List of aircraft carriers by configuration

Carrier configurations

• Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery
• Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery
• Short Take-Off Vertical Landing

  Navies with CATOBAR carriers

• Chinese Navy
• *Type 003 class – under construction
• French Navy
• *FS Charles de Gaulle
• United States Navy
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  Navies with STOBAR carriers

• Chinese Navy
• *Type 001 class
• **Liaoning
• *Type 002 class
• **Shandong
• Indian Navy
• *Modified Kiev class
• **INS Vikramaditya
• *Vikrant class
• **INS Vikrant – under construction
• Russian Navy
• *Kuznetsov class
• **Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov

  Navies with STOVL carriers

• Italian Navy
• *Cavour
• *Giuseppe Garibaldi
• *Trieste – under construction
• Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
• * Izumo class – to be converted to operate F-35B aircraft
• Royal Navy
• *Queen Elizabeth class
• **HMS Queen Elizabeth
• **HMS Prince of Wales
• Spanish Navy
• *SNS Juan Carlos I
• United States Navy
• *Wasp class
• *America class