• List of aircraft carriers by country

• List of aircraft carriers by configuration

• List of aircraft carriers in service

• Timeline for aircraft carrier service

A

• Abraham Lincoln (): Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier; commissioned in 1989; currently in service

• Activity (): Escort aircraft carrier; converted cargo ship hull; served in World War II

• Admiral Gorshkov ( - ): Kiev class hybrid aircraft-carrying cruiser; commissioned in 1982 as Baku, renamed in 1990, and retired in 1996; sold to India to become INS Vikramaditya

• Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov (): Admiral Kuznetsov class STOBAR aircraft carrier; launched in 1985 as Tblisi; renamed and operational from 1995; currently in service

• Akagi (): Fleet carrier; converted Amagi class battlecruiser; commissioned in 1927; sunk at the Battle of Midway 4 June 1942

• Akitsu Maru () launched 24 Nov. 1941 sunk by USS Queenfish (SS-393) 15 November 1944

• Albatross (): Seaplane carrier commissioned from 1928 to 1933

• Albion (): Centaur class aircraft carrier; launched in 1947; converted into a commando carrier in 1962; sold in 1973

• Altamaha (): Bogue class escort carrier; commissioned in 1942 and immediately transferred to the United Kingdom as HMS Battler

• Amagi (): Fleet carrier; converted Amagi class battlecruiser; destroyed in 1923 Great Kantō earthquake;

• Amagi (): Unryū class light fleet carrier; built in 1944; sunk in 1945

• America (): Kitty Hawk class supercarrier; commissioned from 1965 to 1996

• Antietam (): Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned from 1945 to 1963

• Aquila (): Converted liner Roma begun in 1941; construction stopped in 1943; broken up in the 1950s

• Archer (): Long Island class escort aircraft carrier; commissioned in 1941; became Empire Lagan aircraft ferry in 1944; returned to the United States in 1946

• Ark Royal (): Fleet carrier in service from 1939; sunk in 1941

• Ark Royal (): Audacious class carrier in service from 1955 to 1978

• Ark Royal (): Invincible class STOVL carrier in service from 1985

• Arromanches: (): Colossus class light carrier in service from 1946 to 1974

• Attacker (): Bogue class escort carrier; former USS Barnes; commissioned from 1942 to 1946 when returned

• Avenger (): Sunk in 1942

B

• Baku (): 42,000 ton Kiev class hybrid aircraft-carrying cruiser. Commissioned in 1982 and renamed Admiral Gorshkov on 4 October 1990.

• Barnes (): 14,400 ton Bogue class escort carrier, commissioned 30 September 1942 and immediately transferred to the United Kingdom as HMS Attacker.

• Bataan (): 11,000 Independence class light carrier, commissioned 17 November 1943 through 9 April 1954.

• Battler (): 14,400 ton Bogue class escort carrier, former USS Altamaha, commissioned 31 October 1942 through 12 February 1946 when returned to the United States.

• Béarn (): Converted Normandie class battleship in service from 1927 to 1948

• Belleau Wood (): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, commissioned 31 March 1943 through 13 January 1947, later transferred to France as Bois Belleau.

• Bennington (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 6 August 1944 through 15 January 1970.

• Bismarck Sea (): 7800 ton Casablanca class escort aircraft carrier. Commissioned 20 May 1944 and sunk 21 Feb 1945 by kamikaze attack off Iwo Jima.

• Biter (): Charger class escort carrier in service from 1940 to 1945

• Block Island (): 9800 ton Bogue class escort aircraft carrier. Commissioned 8 March 1943 and sunk 29 May 1944 off the Canary Islands by U-549.

• Bogue (): 9800 ton Bogue class escort carrier. Commissioned 26 September 1942.

• Bon Homme Richard ((): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 26 November 1941 through 2 July 1971.

• Bonaventure (): 16,000 ton Majestic class light aircraft carrier. Acquired from the United Kingdom as the incomplete HMS Powerful after 1950, commissioned 15 January 1957, decommissioned 3 July 1970, and broken up in 1971.

• Boxer (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 16 April 1945 through 1 December 1969.

• Bulwark (): Centaur class aircraft carrier; launched in 1948; converted into a commando carrier in 1960

• Bunker Hill (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 24 May 1943 through 9 January 1947.

C

• Cabot (): Independence class light carrier; commissioned from 1943 to 1955; transferred to Spain as Dédalo

• Campania ()

• Campinas (): Seaplane carrier; launched 1896 and converted from merchant ship in 1915; fate unknown

• Carl Vinson (): Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier; commissioned in 1982; currently in active service

• Casablanca (): Casablanca class escort carrier; commissioned from 1943 to 1946

• Cavour (): V/STOL aircraft carrier; former Andrea Doria; commissioned in 2008

• Chakri Naruebet (): Modified Principe de Asturias V/STOL aircraft carrier; commissioned 10 August 1997; currently in active service

• Charles De Gaulle (): Nuclear powered aircraft carrier commissioned 2001

• Chitose (): sunk in 1944.

