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#	Name	Class	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Service life	Status
CV-1	Langley	Langley (Lead ship)	20 March 1922	27 February 1942	19 years, 344 days	Scuttled and sunk 65 nmi south of Cilacap, Java
CV-2	Lexington	Lexington (Lead ship)	14 December 1927	8 May 1942	14 years, 145 days	Sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea
CV-3	Saratoga	Lexington	16 November 1927	26 July 1946	18 years, 254 days	Sunk in Operation Crossroads as a nuclear test target near Bikini Atoll
CV-4	Ranger	Ranger (Lead ship)	4 June 1934	18 October 1946	12 years, 136 days	Scrapped in 1947
CV-5	Yorktown	Yorktown (Lead ship)	30 September 1937	7 June 1942	4 years, 250 days	Sunk in the Battle of Midway
CV-6	Enterprise	Yorktown	12 May 1938	17 February 1947	8 years, 281 days	Scrapped in 1960
CV-7	Wasp	Wasp (Lead ship)	25 April 1940	15 September 1942	2 years, 143 days	Sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign
CV-8	Hornet	Yorktown	20 October 1941	26 October 1942	1 year, 6 days	Sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
CV-9	Essex	Essex (Lead ship)	31 December 1942	20 June 1969	26 years, 171 days	Scrapped in 1975
CV-10	Yorktown	Essex	15 April 1943	27 June 1970	27 years, 73 days	Preserved at the Patriot's Point Naval & Maritime Museum - Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA
CV-11	Intrepid	Essex	16 August 1943	15 March 1974	30 years, 211 days	Preserved at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum - New York, New York, USA
CV-12	Hornet	Essex	20 November 1943	26 May 1970	26 years, 187 days	Preserved at USS Hornet Museum - Alameda, California, USA
CV-13	Franklin	Essex class aircraft carrierEssex	31 January 1944	17 February 1947	2 years, 351 days	Scrapped in 1966
CV-14	Ticonderoga	Essex (extended bow)	8 May 1944	1 September 1973	29 years, 116 days	Scrapped in 1975
CV-15	Randolph	Essex (extended bow)	9 October 1944	13 February 1969	24 years, 127 days	Scrapped in 1975
CV-16	Lexington	Essex	17 February 1943	8 November 1991	48 years, 264 days	Preserved at USS Lexington Museum on the Bay— Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
CV-17	Bunker Hill	Essex	25 May 1943	9 July 1947	4 years, 45 days	Scrapped in 1973
CV-18	Wasp	Essex	24 November 1943	1 July 1972	28 years, 220 days	Scrapped in 1973
CV-19	Hancock	Essex (extended bow)	15 April 1944	30 January 1976	31 years, 290 days	Scrapped in 1976
CV-20	Bennington	Essex	6 August 1944	15 January 1970	25 years, 162 days	Scrapped in 1994
CV-21	Boxer	Essex (extended bow)	16 April 1945	1 December 1969	24 years, 229 days	Scrapped in 1971
CVL-22	Independence	Independence (Lead ship)	14 January 1943	28 August 1946	3 years, 226 days	Sunk as a test target near the Farallon Islands in 1951
CVL-23	Princeton	Independence	25 February 1943	24 October 1944	1 year, 242 days	Sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
CVL-24	Belleau Wood	Independence	31 March 1943	13 January 1947	3 years, 288 days	Scrapped in 1960




CVL-25	Cowpens	Independence	28 May 1943	13 January 1947	3 years, 230 days	Scrapped in 1960	14
CVL-26	Monterey	Independence	17 June 1943	16 January 1956	12 years, 213 days	Scrapped in 1971	14
CVL-27	Langley	Independence	31 August 1943	11 February 1947	3 years, 164 days	Scrapped in 1964	14
CVL-28	Cabot	Independence	24 July 1943	21 January 1955	11 years, 181 days	Scrapped in 2002	14
CVL-29	Bataan	Independence	17 November 1943	9 April 1954	10 years, 143 days	Scrapped in 1961	44
CVL-30	San Jacinto	Independence	15 December 1943	1 March 1947	3 years, 76 days	Scrapped 1972	14
CV-31	Bon Homme Richard	Essex	26 November 1944	2 July 1971	26 years, 218 days	Scrapped in 1992	45
CV-32	Leyte	Essex (extended bow)	11 April 1946	15 May 1959	13 years, 34 days	Scrapped in 1970	14
CV-33	Kearsarge	Essex (extended bow)	2 May 1946	15 January 1970	23 years, 258 days	Scrapped in 1974	46
CV-34	Oriskany	Essex (extended bow)	25 September 1950	20 September 1979	28 years, 360 days	Scuttled as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico in 2006	14
CV-35	Reprisal	Essex (extended bow)	n/a	n/a	n/a	Cancelled during construction. Scrapped in 1949	47
CV-36	Antietam	Essex (extended bow)	28 January 1945	8 May 1963	18 years, 100 days	Scrapped in 1974	48
CV-37	Princeton	Essex (extended bow)	18 November 1945	30 January 1970	24 years, 73 days	Scrapped in 1971
CV-38	Shangri-la	Essex (extended bow)	15 September 1944	30 July 1971	26 years, 318 days	Scrapped in 1988	49
