The article highlights the top five U.S. aircraft carriers based on technical specifications and historical significance.

The very first aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy wasn't even an aircraft carrier at first. Instead, it was toting coal and cargo. This week marks 90 years since the USS Langley was commissioned ...

USS Langley began life not as a seaplane tender or an aircraft carrier but as the Proteus-class collier USS Jupiter. Jupiter was laid down in 1911, launched in 1912, and commissioned into service ...

Though the USS Langley broke new ground in the realm of seafaring aviation, by the 1930s, the Navy was dramatically rethinking their approach to aircraft carriers, essentially making their first ...

The USS Langley saw service as both an aircraft carrier and a seaplane tender. In the seaplane tender role, she was commissioned as AV-3 on 11 April 1937. She served as AV-3 until 27 February 1942 ...

Though the USS Langley's career as an aircraft carrier was short, it proved the concept of a mobile command center from which Navys could launch aircraft was, in fact, possible and practical.

NORFOLK, Va. — Spend your lunch break on July 10 at Nauticus with Dr. David F. Winkler, USNR (Ret.), a renowned naval ...

That distinction belongs to USS Langley (CV 1), whose commissioning in Norfolk, Virginia, on March 20, 1922, marked the beginning of carrier aviation in the U.S. Navy. Her crew called the ship ...

The construction of the USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3), the U.S.' first aircraft carrier, began in 1911. It took over a decade before the Langley could set sail as a carrier, which she did multiple times.