List of aircraft carriers in service by configuration

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The list of aircraft carriers by configuration contains active aircraft carriers organized by the specific configuration of aircraft carrier designs. This list excludes seaplane carriers or helicopter carriers.

Carrier configurations

There are three main configurations of aircraft carrier in service in the worlds navies:

• Catapult Assisted Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR)
• Short Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery (STOBAR)
• Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL)

Navies with CATOBAR carriers

• French Navy
  • FS Charles de Gaulle
• United States Navy
  • Nimitz class
    • USS Nimitz
    • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
    • USS Carl Vinson
    • USS Theodore Roosevelt
    • USS Abraham Lincoln
    • USS George Washington
    • USS John C. Stennis
    • USS Harry S. Truman
    • USS Ronald Reagan
    • USS George H.W. Bush
  • Gerald R. Ford class *(equipped with EMALS)
    • USS Gerald R. Ford *

Navies with STOBAR carriers

• Chinese Navy
  • Type 001 - Modified Kuznetsov class
    • Liaoning
  • Type 002 - Modified Kuznetsov class
    • Shandong
• Indian Navy
  • Modified Kiev class
    • INS Vikramaditya
  • Vikrant class
    • INS Vikrant
• Russian Navy
  • Kuznetsov class
    • RFS Admiral Kuznetsov

Navies with STOVL carriers

• Iranian Navy
  • IRIS Shahid Bagheri
• Italian Navy
  • ITS Cavour
  • ITS Trieste
• Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • Izumo class
    • JS Izumo
    • JS Kaga
• Royal Navy
  • Queen Elizabeth class
    • HMS Queen Elizabeth
    • HMS Prince of Wales
• Spanish Navy
  • Juan Carlos I class
    • SNS Juan Carlos I
• Turkish Navy
  • Juan Carlos I class
    • TCG Anadolu
• United States Navy
  • Wasp class
    • USS Wasp
    • USS Essex
    • USS Kearsarge
    • USS Boxer
    • USS Bataan
    • USS Iwo Jima
    • USS Makin Island
  • America class
    • USS America
    • USS Tripoli

See also

• List of amphibious warfare ships
• List of aircraft carriers
• List of aircraft carriers in service
• Timeline for aircraft carrier service
• List of aircraft carriers by country
• Helicopter Carrier