List of aircraft carriers by configuration

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 But Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR)
• Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (STOBAR)
• Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL)

Navies with CATOBAR carriers

• Chinese Navy
  • Type 003 class – under construction
• French Navy
  • FS Charles de Gaulle
• United States Navy
  • Template:Sclass-
    • 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)
    • USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
  • Template:Sclass- *(equipped with EMALS)
    • USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) *

Navies with STOBAR carriers

• Chinese Navy
  • Type 001 class
    • Liaoning
  • Type 002 class
    • Shandong
• Indian Navy
  • Modified Kiev class
    • INS Vikramaditya
  • Vikrant class
    • INS Vikrant – under construction
• Russian Navy
  • Kuznetsov class
    • Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov

Navies with STOVL carriers

• Italian Navy
  • Cavour
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Trieste – under construction

• Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • Izumo class – to be converted to operate F-35B aircraft
• Royal Navy
  • Queen Elizabeth class
    • HMS Queen Elizabeth
    • HMS Prince of Wales
• Spanish Navy
  • SNS Juan Carlos I
• United States Navy
  • Wasp class
  • America class

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