| Listing of U.S. Navy Carriers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Comm. | Class | Status |
| CV-1 | Langley | 1922 | Langley-class, lead ship | Sunk, 27 February 1942 65 nm south of Cilacap, Java |
| CV-2 | Lexington | 1927 | Lexington-class, lead ship | Sunk, 8 May 1942 in the Battle of the Coral Sea |
| CV-3 | Saratoga | 1927 | Lexington-class | Sunk, 25 July 1946 in Operation Crossroads as a nuclear test target |
| CV-4 | Ranger | 1934 | Ranger-class, lead ship | Decommissioned: 18 October 1946. Scrapped 1947 |
| CV-5 | Yorktown | 1937 | Yorktown-class, lead ship | Sunk, 7 June 1942 in the Battle of Midway |
| CV-6 | Enterprise | 1938 | Yorktown-class | Decommissioned: 17 February 1947. Scrapped 1960 |
| CV-7 | Wasp | 1940 | Wasp-class, lead ship | Sunk, 15 September 1942 during the Guadalcanal campaign |
| CV-8 | Hornet | 1941 | Yorktown-class | Sunk, 27 October 1942 in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands |
| CV-9 | Essex | 1942 | Essex-class, lead ship | Decommissioned: 30 June 1969. Scrapped 1975 |
| CV-10 | Yorktown | 1943 | Essex-class | Decommissioned: 27 June 1970. Preserved, Patriot’s Point Naval & Maritime Museum—Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA |
| CV-11 | Intrepid | 1943 | Essex-class | Decommissioned: 15 March 1974. Preserved, Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum—New York, New York, USA |
| CV-12 | Hornet | 1943 | Essex-class | Decommissioned: 26 June 1970. Preserved, USS Hornet Museum—Alameda, California, USA |
| CV-13 | Franklin | 1944 | Essex-class | Decommissioned: 17 February 1947. Scrapped 1966 |
| CV-14 | Ticonderoga | 1944 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 1 September 1973. Scrapped 1975 |
| CV-15 | Randolph | 1944 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 13 February 1969. Scrapped 1975 |
| CV-16 | Lexington | 1943 | Essex-class | Decommissioned: 8 November 1991. Preserved, USS Lexington Museum On the Bay— Corpus Christi, Texas, USA |
| CV-17 | Bunker Hill | 1943 | Essex-class | Decommissioned: 9 January 1947. Scrapped 1973 |
| CV-18 | Wasp | 1943 | Essex-class | Decommissioned: 1 July 1972. Scrapped 1973 |
| CV-19 | Hancock | 1944 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 30 January 1976. Scrapped 1976 |
| CV-20 | Bennington | 1944 | Essex-class | Decommissioned: 15 January 1970. Scrapped 1994 |
| CV-21 | Boxer | 1945 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 1 December 1969. Scrapped 1971 |
| CVL-22 | Independence | 1943 | Independence-class light carrier, lead ship | Nuclear test target in Operation Crossroads, July 1946. Decommissioned: 28 August 1946. Scuttled 29 January 1951 |
| CVL-23 | Princeton | 1943 | Independence-class | Sunk, 24 October 1944, Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| CVL-24 | Belleau Wood | 1943 | Independence-class | Transferred to France as Bois Belleau (R97) (1953–1960). Returned to U.S. Scrapped 1960 |
| CVL-25 | Cowpens | 1943 | Independence-class | Decommissioned: 13 January 1947. Scrapped 1960 |
| CVL-26 | Monterey | 1943 | Independence-class | Decommissioned: 16 January 1956. Scrapped 1971 |
| CVL-27 | Langley | 1943 | Independence-class | Transferred to France as La Fayette (R96) (1951–1963). Returned to U.S. Scrapped 1964 |
| CVL-28 | Cabot | 1943 | Independence-class | Transferred to Spain as Dédalo (R-01) (1967–1989). Returned to the U.S. Scrapped 2002 |
| CVL-29 | Bataan | 1943 | Independence-class | Decommissioned: 9 April 1954. Scrapped 1961 |
| CVL-30 | San Jacinto | 1943 | Independence-class | Decommissioned: 1 March 1947. Scrapped 1972 |
| CV-31 | Bon Homme Richard | 1944 | Essex-class | Decommissioned: 2 July 1971. Scrapped 1992 |
| CV-32 | Leyte | 1946 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 15 May 1959. Scrapped 1970 |
| CV-33 | Kearsarge | 1946 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 13 February 1970. Scrapped 1974 |
| CV-34 | Oriskany | 1950 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 30 September 1976. Scuttled as an artificial reef, May 2006 in the Gulf of Mexico |
| CV-35 | Reprisal | Canceled (12 August 1945) | Essex-class (extended bow) | Canceled while under construction. Hull launched in 1946 and used for experiments and explosive tests. Scrapped 1949 |
| CV-36 | Antietam | 1945 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 8 May 1963. Scrapped 28 February 1974 |
| CV-37 | Princeton | 1945 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 30 January 1970. Scrapped 1971 |
| CV-38 | Shangri-la | 1944 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 30 July 1971. Scrapped 1988 |
| CV-39 | Lake Champlain | 1945 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 2 May 1966. Scrapped 1972 |
| CV-40 | Tarawa | 1945 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 13 May 1960. Scrapped 1968 |
| CVB-41 | Midway | 1945 | Midway-class, lead ship | Decommissioned: 11 April 1992. Preserved, USS Midway Museum—San Diego, California, USA |
