USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3), and also the US Navy's first turbo-electric-powered ship.

USS Langley (CV-1) became the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier when commissioned in March 1922. She was converted from USS Jupiter (Collier #3), which was the U.S. Navy's first surface ship...

2024年6月20日 · Developed from the Proteus -class collier Jupiter, USS Langley (CV-1) was converted into America’s first aircraft carrier and was recommissioned on 20 March 1922 with Commander Kenneth Whiting...

2025年3月2日 · With USS West Virginia (BB-48) and the Manhattan Bridge in the background, the loaded, narrow flight deck of the airplane carrier USS Langley (CV‑1) is moored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in May 1927. Langley had suffered a generator explosion and was in the process of being repaired after having been towed to the Navy Yard.

2019年1月20日 · Developed from the 1911 collier USS Jupiter, the USS Langley became the CV-1, first aircraft carrier of the USN, multiplying tests and training airmen.

2014年3月20日 · After World War I, in which USS Jupiter earned the World War I Victory Medal, the ship that was already the first electrically-powered, would be transformed into another first: the nation's first aircraft carrier. After sailing into Norfolk, …

USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3), and also the U.S. Navy's first electrically propelled ship.

Early in the morning February 27, 1942, USS Langley rendezvoused with her antisubmarine screen, destroyers USS Whipple and USS Edsall. At 1140 nine twin-engine enemy bombers attacked her.

2008年4月8日 · USS Langley (CV-1) at anchor off Christobal, Panama Canal Zone, 1 March 1930. She has 24 aircraft on her flight deck. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

On 20 March 1922, less than two decades after Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first successful sustained flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier: the 11,500 ton Langley (CV-1). USS Langley (CV-1) at anchor with an Aeromarine 39-B airplane landing on her flight deck, circa 1922.