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Aircraft carriers · from 1994

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.

History

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered supercarrier in the service of the United States Navy. The ninth ship of her class, she is named in honor of Ronald Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was built at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia, and was commissioned on 12 July 2003.

Ronald Reagan made five deployments to the Pacific and Middle East between 2006 and 2011 while based at Naval Air Station North Island. In October 2015, Ronald Reagan replaced USS George Washington as the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, the only forward-based carrier strike group homeported at Yokosuka, Japan, as part of the United States Seventh Fleet. Since 2016, Ronald Reagan has embarked on short annual summer patrols of the Western Pacific in the United States Seventh Fleet area of operation.

Text from Wikipedia: USS Ronald Reagan, CC BY-SA 4.0, lightly trimmed.

Wars and campaigns

Radiation decontamination of the USS Ronald Reagan

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Key dates

  1. 1994
    The contract to build Ronald Reagan was awarded to Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, on 8 December 1994 and her keel was laid down on 12 February 1998.
  2. 2004
    The ship visited Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 5 June 2004.
  3. 2007
    Ronald Reagan returned to Naval Air Station North Island on 20 April 2007, following a three-month deployment in support of operations in the Western Pacific.
  4. 2008
    The Ronald Reagan CSG performed humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations in the Philippines on 24 June 2008 after that country was devastated by Typhoon Fengshen, that killed hundreds from the central island regions and the main island of Luzon.
  5. 2010
    On 19 May 2010, Norfolk Naval Shipyard completed the six-month Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) maintenance cycle on Ronald Reagan.
  6. 2011
    The ship departed for an Asian deployment on 2 February 2011.
  7. 2016
    On 4 June 2016, Ronald Reagan departed Yokosuka and was deployed with CSG 5 to the South China Sea before an international tribunal released its decision regarding a China and Philippines conflict.
  8. 2019
    On 24 August 2019, Ronald Reagan returned to Yokosuka Naval Base, after a very short patrol of the western Pacific.
  9. 2022
    On 19 August 2022, Ronald Reagan returned to her home port of Yokosuka, Japan.

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