Ship Name
Hull Number |
Commission /
Decommission
Date |
Disposition |
| |
| USS Langley (CV 1) | 20 Mar 1922 / 27 Feb 1942 | Conv. to AV 3; Sunk as a result enemy action about 75 miles south of Tjilatjap. |
| USS Lexington (CV 2) | 14 Dec 1927 / 8 May 1942 | Sunk as a result of enemy action at the Battle of the Coral Sea. |
| USS Saratoga (CV 3) | 16 Nov 1927 / 26 Jul 1946 | Used as a test target and sunk at Bikini Atoll. |
| USS Ranger (CV 4) | 4 Jun 1934 / 18 Oct 1946 | Sold for scrap 31 Jan 1947 to Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. |
| USS Yorktown (CV 5) | 30 Sep 1937 / 7 Jun 1942 | Sunk due to enemy action at the Battle of Midway. |
| USS Enterprise (CV 6) | 12 May 1938 / 17 Feb 1947 | Sold, 1 Jul 1958. |
| USS Wasp (CV 7) | 25 Apr 1940 / 15 Sep 1942 | Sunk due to enemy action southeast of San Cristobal Island. |
| USS Hornet (CV 8) | 20 Oct 1941 / 26 Oct 1942 | Sunk due to enemy action at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. |
| USS Essex (CV 9) | 31 Dec 1942 / 20 Jun 1969 | Stricken 1 Jun 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Jun 1975. |
| USS Yorktown (CV 10) | 15 Apr 1943 / 27 Jun 1970 | Stricken 1 Jun 1973. Established as a floating museum in Charleston, S.C., 13 Oct. 1975. |
| USS Intrepid (CV 11) | 16 Aug 1943 / 15 Mar 1974 | Established as a floating museum in New York City in 1982. |
| USS Hornet (CV 12) | 20 Nov 1943 / 26 May 1970 | Stricken from the Navy List 1989. Donated to The Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation for use as a museum on 26 May 1998. |
| USS Franklin (CV 13) | 31 Jan 1944 / 17 Feb 1947 | Reclassified AVT 8 on 15 May 1959. Stricken from the Navy List 10 Oct 1964. |
| USS Ticonderoga (CV 14) | 8 May 1944 / 1 Sep 1973 | Stricken from the Navy List 16 Nov 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Sept 1975. |
| USS Randolph (CV 15) | 9 Oct 1944 / 13 Feb 1969 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Apr 1975. |
| USS Lexington (CV 16) | 17 Feb 1942 / 8 Nov 1991 | Stricken from the Navy List 30 Nov 1991. Now a museum in Corpus Christi, Tex. |
| USS Bunker Hill (CV 17) | 25 May 1943 / 9 Jul 1947 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Nov 1966; retained as moored electronic test ship in San Diego until Nov. 1972. Scrapped 1973. |
| USS Wasp (CV 18) | 24 Nov 1943 / 1 Jul 1972 | Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 21 May 1973. |
| USS Hancock (CV 19) | 15 Apr 1944 / 30 Jan 1976 | Stricken from the Navy List 31 Jan 1976; Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Sept 1976. |
| USS Bennington (CV 20) | 6 Aug 1944 / 15 Jan 1970 | Stricken from the Navy List 1989. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Dec 1994. |
| USS Boxer (CV 21) | 16 Apr 1945 / 1 Dec 1969 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Dec 1969; Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 13 Mar 1971. |
| USS Independence (CVL 22) | 14 Jan 1943 / 28 Aug 1946 | Sunk as target 29 Jun 1951. |
| USS Princeton (CVL 23) | 25 Feb 1943 / 24 Oct 1944 | Sunk due to enemy action in the Sibuyan Sea. |
| USS Belleau Wood (CVL 24) | 31 Mar 1943 / 13 Jan 1947 | Transferred to France 1953-1960. Returned. Stricken 1 Oct 1960 and sold for scrapping. |
| USS Cowpens (CVL 25) | 28 May 1943 / 13 Jan 1947 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Nov 1959 and sold for scrapping. |
| USS Monterey (CVL 26) | 17 Jun 1943 / 16 Jan 1956 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1970. Sold for scrapping in May 1971. |
| USS Langley (CVL 27) | 31 Aug 1943 / 11 Feb 1947 | Transferred to France 1951-1963; Sold 19 Feb 1964. |
| USS Cabot (CVL 28) | 24 Jul 1943 / 21 Jan 1955 | Transferred to Spain 30 Aug 1967; returned to private U.S. organization 1989. Auctioned by US Marshals Service to Sabe Marine Salvage, 10 Sep 1999. |
| USS Bataan (CVL 29) | 17 Nov 1943 / 9 Apr 1954 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Sep 1959. Sold for scrapping May 1961. |
| USS San Jacinto (CVL 30) | 15 Dec 1943 / 1 Mar 1947 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1970. Sold for scrapping on 15 Dec 1971 to National Metal and Steel Co., Terminal Island, Calif. |
| USS Bon Homme (CV 31) | 26 Nov 1944 / 2 Jul 1971 | Stricken from the Navy List 1989. Scrapped 4 Feb 1992. |
| USS Leyte (CV 32) | 11 Apr 1946 / 15 May 1959 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1969. |
| USS Kearsarge (CV 33) | 2 May 1946 / 15 Jan 1970 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 May 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Mar 1974. |
