With a longer hangar deck, it can carry bigger aircraft like the F-35B. Each ship costs $3.4 billion and has been commissioned since 2013. More from Military & Defense The USS America is the first ...

Carrier trials for the U-2R took place aboard the USS America in 1969 ... special handling and even took the airplane down to the hangar deck.” Still, the carrier-based U-2 concept never ...

Built in the 1930s at what was then the Navy’s Moffett airfield, Hangar One housed the USS Macon. At the time, the hangar had the longest span of any building ever constructed, says Keith Venter ...

An MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262 takes off from the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) while ...

It replaces the USS America as the Navy's amphibious assault ship based in ... In its place, the assault carriers have an extended hangar deck and wider high bay areas, which allow more room for ...