List of aircraft carriers in service

This list of aircraft carriers contains all aircraft carriers which are currently in service, listed alphabetically by country

For listings by other methods, see:

• List of all aircraft carriers
• List of aircraft carriers by country
• List of aircraft carriers by type

Brazil

• NAeL São Paulo: 24,200 ton (ex-French FS Foch, purchased 2001)

France

• FS Charles de Gaulle: 40,600 tons nuclear powered, commissioned 18 May 2001

India

• INS Viraat: 28,000 tons ex-British HMS Hermes (R12), commissioned 1953 and purchased 19 April 1986

Italy

• MM Giuseppe Garibaldi: (1983) 13,850 tons Italian STOVL fleet flagship

Russia

• Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov: 66,000 tons Admiral Kuznetsov class STOBAR aircraft carrier. Launched in 1985 as Tbilisi, renamed and operational from 1995.

Spain

• Principe de Asturias: 13,400 tons, STOVL, commissioned 30 May 1988.

Thailand

• HTMS Chakri Nareubet: 10,000 tons multi-role carrier based on Spanish Principe De Asturias design. Commissioned 10 August 1997. Though remains predominantly inactive due to lack of funds.

United Kingdom

• HMS Illustrious (R06): 20,600 tons Invincible STOVL class aircraft carrier, commissioned 20 June 1982
• HMS Ark Royal (R07): 20,600 tons Invincible STOVL class aircraft carrier in service from 1985

United States

• USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63): 60,000 ton, non-nuclear carrier. Commissioned 21 April 1961. Due for retirement in 2007.
• USS Enterprise (CVN-65): 85,600 ton unique nuclear-powered supercarrier, commissioned 25 November 1961. First nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in service.
• USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67): 80,000 ton, non-nuclear multi-role carrier. Commissioned 7 September 1968.
• USS Nimitz (CVN-68): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 3 May 1975.
• USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 18 October 1977.
• USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier. Commissioned 13 March 1982.
• USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 25 October 1986.
• USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72): 104,000-ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier. Commissioned 11 November 1989
• USS George Washington (CVN-73): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 4 July 1992.
• USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74): Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 9 December 1995.
• USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75): 104,000 ton Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier in active service, commissioned 25 July 1998.
• USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76): The ninth 104,000 ton Nimitz-class nuclear powered supercarrier, in active service, commissioned 12 July 2003.