| CVB-42 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1945 | Midway-class | Decommissioned: 30 September 1977. Scrapped 1978 |
| CVB-43 | Coral Sea | 1947 | Midway-class | Decommissioned: 26 April 1990. Scrapped 2000 |
| CVB-44 | Canceled | Midway-class | Canceled | |
| CV-45 | Valley Forge | 1946 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 15 January 1970. Scrapped 1971 |
| CV-46 | Iwo Jima | Canceled (12 August 1945) | Essex-class (extended bow) | Canceled while under construction. Scrapped 1946 |
| CV-47 | Philippine Sea | 1946 | Essex-class (extended bow) | Decommissioned: 28 December 1958. Scrapped 1971 |
| CVL-48 | Saipan | 1946 | Saipan-class, lead ship | Converted to USS Arlington (AGMR-2) 1966. Decommissioned: 14 January 1970. Scrapped 1976 |
| CVL-49 | Wright | 1947 | Saipan-class | Converted to USS Wright (CC-2) 1963. Decommissioned: 27 May 1970. Scrapped 1980 |
| CV-50 | Canceled | Essex-class (extended bow) | Canceled | |
| CV-51 | Canceled | Essex-class (extended bow) | Canceled | |
| CV-52 | Canceled | Essex-class (extended bow) | Canceled | |
| CV-53 | Canceled | Essex-class (extended bow) | Canceled | |
| CV-54 | Canceled | Essex-class (extended bow) | Canceled | |
| CV-55 | Canceled | Essex-class (extended bow) | Canceled | |
| CVB-56 | Canceled | Midway-class | Canceled | |
| CVB-57 | Canceled | Midway-class | Canceled | |
| CVA-58 | United States | Canceled (23 April 1949) | United States–class supercarrier, lead ship | Canceled five days after the ship’s keel was laid down |
| CV-59 | Forrestal | 1955 | Forrestal-class supercarrier, lead ship | Decommissioned 11 September 1993. Sold for scrapping in Brownsville, Texas. |
| CV-60 | Saratoga | 1956 | Forrestal-class supercarrier | Decommissioned 20 August 1994. To be dismantled. Currently at NAVSTA Newport (Rhode Island); docked at Pier Two, Middletown, RI |
| CV-61 | Ranger | 1957 | Forrestal-class supercarrier | Decommissioned 10 July 1993. On donation hold, docked at NISMF, Bremerton, WA |
| CV-62 | Independence | 1959 | Forrestal-class supercarrier | Decommissioned 30 September 1998. Awaiting disposal, docked at NISMF, Bremerton, WA |
| CV-63 | Kitty Hawk | 1961 | Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier, lead ship | Decommissioned 12 May 2009. In reserve until 2015, docked at NISMF, Bremerton, WA |
| CV-64 | Constellation | 1961 | Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier | Decommissioned 6 August 2003. Awaiting disposal, docked at NISMF, Bremerton, WA |
| CVN-65 | Enterprise | 1961 | Enterprise-class supercarrier, lead ship | Inactive 1 December 2012. Anticipated decommissioning 2015. Awaiting defueling, docked at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, VA. Slated for disposal |
| CV-66 | America | 1965 | Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier | Decommissioned 9 August 1996. Scuttled in 2005 as a live-fire test platform |
| CV-67 | John F. Kennedy | 1968 | Kennedy-class supercarrier, lead ship | Decommissioned 1 August 2007. On donation hold, docked at NISMF, Philadelphia, PA. |
| CVN-68 | Nimitz | 1975 | Nimitz-class supercarrier, lead ship | Active; Homeport: Naval Station Everett, Everett, Washington |
| CVN-69 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1977 | Nimitz-class supercarrier | Active; Homeport: Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia |
| CVN-70 | Carl Vinson | 1982 | Nimitz-class supercarrier | Active; Homeport: Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California |
| CVN-71 | Theodore Roosevelt | 1986 | Nimitz-class supercarrier | Active; Homeport: Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia |
| CVN-72 | Abraham Lincoln | 1989 | Nimitz-class supercarrier | Active; Homeport: Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia |
| CVN-73 | George Washington | 1992 | Nimitz-class supercarrier | Active; Homeport: Yokosuka Naval Base, Yokosuka, Japan |
| CVN-74 | John C. Stennis | 1995 | Nimitz-class supercarrier | Active; Homeport: Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington |
| CVN-75 | Harry S. Truman | 1998 | Nimitz-class supercarrier | Active; Homeport: Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia |
| CVN-76 | Ronald Reagan | 2003 | Nimitz-class supercarrier | Active; Homeport: Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California |
| CVN-77 | George H.W. Bush | 2009 | Nimitz-class supercarrier | Active; Homeport: Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia |
| CVN-78 | Gerald R. Ford | 2015 | Ford-class supercarrier, lead ship | Floated in dry dock 2013; Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
| CVN-79 | John F. Kennedy | ~2020 | Ford-class supercarrier | First steel cut; Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
| CVN-80 | Enterprise | ~2025 | Ford-class supercarrier | Planned; Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |