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Yellow gear surrounds a Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 117 (VAW-117) E-2C Hawkeye aircraft parked on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) during the vessel's circumnavigation of South America

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Yellow gear surrounds a Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 117 (VAW-117) E-2C Hawkeye aircraft parked on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) during the vessel's circumnavigation of South America

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Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.

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23/10/1990
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The U.S. National Archives
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