Truman leaves Norfolk shipyard after first of its kind maintenance availability The aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman transits the Arabian Sea in February 2020. (MC2 Scott Swofford/Navy) The aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman left Norfolk Naval Shipyard Wednesday following the conclusion of a first-ever extended carrier incremental availability, which began last year after the ship completed its third deployment in four years. Truman arrived back in Norfolk last spring but was kept at sea for several months to prevent COVID-19 infection during the sustainment phase of its deployment cycle. It went into the yard July 7 for what a Navy press release called the “Truman Project,” which involved “a record-breaking quantity of maintenance work and multiple equipment testing evolutions never previously attempted during a maintenance availability.”
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