The USS Langley and the dawn of the aircraft carrier In March 1922, the U.S. Navy launched a bold experiment that really took off. Behold its first-ever aircraft carrier.

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

Aircraft carrier was only one of three different missions that USS Langley had before it was sunk in February 1942.

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 ...

Unlike most American warships, USS Langley went through about as many evolutions as the average Pokémon. But it's its carrier role that made it iconic.

It is "unsurprising" that the second ship in a new class of aircraft carriers is delayed, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral ...

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.

The USS Langley was the first step in what would help the Navy — and the United States — project global reach and force. A unique feature of the Langley (among all USN aircraft carriers) was ...

The future USS John F. Kennedy was scheduled to join the fleet this month but now isn’t on track for delivery until March ...

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.

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