• Chiyoda () : Sunk 25 October 1944

• Chuyo ():Torpedoed and sunk by submarine Sailfish near the Home Islands, 4 Dec 1943

• Clemenceau (): Clemenceau class carrier commissioned from 1961 to 1997

• Colossus (): Colossus class aircraft carrier

• Commandant Teste (): Seaplane tender and aircraft transport commissioned from 1932 to 1942

• Commencement Bay (): Commencement Bay class escort carrier

• Constellation (): Kitty Hawk class supercarrier; commissioned from 1961 to 2003

• Courageous (): Sunk in 1939

• Coral Sea (): Midway class fleet carrier; commissioned from 1947 to 1990

• Cowpens (): Independence class light carrier; commissioned from 1943 to 1947

D

• Dasher (): 8200 ton aircraft carrier, sunk March 27, 1943

• Dedalo (, 1918): (ex-British merchantman Neuenfels, converted to seaplane carrier in Spain 22 October 1918) - Sunk 18 July 1937

• Dédalo (, 1967): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, former USS Cabot, served from 1967 through August 1989.

• Dixmude (): Charger class light carrier in service from 1945 to 1966

• Dristigheten (): 2,270 ton seaplane tender. Converted from coastal defence ship in 1927-1928.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower (): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 18 October 1977.

E

• Eagle (): Aircraft carrier sunk in 1942

• Eagle (): Audacious class aircraft carrier in service from 1951 to 1972

• Empire MacAlpine (): Merchant Aircraft Carrier converted from a grain hauler

• Enterprise (CV-6) (): Yorktown class fleet carrier commissioned from 1938 to 17 February 1947

• Enterprise (CV-65) (): Unique nuclear-powered supercarrier in service since 1961

• Essex (): Essex class aircraft carrier commissioned from 1942 to 1969

• Europa (): Converted merchant cancelled during conversion in 1942

• Europa (): (1895) (merchantman converted to seaplane carrier) stricken 1920

F

• Flugzeugträger B (): Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carrier; laid down in 1938; cancelled in 1939 and scrapped in 1940

• Foch (): Clemenceau class carrier; commissioned from 1963 to 2000; sold to Brazil as NAeL São Paulo

• Forrestal (): Forrestal class supercarrier, commissioned from 1955 to 1993

• Foudre (): Seaplane carrier; stricken in 1921

• Franklin (): Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned from 1944 to 1947

• Franklin D. Roosevelt (): Midway class fleet carrier, commissioned from 1945 to 1977

• Furious ()

G

• George H. W. Bush (): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier under construction, laid down 6 December 2005.

• George Washington (): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 4 July 1992.

• Georges Pompidou (): (tentative name) modified version of UK Queen Elizabeth class design

• Giuseppe Garibaldi (): (1983) - Fleet flagship

• Giuseppe Miraglia (): (1923) (seaplane carrier) BU 1950

• Glorious (): 22,500 ton aircraft carrier, sunk June 8, 1940

• Gotland (): 4,600 ton seaplane cruiser, originally planned as a through-deck seaplane carrier. Launched 1933, commissioned 1934 and converted into an anti-aircraft cruiser in 1944.

• Graf Zeppelin (): (1938) (not completed) - Captured by the USSR April 1945 but not used as a carrier. Sank after used as bomb & torpedo target by USSR, August 1947.

H

• Hancock (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 15 April 1944 through 30 January 1976.

• Harry S. Truman (): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 25 July 1998.

• Hermes (): 10,850 ton aircraft carrier, sunk April 9, 1942

• Hermes () (1959): Centaur class aircraft carrier built in 1944-1959. In service until 1984 with Royal Navy, and then transferred to India as Viraat

• Hiyō () launched 24 June 1941 and commissioned 31 July 1942 sunk 21 June 1944

• Hiryū () launched 15 November 1937, commissioned 5 July 1939, sunk at the Battle of Midway 5 June 1942.

• Hornet CV-8 (): 25,600 ton Yorktown class fleet carrier, commissioned 20 October 1941 and sunk 27 October 1942.

• Hornet CV-12 (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 29 November 1943 through 26 June 1970. Currently a floating museum in Alameda, CA USA

• Hōshō ()

I

• Illustrious (): 23,000 ton Illustrious class aircraft carrier, decommissioned 1954.

• Illustrious (): 20,600 ton Invincible class aircraft carrier commissioned 20 June 1982.

