This list of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy includes all types in the main hull numbering sequence, consisting of hull classification symbols CV, CVA, CVB, CVL, and CVN. All units after CVA-57 are supercarriers.

For the smaller escort aircraft carriers (CVE), please see list of escort aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.

By hull number USS Langley (CV-1) (CV-1) Langley (CV-2) Lexington (CV-3) Saratoga (CV-4) Ranger (CV-5) Yorktown (CV-6) Enterprise (CV-7) Wasp (CV-8) Hornet (CV-9) Essex (CV-10) Yorktown (CV-11) Intrepid (CV-12) Hornet (CV-13) Franklin (CV-14) Ticonderoga (CV-15) Randolph (CV-16) Lexington (CV-17) Bunker Hill (CV-18) Wasp (CV-19) Hancock (CV-20) Bennington (CV-21) Boxer (CVL-22) Independence (CVL-23) Princeton (CVL-24) Belleau Wood (CVL-25) Cowpens (CVL-26) Monterey (CVL-27) Langley (CVL-28) Cabot (CVL-29) Bataan (CVL-30) San Jacinto (CV-31) Bonhomme Richard (CV-32) Leyte (CV-33) Kearsarge (CV-34) Oriskany (CV-35) Reprisal (CV-36) Antietam (CV-37) Princeton (CV-38) Shangri-la (CV-39) Lake Champlain (CV-40) Tarawa USS Midway (CVB-41) (CVB-41) Midway (CVB-42) Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-43) Coral Sea CVB-44 cancelled (CV-45) Valley Forge (CV-46) Iwo Jima (CV-47) Philippine Sea (CVL-48) Saipan (CVL-49) Wright CV-50 to CV-57 cancelled (CVA-58) United States (CVA-59) Forrestal (CVA-60) Saratoga (CVA-61) Ranger (CV-62) Independence (CV-63) Kitty Hawk (CV-64) Constellation (CVN-65) Enterprise (CVA-66) America (CV-67) John F. Kennedy (CVN-68) Nimitz (CVN-69) Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-70) Carl Vinson (CVN-71) Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-72) Abraham Lincoln (CVN-73) George Washington (CVN-74) John C. Stennis (CVN-75) Harry S. Truman (CVN-76) Ronald Reagan (CVN-77) George H. W. Bush CVN-78 (unnamed, planned for 2013)) CVN-79 (unnamed, planned for 2019)

By name Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) America (CVA-66) Antietam (CV-36) Bataan (CVL-29) Belleau Wood (CVL-24) Bennington (CV-20) Bonhomme Richard (CV-31) Boxer (CV-21) Bunker Hill (CV-17) Cabot (CVL-28) Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Constellation (CV-64) Coral Sea (CVB-43) Cowpens (CVL-25) Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) USS Enterprise (CV-6) Enterprise (CV-6) Enterprise (CVN-65) Essex (CV-9) Forrestal (CVA-59) Franklin (CV-13) Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) George Washington (CVN-73) Hancock (CV-19) Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) Hornet (CV-8) Hornet (CV-12) Independence (CVL-22) Independence (CV-62) Intrepid (CV-11) Iwo Jima (CV-46) John C. Stennis (CVN-74) John F. Kennedy (CV-67) Kearsarge (CV-33) Kitty Hawk (CV-63) Lake Champlain (CV-39) Langley (CV-1) Langley (CVL-27) Lexington (CV-2) Lexington (CV-16) Leyte (CV-32) Midway (CVB-41) Monterey (CVL-26) Nimitz (CVN-68) Oriskany (CV-34) Philippine Sea (CV-47) Princeton (CVL-23) Princeton (CV-37) Randolph (CV-15) Ranger (CV-4) Ranger (CVA-61) Reprisal (CV-35) USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) Saipan (CVL-48) San Jacinto (CVL-30) Saratoga (CV-3) Saratoga (CVA-60) Shangri-la (CV-38) Tarawa (CV-40) Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) Ticonderoga (CV-14) United States (CVA-58) Valley Forge (CV-45) Wasp (CV-7) Wasp (CV-18) Wright (CVL-49) Yorktown (CV-5) Yorktown (CV-10) CVB-44 cancelled CV-50 to CV-57 cancelled

The active carriers of the US Navy as of June 1, 2004 are the Kitty Hawk-class carrier USS Kitty Hawk, the Enterprise, the USS John F. Kennedy, and the Nimitz-class carriers Nimitz, Eisenhower, Carl Vinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John C. Stennis, Harry S. Truman and Ronald Reagan.