The FM-2 Wildcat, previously on display at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, is being added to the Hickory Aviation Museum’s collection of airplanes.
The lead ship of the class, USS Nimitz (CVN-68), nicknamed "Old Salt" and commissioned in May 1975, was named after Admiral Chester Nimitz, who led the U.S. Navy through the Second World War.
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This warship fought throughout the Cold War and has recently served on a record seven month deployment.
Despite the rivalry between the United States Army and United States Navy, few sailors seem to complain that they’re deployed on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named for the former General of the Army and later President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower. Commissioned in 1977, the USS
Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is the second of the ten
Nimitz-class aircraft carriers currently in service.
Originally named USS
Eisenhower, much like the lead ship USS
Nimitz, during the construction the name was changed to the present form. As with the other carriers of her class, she was constructed at Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Virginia and since entering service has been overhauled twice. USS
Nimitz-class carrier in service with the United States Navy, the nuclear-powered USS
Carl Vinson (CVN-70) was launched in 1980 and entered service in 1983. As with other carriers in her class, CVN-70 can carry more than 65 fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, while she can travel more than 5,000 nautical miles in less than 7 days in support of national tasking.
The carrier has a notable combat record and was deployed during Operational Desert Strike, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Southern Watch and Operation Enduring Freedom. The carrier was also deployed twice to the Western Pacific in 2017 and 2018 respectively and was the carrier that supported the F-35C tests during the Rim of the Pacific 2018 exercise.