A hook releaseman signals downlock instructions after the arresting cable has been disengaged from an F/A-18A Hornet aircraft aboard the aircraft carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CV 64). The Strike Fighter Squadron 25 aircraft is armed with an ATM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile on the right wing tip and an ATM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile on the right nacelle fuselage station
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Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Alex C. Hicks
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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Date
01/01/1995
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The U.S. National Archives
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