List of aircraft carriers
List of aircraft carriers
Individual aircraft carriers, by country of operation:
- Argentina (retired)
- Independencia -purchased from UK in 1958, formerly HMCS Warrior, decommissioned 1970
- Veinticinco De Mayo, -purchased in 1968, formerly Netherlands Karel Doorman, formerly UK HMS Venerable, decommissioned 1997.
- Australia (retired)
- note: Australia's last aircraft carrier 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.
- Brazil (retired)
- NAeL Minas Gerais -purchased from UK in 1956, HMS Vengeance, decommissioned 2001.
- Canada (retired)
- note: Canada's last aircraft carrier was decommissioned in 1970. Also, Canada's first two carriers where technically ships of the UK's Royal Navy, and were thus "HMS" (His Majesty's Ships) instead of "HMCS". The UK technically owned the ships, and the RN's Fleet Air Arm provided the aircraft and aircrew, however the ship's crew were all from the Royal Canadian Navy.
- France (active)
- France (retired)
- FS Bearn -decommissioned 1945
- FS Arromaches -purchased from UK, formerly HMS Colossus, decommissioned 1978
- FS Foch - sold to Brazil in 2001 and renamed São Paulo.
- FS Clemenceau - sold to breakers in 2003
- Germany (World War II)
- Graf Zeppelin (never finished)
- India (active)
- INS Viraat -purchased from United Kingdom in 1986, formerly HMS Hermes (R12),
- India (retired)
- INS Vikrant -purchased from United Kingdom in 1986, formerly HMS Hercules, decommissioned 1997
- Italy (active)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Andrea Doria -proposed for 2007
- Japan (World War II)
Only Hosho, Junyo, Kumano Maru, and Ryuho survived the war and these were scrapped by 1948.
- Netherlands (retired)
- Karel Doorman, purchased from the UK in 1948, formerly HMS Venerable, sold in 1968 to Argentina and renamed Veinticinco De Mayo
- Russia (active)
- Soviet Union (retired)
- All of the Kiev class
- Kiew - eventually sold to the People's Republic of China.
- Minsk - eventually sold to the People's Republic of China.
- Novorossisk
- Admiral Gorshkov - currently laid up in Russia, eventually to be sold to the Republic of India.
- Varyag - later owned by Ukraine and sold to the People's Republic of China.
- All of the Kiev class
- Spain (active)
- Spain (retired)
- Dedalo - formerly USS Cabot (CVL-28)
- Thailand (active)
- UK Royal Navy (active)
- UK Royal Navy (retired)
- All of the Illustrious class
- All of the Implacable class
- All of the Colossus class
- HMS Colossus, sold to France in 1946 and renamed FS Arromaches
- HMS Glory
- HMS Ocean
- HMS Theseus
- HMS Thiumph
- HMS Venerable sold to the Netherlands in 1948 and renamed Karel Doorman
- HMS Vengeance, launched 1944, sold to Brazil in 1956 and renamed NAeL Minas Gerais
- HMS Warrior -loaned to Canada as HMCS Warrior, sold to Argentina in 1958 and renamed Independencia
- HMS Perseus
- HMS Pioneer
- All of the Majestic class
- HMS Majestic, sold to Australia in 1955 and renamed HMAS Melbourne
- HMS Hercules, sold to India in 1957 and renamed INS Vikrant
- HMS Leviathan, was never completed
- HMCS Magnificent
- HMS Powerful, sold to Canada in 1952 and renamed HMCS Bonaventure
- HMS Terrible, sold to Australia in 1948 and renamed HMAS Sydney
- All of the Hermes class
- HMS Centaur
- HMS Albion
- HMS Bulwark
- HMS Hermes (R12), sold to India as the INS Viraat
- All of the Eagle class
- UK Royal Navy (planned)
- US Navy (active)
- USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
- USS Constellation (CV-64)
- USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
- USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
- USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
- USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
- USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
- USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
- USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
- USS George Washington (CVN-73)
- USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
- USS Harry S Truman (CVN-75)
- USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
- US Navy (building)
See list of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy for all US carriers past and present.