CV-39	Lake Champlain	Essex (extended bow)	3 July 1945	2 May 1966	20 years, 303 days	Scrapped in 1972
CV-40	Tarawa	Essex (extended bow)	8 December 1945	13 May 1960	14 years, 157 days	Scrapped in 1968
CVB-41	Midway	Midway(lead ship)	10 September 1945	11 April 1992	46 years, 214 days	Preserved at the USS Midway Museum—San Diego, California, USA	50
CVB-42	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Midway	27 October 1945	1 October 1977	31 years, 339 days	Scrapped in 1978	51
CVB-43	Coral Sea	Midway	1 October 1947	26 April 1990	42 years, 207 days	Scrapped in 1993	52
CV-44	No name assigned	(no image available)	Midway	n/a	n/a	n/a	Cancelled before construction began.	53
CV-45	Valley Forge	Essex (extended bow)	3 November 1946	15 January 1970	23 years, 73 days	Scrapped in 1971
CV-46	Iwo Jima	Essex (extended bow)	n/a	n/a	n/a	Cancelled during construction. Scrapped in 1946	54
CV-47	Philippine Sea	Essex (extended bow)	11 May 1946	28 December 1958	12 years, 231 days	Scrapped in 1971
CVL-48	Saipan	Saipan(lead ship)	14 July 1946	14 January 1970	23 years, 184 days	Scrapped in 1976
CVL-49	Wright	Saipan	9 February 1947	15 March 1956	9 years, 35 days	Scrapped in 1980	14
CV-50 to CV-55	No names were assigned	(no images available)	Essex	These hulls were all cancelled before construction began.	53
CVB-56 & CVB-57	No names were assigned	(no images available)	Midway	These hulls were both cancelled before construction began.	53
CVA-58	United States	United States (lead ship)	n/a	n/a	n/a	Cancelled during construction. Scrapped	55
CV-59	Forrestal	Forrestal (lead ship)	1 October 1955	30 September 1993	37 years, 364 days	Scrapped in 2014	56 57
CV-60	Saratoga	Forrestal	14 April 1956	20 August 1994	38 years, 128 days	Scrapped in 2015	60
CV-61	Ranger	Forrestal	10 August 1957	10 July 1993	35 years, 334 days	Scrapped in 2017	61
CV-62	Independence	Forrestal	10 January 1959	30 September 1998	39 years, 263 days	Scrapped in 2019	62
CV-63	Kitty Hawk	Kitty Hawk(lead ship)	29 April 1961	12 May 2009	48 years, 13 days	Struck, to be scrapped	63 64 65
CV-64	Constellation	Kitty Hawk	27 October 1961	7 August 2003	41 years, 284 days	Scrapped in 2015	66
CVN-65	Enterprise	Enterprise(lead ship)	25 November 1961	3 February 2017	55 years, 70 days	Struck, disposal plans still being determined	67
CV-66	America	Kitty Hawk	23 January 1965	9 August 1996	31 years, 199 days	Sunk as a test target in the Atlantic Ocean in 2005	68
CV-67	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy(lead ship)	7 September 1968	23 March 2007	38 years, 197 days	Struck, to be scrapped	69
CVN-68	Nimitz	Nimitz (lead ship)	3 May 1975	-	45 years, 236 days	Stationed at Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington	70
CVN-69	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Nimitz	18 October 1977	-	43 years, 68 days	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia	71
CVN-70	Carl Vinson	Nimitz	13 March 1982	-	38 years, 287 days	Stationed at Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington	72 73
CVN-71	Theodore Roosevelt	Nimitz	25 October 1986	-	34 years, 61 days	Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California	74
CVN-72	Abraham Lincoln	Nimitz	11 November 1989	-	31 years, 44 days	Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California	75
CVN-73	George Washington	Nimitz	4 July 1992	-	28 years, 174 days	Stationed at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia	76
CVN-74	John C. Stennis	Nimitz	9 December 1995	-	25 years, 16 days	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia	77
CVN-75	Harry S. Truman	Nimitz	25 July 1998	-	22 years, 153 days	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia	78
CVN-76	Ronald Reagan	Nimitz	12 July 2003	-	17 years, 166 days	Stationed at Yokosuka Naval Base, Yokosuka, Japan	79
CVN-77	George H.W. Bush	10 January 2009	-	11 years, 350 days	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia	80
CVN-78	Gerald R. Ford	Gerald R. Ford (lead ship)	22 July 2017	-	3 years, 156 days	Stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia	81
CVN-79	John F. Kennedy	Gerald R. Ford	~2022	-	Under construction; Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia	11 82
CVN-80	Enterprise	Gerald R. Ford	~2027	-	Steel cutting and fabrication; Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia	11 83 12
CVN-81	Doris Miller	Gerald R. Ford	~2030	-	Ordered	11 84
CVN-82	tba	Gerald R. Ford	~2034	-	Ordered	11

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