Modern Aircraft Carriers & Helicopter Carriers: Active Ships in Service - Illustrated

Modern Aircraft Carriers & Helicopter Carriers This book contains drawings of aircraft carriers currently in service with navies around the world. I decided to include helicopter carriers as they pack quite a punch these days. There are many types of aircraft carriers.

29 April 2023 update: Added USS Lewis B Puller Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESB-3).

20 April 2023 update: Added listing of Active Aircraft Carriers with some specs. Added models of ROKS Dokdo Amphibious Assault Ship (LPH-6111) and QENS Al Fulk (L141).

15 April 2023 update: Added models of the Ivan Rogov Amphibious Assault Ship and the HTMS Chakri Naruebet Light Aircraft Carrier.

Kalaat Beni Abbes Amphibious Transport Dock (L-474)

USS Nimitz (CVN-68)

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)

USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)

USS George Washington (CVN-73)

USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)

USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)

USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)

USS Enterprise (CVN-80)

USS Doris Miller (CVN-81)

CVN-82 (Laid down 2030)

CVN-83 (planned)

CVN-84 (planned)

CVN-85 (planned)

CVN-86 (planned)

CVN-87 (planned)

USS America Amphibious Assault Ship (LHA-6)

USS Tripoli (LHA-7)

USS Wasp Amphibious Assault Ship (LHD-1)

USS Essex (LHD-2)

USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

USS Boxer (LHD-4)

USS Bataan (LHD-5)

USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7)

USS Makin Island (LHD-8)

USS Lewis B Puller (ESB-3)

HMAS Adelaide Helicopter Carrier (L01)

HMAS Canberra Helicopter Carrier (L02)

HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier (R08)

HMS Prince of Wales Aircraft Carrier (R09)

NAe São Paulo Aircraft Carrier (A12)

NAM Atlantico Helicopter Carrier (A140)

Liaoning Aircraft Cruiser (CV-16)

Shandong Aircraft Cruiser (CV-17)

Fujian Aircraft Carrier (CV-18)

Fujian Class Aircraft Carrier (CV-19)

Zheng He Aircraft Carrier (CVN-20)

Type 004 Class (CVN-21) (Planned)

Hainan Landing Helicopter Assault (31)

Guangxi Landing Helicopter Assault (32)

Anhui Landing Helicopter Assault (33)

Type 076 Landing Helicopter Assault

ENS Gamal Abdel Nasser Landing Helicopter Assault (L1010)

ENS Anwar El Sadat Helicopter Carrier (L1020)

Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier (R91)

Mistral Landing Helicopter Carrier (L9013)

Tonnerre Amphibious Helicopter Carrier (L9014)

Dixmude Amphibious Helicopter Carrier (L9015)

INS Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier (R33)

INS Vikrant Aircraft Carrier (R11)

INS Vishal (IAC-2)

Portaerei Cavour Aircraft Carrier (550)

Trieste Landing Helicopter Dock (L9890)

Giuseppe Garibaldi Anti-Submarine Warfare Carrier (551)

San Giorgio Amphibious Transport Dock (L 9892)

San Marco Amphibious Transport Dock (L 9893)

San Giusto Amphibious Transport Dock (L 9894)

JS Izumo Helicopter Carrying Destroyer (DDH-183)

JS Kaga Helicopter Destroyer (DDH-184)

JS Hyuga Helicopter Destroyer (DDH 181)

JS Ise Helicopter Destroyer (DDH-182)

JMSDF Osumi Kure Tank Landing Ship (LST-4001)

JMSDF Shimokita Tank Landing Ship (LST 4002)

JMSDF Kunisaki Tank Landing Ship (LST 4003)

QENS Al Fulk (L141) Launched January 2023

Admiral Kuznetsov Aircraft Cruiser

Ivan Rogov Amphibious Assault Ship

Mitrofan Moskalenko Amphibious Assault Ship

ROKS Dokdo Amphibious Assault Ship (LPH-6111)

ROKS Marado Amphibious Assault Ship (LPH-6112)

Juan Carlos I Amphibious Assault Ship (L61)

HTMS Chakri Naruebet Light Aircraft Carrier (911)

TCG Anadolu Landing Helicopter Dock (L-400)

TCG Trakya

Eventually, China will field vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL), short take-off and landing (STOL), short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL), and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.