• Implacable (): Implacable class aircraft carrier

• Indefatigable (): Implacable class aircraft carrier

• Independence (CVL-22) (): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, commissioned 14 January 1943 through 28 August 1946.

• Independence (CV-62) (): 81,100 ton Forrestal class supercarrier, commissioned 10 January 1959 through 30 September 1998.

• Independencia (): 18,300 ton Colossus class aircraft carrier. Purchased as HMS Warrior from the United Kingdom in 1958 and decommissioned 1970, broken up.

• Intrepid (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 16 August 1943 through 15 March 1974.

• Invincible (): 20,600 ton Invincible class aircraft carrier commissioned 11 July 1980. Decommissioned 3 August 2005.

• Iwo Jima (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, construction cancelled 12 August 1945 and scrapped.

J

• Joffre (): Joffre class fleet carrier never launched

• John C. Stennis (): Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in service since 1995

• John F. Kennedy (): Modified Kitty Hawk class supercarrier in service from 1968-2007

• Junyō ()

K

• Kaga (): 38,200 ton converted Tosa-class fast battleship hull, commissioned 17 November 1921. Sunk 4 June 1942, Battle of Midway.

• Kaiyo (): ex-liner Argentina Maru, converted to 13,600 ton escort carrier in 1943. Scrapped 1946 to 1948.

• Hr.Ms. Karel Doorman (Netherlands): (ex-British HMS Nairana, transferred in 1946) - Returned to Royal Navy for disposal in 1948 and replaced by HMS Venerable

• Katsuragi (): 28,300 ton Unryū-class carrier, commissioned 10 August 1944. Scrapped 1947.

• Kearsarge (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 2 March 1946 through 13 February 1970.

• Kiev (): (1972) BU 2000 china

• Kitty Hawk (): 80,000 ton Kitty Hawk class supercarrier, commissioned 21 April 1961 and retired on 31 January 2009).

• Kumano Maru ()

L

• La Fayette (): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, former USS Langley, serving from 1951 through 1963.

• Lake Champlain (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 3 June 1945 through 2 May 1966.

• Langley (): 11,500 ton light aircraft carrier and seaplane tender, commissioned from 20 March 1922 through 27 February 1942 when sunk.

• Langley (): 11,000 ton Independence class light carrier, commissioned 31 August 1943 through 11 February 1947, later transferred to France as La Fayette.

• Leningrad ()

• Lexington (): 33,000 ton Lexington class fleet carrier, commissioned from 14 December 1927 through 8 May 1942 when sunk.

• Lexington (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned from 17 February 1943 through 8 November 1991.

• Leyte (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 11 April 1946 through 15 May 1959.

• Long Island (): 13,500 ton Long Island class escort carrier, commissioned 2 June 1941 through 26 March 1946.

M

• Magnificent (): Commissioned 1946 to 1956 and returned to the Royal Navy in 1957 and placed in reserve; stricken in 1965 and scrapped

• Melbourne (): Majestic class aircraft carrier commissioned 1955 to 1982

• Midway (): Midway class aircraft carrier, commissioned 1945 to 1992; now a museum ship

• Minas Gerais (): Colossus class light carrier, commissioned from 1960 to 2001

• Minsk (): Commissioned from 1975; towed to People's Republic of China in 1998 for use as casino

• Monterey (): Independence class light carrier; commissioned 1943 to 1956

• Moskva ()

• Myoho ()

N

• HMCS Nabob (): (1943) - BU in Taiwan around 1977

• Nairana (): 11,420 ton aircraft carrier

• Nigitsu Maru ()

• Nimitz (): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 3 May 1975.

• Nord (1898) (merchantman converted to seaplane carrier) fate unknown

• Novorossiysk (): (1978) BU 1997 South Korea

O

• Ocean (): Colossus class aircraft carrier

• Onuyo (): 17,830 ton aircraft carrier

• Oriskany (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 25 September 1950 through 30 September 1975, scuttled as reef 17 May 2006, Florida.

P

• Painleve (): Planned Joffre class fleet carrier never laid down

• Pas-de-Calais (1898) (merchantman converted to seaplane carrier) fate unknown

• Peter Straßer (): Graf Zeppelin class carrier never launched

• PH 75 (): Planned nuclear-powered amphibious assault ship never laid down

• Philippine Sea (): Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned from 1946 to 1958

• Powerful (): Majestic class carrier

• Princeton (): Independence class light carrier, commissioned in 1943 and sunk in 1944

• Princeton (): Essex class aircraft carrier, commissioned from 1945 to 1970

• Principe de Asturias (): STOL carrier in service since 1988

• Puncher (): Bogue class escort carrier commissioned from 1944 to 1946

R

• Randolph (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 9 October 1944 through 13 February 1969.

