List of aircraft carriers

List of aircraft carriers

Individual aircraft carriers, by country of operation:

• Argentina (retired)
  • Independencia[?] -decommissioned 1970
  • Veinticinco De Mayo[?] -decommissioned 1997

• Australia (retired)
• note: Australia's last aircraft carrier fleet was decommissioned in 1982. The current Sydney and Melbourne are guided missile frigates, and the current Albatross is a naval base on land near Nowra[?].
  • HMAS Albatross[?]
  • HMAS Sydney
  • HMAS Vengeance[?]
  • HMAS Melbourne

• Brazil (active)
  • Minas Gerais[?], purchased from UK in 1956, formerly HMS Vengeance, decommissioned 2001.
  • São Paulo[?] - purchased from France in 2001, formerly Foch.

• Canada (retired)
• note: Canada's last aircraft carrier was decommissioned in 1970.
  • HMCS Nabob[?]
  • HMCS Puncher[?]
  • HMCS Warrior[?]
  • HMCS Magnificent[?]
  • HMCS Bonaventure

• France (active)
  • FS Charles de Gaulle[?]

• France (retired)
  • FS Foch[?] - sold to Brazil in 2001 and renamed São Paulo.
  • FS Clemenceau[?]

• India (active)
  • INS Vikrant -decommissioned 1997
  • INS Viraat[?]

• Italy (active)
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi[?]
  • Andrea Doria[?] -proposed for 2007

• Japan (World War II)
  • Akagi
  • Akitsu Maru[?]
  • Amagi[?]
  • Chitose[?]
  • Chiyoda[?]
  • Chuyo[?]
  • Hiyo[?]
  • Hiryu
  • Hosho[?]
  • Junyo[?]
  • Kaga
  • Kaiyo[?]
  • Katsuragi[?]
  • Kumano Maru[?]
  • Nigitsu Maru[?]
  • Ryuho[?]
  • Ryujo[?]
  • Shokaku
  • Shimane Maru[?]
  • Shinano[?]
  • Shinyo[?]
  • Shoho[?]
  • Shokaku
  • Soryu
  • Taiho[?]
  • Taiyo[?]
  • Unryu[?]
  • Unyo[?]
  • Yamashiro Maru[?]
  • Zuiho[?]
  • Zuikaku

Only Hosho, Junyo, Kumano Maru, and Ryuho survived the war and these were scrapped by 1948.

• Netherlands (retired)
  • Karel Doorman[?] 1948-1968

• Russia (active)
  • Admiral Flota Svetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov

• Soviet Union (retired)
  • Varyag - later owned by Ukraine and sold to China.

• Spain (active)
  • Principe de Asturias

• Thailand (active)
  • Chakri Nareubet

• UK Royal Navy (active)
  • All of the Invincible class
    • HMS Ark Royal (R07)
    • HMS Illustrious (R06)[?]
    • HMS Invincible (R05)

• UK Royal Navy (retired)
  • HMS Argus[?]
  • HMS Furious[?]
  • HMS Glorious
  • HMS Hermes (1923)
  • HMS Hermes (R12), sold to India as the INS Viraat[?]
  • HMS Vengeance[?], launched 1944, sold to Brazil in 1956 and renamed Minas Gerais.

• US Navy (active)
  • USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
  • USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
  • USS Constellation (CV-64)
  • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
  • USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
  • USS George Washington (CVN-73)
  • USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)[?]
  • USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
  • USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
  • USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
  • USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
  • USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)

• US Navy (under construction)
  • USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

• US Navy (planned)
  • USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77)

See list of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy for all US carriers past and present.