| USS Oriskany (CVA 34) | 25 Sep 1950 / 20 Sep 1979 | Stricken from Navy List 1989. Sold 9 Sep 1995, but contractor defaulted. Repossessed by the Navy and contract terminated 30 Jul 1997. Sunk off coast of Florida 17 May 2006 for use as articifical reef. |
| Reprisal(CV 35) | -- /-- | Never completed nor commissioned. Hull, 53% complete, was sold to Boston Metals Co, Baltimore, Md. and scrapped November 1949. |
| USS Antietam (CV 36) | 28 Jan 1945 / 8 May 1963 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 May 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Dec 1973. |
| USS Princeton (CV 37) | 18 Nov 1945 / 30 Jan 1970 | Stricken from the Navy List 30 Jan 1970. |
| USS Shangri-La (CV 38) | 15 Sep 1944 / 30 Jul 1971 | Stricken from the Navy List 15 Jul 1982; disposed of by MARAD exchange 9 Aug 1988. |
| USS Lake Champlain (CV 39) | 3 Jun 1945 / 2 May 1966 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Dec 1969. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 28 Apr 1972. |
| USS Tarawa (CV 40) | 8 Dec 1945 / 13 May 1960 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1967. |
| USS Midway (CVB 41) | 10 Sep 1945 / 11 Apr 1992 | Stricken 17 Mar 1997; Towed to San Diego 5 January 2004 to be used as a museum and memorial. |
| USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB 42) | 27 Oct 1945 / 1 Oct 1977 | Stricken from the Navy List 30 Sept 1977; Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Apr 1978. |
| USS Coral Sea (CVB 43) | 1 Oct 1947 / 26 Apr 1990 | Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 7 May 1993. |
| USS Valley Forge (CV 45) | 3 Nov 1946 / 15 Jan 1970 | Stricken from the Navy List 15 Jan 1970; sold for scrap 29 Oct 1971 to Nicolai Joffre Corp., Beverly Hills, Calif. |
| USS Philippine Sea (CV 47) | 11 May 1946 / 28 Dec 1958 | Stricken from the Navy List 1 Dec 1969. |
| USS Saipan (CVL 48) | 14 Jul 1946 / 14 Jan 1970 | Name changed to Arlington 8 Apr 1965 and served as an communications relay ship until decomm. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 6 Jun 1976. |
| USS Wright (CVL 49) | 9 Feb 1947 / 15 Mar 1956 | Converted to and commissioned 11 May 1963 as a command ship. Decommissioned 27 May 1970 and disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Aug 1980. |
| USS Forrestal (CVA 59) | 1 Oct 1955 / 30 Sep 1993 | Stricken from the Navy List 11 Sep 1993; At the Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, R.I., 14 Sept. 1998 on hold as museum donation. |
| USS Saratoga (CVA 60) | 14 Apr 1956 / 20 Aug 1994 | Stricken from the Navy List 30 Sep 1994; berthed at the Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, R.I., 7 Aug. 1998. |
| USS Ranger (CVA 61) | 10 Aug 1957 / 10 Jul 1993 | In inactive reserve in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Bremerton, Wash. |
| USS Independence (CV 62) | 10 Jan 1959 / 30 Sep 1998 | In inactive reserve in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Bremerton, Wash. |
| USS Kitty Hawk(CV 63) | 29 Apr 1961 / 12 May 2009 | -- |
| USS Constellation (CV 64) | 27 Oct 1961 / 7 Aug 2003 | Towed 12 September 2003, to be placed in inactive reserve in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Bremerton, Wash. |
| USS Enterprise (CVN 65) | 25 Nov 1961 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS America (CV 66) | 23 Jan 1965 / 9 Aug 1996 | Stricken from Navy List; In the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Philadelphia, Penn. planned for scrapping, instead sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast on 14 May 2005, following a series of tests consisting of simulated attacks on the ship. |
| USS John F. Kennedy(CV 67) | 7 Sep 1968 / 23 Mar 2007 | -- |
| USS Nimitz (CVN 68) | 3 May 1975 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) | 18 Oct 1977 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) | 13 Mar 1982 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) | 25 Oct 1986 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) | 11 Nov 1989 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS George Washington (CVN 73) | 4 July 1992 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) | 9 Dec 1995 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) | 25 July 1998 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) | 12 July 2003 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) | 10 Jan 2009 / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| PCU Gerald R. Ford(CVN 78) | under construction / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
| PCU John F. Kennedy(CVN 79) | under construction / -- | Active -- see Fact File |