• Ranger (): 14,500 ton aircraft carrier, commissioned 4 June 1934 through 18 October 1946, sold for scrap.

• Ranger (): 81,100 ton Forrestal class supercarrier, commissioned 10 August 1957 through 10 July 1993.

• Reprisal (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, laid down 1 July 1944 but cancelled 12 August 1945.

• Ronald Reagan (): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in active service, commissioned 12 July 2003.

• Rouen (1912) (merchantman converted to seaplane carrier) captured by Germany 1940s

• Ruler class (): 11,420 ton aircraft carrier class of 24

• Ryuho ()

• Ryūjō ()

S

• Sable (): freshwater aircraft carrier of the United States Navy during World War II

• Saipan (): Saipan class light carrier commissioned from 1946 to 1965

• San Jacinto (): Independence class light carrier commissioned from 1943 to 1947

• São Paulo (): Clemenceau class carrier, commissioned since 2000

• Saratoga (): Lexington class fleet carrier, commissioned from 1927 to 1946

• Saratoga (): Forrestal class supercarrier, commissioned from 1956 to 1994

• Seydlitz (): Converted Admiral Hipper class cruiser, cancelled during conversion in 1943

• Shangri-La (): Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned from 1944 to 1971

• Shimane Maru ()

• Shinano ()

• Shinyo ()

• Shōhō ()

• Shōkaku ()

• Sōryū () Launched 23 December 1935 commissioned 29 December 1937 sunk at the Battle of Midway 4 June 1942

• Sparviero (): Converted liner Augustus sunk during construction in 1944

• Surcouf (): Aircraft carrying submarine in service from 1934 to 1942

• Sydney (): Majestic class carrier commissioned from 1948 to 1973

T

• Taihō ()

• Taiyō ()

• Tarawa (): Essex class fleet carrier commissioned from 1945 to 1960

• Terrible (): Majestic class aircraft carrier completed as HMAS Sydney

• Theodore Roosevelt (): Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier commissioned since 1986

• Tbilisi (): Original name for Admiral Kuznetsov

• Ticonderoga (): Essex class fleet carrier commissioned 1944 to 1973

U

• Ulyanovsk () (-) (not completed) BU 1992. A sister ship was probably planned.

• United States (): 68,000 ton unique super-heavy aircraft carrier, laid down 18 April 1949, but cancelled 23 April 1949.

• Unryū ()

• Unyo ()

V

• Valley Forge (): Essex class fleet carrier; commissioned 1946 to 1970

• Varyag ( - - ): Admiral Kuznetsov class STOBAR aircraft carrier; Former Riga; launched in 1988; later owned by Ukraine and sold to the People's Republic of China for use as entertainment complex and transferred there in 2002

• Veinticinco de Mayo (): Colossus class aircraft carrier commissioned from 1968 to 1997

• Vengeance ( - ): Colossus class light carrier commissioned 1945 to 1955

• Verdun (): Planned attack carrier cancelled during development in 1961

• Victorious (): 29,000 ton Illustrious class aircraft carrier, commissioned 1941 to 1968.

• Vikramaditya (): Former Admiral Gorshkov planned to enter service in 2012

• Vikrant (): Former HMS Hercules; commissioned 1957 to 1997 for preservation at a museum at Mumbai.

• Vikrant (Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (Project 71) (): 37,500 ton aircraft carrier Under construction; planned commissioning in 2012. Two will be built.

• Vindex ()

• Viraat (): Former HMS Hermes; purchased in 1986

W

• HMCS Warrior (): (1944) - Returned to Britain 1948, sold to Argentina 1958 and renamed Independencia, BU 1971

• Wasp (CV-7) (): 14,700 ton unique aircraft carrier, commissioned 25 May 1940 through 15 September 1942 when sunk.

• Wasp (CV-18) (): 27,100 ton Essex class fleet carrier, commissioned 24 November 1943 through 1 July 1972.

• Wright (): 14,500 ton Saipan class light carrier, commissioned 9 February 1947 through 27 May 1970.

• Wolverine (): 7,200 ton unique aircraft carrier, commissioned 12 August 1942 through 1945.

Y

• Yamashiro Maru (): Sank by US Aircraft 17 February 1945

• Yorktown (CV-5) (): 19,900 ton Yorktown class aircraft carrier, commissioned 30 September 1937 through 7 June 1942 when sunk.

• Yorktown (CV-10) (): 27,500 ton Essex class aircraft carrier, commissioned 15 April 1943 through 27 June 1970, became a museum ship.

Z

• Zuihō (): sunk in 1944.

• Zuikaku (): sunk in 1944.