USS Langley
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USS Langley was the first American aircraft carrier.
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USS Langley, the first American aircraft carrier, joined the fleet in 1922 and served as the floating laboratory for naval flight operations and technology. The Navy named it after Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley, an early aeronautical experimenter.
Naval aviators and sailors called the Langley the “covered wagon.” The ship reminded them of the wagons used by early settlers of the American West.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (SI 93-7812).
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SI 93-7812
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1922
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