Washington (CVN-73)
Hancock (CV-19)[?]
Harry S Truman (CVN-75)[?]
Hornet (CV-8)
Hornet (CV-12)
Independence (CVL-22)
Independence (CV-62)[?]
Intrepid (CV-11)
Iwo Jima (CV-46)[?]
John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
Kearsarge (CV-33)[?]
Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
Lake Champlain (CV-39)[?]
Langley (CV-1)
Langley (CVL-27)
Lexington (CV-2)
Lexington (CV-16)
Leyte (CV-32)
Midway (CVB-41)[?]
Monterey (CVL-26)[?]
Nimitz (CVN-68)
Oriskany (CV-34)
Philippine Sea (CV-47)[?]
Princeton (CVL-23)
Princeton (CV-37)
Randolph (CV-15)[?]
Ranger (CV-4)
Ranger (CVA 61)[?]
Reprisal (CV-35)[?]
Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
Saipan (CVL-48)[?]
San Jacinto (CVL-30)[?]
Saratoga (CV-3)
Saratoga (CVA-60)[?]
Shangri-la (CV-38)
Tarawa (CV-40)
Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
Ticonderoga (CV-14)[?]
United States (CVA-58)
Valley Forge (CV-45)[?]
Wasp (CV-7)
Wasp (CV-18)[?]
Wright (CVL-49)[?]
Yorktown (CV-5)
Yorktown (CV-10)
CVB-44 cancelled
CV-50 to CV-57 cancelled

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